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THE ICHNEUMONID GENERA LABIUM AND PCECILOCPYPTUS. 



separated from the base of the mandibles by less than the breadth 

 of the mandible. Front concave, the concave area extending as 

 far back as the anterior ocellus, vertex smooth and shining. 

 Thorax smooth and shining, notauli indistinct. Median segment 

 ver}*- feebly punctured, rather dull, spiracles very small, oval ; 

 basal area very small, transverse ; areola quadrate, a little 

 longer than broad, longer than the petiolar area ; dentiparal area 

 subquadrate and about as large as the areola : external area 

 transverse ; spiracular area divided by a keel arising from the 

 side of the basal area just before the apex, and continued out- 

 ward, touching the spiracle posteriorly ; of the two arese so formed 

 the anterior one (containing the spiracle) is pentagonal, the 

 posterior one is quadrate, about a third longer than broad ; both 

 the postero-intermedial and the postero-external arese appear to 

 be defined ; the confluent pleural and juxta-coxal arese form a 

 hexagon. Spiracles of the petiole before tlie middle ; the base 

 of the petiole with a raised median space bounded by definite 

 edges, and extending backwards to the highest part of the petiole ; 

 second tergite with tlie gastrocoili distinct, the segment rather 

 longer thaii wide ; sutures 2-5 rather deep and distinct. Surface 

 of the abdomen dull to the middle of the second tergite, shining 

 apically. Hind coxae and femora distinctly intumescent. Areolet 

 pentagonal, longer than high, the radial side equal to the inner 

 and almost equal to the outer, but shorter than the two lower 

 sides ; second recurrent nerA^ure strongly oblique. 



Hob. Mt. Wellington, Tasmania, 2300 ft., March 12-21, 1913 

 {Turne'r). 



The areolet is much shorter on the radius than in nigro- 

 maculatvs Cam,, the face is much narrower and differently sculp- 

 tured ; there is no tooth at the apex of the dentiparal area, the 

 basal area is much shorter, and in nigromaculatus the carina 

 between the spiracular and pleural arese is anteriorly obsolete ; 

 in nigripect'ics the spiracles of the petiole are nearer to the base 

 than in nigromaculatus. 



PcECiLOCRYPTUs NIGROMACULATUS Cam. (Text-figs. 8 a and 

 11 b.) 



Poicilocryptus nigromaculatus Cam. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 (7) vii. p. 528 (1901). 



The locality given for the type is merely Australia. Two 

 females in the British Museum are from S. Tasmania, Mt. Wel- 

 lington, January 15-February 6, 1913 {Turner), and Eaglehawk 

 Neck, February 12-March 3, 1913 {Turner). 



Unless indication to the contrary is given the types of the 

 species described in this paper are females, and all are deposited 

 in the British Museum. 



