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pallid-yellow, shining, impunctate. Mesonotum finely 

 punctured, its centre broadly rufo-testaceous, darker in 

 the middle, the sides black; the scutellum probably 

 testaceous, but the pin goes through it. Median segment 

 with a rounded slope ; its base black ; the areae all 

 distinctly defined ; the supramedian slightly narrowed 

 towards the base ; truncated at base and apex ; the pos- 

 terior median area obscu rely transversely striated. Except 

 at the top behind the mesopleurse, closely punctured ; the 

 upper part to the middle, black ; immediately below the 

 black part, rufous, followed by a pale-yellow band ; the 

 sternum rufous. Metapleurse black, with a broad rufous 

 mark in the middle on the apical three-fourths, the rufous 

 turning into clear pale-yellow at the apex. Wings hyaline, 

 the stigma and nervures fuscous. Areolet at the top 

 nearly the length of the space bounded by the recurrent 

 and the second transverse cubital nervures ; the recurrent 

 nervure received shortly beyond the middle. Legs fulvous ; 

 the four anterior coxae for the greater part pallid-yellow. 

 Abdomen rufous, closely punctured ; the basal three- 

 fourths of the petiole black ; its apex closely punctured. 

 Gastrocoeli shallow, indistinct, closely punctured. 



Ichneumon nova-zealandicus, sp. nov, 



Niger, pedibits abdoinineque riifis, capite thoraceque rufo- 

 et flavo-variegatis ; alis Jiyatinis, nervis stigmateque flavo- 

 testaceis. ?. Long, fere 5 mm. 



Scape of antennae rufous, black above, the flagellum 

 absent. Head rufous, the orbits on the inner side and 

 above and beneath on the outer side, as well as the base of 

 the mandibles, yellow ; the front deeply excavated, black ; 

 the vertex blackish, broadly so in the centre ; the face 

 minutely punctured, the vertex aciculated. The meso- 

 notum minutely punctured ; down the centre are two 



