﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  Vol. 
  xli. 
  (1897), 
  No. 
  4. 
  5 
  

  

  Ichneumon 
  APPROPiNyuANS, 
  sp. 
  nov. 
  

  

  Niger; 
  miilto 
  albo-maculato 
  ; 
  pedihns 
  rufis, 
  basi 
  nigris 
  ; 
  

   alls 
  fidvo-liyalinis, 
  stigniaie 
  fulvo. 
  ?. 
  Long. 
  15 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hah. 
  Mussouri 
  (Rothney). 
  

  

  Head 
  black 
  ; 
  strongly 
  punctured 
  ; 
  the 
  vertex 
  trans- 
  

   versely 
  striolated 
  ; 
  the 
  inner 
  orbits 
  from 
  the 
  clypeus 
  to 
  

   the 
  hinder 
  ocelli 
  broadly 
  yellow, 
  narrowed 
  towards 
  the 
  

   eyes 
  ; 
  at 
  the 
  outer 
  side 
  at 
  the 
  foot 
  of 
  the 
  eyes 
  is 
  a 
  large 
  

   yellow 
  mark 
  ; 
  and 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  clypeus 
  is 
  a 
  

   crescent-shaped 
  mark 
  ; 
  palpi 
  pale 
  fulvous. 
  Antennae 
  

   black, 
  the 
  upper 
  side 
  beyond 
  the 
  middle 
  broadly 
  white. 
  

   Thorax 
  closely 
  punctured, 
  covered 
  with 
  a 
  pale 
  short 
  

   down 
  ; 
  the 
  edge 
  of 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  tegulse, 
  tubercles, 
  

   scutellum, 
  post-scutellum, 
  two 
  large 
  marks 
  on 
  the 
  median 
  

   segment 
  at 
  the 
  tubercles 
  ; 
  and 
  a 
  large 
  mark 
  on 
  the 
  

   mesopleura, 
  clear 
  yellow. 
  The 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  pro- 
  and 
  

   meso-pleurae 
  crenulated 
  ; 
  on 
  the 
  median 
  segment 
  are 
  only 
  

   the 
  basal 
  areae 
  ; 
  the 
  apex 
  oblique 
  ; 
  at 
  its 
  top 
  are 
  some 
  

   stout 
  longitudinal 
  keels 
  ; 
  the 
  centre 
  coarsely 
  rugosely 
  

   punctured 
  ; 
  the 
  sides 
  with 
  stout 
  transverse 
  keels. 
  The 
  

   four 
  front 
  coxae 
  are 
  broadly 
  white 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  in 
  front 
  ; 
  

   the 
  hinder 
  pair 
  have 
  a 
  large 
  white 
  mark 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  

   above 
  ; 
  the 
  trochanters 
  black 
  ; 
  the 
  four 
  anterior 
  white 
  at 
  

   the 
  apex 
  ; 
  the 
  hinder 
  with 
  a 
  small 
  white 
  mark 
  above 
  ; 
  the 
  

   apex 
  of 
  the 
  fore 
  femora, 
  the 
  tibiae 
  and 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  tarsi 
  

   white 
  in 
  front 
  ; 
  the 
  tarsi 
  black, 
  paler 
  at 
  the 
  base. 
  Wings 
  

   fulvo-hyaline, 
  the 
  nervures 
  fuscous, 
  paler 
  towards 
  the 
  

   apex 
  ; 
  the 
  stigma 
  fulvous 
  ; 
  the 
  areolet 
  at 
  the 
  top 
  nearly 
  as 
  

   long 
  as 
  the 
  space 
  bounded 
  by 
  the 
  recurrent 
  and 
  second 
  

   transverse 
  cubital 
  nervures. 
  Abdomen 
  black 
  ; 
  the 
  apex 
  

   of 
  the 
  petiole 
  and 
  a 
  large 
  mark 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  

   other 
  segments, 
  white. 
  Petiole 
  smooth, 
  shining, 
  longi- 
  

   tudinally 
  striolated 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  before 
  the 
  white 
  ; 
  

   gastrocoeli 
  broad; 
  their 
  base 
  roughly 
  and 
  irregularly 
  strio- 
  

   lated. 
  

  

  