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base ; the two lines on the pronotum are also dilated at 

 the base and extend to near the scutellum ; a mark on 

 the lower half of the mesopleurse and the sternum, lemon- 

 yellow. The propleurae impunctate ; the upper parts of 

 the mesopleurae at the base strongly punctured, the apical 

 impunctate in the middle, and the metapleurae impunc- 

 tate. The base of the median segment reddish (perhaps 

 through discoloration) : the supramedian area a little 

 broader than long, rounded at the base ; the posterior 

 median complete ; the others obsolete. The alar stigma 

 and nervures black ; the areolet at the top a little less 

 in width than the space bounded by the recurrent and 

 the second transverse cubital nervures. Legs fulvous ; 

 the four anterior coxae and trochanters lemon-yellow ; the 

 hinder coxae fulvous like the femora and yellow at the base 

 above and in the middle, the rest of them black. Abdo- 

 men reddish ; the apical three segments black above ; the 

 base of the second segments shagreened ; the gastrocoeli 

 moderately wide, deep. 



Ichneumon leodacus, sp. mv. 



Ferrugineiis, scutello flavo ; metapleicris, cox is trochan- 

 teribusque posticis nigris, alis flavis. $ . Long. 8 mm. 



Scape of antennae rufous, punctured, thickly covered 

 with pale hair ; the flagellum fuscous. Head : the face 

 strongly punctured ; the clypeus shining, impunctate ; the 

 face covered closely with short white hair ; the clypeus 

 has the hair longer, sparser and darker in colour ; the 

 vertex and occiput more closely punctured than the face ; 

 the tips of mandibles black ; the palpi pale-testaceous ; 

 the inner and outer orbits above reddish-yellow. Meso- 

 notum shining, the sides finely and closely punctured, the 

 middle almost impunctate. Scutellum and post-scutellum 

 shining, impunctate, orange-yellow. The base of the 



