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7^.— No. 2111, M. C. Z, Florissant, Col. (No. 2085, S. H. 

 Scudder Coll.). 



This is a stout, robust species. 



Ichneumon exesus, sp. nov. (Fig. 25.) 



Female. Length 13 mm. Yellowish; the head, parts of the thorax and 

 bands on the abdomen black. Head probably entirely black; the antennae 

 brownish yellow, darker basally. Basal joints of flagellum three or four times 

 as long as thick; the apical ones becoming transverse, twice as wide as long; 

 the antennae being moderately stout. Scutellum rather strongly transversely 

 elevated, with a depression at its base which is margined by carinae laterally. 

 Metanotum with the median 

 areola large and quadrate; 

 basal and middle lateral ones 

 separated. Abdomen stout, 

 the petiole narrow and rather 

 strongly elevated apically, 

 the postpetiole being also nar- 

 row. Legs brownish yellow, Fig. 25. — Ichneumon exesus, sp. nov. Type, 

 the posterior femora darker, 



and the tips of the tibiae and tarsi blackish. Wings hyaline, stigma and 

 veins dark fuscous ; the former narrow, whitish at the base. Marginal cell 

 wider than in the preceding species, the second section of the radius only one- 

 third longer than the first. Areolet large, obliquely pentangular, the upper 

 side the shortest; discocubital vein not curved, broken at the middle by a 

 short stump of a vein; submedian cell no longer than the median. 



Described from one specimen and reverse. 



Type.— Nos. 2112-2113, M. C. Z., Florissant, Col. (Nos. 8436 and 

 9126 (reverse) S. H. Scudder Coll.). 



Ichneumon torpefactus, sp. nov. (Fig. 26.) 



Female. Length 10 mm. Dark colored, wings hyaline, the abdomen 

 conspicuously banded. Head strongly transverse; the antennae slender, 

 with a pale annulus at the middle. First flagellar joint four times as long as 

 thick; second and third equal, each three-fourths as long as the first and 

 three times as long as thick; joints beyond the annulus strongly transverse. 

 Thorax nearly smooth; scutellum large and very weakly convex. Meta- 

 thorax with a large hexagonal median areola; the basal and middle lateral 

 areas separated. Abdominal petiole black, slender, the postpetiole very 

 finely sculptured or scabrous. Body of abdomen dark brown or piceous with 

 a very distinct pale cross band on each segment anteriorly. Wings hyaline, 



