INTRODUCTORY TAPKUS OX ICIIN'KUMON'ID.K. 1 7 U 



I'ouiul before in England to my knowlrdgc, iind is very lare on the 

 Continent. 



In conclusion, the only fly belonging to another family to 

 which I shall allude is the Morellia (Ci/rtoneura) ciirvipes, Macq. 

 I had formerly captured several males of this rather rare Muscid 

 in the same neighbourhood, but on the present occasion I found 

 numbers of both males and females (the latter I had not previously 

 seen) on the leaves of strawberry plants in the garden. 

 Bradford, Yorks, July, 18S0. 



INTRODUCTORY PAPERS ON ICHNEUMONID^. 



By J B. Bridgman and E. A. Fitch. 



No. IT.— ICHNEUMONID.E (continued). 



Section 5. — Scutellum and abdomen black ; apex reddish or fulvous. 

 Tarsi and tibiae yellow (B) or saffron (A), apex of hind one black. 



A. Intermediate segments of abdomen rufofulvous at the sides. 



10,2. duhitatus, 6 lines. 



B. Intermediate segments not so marked. 



111. ancipiterm, 6 — 6^ lines. 



Section 6. — Scutellum pale ; abdomen red and black ; apex with white or 



whitish marks. (') 



A. Middle area of post-petiole aciculate ; supero-medial area of meta- 

 thorax rectangular or subquadrate (females). 



Subdivision I. — xlntennte filiform or tbe a[)ex slightly attenuated; rather 

 stout, after death involuted ; mesothorax a little higher than 

 the metathorax. 



Scutellum white or yellowish. 



a. Hind coxae pubescent beneath. 



-1= 2nd and 3rd segments either entirely red, red and black, or some- 

 times quite black ; tibiae, especially the hinder ones, reddish 

 at the base ; femora black, 30. computatorius, fi — 9 hues {a). 

 -;=* 2ud and 3rd segments, the latter with a black basal baud and 

 hinder femur, red ; apex black, and tibiae the same. 



32. vacjinatorms, 5 — 6 lines. 

 =;=*=!= 2nd and 3rd segments red ; hinder tibia) with a wide straw- 

 coloured band in the middle. 3i. confusorim, 5 — 7 lines (a). 



b. Hind coxae not pubescent beneath; greater part of tbe femora 



black, especially the hinder ones. 



(1) Generally it is the last two or three segments that are pale marked, 

 sometimes the last four, and sometimes only the last : these marks often vary iu the 

 same species 



