266 c. A. L. SMITS VAN BURGST, TUNESIAN ICHNEUMONIDAE. 
face centrally prominent, parallel-sided ; clypeus distinctly 
discreted, centrally emarginate; upper mandibular tooth very 
distinctly the longer. Head closely punctate, excepting clypeus 
and face centrally; frons punctate-aciculate; antennae stout, 
filiform, attenuate towards apex, as long as the body. Tliorax 
strongly punctate; notauli distinct; scutellum convex, margined 
to its middle; post-scutellum striate; metathorax rugose, 
distincly areated, dentiparal areae, area superomedia and 
petiolar area divided; apophyses long and stont, but not 
acute; spiracles longish. In fore wing areola (areolet) strongly 
narrowed above; nervus discocubitalis broken below the centre, 
emitting a minute stump; nervulus interstitial; nervus 
parallelus distinctly below the centre; in hind wing nervellus 
broken below the centre, emitting a distinct nervure. Hind 
legs stout in proportion, tarsal claws simple. All abdominal 
segments strongly and closely punctate, excepting basal 
segmert, which is broader than high and apically glabrous ; 
gastrocoeli distinct; from the third all segments broader than 
long. Head, thorax and abdomen pretty shining. Length 6 mm. 
Head black; face, internal orbits, apices of genae, clypeus, 
mandibles and palpi white, mandibular teeth red. Antennae 
black above, flagellum flavous and scape white beneath. Thorax, 
legs and abdomen, including the whole basal segment, red; 
a line before and another beneath radix of wings, margin of 
pronotum, scutellum, anterior and intermediate coxae and 
trochanters white below; tegulae piceous; prothorax, meso- 
sternum, apical half of mesonotum and metanotum, anterior 
and intermediate coxae and trochanters above, hind trochanters, 
hind tibiae apically and the greater part of hind tarsi, black. 
Wings hyaline, iridescent with green and rosy reflections; 
stigma reddish. 
This species with its oval metathoracic spiracles seems to 
form a transition between the Ichneumonides stenopneustici 
and cylopneustici. 
