ICHNEUMONID GENERA LABIUM AND POECILOCRYPTUS. 



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pleuris antice, segmeiito mediano area juxta-coxali, tibiis posticis 

 dimidio npicali, tarsisque posticis articulo apicali nigris. 

 Long. 7 mm. 



5 . Mandibles simple ; face and clypeus shining, very finely 

 and sparsely pnnctured, the line between the clypeus and face 

 distinct. Antennae 28- to 29-jointed, the third joint less than 

 half as long again as the fourth, which is slightly longer than the 

 fifth, the basal twelve joints of the funicle cylindrical. Vertex 

 and front smooth and shining. Notauli shallow and short, 

 middle lobe of the mesonotum not prominent anteriorly, smooth ; 

 mesopleur^e shining, epimeral sulcus crenulated throughout. 

 Median segment with the basal area very short, scarcely 

 extending beyond the posterior edge of the sulcus separating 

 the postscutellum and median segment, the apical carina only 

 indicated laterally; areola broad and smooth, sparsely punctured 

 towards the sides, not distinctly separated from the petiolar 

 area, which with the a.djacent are?? is longitudinally rugulose ; 

 external area smooth ; dentiparal area shining, but with a, more 

 uneven surface ; spiracula.r a.rea anteriorly moderately and 

 posteriorly coarsely punctured ; pleural area smooth, with a 

 few scattered punctures, juxta-coxal area rugose. Petiole with 

 a well-developed tooth between the spiracles and the base ; 

 spiracles prominent, the petiole rathei- abruptly widened behind 

 the spiracles; abdomen shining. Hind coxae smooth, with at 

 most a few scattei-ed punctures beneath. Second abscissa of the 

 i-a,dius shorter than the second transverse cubital nervui-e, 

 distance between the recurrent nervure and the second trans- 

 verse cubital nervure equal to about three-eighths of the length 

 of the latter nervure ; nervulus slightly postf ureal. 



Ilah. Swan River [Du, Boiday) ; Yallingup, S.W. Australia, 

 Noveniber, 1913 {Turner). 



Labium petitorium Erichs. (Text-figs. 3 and 7 c.) 

 Ichneumon petitorh(s Erichs. Arch, f. Naturges. p. 255 (1842). 

 Hah. Eagleliawk Neck, S.E. Tasmania; February {Tftryer). 

 Common. 



This is distinguished from other species of the genus by the 

 opaque, strongly and very closely punctured mesonotum and meso- 

 pleurje and the strongly developed teeth (text-fig. 3) of the denti- 

 paral arepe. The division between the clypeus and face is well 

 marked, both clypeus and face closely punctured ; antennae of the 

 female 42-jointed ; median segment with the apical carina of the 

 basal area interrupted in the middle, external area smooth, denti- 

 paral area coarsely and irregularly longitudinally striate, spiracular 

 area rugose, juxta-coxal and pleural arere rugose-striate, postero- 

 intermedial and postero-external ai-ese transversely striate, areola 

 shining with a few large punctures, petiola.r area indistinctly and 

 irregularly transversely striated. Second abscissa of the radius 

 and first transverse cubital nervure subequal, second transverse 



