Catalogue of British Ichneumonidce. 363 



witliont prominent keels ; remaining segments transverse ; the 

 2nd of the male subtransverse ; aculeus just projecting. Legs 

 somewhat slender ; calcaria of hind tibite one-third the length of 

 the 1st tarsal joint. Areolet of wings small, suborbicular, petio- 

 lated ; outer nervure sometimes incomplete, external radial straight, 

 incurved at the extreme apex; transverse anal almost opposite, 

 divided below the middle, one-third or one-fourth from the bottom. 

 Black ; mouth, mandibles, clypeus, and a triangular mark on 

 each side of the face below the antennas and scape beneath, reddish 

 yellow in the male, and reddish in the female ; base of flagellum 

 reddish (female), beneath in the male. Abdomen dull red; female 

 apex of 5th, 6th, and 7th entirely black, male 2nd, 3rd, and 4th 

 paler red ; remainder black. Front and middle legs red ; coxae 

 and trochanters black, apex of latter pale ; hind legs black; hind 

 tibias fuscous-red, base and apex female, apex male, black. Stigma 

 fusco-stramineous, base paler, sqiiamula3 whitish. Male and 

 female. Length, 9 mm. 



Taken by Mr. Billups at Peckbam and Dulwicb, May 

 30tb, 1885 



Mesoleius canince, n. s. 



Niger, pedibus rufis, tibiis et tarsis posterioribus nigris. 



Head finely reticulate, transverse, slightly oblique behind the 

 eyes ; clypeus separated from the face, apex truncate, depressed in 

 the middle. Anteunie as long as the body. Thorax rather short 

 and stout, parapsides distinct ; mesonotum somewhat shining, 

 finely and rather closely punctate ; mesopleura smooth and shining, 

 without sculpture ; upper part of metathorax rather short ; supero- 

 medial area distinct, the superior surface separated fi'om the 

 posterior surface by a prominent transverse ridge ; postero-medial 

 area large, well-defined, shining, and finely reticulate. Abdomen 

 short and broad, as wide as the thorax, and scarcely more than 

 three times the length of the width of the apex of the 2nd segment, 

 which is the widest part; 1st segment gradually widening from 

 base to apex, sides slightly curved outwards, about one-third longer 

 than the width of the apex ; basal fovea not closed at the apex, 

 but continued in two well-developed keels to beyond the centre of 

 the post-petiole ; remaining segments transverse ; the 2nd and 3rd 

 about twice as wide as long ; abdomen subopaque, reticulate ; 

 apical segments rather smooth and shining. Legs rather stout. 

 Wings without an areolet ; transverse anal nervure, ante-furcal, 

 i. e., the upper tei-mination, nearer the thorax than the lower, 

 dividcnl lii'low the middle. 



