22 Cameron, Hymenoptera^ frofu Greymouth. 



the middle coxae, the extreme base being rufous ; closely 

 punctured ; the apex over the coxae indistinctly and 

 irregularly striolated ; the metapleurae above very smooth 

 and shining ; the lower part finely longitudinally strio- 

 lated. The scutellum is, if anything, more strongly 

 punctured than the mesonot-um. The median segment 

 has the arese complete; the supramedian area is trans- 

 verse at the apex ; the top obliquely narrowed, the middle 

 itself being transverse ; the apex of the segment has an 

 oblique slope ; the middle is slightly hollowed, closely 

 punctured ; the top almost smooth, the bottom obscurely 

 transversely striated ; the posterior median area with 

 straight sides ; the legs rufous ; the base of the middle 

 coxae and the hinder coxae above, black ; the latter 

 strongly punctured. Abdomen rufo-ferruginous, smooth 

 and shining, glabrous except for a few hairs on the apex 

 and sides ; the sides of the 2-5 segments blackish. The 

 alar areolet narrowed at the top, being there in width very 

 little less than the space bounded by the second 

 transverse cubital and the recurrent nervures. 



Ichneumon thyellma, jt/. ;^^'z/. 



Long. 5-5 mm. 



Comes near to /. iitetes, with which it has a close 

 resemblance in coloration, but differs in having the areas 

 on the median segment and the nervures all distinctly 

 developed. 



Scape of the antennae black above, yellowish beneath. 

 Head pallid-yellow, suffused with testaceous above ; the 

 occiput, the vertex and front broadly in the middle, black ; 

 the vertex strongly and closely punctured ; the face not 

 quite so strongly ; the front finely punctured in the 

 middle, the sides very smooth and shining ; the man- 

 dibles and palpi pallid-yellow ; the tips of the mandibles 

 piceous. Prothorax black, edged above and beneath with 



