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 552. 

 CALLIMOME SUBTERRANEUS. 



Order Hymenoptera. Fam. Cynipidee Lat. 

 Type of the Genus, Ichneumon Bedeguaris Linn. 

 Callimome Spin., Walk., Curt. — Torymus Dal. — MisocampusXo^. — 

 Diplolepis Fab. — Cynips Fab., Lat. — Ichneumon Linn., DeG., 

 Fab., &c. 



Antenna geniculated, considerably longer than the head and in- 

 serted a little below the middle of the face, in a cavity receiving 

 the 1st joint, pubescent and 13-jointed, basal joint long, 2nd 

 short, somewhat obconic, 3rd saucer- shaped, 4th stout oblong, 

 the remainder decreasing in length and becoming a little trans- 

 verse, the 3 last forming a compact compressed ovate-conic mass 

 (1 (^ , 4 basal joints) ; longer in the female, 3rd joint subglobose, 

 4th elongated (1 ? ). 



Mandibles subtrapezate, truncated and trifid at the apex, and a 

 little hairy outside (3). 



Maxill(E terminated by a large ovate lobe, very hairy at the 

 margin. Palpi longer than the maxillae, 4-jointed, 3 first joints 

 of equal length and oblong, 4th long, subfusiform and clothed 

 with long hairs (4) . 



Mentum long and narrow, ovate at the base, attenuated to the 

 apex. Labium as long as the mentum, a little dilated at the 

 base and apex. Palpi not longer than the lip, pilose and triar- 

 ticulate, 1st joint obconic, 2nd shorter, subquadrate, 3rd as long 

 or longer than the 1st and conical (5). 

 Head transverse, face orbicular-trigonate : eyes lateral, ovate: ocelli 

 3 on the crown of the head forming a depressed triangle, the lateral 

 ones remote. Thorax elongate-ovate ; coUar semiovate ; scutellum 

 large convex and subovate. Abdomen attached by a small portion 

 only of the base, short, slightly depressed, and terminated by an acu- 

 minated process in the male, more compressed and 7 -Jointed in the 

 female, basal joint large, apex truncated and fur?iished with an Ovi- 

 positor, generally as long as the insect (A side view). Wings, su- 

 perior ample, rounded, with a nervure, uniting with the casta near 

 the middle, and continued toioards the apex, forming a very short ob- 

 tuse branch midway ; inferior wings short and narrow. Legs, hinder 

 pair the longest and stoutest (8 t) : coxse all large : trochanters 

 small : thighs short and a little incrassated: tibiae simple, furnished 

 with a single spur, excepting the posterior, which have a pair at the 

 apex: tarsi slender and 5 -jointed, basal joint long, 4th small: claws 

 very much bent : pulvUli rather large. 

 SuBTERRANEUs Curt. MSS. — Guidc, Gen. 646. 

 In the Author's Cabinet. 



Some of these Insects I breed in vast quantities from the beau- 

 tiful moss-like balls attached to the branches of the Dog-rose, 

 called Bedeguar, and known in some parts of England by the 



