412 Mr. Bridgman's additions to T. A. Marshall's 



the male is more distinctly sculptured than the female ; aculeus 

 projecting. Areolet of wings pentagonal, open above ; transverse 

 anal nervure divided one-third from the bottom. Legs moderate. 



$ . Black ; palpi brownish red ; base of mandibles and a spot 

 above yellowish red; antennae dark brown, the 9th, 10th, and 11th 

 joints of the flagellum above slightly paler ; a mark on the inner 

 orbits and a spot on the vertex, a short line before, a longer one 

 beneath the wings, and scutellum, yellow, the latter black at the 

 base ; apex of 1st segment of the abdomen, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, and 

 sides of 5th segments, red. Legs red, coxae black, trochanters 

 somewhat browner ; femora brownish, base and apex paler ; joints 

 of middle and hind tarsi slightly brownish in the middle, and the 

 apical joints of all the tarsi brownish. Stigma piceous, tegulae 

 black. 



^. Black; palpi, mandibles, a spot above them, clypeus, 

 middle of face, facial orbits, a mark on each side of the vertex, 

 scape beneath, a line before and beneath the wings, another line on 

 the lower part of the prothorax above the front cox£e, scutellum 

 and a faint mark beneath it, yellow. Abdomen as in the female, 

 but the 5th segment sometimes entirely red. Legs red, coxse 

 and trochanters black, the anterior and middle pair with a 

 yellowish mark beneath, front and middle femora yellowish in 

 front, hind femora red, front tibiae and tarsi palish, apex of tarsi 

 slightly fuscous. Length, 7 — 8 mm. 



Male and female bred by Mr. J. E. Fletcher from 

 Eiqnthecia pulchellata. I have another male sent to me 

 by Mr. Bignell bred from the same host. 



It belongs to Section 7. B. b. of Holmgren's Ich. 

 Suec. ; it is evidenly like Ichneumon eupithecice, Brischke, 

 Ich. d. Prov. W. u. 0-Preuss, but differs in the shape of 

 the metathoracic spiracles, which Brischke says are 

 elliptic, almost circular; but in this species they are 

 far from circular, and the gastrocceli are evidently 

 narrower. 



Platylahus transversus, n. s. 



Niger, facie et scutello albo-picta, feinoribus tibiisque anticis 

 rufis. 



Face and clypeus punctate, the latter truncate at the apex, 

 which is shining ; forehead almost shining and free from punc- 

 tures, behind the eyes slightly narrow. Mesonotum finely punctate, 

 rather shining ; scutellum somewhat elevated, marginated to 

 beyond the middle ; metathorax rather shining, feebly rugose ; 



