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there are no ocelli, and the eyes are always small ; but here the 

 eyes are fully larger than they are in the winged genera, than in 

 e.g. Bethylus. The fore legs, too, are much more swollen than 

 they are in any of the described genera. 



Tanynotus rufithorax, sp. nov. 

 Black : the greater i)art of the antennae, oral region and thorax 

 red ; the tibite and tarsi testaceous, smooth, shining, covered with 

 a white microscopic pile ; the pronotum and metanotum furrowed 

 down the middle. Scape of antennae thickened, as long as the 

 following 2 joints united. Apical segments of abdomen dark 

 testaceous. Antennae as long as the thorax : head almost as long 

 as the prothorax, behind distinctly wider than it. Antennae as 

 long as the thorax. Female. 



Length nearly 5 mm. 



ICHNEUMONID^. 



Ichneuinon ruhriornatus, sp. nov. 



Black : the flagellum of antennae, petiole, and basal third of 

 2nd abdominal segment red ; scape of antennae, face, clypeus, 

 mandibles, palpi, a line on the base of pronotum, tegulaj, tubercles, 

 the scutellums, metanotum, except at the base, post-petiole, apical 

 third of 2nd abdominal segment, less than the apical half of the 

 Ih'd, the band roundly narrowed in the middle, the apical two- 

 thirds of the 6th segment and the whole of the 7th, bright yellow ; 

 legs yellow ; the hind coxa3 below, apex of hind femora, of the 

 hind tibiae more broadly and the apical joints of the hind tarsi, 

 black ; there is a rufous band in front of the black ring on the 

 hind tibiae ; wings hyaline : the costa and stigma dark testaceous, 

 the nervures darker. Male. 



Length 12 mm. 



Antennae short and thick, distinctly narrowed towards the 

 apex, in length hardly longer than the abdomen. Head and thorax 

 thickly covered with short white pubescence ; temples obliquely 

 narrowed ; front, vertex, face and clypeus closely strongly 

 punctui-ed ; apex of clypeus transverse, the sides i-ounded ; front 



