OP NEW ZEALAND. 119 



A. Abdomen petiolate. 



a. Abdomen rounded. 



Ovipositor short. IdmeumoniiKR. 



Ovi]30sitor long. Cryptinoi. 

 h. Abdomen compressed at the extremity. Opliionina. 



B. Abdomen subsessile ; ovipositor not exserted. Tryplioninm. 



C. Abdomen sessile ; ovipositor long. Pimpilina. 



Sub-Family — Ichneumonin^. 

 Abdomen shorty petiolate ; ovipositor very short. 



Genus-ICHNEUMON. 

 Linn(eus. 

 Antennae setaceous, generally convolute in the females ; the first 

 joint generally notched outside. Anterior wings with an areolet, 

 which is generally pentagonal. The middle nervure is rather angu- 

 lated, and provided with a rudimentary accessory nervure. Legs 

 medium, the thighs more or less thickened ; the fourth joint of the 

 tarsi is shorter than the others, and entire. Body elongated, narrower 

 in the males than in the females. Scutellum not projecting. 



* Abdomen black and red. 

 I. LOTATORius. Fabricius, Syst. Ent., 1774^, p. 330. 



Antennae convolute, black. Thorax black, spotted with yellow 

 under the wings ; scutellum yellow. Abdomen blacky shining ; the 

 second segment altogether red. Legs red. 



I. iNsiDiATOR. Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc, 1876, ]). 476. 



Male. Black ; a yellow spot on each side of the face^ and a 

 smaller one beneath the insertion of each antenna ; the palpi flavo- 

 testaceous ; the flagellum fulvous beneath ; sometimes a fulvous spot 

 on the scape beneath. Thorax : the scutellum, tegulae, and an oblong 

 sjDot beneath them, yellow ; wings fulvo-hyaluie, the nervures and 

 stigma pale ferruginous ; the legs fiavo-rufous, the tibiae and tarsi 

 palest ; the extreme apex of the posterior femora and tibiae fuscous. 

 Abdomen : the apical margin of the basal segment^ and the second and 

 third segments, flavo-rufous. 



Length, 6-7 lines. 



Var. y8. The minute spots on the face, beneath the scape of the 

 antennae, frequently obsolete. 



Very probably the male of the last. 



