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Cameron, Hymenopteva Orientalia 



with the transverse keels much stouter, more widely 

 separated, and they are divided into two by a stouter keel. 

 Coxae black ; the four hinder broadly yellow at the base ; 

 the apical joint of the four anterior trochanters pale ; of 

 the hinder pair entirely rufous ; the apex of the hinder 

 femora and of the hinder tibiae black ; the hair is fulvous 

 on the coxae. The alar nervures fuscous, pale at the 

 base ; at the top the areolet is as wide as the space 

 bounded by the second transverse cubital and the 

 recurrent nervure. Petiole shining at the base ; the apex 

 closely longitudinally striolated ; the gastrocceli shining ; 

 the base with some stout keels ; the yellow on the second 

 and third segments, broad ; the apical segments entirely 

 rufous, the fourth and fifth only rufous at the base. 



Ichneumon numericus, sp. nov. 



Long. 15 mm. 6. 

 Hab. Mussouri (Rothncy). 



Resembles I. integratus ; but has the yellow markings 

 much more expanded on the thorax ; the pleurae having 

 two large marks; the apex of the median segment yellow, 

 and the antennae yellow, broadly black at the apex. 



Head rather strongly punctured, the lower part 

 densely covered with white, above the antennae with 

 longer fuscous hair; below the antennae entirely yellow; 

 the inner orbits broadly to the hinder ocelli, and the 

 outer to near the level of the lower, this latter belt 

 becoming gradually narrowed to the top, yellow. The 

 front in the middle transversely striated ; the mandibles 

 and palpi yellow ; the former piceous at the apex ; palpi 

 yellow. Antennae as long as the body, rufous-yellow, 

 the apex broadly black ; the three basal joints black 

 above. Thorax closely punctured ; thickly covered with 

 short hair, which is darker on the mesonotum, whiter on 

 the rest; a broad band on the pronotum; the scutellum, 



