324 ichneumonid.t;. 



represent little more than thyridii AVitli the exception of its 

 Mesochoroid areolet, which is quite distinct m this subfamily, its 

 whole facies is Tryphonid. 



231. Dyspetes prserogator, L. 



Linufeus, Syst. Nat. 17o8, p. •'>0'> ; id., 



Petersb. 18l'4, p. 349. -r , i^ 



yphon in-cerofjator, Gravenhoi;3t, Icbn- ^;^"i-- - 



p 127 ; Stephens, IHus. Mandib. vn, 18.3.., p. 232 ( 6 $ )• 



Byspetuspycerofjator, Thomson, Opuse. Knt. ix, 1883, p. 899 (d ? )• 



A black species, with white pubescence and the mouth and legs, 



except usually the hind ones, red. 

 Head transverse, but not abruptly 

 constricted posterioi-ly, occiput 

 acutely emarginate centrally ; 

 frons and face distinctly punc- 

 tate ; clypeus subglabrous and, 

 except basally, testaceous ; man- 

 dibles and palpi concolorous. 

 Antennce as long as the body and 

 filiform, black, becoming rufes- 

 cent apically. Thorax black, dull 

 and immaculate, with obsolete 

 notauli; metathorax closely punc- 

 tate, with the areola elongate, not 

 discrete from the basal area and 

 Fig. 89. emitting no costulje ; lateral 



Dyspetes j)r(Brogator, L. carinDe entire, and the small peti- 



olar area discrete. Scutellnm 

 black and not margined. Abdomen shagreened and hardly shining, 

 fusiform and apically obtuse ; second and third segments sub- 

 impressed transversely before their apices, and obliquely in their 

 basal angles ; basal segment scabriculous and more than double 

 the length of the stout terebra. Legs red, with the coxae darker ; 

 hind legs usually entirely black. Wincjs hyaline or tlavescent, 

 with the stigma ferruginous ; areolet transverse and large, hardly 

 sessile ; basal nervure continuous, and the nervellus intercepted 

 slightly below its centre. 

 LeiKjtli 7-11 millim. 



SiKKiM : Darjiling, 6000 ft., ix-x. {E. Brunetti — Ind. Mus.). 

 Europe. 



This is a very abundant autumn species in Europe, frequently 

 found on umbelliferous flowers ; it extends throughout nearly the 

 Avhole continent, but nothing appears to be yet hnoxAn respecting 

 its economy. 



