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in the middle : feet honey-yellow : posterior thighs 

 black ; the tibiae pale, and tarsi yellow. 



? Thorax with a hardly visible, piceous vltta on each 

 side of the central spot ; abdomen towards the tip atten- 

 uated. 



Length nine twentieths of an inch. 



2. A. omata. Black, varied with yellow ; tergum 

 yellowish, fasciate with fuscous. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



SBody black, polished: head yellow, a black frontal 

 spot confluent with a black transverse line of the vertex, 

 that is continued on the posterior margin of the eyes: 

 antenn<B honey-yellow, somewhat dusky above: manai" 

 hies blackish at tip : thorax with a broad, yellow margin, 

 interrupted before, and double central spot : scutel and 

 two or three small spots beneath it yellow : metathorax 

 with a small spot behind the wing and posterior margin 

 yellow : wings fuliginous ; stigma and costal nervure 

 honey-yellow ; second cubital cellule quadrangular : ter- 

 gum yellow, becoming greenish behind, segments with a 

 broad blackish band at base, the anterior bands broader : 



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pleura with more of yellow than black: feet yellow: 

 cox<^ varied with honey-yellow : posterior thighs^ their 

 tibise at tip, and tarsi at tip, honey-yellow. 



Length less than half ah inch. 



Resembles the preceding. 



Ichneumon. 



1. 1. suturalis. Ferruginous; scutel yellow; sutures 



black. 



Inhabits North America. 



Body pale ferruginous: antennm black beyond the 



