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Head black, strongly and closely punctured ; thickly 

 covered with short grey hair ; the mandibles piceous 

 before the apex. Antennae black, 7 — 8 of the middle 

 joints yellowish-white. Thorax black, closely punctured; a 

 line on the pronotum and the scutellum yellow; the latter 

 smooth and almost impunctate ; its apex black. The 

 median segment rugose ; thickly covered with short white 

 hair, its apex hollowed in the centre ; its sides with stout 

 keels ; there are two central keels widely separated ; the 

 space between these and the bordering keel stoutly trans- 

 versely striated, it being also striolated obscurely on the 

 innerside of the central keel ; the basal area is a little 

 wider than long. All the coxae and trochanters are black 

 and thickly covered with a pale down; the anterior 

 femora slightly; the middle pair even more so and the 

 hinder pair still more so, the apex of the hinder tibiae and 

 the apical joints of the tarsi, blackish. Wings hyaline, 

 but with a distinct fulvous tinge ; the stigma clear 

 fulvous ; the nervures fuscous, darker towards the base ; 

 the top of the areolet is a little less in length than the 

 space bounded by the second transverse cubital and the 

 recurrent nervures. Abdomen ferruginous ; the petiole 

 and the base of the second segment, black ; the petiole 

 smooth at the base ; the sides at the apex coarsely 

 punctured ; the raised central part closely longitudinally 

 striated. Gastrocceli large, deep, with a few stout, 

 irregular keels ; the second segment between longitudi- 

 nally striated ; the apical segments are smooth and 

 impunctate. 



Ichneumon buddha, sp. nov. 

 Niger, scutello flavo ; flagcllo antennarum medio Lite 

 albo ; pedibus rufts ; apice tibiarum posticarum tarsisque 

 posticis nigris ; abdomine late rufo, apice albo. Lon^'. 

 8 mm. 



Hab. Mussouri (Rothney). 



