230 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [Meniscus. 



^ has the abdomen apically acuminate with the valvulae distinctly ex- 

 serted ; his description, however, is faulty, especially as regards the length 

 of the terebra, and does not coincide with the types, which I have 

 examined. 



The typical 9 of Desvignes' Z.y}//-7)!)r.9 is in the British Museum with 

 two more 9 and three $ ^^'^^ ^^''^^ bred " from T. Bernbeci/onnis.'' 



2. catenator, Panz. 



Ichneumon catenator, Panz. Schaef. Ic. pi. xx, fig. 10. /. lineolaris, Gmel. 

 S. N. i. 2701. Lissonota catenator, Gr. I. E. iii. 45 ; Ratz. Ichn. d. Forst. iii. 197, 



? . Meniscus catenator, Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1860, n. 10, p. 61 ; Tasch. Zeits. 

 Ges. Nat. 1863, p. 288 ; Schm. Opusc. Ichn. 1273, i ? . Voll. Pinac. pi. xiv. f. 6. 



? . EpJiialtes facialis, Desv. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1862, p. 226, s . Tryplion exca- 

 vator, Zett. I. L. 384, ? . 



Finely rugose and dull, with whitish i)ubesccnce. Head transverse and 

 somewhat narrowed behind the e3'es ; frons excavate, with the orbits 

 elevated; vertex deeply impressed centrally; mouth except apices of man- 

 dibles, orbits narrowly and usually vertical dots flavous, ^ with the cheeks 

 and Avhole face also concolorous. Antennae filiform, longer than half the 

 body and usually dull ferrugineous beneath towards their apices ; ^ with 

 the scape stramineous beneath. Thorax gibbulous and sericeous ; black, 

 with a line on either side of the mesonotum and a callosity beneath the 

 radix flavous ; sometimes a mark before the radix and a lateral dot 

 above the intermediate coxae red ; ^ also with the pro- and more or less 

 of the meso-sternum flavous ; metathorax not centrally sulcate, petiolar 

 area basally distinct, spiracles circular. .Scutellum immaculate. Abdomen 

 black and subpubescent, a little longer than the head and thorax, sub- 

 cylindrical in both sexes, with the basal segments dull and finely scabri- 

 culous ; basal segment foveolate ; following apically a little elevated and 

 subglabrous ; second and third rarely laterally or discally badious, the 

 former longer than broad ; terebra as long as the abdomen only, with its 

 valvulae very stout. Legs red and somewhat slender, with the anterior 

 coxae and trochanters partly in 9 and entirely in $ flavous ; hind tro- 

 chanters often more or less infuscate, their tibiae externally and tarsi 

 nigrescent ; tarsal claws of 9 somewhat indistinctly pectinate, of J inter- 

 nally setose. Wings hyaline or a little clouded ; stigma ferrugineous or 

 testaceous, radix and tegulae flavescent ; areolet irregular, petiolate or 

 subpetiolate. Length, ii — 12 mm. 



[Ephialtes facialis, Desv. Tr. Ent. Soc. 1862, p. 226, 3 . 



Head with the whole face and mouth flavous ; face dully granulate and 



somewhat flat ; clypeus convex, discreted, more shining, with its apex 



broadly rounded ; mandibular teeth infuscate and subequal in length ; 



cheeks normal and flavescent. Antennae three-quarters the length of the 



