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PELOPAEUS CAEMENTARIUS, Drury. 



Nuka Hiva Island, Marquesas Islands. 



The specimen is identical with some others I have 

 from the Sandwich Islands. The abdomen is entirely 

 black, exceiDt two small yellow spots on the side of 

 the second segment ; there are two yellow spots on 

 the apex of the metathorax ; two spots on the pro- 

 notum, the scutellum, post-scutellum, tegvilae, and 

 the scape of the antennae are also yellow. 



ICHNEUMON PACIFICUS, n.s. 



Black; legs, except the coxae and trochanters, red; 

 wings fuscous-violaceous, stigma and nervures black. 

 Antennae involute, stout, about as long as the 

 thorax and head together ; scape closely punctured. 

 Head transverse, in front coarsely, on toj) and be- 

 hind, finely punctured; behind and beloAV the eyes 

 with scattered punctures ; covered with a pale down, 

 longest on the face ; clypeus transverse ; mandibles 

 piceous, with only one tooth at the apex ; i^alpi 

 dark fuscous ; mesonotum shining, bearing scattered 

 IDunctures ; scutellum flat, shining, impunctate ; 

 pleurae, breast, and metanotum rugose; supramedian 

 area a little longer than broad, the base rounded, 

 the apex almost transverse ; posterior median broad 

 at base, becoming narrower towards the apex ; 

 metathorax large, the apex semi-perpendicular, hol- 

 lowed in the centre ; the other areas obsolete ; but 

 there is a carina round the top. Petiole shining, 

 impunctate ; post-petiole closely punctured, the 

 middle closely longitudinally striated ; at the base 

 there is a depression on each side ; the other 

 segments finely punctured; the ventral segments 

 pale testaceous at their junction, the apical almost 

 entirely. Coxae coarsely punctured ; tips of hind 

 tarsi and apex of tibiae black, hind tarsi consider- 

 ably longer than the tibiae. Areolet converging at 

 top, 5-angled, the recurrent nervure received a little 

 past the middle. 



Length, 13 mm. 



Hah. Juan Fernandez Island. 



