Manchester Memoirs, Vo/.x/zi. (iSgS), No. t. 7 



Ichneumon hersilia, sj?. nov. 



RufuSy thorace 7iigro et albo-maculato ; pedibus rufis ; 

 alls fulvo-hyalinisy stigmate nigro. $ . Long. 1 1 mm. 



Head rufous ; the inner orbits narrowly below, broadly 

 above, and the sides of the clypeus, yellow ; the ocellar 

 region, the front, and the occiput, black ; the vertex bare ; 

 the face covered with short fuscous hair ; the mandibles 

 rufous, the teeth black ; the face roundly projecting in the 

 middle, strongly but not closely punctured ; the hollowed 

 front finely transversely striated ; the palpi rufous. Pro- 

 thorax black, broadly rufous above ; the mesonotum has 

 the sides and base, broadly in the middle, black ; the rest 

 rufous, with a large yellow mark at the apex. The scu- 

 tellum yellow, a rufous splash at the base ; its height is 

 nearly equal to its width at the bottom ; the basal keels 

 are curved and reach to the middle ; the top is irregularly 

 divided, one lobe being wider than the other. The 

 median segment is gradually rounded to the apex ; the 

 areae distinct ; the supramedian widely separated from 

 the base of the segment, longer than broad, a little 

 narrowed towards the base, which is rounded ; the 

 sides straight ; the posterior median black, transversely 

 striated ; the other areae smooth and shining ; the 

 base of the segments broadly black ; the sides are 

 also edged with black ; and, in front of the coxae, 

 there is a large yellow mark touching the keel. The 

 propleurse broadly black in the middle ; the meso- 

 pleurse at and including the tubercles white, the lower 

 part rufous, with a large white mark in the centre, and 

 the sternum is rufous ; there is a broad black oblique band 

 in the middle ; and the apex is black, narrowly so on the 

 lower side ; the breast black in front. Legs entirely 

 rufous, as is also the abdomen. The stigma and nervures 

 black ; the areolet almost triangular, the nervures being 



