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cially the abdomen, which has the first segment more broadly dilated 

 at tip. 



18. Ichneumon bipunctatus. n. sp. 



Black ; spot on each side of clypeus, spot on tegulse and a line beneath, spot 

 on tip of scutellum, legs, and most of second and third segments of abdomen. 

 yelloV or yellowish-ferruginous; wings subhyaline; central area of metatho- 

 rax large, quadrate. 



Malt. — Black, closely punctured, clothed with short pale pubescence; 

 head entirely black, except a yellowish spot on each side of the clypeus ; 

 palpi pale; antenna more than half the length of the body, slender 

 at tip, entirely dull brown-black. Thorax shining, the punctures more 

 sparse on the mesothorax ; anterior margin of the tegulas, and a short 

 line beneath the fore-wing, pale yellowish ; scutellum shining, de- 

 pressed, deeply excavated in front, with a yellow spot at extreme tip, 

 the lateral carina sharply defined; nietathorax rugose, the elevated 

 lines tolerably well defined, the central area large, quadrate, slightly 

 transverse, with the posterior margin indented. Wings subhyaline, 

 uniformly tinged with pale fuscous; nervures fuscous, paler at base; 

 areolet subtriangular Legs yellowish, the femora, and the tips of the 

 tibiae and tarsi, more or less stained with ferruginous. Abdomen elon- 

 gate, dull black, very closely punctured ; basal segiuent bilineated and 

 finely aciculate ; second and third segments yellowish-ferruginous, the 

 latter with a large fuscous mark at base covering nearly half of the 

 segiuent ; extreme lateral and apical margins of the remaining segments 

 obscurely dull ferruginous; beneath dull yellowish, black at base and 

 apex. Length GJ lines; expanse of wings 10$ lines. 



One specimen. Easily recognized by the black head, which is orna- 

 mented only by a yellowish spot on each side of the clypeus. 



19. Ichneumon delicatus, n. sp. 



Yellow ; vertex, occiput; antennae except basal joint beneath, spot on each 

 side of the pectus, mesothorax except two dorsal lines, sides of scutellums, 

 broad sutures of pleura, and the basal middle of the fourth, fifth and sixth seg- 

 ments of abdomen, black ; femora and stains on the abdomen, pale ferruginous : 

 wings subhyaline: central area of metathorax moderate, subquadrate. 



Mali'. — Head bright yellow ; a large mark extending from the base 

 of the antenna;, covering the ocelli, and the back part of the head, 

 black, leaving the frontal orbits narrowly yellow ; antennae two-thirds 

 the length of the body, brown-black, sericeous, basal joint beneath 

 yellow. Thorax delicately punctured, shining black ; broad upper and 

 lower margins of the pectus, two central longitudinal lines on the meso- 

 thorax confluent on the middle, tegulse, a line beneath the wings and 

 a large irregular mark on each side of the pleura covering two-thirds 



