Manchester Memoirs, Vol. xli. (1897), No. 4. 5 



Ichneumon appropinquans, sp. nov. 



Niger; multo alb o-m acid ato ; pedibus rufts, basi nigris ; 

 alts fulvo-hyalinis, stigmate fulvo. $. Long. 15 mm. 



Hab. Mussouri (Rothney). 



Head black ; strongly punctured ; the vertex trans- 

 versely striolated ; the inner orbits from the clypeus to 

 the hinder ocelli broadly yellow, narrowed towards the 

 eyes ; at the outer side at the foot of the eyes is a large 

 yellow mark ; and on each side of the clypeus is a 

 crescent-shaped mark ; palpi pale fulvous. Antennae 

 black, the upper side beyond the middle broadly white. 

 Thorax closely punctured, covered with a pale short 

 down ; the edge of the pronotum, tegulae, tubercles, 

 scutellum, post-scutellum, two large marks on the median 

 segment at the tubercles ; and a large mark on the 

 mesopleura, clear yellow. The apex of the pro- and 

 meso-pleurae crenulated ; on the median segment are only 

 the basal areas ; the apex oblique ; at its top are some 

 stout longitudinal keels ; the centre coarsely rugosely 

 punctured; the sides with stout transverse keels. The 

 four front coxae are broadly white at the base in front ; 

 the hinder pair have a large white mark at the base 

 above ; the trochanters black ; the four anterior white at 

 the apex ; the hinder with a small white mark above ; the 

 apex of the fore femora, the tibiae and the base of the tarsi 

 white in front ; the tarsi black, paler at the base. Wings 

 fulvo-hyaline, the nervures fuscous, paler towards the 

 apex ; the stigma fulvous ; the areolet at the top nearly as 

 long as the space bounded by the recurrent and second 

 transverse cubital nervures. Abdomen black ; the apex 

 of the petiole and a large mark on each side of all the 

 other segments, white. Petiole smooth, shining, longi- 

 tudinally striolated in the middle before the white ; 

 gastrocoeli broad; their base roughly and irregularly strio- 

 lated. 



