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8 (7) Frons sparsely punctate ; areolet sub- 



petiolate. 



9 (10) Metaiiotum convex, not sulcate, witli 



all costix; wanting nifidui^, Cam., p. 249. 



10 (0) Metfinotum centrally strongly sulcate, 



with basal costfe fornicator, F., p. 250. 



171. Exetastes cinctipes, lietz. 



Ichneumon atrator, Fiirster, Nov. Spp. Ins., 1771, p. 84 (§); cf. 



Gravenhorst, Ichn. Eur. iii, 1829, p. 908 {?). 

 Ichneumon cinctipes, lletzius, Ins. 1783, p. 168 ( $ ). 

 Ichneumon osculatorius, Fabricius, Mant. Ins. i, 1787, p. 261 (c?). 

 Ichneumon clavator, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. ii, 1793, p. 151 ( $ ). 

 Ophion clavator, Fabricius, Fiez. 1804, p. 134 ($). 

 Ophion tarsator, Fabricius, /. r. ( 5 ). 



Exetades osculatorius, Gravenhorst, Ichn. Eur. iii, 1829, p. 413 ( S )• 

 Exetastes clavator, Gravenhorst, I.e. p. 405 ($); Vollenhoven, 



Piuac. pi. xvii, fig. 3 {S 2)- 

 Tryphon tarsator, Zetterstedt, Ins. Lapp. 1840, p. 386. 

 Exetastes tarsator, Holmgren, Sv. Ak. Ilaudl. 1858, no. 8, p. 159 



(62)- 



Exetastes cinctipes, Thomson, Opusc. Ent. xxii, 1897, p. 2414 ; 

 Morley, Ichn. Brit, iii, 1908, p. 291 (c^ $ ). 



c? $ . A black and slender species, with the metatarsus always, 

 and most of the S abdomen, red. Head somewhat narrowed 

 beliind the eyes ; face evenly and distinctly punctate ; S with the 

 palpi testaceous and basally infuscate, the maudibles (except their 

 infuscate teeth), the face and cheeks, flavous ; clypeus shagreened 

 and deplanate, with a few scattered punctures and the apex sub- 

 truncate, of 6 flavous and of $ rarely badious. Antenna' setaceous 

 and about as long as the body, with tlie basal flagellar joint nearly 

 twice as long as the second ; of S with the scape usually pale 

 below, of 2 with eight or nine of the central joints white. 

 Thorax narrower than the head, punctate and somewhat nitidu- 

 lous ; of S "'itli ^ liii6 before, and another transversely beneath, 

 the radix and sometimes two pectoral marks, flavous ; metathorax 

 dorsally evenly subrugulose throughout, with no trace of arese or 

 petiolar costa ; spiracles linear. Scutcllum distinctly punctate 

 and black, of 6 nearly always apically flavidous or white ; post- 

 scutellum basally bifoveolate. Abdomen glabrous and nitidulous, 

 black ; in 2 immaculate, in S with the apex of the basal segment 

 sometimes castaneous, the second and third usually mainly red, 

 the fourth black and nearly always with its base rufescent, its 

 ventral plica pale testaceous ; basal segment slightly curved and 

 gradually dilated apically, with the postpetiole nearly double the 

 width of the petiole ; second and third segments of about equal 

 length ; terebra half the length of the basal segment. Legs 

 slender, pale red, with the finely punctate coxfe and trochanters 

 black, or in S with the anterior flavidous beneath ; tarsi always 

 red, with the three central joints of the hind ones stramiueous ; 

 anterior tarsi of $ infuscate. Wings hardly clouded and not 



