Microcrypius.] BRITISH ICHNETJIMONS. 4! 



hind tibiae except basally, and tlieir tarsi, black ; c^ liind tarsi centrally, 

 front coxae beneath and tlie anterior trochanters, white. Wings a little 

 clouded ; radix piceous, tegulae of ^ white ; areolet of $ sub-transverse. 

 Length, 7 9 mm. 



This species is similar to Af. aiuio/iii/iafor, but the female has the 

 antennal joints seven to eleven white, the head and areolet broader, the 

 scutellum generally a[)ically castaneous, the terebra shorter and the legs 

 stouter ; the 6 is distinct in its red and basally piceous abdomen, the 

 antennae brunneous beneath, with six elevated lines, in its white scutellum, 

 post-scutellum and inner orbits. 



This is a common species throughout northern and central Europe, 

 where it has been bred from Lophyrus pallidus by Brischke. Stephens 

 records it from Coombe Wood, in June, and elsewhere about London. 

 Mr. E. A. Butler has given me a female which he recently captured at 

 Highgate ; and I took a second in the Ipswich district of Suffolk in 1S94. 

 The males standing under this name in the British Museum are nothing 

 but small Cryptus albatoiiits, Grav. 



16. nigrocinctus, Grav. 



Ichneumon pediculaiius, Panz. F. G. Ixxxi. 13 (^nec Fab.), ?. Mntilla acarontni, 

 Schr. En. 840 («^f Linn.), 9 . Ichneumon nigocinc(us,Qx. Mon. Ted. 35. Pezoinachus 

 nigrocinctus, Gr. I. E. ii. 880. Aptesis nigrocincta, Forst. Wiegm. Arch. 1850, p. 85, 9 . 

 Phygadeuon flaveolatus, Gr. I. E. ii.655, i. P. jucundiis Vix. lib. cit. 658 ; .Ste. 111. M. 

 vii. 297 ; Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1S65, p. 44, i . Microcryp/us nigiocinc/us, Thonis. 

 O. E. ix. 857, i <i ; cf. xxi. 2383. Var. Ichnem/ion sudeiictis, (jr. Mun. I'ed. 37 ; 

 Pezoinachus sudeticus, Gr. I. E. ii. S84 ; Aptesis sttdetica, Forsl. Wiegm. Arch. 1850, 

 p. 86, 9 . 



Head black and nearly cubical ; cheeks buccate, long and broad ; frons 

 of $ strongly and sparsely punctate ; mandibles and pal[)i rufescent ; S 

 with internal orbits often narrowly white and the clypeus distinctly dis- 

 creted ; ? with the latter not discreted, convex and smooth with coarse 

 punctures, and the epistoma intumescent and rugose. Antennae with the 

 scape but little excised apically ; of 6 sub-setaceous, elongate, with the 

 basal joints rufescent, and scape sometimes white, beneath ; of $ stout 

 and filiform, with the eight basal joints entirely red, the four following 

 white and the remainder piceous. Thorax pubescent, with the spiracles 

 small and sub-circular ; of S black, with the metathorax somewhat rugose, 

 its costae fine, areola sub-quadrate and apically incomjjlete ; of $ red, 

 strongly and coarsely punctate with the metathorax, except sometimes 

 basally, black, with distinct apophyses, but no areae. Scutellum de[)lanate, 

 of $ red; of 6, together with the post-scutellum, pale stramineous. 

 Abdomen red and pubescent, neither alutaceous nor apically white ; 

 petiole elongate and [)Ost-petiole nearly twice longer than broad, only 

 slightly explanate, slender and sub-glabrous, with a few sub-obsolete punc- 

 tures ; of 6 with segments six to the apex, usually base of the first and 

 apex of the fifth, of 9 apically sub-compressed, with the fourth and aj^ical 

 half of the third segments, black ; tereljra somewhat longer than the basal 

 segment. Legs red, with apices of the stout and closely punctate hind 

 femora and tibiae more or less infuscate, their calcaria whitish ; anterior 

 tibiae spinulose ; c? with coxae, trochanters and the hind tarsi, black. 

 Wings sub-hyaline ; radix and stigma whitish, former in $ red ; wings of V 



