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FAMILY ICHNKUMONIDyE. 



35S. Ichneumon ferrugator Kirhy. — Length of body 7 lines. 

 Taken in the Expedition, but no locaUty stated. 



[259.] Abdomen black, rather glossy, very thickly punctured with 

 minute and often confluent punctures. Head transverse, triangular, not 

 quite so wide as the middle of the trunk ; anterior margin of the face 

 rounded ; palpi reddish ; eyes long, subelliptical ; antennae shorter than 

 the trunk, spirally convoluted ; trunk oblong, subcompressed ; scutellum 

 subtriangular, rounded at the apex ; metathorax armed on each side with 

 a short tooth, with several elevated longitudinal and oblique lines ; legs 

 with decumbent whitish hairs, anterior tibiae obscurely, and all the tarsi, 

 rufous ; wings embrowned with a rufous tint, nervures darker ; abdomen 

 lineari-lanceolate, rufo-ferruginous, with the first joint, which is dilated at 

 the apex, black ; footstalk channelled longitudinally on each side. 



FAMILY CRYPTID.^£. 



359. Cryptus viduatorius Fabr. — Length of body, with ovipositor, 

 5^ lines; do, without ovipositor, 3}^ lines. One specimen taken in 

 Lat. 54°. 



Body black. Head subtriangular, transverse, very minutely and 

 thickly punctured ; palpi pale rufous ; face plane with two elevations in 

 the middle ; eyes large, oval ; antennae shorter than the trunk, rather 

 slender, involute, black with a white band in the middle ; orbit of the 

 eyes behind with a very indistinct white line ; trunk oblong, cubical, gib- 

 bous, very thickly and confluently punctured except on the back ; tegulse 

 white ; metathorax armed with two minute teeth on each side, one in the 

 middle and the other at the base, forming the terminal angle, marked out 

 into three areas by elevated lines ; legs red with coxte, trochanters, and 

 posterior tarsi black ; wings subtestaceous with the larger nervures black ; 

 abdomen, excluding the ovipositor, scarcely so long as the trunk ; first 

 segment impunctured, glossy, dilated at the apex, which is subquad- 

 rangular \ footstalk flat ; second and third segments very large, with their 

 gloss obscured by infinitely minute punctures ; ovipositor shorter than the 

 abdomen ; borer red. 



