1865.] 13 



5-angular or subquadrate, the lower apical side very short, the other 

 sides subequal. Legs blackish-piceous, the anterior tibiae and tarsi 

 yellowish in front. Abdomen elongate, subcylindric, densely punctured ; 

 basal segment bilineated, deeply punctured, black; remaining segments 

 rufous, shining towards the apex. Length 5j lines; expanse of wings 

 9 lines. 



Collection. — Ent. Soc. Philad. One specimen. 



Ichneumon cubensis, n. sp. 



Reddish-brown; antennae tricolored — ferruginous, yellowish and black; wings 

 hyaline; central area of metathorax subquadrate; base of the 2nd and 3rd ab- 

 dominal segments blackish. 



Female. — Robust, reddish-brown, opaque; clypeus and mouth pale 

 ferruginous; antennae stout, involute, the eight basal joints ferruginous, 

 the eleven or twelve following joints pale yellowish, remainder blackish, 

 tinged with rufous beneath. Thorax with the dorsal lines well im- 

 pressed in front, obsolete behind ; collar tinged with yellowish ; scutel- 

 lum flat; metathorax finely rugose, the elevated lines tolerably well de- 

 fined, the central area moderate, subquadrate ; tegulae honey-yellow. 

 Wings hyaline, with a faint yellowish tinge; nervures fuscous, ferrugi- 

 nous at base and towards the tip ; stigma ferruginous ; areolet subtri- 

 angular. Legs reddish-brown, the two anterior pairs paler, the poste- 

 rior tibiae and tarsi golden sericeous. Abdomen stout, elongate-ovate, 

 the basal segment strongly arcuated, with a rather long, stout peduncle, 

 the tip moderately dilated, finely punctured and slightly bilineated; 

 basal margins of the second and third segments blackish, and that of 

 the fourth indistinctly so ; ovipositor not exserted. Length 7 lines ; 

 expanse of wings 11} lines. 



Collection. — Dr. J. Guudlach. One specimen. 



Ichneumon serricornis, n. sp. 



Black; face, annulus on antennas, two lines on mesothorax, large spot on 

 pleura, scutellum, three marks on metathorax, coxa? and apex of abdomen 

 whitish; legs and abdomen ferruginous: wings yellowish-hyaline; antenna} 

 subserrate. 



Male. — Head black; the face, orbits, cheeks, clypeus, except a black 

 stripe down its middle, mandibles and palpi, whitish; antennae porrect, 

 two-thirds as long as the body, subserrate, black, the 13th to 19th joints 

 white, the basal joint beneath also white. Thorax black; mesothorax 

 tinged with brown and having two approximate longitudinal, subobso- 

 lete whitish lines on the disk, and a small subobsolete pale spot on each 

 side over the tegulae; collar, tegulae, a sutural line before the wings, a 

 short line beneath the fore-wing and a large spot occupying almost the 

 whole side of the pleura, whitish ; the space beneath between the four 



