Manchester Memoirs, Vol.xliz. (1898), No. 1. 15 



Ichneumon colensii, sp. nov, 

 Ruflis ; orbitis ociUorum, liiiea pronoti, lineis 2 mesonoti, 

 scutello, post-sciLtelloque flavis ; abdorninis apice late nigro ; 

 alls fulvo-hyalinis, stigrnate flavo. ?. Long. 7 mm. 



Scape of the antennae dark-ferruginous, finely 

 punctured, thickly covered with short dark hair, the 

 flagellum black, paler on the lower side. Head rufous ; 

 the vertex in the centre darker ; the inner orbits, broad 

 at the top, narrow at the bottom, a curved line at the top, 

 and the outer side beneath, lemon-yellow ; the face and 

 vertex punctured, but not strongly, their sides almost 

 impunctate ; the clypeus with a few scattered punctures ; 

 the mandibles punctured, suffused with yellow at the base ; 

 the apex black ; the palpi pale-yellow. Thorax rufous ; a 

 broad line on the pronotum, the scutellum, post-scutellum, 

 the lower side of the propleurae and of the mesopleurae 

 broadly, two narrow lines on the centre of the 

 mesonotum and the apex of the metapleurae below, 

 lemon-yellow. The mesonotum is punctured ; there is a 

 central and two large lateral black marks, the latter 

 bordered on the inner side by the yellow lines ; the apex 

 of the scutellum is rufous, and it has a few shallow punc- 

 tures. The median segment has an almost gradually 

 rounded slope and is strongly punctured at the sides ; the 

 arese complete, the supramedian longer than broad, 

 rounded at the base ; the pro- and meso-pleurae closely 

 punctured ; the propleurae broadly black in the middle ; 

 the mesopleurae broadly black above and at the apex ; 

 the metapleurae very smooth and shining, impunctate. 

 Legs uniformly rufous ; the fore coxae pale-yellow ; there 

 is a lemon-yellow mark over the hinder pair above at the 

 base. Alar nervures dark fuscous, the stigma pale testa- 

 ceous ; the areolet narrowed at the top. Abdomen 

 smooth and shining ; the apical three segments black ; 

 the gastrocceli indistinct, finely and closely punctured. 



