266 ICHNEUMdXIDjE. 



those of this genus should have received such scant attention, and 

 one can but presume that they are sufficiently uncommon every- 

 where to have escaped special study. The only detailed observa- 

 tions I have seen are those of M. Doumerc upon Ichneumon 

 fasciatus, Fourc. (Ann. Soc. France, 1860, p. 319), who bred it from 

 a moth, Satumia carpini. The genus preys so certainly upon 

 Lepidoptera that we are justified in regarding the two doubtful 

 records of it from TENTH BEDIXIDJE, instanced by Van Vollenhoven, 

 as almost certainly erroneous. 



Table of Species. 



1 (2) Mandibles bidentate; wings anteriorly entirely 



infumate lar, Mori., p. 266. 



2 (1) Mandibles unidentate ; wings at most apically 



infumate. 



3 (6) Black and yellow ; face sparsely punctate ; 



areola entire. 



4 (5) Abdomen cylindrical; thorax elongate ; facial 



shield distinct pulchripes, Cam., 



5 (4) Abdomen fusiform ; thorax short ; facial [p. 207. 



shield obsolete fusi/ormis, sp. n., 



6 (3) Red, black and yellow ; face closely punctate ; [p. 268. 



areola obsolete rufus, Cam., p. 269. 



186. Metopius lar, Mori. 



Metopius lar, Morley, Revis. Ichn. Brit. Mus. 1912, p. 81 (J $). 



J $ . An elongate black species, with the legs and segmeutal 

 apices dull red, and the costa infumate. Head black, with all the 



margins of the facial shield, 

 the juxta-antennal orbits 

 and a triangular mark be- 

 tween the scrobes, ochra- 

 ceous ; occiput abruptly 

 declivous, irons coarsely and 

 evenly punctate, eyes emar- 

 ginate, cheeks short ; facial 

 shield evenly punctate and 

 strongly margined through- 

 out, basally truncate and 

 apically rounded ; clypeus 

 coarsely punctate, subtri- 

 angular and truncately dis- 

 Fig. 67. Metopius lar, Mori. crete basally ; mandibles 



not broad, bidentate, with 



the lower tooth subinternal and much the shorter ; second joint 

 of maxillary palpi strongly incrassate, inflated and emitting 

 the small remainder slightly before its apex ; mouth strongly 

 margined below. Thorax immaculate and closely punctate, 

 with the mesonotum obsoletely impressed discally and with 



