446 On Hymenopterous Insects from the Philippines. 
antennz testaceous brown; the palpi white; the flagellum of 
the antenne black, with the eighth to the sixteenth joints 
pure white; thorax black; the tegule, the scutellum (which 
is prominent and convex), and an oblique stripe and two spots 
under the base of the wings white; the mesothorax smooth 
and shining, with two oblique longitudinally impressed lines 
above; the metanotum opaque, coarsely punctured, gently 
declivous to the apex, and covered with a thin griseous 
pubescence, its apex ending in obtuse, rather prominent 
lateral tubercles; wings hyaline, the nervures brown; the 
anterior legs white, the four apical joints of their tarsi black ; 
the intermediate legs white, the outside of the trochanters 
and a stripe on the inside of the tibie black; the posterior 
legs testaceous brown, white on the tarsi, their femora at the 
base, the greater part of the tibiz, and the three apical joints 
with the claws of the tarsi black, the calcaria white ; abdomen 
black, smooth and shining, its base and the posterior margins 
of all the segments except the sixth white, the apical segment 
entirely white. 
The three species of ichneumons sent by Mr. Whitehead 
were all, so far as I have been able to make out, previously 
undescribed. 
Fam. Braconidz, Westwood. 
26. Bracon deceptor, Smith. 
Bracon deceptor, Smith, Proc. Linn. Soe. v. (1861) p. 65.1, 9; Journ. 
Linn. Soc. xi. (1867) p. 408. 37. 
Four specimens in the collection. 
Fam. Tenthredinide, Leach. 
27. Senoclia albocerulea, sp. n. 
g. L. 11 millim., exp. 24 millim. 
Deep blue, the posterior portion of the thorax white; wings 
hyaline, infuscated at apex ; legs white, with black markings. 
Head and thorax deep blue, shining and pubescent; the 
clypeus, scutellum, and posterior portion of the thorax white ; 
antennee black, covered with long depressed hairs; wings 
hyaline for half their length from base, fuscous beyond, the 
anterior wings darker than the posterior; legs black, 
variegated with white; abdomen deep blue and shining, 
with short scattered pubescence. 
Resembles S, cerulea, Cameron, from Ceylon, but differs 
in having the posterior portion of the thorax from the 
scutellum white. 
