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Cameron, Hymenoptera Ortentalia. 



furrow down its centre, and separated from the pleurae 

 by a curved crenulated furrow. Legs fulvous ; the four 

 anterior tibiae and tarsi infuscated; the fore tibiae white 

 in front ; the hinder trochanters, the apical third of the 

 hinder femora and the hinder tibiae, black ; the hinder 

 spurs black ; the tarsi white, the extreme apex black. 

 The second transverse cubital nervure is faint ; the 

 recurrent nervure is received in the apical third of the 

 cellule. The petiole is smooth and shining ; the sides 

 at the apex depressed ; the rest of it alutaceous ; the 

 apex of the second segment pale testaceous. 



Ichneumon mitra, sp. nov. (PI. 16, f. 6). 

 Long. 12 mm. 

 Hub. Borneo. 



Antennae stout, almost bare, the io — 15 joints white 

 except beneath. Head black ; the orbits from shortly 

 above the antennae to shortly behind the hinder ocelli^ 

 the sides and apex of the clypeus (the latter narrowly), 

 the labrum and palpi, yellowish-white ; the mandibles 

 piceous before the middle. The face rather strongly 

 punctured; the punctures on the clypeus more widely 

 separated towards its apex; the space above the antennae 

 shining and impunctate ; the vertex coarsely punctured. 

 The face and vertex covered with short white hair ; the 

 inner orbits distinctly margined. Thorax black ; the 

 edge of the pronotum, tubercles, tegulae in front, and 

 scutellum, yellowish-white. Thorax closely punctured ; 

 the propleurae closely punctured above, beneath shining, 

 and with strong, somewhat oblique keels behind ; the 

 mesopleurae with the punctures larger and more clearly 

 separated above, the lower part with them smaller and 

 much more closely set together, and at the apex running 

 into striae. The mesonotum closely punctured ; the 

 scutellum has the punctures shallower and more clearly 

 separated ; the yellow mark does not occupy quite its 



