JEXi/(7S/fS.] 



BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 



291 



Nervelet short or obsolete. 



Thoracic pubescence black 



Thoracic pubescence subtestaceous . . 



Metanotum centrally longitudinally 

 canaliculate . . 



Petiole distinctly punctate. 



Petiole sparsel}' and not finel}' punc- 

 tate 



Petiole closely and finely punctate . . 



Basal segment only slightly longer 

 than apically broad 



5. I,.\EVIGATOR, V?7/. 



6. AETHiOP.s, Grav. 

 ;. FORNICATOR, Fad. 



8. CALOBATUS, Grazf. 



9. MATRUS, Desv. 



10. GRACILICORNIS, Gr. 



A Colour-Table of the Species. 



Hind metatarsus clear red 



Hind metatarsus infuscate or black. 



Scutellum apically or entirely white. 



Callosity beneath radix not pale. 



Abdomen mainl}' red 



Abdomen entirely black 



Callosity beneath radix pale . . 



Scutellum black. 



Anterior femora mainl}' black. 



Hind femora sanguineous-red 



Hind femora black 



Anterior femora red, sometimes basally 



infuscate. 

 Abdomen black. 

 Hind coxae black. 

 Stigma nigrescent or ferrugineous. 

 Hind tibiae apically infuscate 

 Hind tibiae entirely infuscate 

 Stigma testaceous 

 Hind coxae red . . 

 Abdomen mainly red. 

 Central hind tarsal joints infuscate . . 

 Central hind tarsal joints white 



I. CINCTIPES. 



3. GUTTATORIU.S. 

 g. MAURUS, (J. 

 10. GRACILICORNIS. 



4. FEMORATOR. 

 2. NIGRIPES. 



1. cinctipes, Retz. 



Ichncttiiion atrator, Forst. Nov. Spp. Ins. 84, ? ; cf. Gr. I.E. ill. 903 (?). Geer, 

 Mem. ii. 849, pi. x\\x, i 9. /. cinctipes, Retz. Ins. 1()8. ? ; E.xctastes ciitc- 

 tipcs, Thorns. O.E. xxii. 2414, <? ? . Ichneiniton osculatoritis. Fab. M.I. i. 261 ; 

 E. osculatoritis, Gr. I.E. iii. 413, i . Ichnctauon clavator, Fab. E.S. ii. 151 ; 

 Opliion clavator, Fab. Piez. 134 ; E. clavator, Gr. I.E. lii. 405, ? ; Veil. Pinac. 

 pi. xvii, figg. 3, cT ? . Ophion tarsator. Fab. Piez. 134, ? ; Tryplion tarsator, 

 Zen. I.L. 386 ; E. tarsator, Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Hand!. 1858. n. 8, p. 150, <T ? . 



A black and slender .species with the metatarsus always, and most of the 

 (5 abdomen, red. Head somewhat narrowed behind the eyes; face evenly 

 and distinctly punctate ; J with the palpi testaceous and basally infus- 

 cate, the mandibles except their infuscate teeth, the face and cheeks, 

 flavous ; clypeus shagrecned and deplanate with a few scattered punctures 

 and the ape.x subtruncate, of $ flavous and of 9 rarely badious. Antennae 

 setaceous and about as long as the body with the ba.sal flagellar joint nearly 



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