LIST 



EGYPTIAN AND ARABIAN HYMENOPTERA. 



Fam. EVANIID^. 

 Genus FOENUS, Fahr. 



1. FoENus JACULATOE ? Ichneumon jaculator, Lm?i. ^t/sf. iSTcif. ii. 

 937. 



The specimen here recorded is mutilated. 



Tajura. 



Inhabits Europe. 



Fam. ICHNEUMONID^. 



Subfam. CRYPTIDES. 



Genus CRYPTUS, Fahr. 



2. Ceyptus leucopygus. Female. — Red, stout, very finely 

 punctured. Head transverse, a little broader than the thorax. 

 Antennae black, much shorter than the body, with a broad -white 

 band beyond the middle. Thorax with two nearly parallel furrows ; 

 scutellum small, nearly smooth. Metathorax scabrous, large. 

 Abdomen piceous, as long as the thorax ; petiole widening from the 

 base to the hind border : tip white. Oviduct black, about half the 

 length of the abdomen. Legs piceous ; hind tibiae white at the base. 

 Wings cinereous ; veins black. Fore wings with a black stigma ; 

 intermediate cubital areolet minute, tetragonal. Length of the body 

 4 lines. 



Allied to C. minutorius, Fahr., and to C. bimaculatus, Grav.; 

 distinguished from the former by the red head, from the latter by the 

 unspotted wings, 



Cairo. 



