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seems to differ from it in too many points of colouration 

 and structure to be its 6 . For example, the supra-median 

 area on the median segment here is rounder and com- 

 pletely separated from the base, which is not the case 

 with the other species; it is, further, fully larger, while 

 if it were the 6 , it should be smaller. 



Antennae as long as the body, the scape covered with 

 long fuscous hair; a white band of six joints beyond the 

 middle. Head black; strongly punctured; the clypeus 

 with only a few punctures on its apical margin. The 

 orbits, except at the top, yellow, the inner band being 

 the wider, especially at the bottom ; the mandibles broadly 

 yellow in the middle ; the labrum fringed densely with 

 golden hair. Thorax black; the edge of the pronotum, 

 but not completely, the tegulse, tubercles, and scutellum 

 broadly at the sides, but not uniting at the apex, a line 

 at the sides in front of it, and the post-scutellum, yellow. 

 Pro- and meso-thorax closely punctured ; the scutellum 

 thickly covered with brownish hair; at the sides of the 

 post-scutellum there are some stout keels. The median 

 segment has an oblique slope at the apex; the central 

 area complete, rounded at the base, almost transverse at 

 the apex ; the other nervures are not so clearly defined ; 

 the apex is transversely striated. Legs rufous ; the coxae, 

 trochanters, apex of the hinder tibiae and the posterior 

 tarsi, black ; the fore coxae yellowish white at the apex. 

 The areolet is much narrowed at the top ; the transverse 

 -cubital nervures almost meeting there. Petiole black, a 

 yellow band across its apex ; the second and third seg- 

 ments rufous; the apical two segments white above; 

 beneath the 2 — 4th segments are rufous. 



Ichneumon confusaneus, sp. nov. 



Niger, flagello antennarum albo ; tibiis tarsisque anticis 

 Ustaceis ; abdomine late rufo ; alts hyalinis, stigmate fusco. 

 2 . Long. 6 mm. 



