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close to the eyes, tan oblique line in the centre of the upper half of 

 the outer orbits, obliquely narrowed below, the raised apical part of 

 the pronotum, tegulae, scutellums, a spot on the sides of the centre 

 of the metanotum, rounded above, dilated outwardly and gradually 

 narrowed, tubercles, a curved spot behind them, narrowed to a fine 

 oblique point above, dilated in the centre at the base, a large semi- 

 circular spot on the middle of the apex of first abdominal segment, 

 the second almost entirely, the yellow rounded at the base, the apex 

 w^ith a slight incision, the apical three-fourths of the fourth segment, 

 its apex incised broadly, but not deeply in the centre, the fifth with 

 a four lobate line, the fifth and sixth entirely, the apical half of the 

 second segment, the base trilobate, the central lobe the larger, a 

 mark, with the inner side roundly obliquely narrowed on the sides of 

 the fourth and fifth segments and with a transverse line on the base 

 between them, and a narrow oblique line on the sides of the apical 

 legs of a brighter sulphur yellow colour, the hind coxae broadly black 

 at the base, the fore femora narrowly black at the base above, the 

 middle at the base all round and the hind femora, black. Wings 

 hyaline, the stigma and nervures black. Basal three joints of the 

 antennae sulphur yellow, the third black at the apex above, the 

 fourth yellow, l^lack above, the rest brown, black on top. $ . Length 

 9 mm. 



Erythria, Red Sea. 



Front and vertex punctured, closely, finely obliquely striated 

 at the ocelli, the striae commencing at the outer ones. Face finely 

 punctured. Mesonotum and scutellum shining, sparsely, distinctly 

 pnnctured in rows. Metanotum in the centre at the base finely, 

 closely transversely striated, ending in a depression with its apex 

 acutely pointed. Upper third of mesopleurae raised, smooth, bordered 

 below by an oblique furrow, the rest closely coarsely punctured. 

 Metapleurae closely, obliquely striated, first abdominal segment 

 semisessile, broadly rounded above, wider that it is long at the apex, 

 a little longer than the second. 



Allied to T. nurse'i, Bingham. 



JOTTINGS ON THE BRITISH ICHNEUMONID^ IN 

 THE NATIONAL COLLECTION. 



By Claude Moeley, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



While engaged in the rearrangement of the National 

 Collection in the British Museum last winter, I noted various 

 points bearing upon the British List that may be of interest 

 in resolving some of the enigmas which always surround a 

 partially studied group of insects. In my Preface to the first 

 volume of ' Ichneumonologia Britannicn,' I was careful to 

 present that work in the form of a basis, not a termination, 

 of investigation into the subject. Since then I have studiously 



