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deplanate ; mandibles broad, bidentate. Antennae setiform, those 

 of the <y hardly longer. Thorax short ; mesonotum elevated. 

 Wings ample, hyaline ; podiscoidal areolet almost as large as the 

 praediscoidal ; the short triangular radial areolet remote from the 

 apex of the wing ; in the hind wings the radial and cubital areolets 

 are not separated. Legs short, stou.t ; hind tibiae subclavate, 

 armed with very short spurs. Terebra not projecting beyond the 

 last segment ; anus of the 3' obtuse, segment 6 much longer than 

 5, rounded behind, smooth and concave above ; the ^ is also 

 smaller and narrower than the ? , but not otherwise distinguishable. 

 Of the two known species I. levis has not yet been noticed in this 

 country. 



1, Ichneutes reunitor, Nees. 



Ichneutesreunitor, Nees, Mag. Ges. Berl., 1816, p. 276, 

 pi. vii., f. 3 ; Mon., i., 158 ; Wesm., Nouv. Mem. 

 Ac. Brux., 1835, p. 196, <? ? ; S. v. Voll. Scliets., 

 tab. V. 



I. brevis, Wesm., lib. cit, p. 198, ^ 2 ; cf. SuppL, 

 p. 156 ; Eatz., Ichn. d. Forst., ii., 70, pi. ii., f. 35. 



Black, abdomen sometimes piceous in the middle. Body some- 

 what villose. Face rugulose, beset with greyish pubescence, and 

 with a short indistinct carina above. Cheeks, vertex, and front 

 granulated, dixll ; palpi and middle of mandibles testaceous. 

 Antennse (? $ as long as the body, 31-jointed. Thorax pubescent ; 

 pleurae granulated; metathorax subrugulose, with an oblong 

 medial area enclosed between two carinae which reach from the 

 base to the apex. Stigma and nervures fuscous ; radius slightly 

 curved ; 2d intercubital nervure very short, subobsolete ; hind 

 wings sinuated near the base of their anterior margin ; their 

 pobrachial areolet remote from the posterior margin. Legs pale 

 rufo-testaceous ; coxee black. Abdomen pubescent ; 1st segment 

 rugose, dull, with 2 carinae, separated at the base and converging 

 to the apex ; 2d segment rugose ; 3d and following sparingly 

 punctulate, shining. Valves of the terebra conical. Length, 

 1-5 — 2| ; wings, 3 — 5 lin. 



Var. 1. Antennse, abdomen in the middle, and coxae, testaceous ; 

 or antennae with a fuscous line above, and hind coxae partly 

 fuscous. 



Var. 2. Smaller ; facial carina more distinct ; metathorax with 

 no medial area ; radius straight ; pleurae almost smooth ; palpi 

 dusky ; hind femora piceous on the outer side. I. brevis, Wesm. 



Not common, but widely distributed, from the Arctic 



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