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faintly punctulate. Second to fifth ventral segments with a fold. 
Body of abdomen lanceolate, the second segment one-half longer than 
the third. Legs rather slender. Wings with the submedian cell longer 
than the median; discocubital vein with a faint stump of a vein near the 
middle. Areolet of moderately large size, slightly oblique, due to the 
insertion of the recurrent nervure beyond its middle; discoidal vein 
broken below the middle; transverse median vein in hind wing broken 
at its lower third. 
Para, Brazil. W.M. Mann. Named for Professor J. C- 
Branner, the director of the expedition. 
This species exhibits an entirely different color scheme 
from its European congener, but agrees well in the more impor- 
tant structural details. It is the second species to be described 
and looks much like a genuine Ichneumon except for the palpi 
and spined metathorax. 
Cryptus heathi sp. nov. 
Female. Length 10 mm. Ovipositor nearly as long as the abdo- 
men, exclusive of the petiole, Head, thorax and antennez black, with 
yellowish-white markings; abdomen ferruginous, with narrow apical 
buff bands on the segments. The pale markings on the head and thorax 
are as follows; labrum, clypeus, except medially below; broad orbits, 
nearly meeting below the antennze and covering the entire head behind 
below the vertex; joints 9-12 of antennz; anterior edge of prothorax; 
lateral edges behind; medial spot on mesonotum; both scutellums; 
tegulae; median stripes on metathorax behind carina, greatly widened 
behind; broad oblique stripe on mesopleura; another on posterior part 
of metapleura; spot behind wings; and a short stripe ventrally in front 
of each hind coxa. On the abdomen the white is at the base and apex 
of the petiole and as a narrow apical band on segments 2-7. The fore 
legs have the coxze white, with black base and black spot in front and the 
basal trochanter white with black spot in front, the femur, tibia and 
tarsus fulvous with black stripe on femur above and last tarsal joint 
piceous. Middle legs pale ferruginous, with black spot on basal tro- 
chanter above, stripe on femur above and last tarsal joint piceous. 
Hind legs ferruginous, the apical two tarsal joints and tip of tibia 
blackened, and the three basal tarsal joints white. Wings hyaline, with 
piceous stigma and veins; the apex lightly infuscated and a narrow, 
irregular fuscous band just before the third discoidal cell, not ascending 
above the basal vein. Antenne slender, 24-jointed, as long as the body; 
the joints very short apically, but much lengthened at the base of the 
flagellum; the first flagellar joint nearly as long as the eye and over six 
times as long as thick. Head twice as broad as thick; shining, finely 
margined behind, shining, sparsely punctate above the clypeus; the 
latter truncate; labrum exposed as a broad lobe; mandibles fuscous, 
black below; palpi pale, slender. Mesonotum finely, deeply punctate, 
the parapsidal furrows distinct and the median lobe produced forward 
