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ASHMEAD 



of the face and coxae, and in size, superficially resembles Automelus 

 nigropilosus. 



ICHNEUMON SITKENSIS sp. nov. 



Male. — Length 9 to 10.5 mm. Black and shining; the head above, 

 especially close to the eye margins and the thorax above are coriaceous, 

 subopaque and finely punctate, the mesopleura shining, closely punctate, 

 becoming rugulosely punctate toward hind margins, the metathorax 

 rugulose, the posterior face with irregular, elevated transverse lines ; 

 flagellum black ; face below insertion of antennae, an orbital line above, 

 an orbital line on the lower hind orbits, scape beneath, palpi, an abbre- 

 viated line in front of the tegulse and a line below, apices of the front and 

 middle coxae, and their trochanters, ivory or yellowish- white ; ocelli 

 pale ; scutellum and postscutellum yellow ; legs red with the coxae and 

 trochanters, except as noted, black ; the anterior and middle tibiae 

 paler, yellowish or brownish-yellow, the anterior and middle coxae at 

 apex and their trochanters whitish, the tip of hind tibiae and more or 

 less of their tarsi fuscous. Wings hyaline, the stigma and veins 

 brown, the disco-cubital vein not broken by a stump of a vein. The 

 metathoracic areola is quadrate or nearly so, very slightly wider than 

 long, the anterior angles of same being slightly rounded, the basal 

 lateral and middle lateral areas are confluent, while the apical areas 

 are complete. The abdomen is elongate, about twice longer than the 

 head and thorax united, the first segment, or the petiole, being finely 

 rugulose at apex, the second, third and fourth segments, subopaque, 

 finely coriaceous, those beyond smoother, shining, at the most feebly 

 alutaceous, while the gastrocoeli are transverse and separated from each 

 other by a small space. 



Type. — Cat. No. 5535, U. S. Nat. Museum. From Sitka, June 

 16. One specimen. 



ICHNEUMON KINCAIDI sp. nov. 



Male. — Length 10 mm. Closely resembles /. sitkensis and easily 

 confused with it but for the following differences : There is a yellow 

 spot at the summit of eyes, on the lower hind orbit and on the middle 

 of the superior margin of the pronotum ; the antennae, except a yellow- 

 ish spot on joints 15 and 16 above., are black, the scape not white be- 

 neath, all coxae and trochanters and the hind femora are black, al- 

 though the front coxae beneath and the trochanters at apex narroivly 

 are white ; rest of legs, except the tibial spurs which are white and 

 the apices of hind tibiae and tarsi, which are blackish or fuscous, red. 



