s; its femora are
not denticulate, in which character it differs from both _Megischus_ and
_Stephanus_; with the latter genus it agrees in having 5-jointed tarsi.

1. STENOPHASMUS RUFICEPS. _S._ niger; capite et antennarum basi rufis;
ovipositore tarsisque pallide testaceis; petiolo abdominis cylindrico;
alis subhyalinis.

_Female._ Length 5 lines. Black, slightly shining; head globose, red and
sprinkled with white hairs, and delicately striated transversely. Thorax
sprinkled with white pubescence above, the sides more thickly clothed
with the same; above, the thorax is transversely rugose, on the
metathorax becoming more regularly striate; the metathorax has a central
longitudinal carina and also one on each side; the legs sprinkled with
erect white hairs; the tarsi pale rufo-testaceous with the claw-joint
black; wings subhyaline, with a broad light-fuscous stain along the
centre of the anterior pair; a hyaline streak crosses them at the base
of the stigma. Abdomen: the petiole as long as the thorax, narrowest at
the base of the abdomen; it is rugose at the base; the ovipositor pale
testaceous.

_Hab._ Aru.

Fam. ICHNEUMONIDAE, _Leach_.

Gen. ICHNEUMON.

1. ICHNEUMON INSULARIS. _I._ niger; capite thoraceque albo variegatis;
abdominis segmentorum primo, secundo tertioque albo maculatis.

Length 7-1/2 lines. Black; the orbits of the eyes, the face before the
antennae, the mandibles and palpi yellowish-white; the flagellum with the
joints from the 14th to 25th white. Thorax: a line on each side before
the tegulae, a spot beneath the wings, two at the sides of the pectus,
the anterior coxae in front, and a narrow line on each side of the
scutellum yellowish-white; the anterior and intermediate legs and a spot
beneath the posterior tibiae rufo-testaceous; the wings hyaline, the
nervures black. Abdomen: a minute spot at the lateral apical margins of
the three basal segments, and a large central one on the two apical
segments, white.

_Hab._ Key Island.

Gen. CRYPTUS, _Fabr._

1. CRYPTUS SCUTELLATUS. _C._ ferrugineus; tibiis posticis tarsisque albo
annulatis; scutello tuberculato.

_Female._ Length 5 lines. Ferruginous; the face testaceous-yellow, an
elongate black spot on the vertex enclosing the ocelli and extending to
the insertion of the antennae; the latter black, with the scape
ferruginous in front. Thorax: the scutellum elevated, forming a
compressed tubercle, its side view wedge-shaped; the wings hyal