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ICIINEUMONIDJE. 



those of this genus should have received such scant attention, and 

 one can but presume that they are sufRcienlly uncommon every- 

 where to have escaped special study. The only detailed observa- 

 tions I have seen are those of M. Doumerc upon Ichneumon 

 fasciatus, Eourc. (Ann. Soc. France, 1860, p. 319), who bred it from 

 a moth, Satuniia carpini. The genus preys so certainly upon 

 liCpidoptera that we are justified in regarding the two doubtful 

 records of it from Tenth KEWXiD.ii:, instanced by Yan Vollenhoven, 

 as almost certaiuly erroneous. 



Table of Species. 



1 {2) Mandibles bideiitate; wings anteriorly entirely 



iuf umate lar, Mori., p. 206. 



'2 (1) Mandibles uuidentate ; wings at most apically 



infumate. 



3 (6) Black and yellow ; face sparsely punctate ; 



areola entire. 



4 (5) Abdomen cylindrical; thorax elongate ; facial 



shield distinct pulchripes, Cam., 



5 (4) Abdomen fusiform ; thorax short ; facial [p. 267. 



shield obsolete fusiformis, sp. n., 



6 (3) Had, black and yellow ; face closely punctate ; [p. 208, 



areola obsolete rtifus, Cam., p. 269. 



186. Metopius lar, JMod. 



Metopius lar, Morley, Eevis. Ichn. ]3rit. Mus. 1912, p. 81 ( J $ ). 



c5' 5 . An elongate black species, with the legs and segmental 

 apices dull red, and the costa infumate. Head black, with all the 



margijis of the facial shield, 

 the juxta-anteniud orbits 

 aud a triangular mark be- 

 tween the scrobes, ochra- 

 ceous ; occiput abruptly 

 declivous, frons coarsely anH 

 evenly punctate, eyes emar- 

 ginate, cheeks short ; facial 

 shield evenly punctate and 

 strongly margined through- 

 out, basally truncate and 

 apically rounded ; clypeus 

 coarsely punctate, subtri- 

 angular and tinincately dis- 

 crete basally ; mandibles 

 not broad, bidentate, with 

 the lo-wer tooth subinternal and much the shorter ; second joint 

 of maxillary palpi strongly incrassate, inflated and emitting 

 the small remainder slightly before its apex : mouth strongly 

 margined below. Thorax immaculate and closely punctate, 

 with the mesonotum obsoletely impressed discally and Avith 



Fig. 67. — Metopius lar, Mori. 



