N^ototrachys] 



BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 



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1. foliator, Fah. 



Ichnciiiuon cntcnfafiis, Fourc. E.P. ii. 1785, 418 (?). /. petiolatus, Fourc. 

 I.e. ;W6; ViU. Linn. Ent. iii. 188; Oliv. Encvcl. Meth. vii. 206 (?). Ophion foli- 

 ator. Fab. E.S. Suppl. 1798, 239; Blanch. Hist. Ins. iii. 326. liassus foliator. 

 Fab. Piez. 100; Grav. Mag. Entom. 1821, p. 271, s ?. Trachynotus foliaior, 

 Gr. I.E. iii. 715; Westw. Introd. Synop. 60; Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Hand!. 1858, 

 p. 13; Tasch. Hym. Deut. 70, cf ? . Nototracliys foliator, Bridg. -Fitch, Entom. 

 1884. p. 180; Schm. ^ 9 . 



A very coar.sel\- and ruLi^o.sely reticulate species; dull witli only occiput, 

 inesonotal base and speculum smooth; black or piceous, darker in (J. 

 Head usually mainly red and thorax indefinitely, especially prothora.x and 



mesonotum laterally and scutelluni, concolorous; vertical orbits usually 

 flavous-marked. Antennae filiform and hardly lonj^er than tliorax. Meta- 

 thorax short, convex and dcclived from tlie small and glabrous areola. 

 Abdomen finely alutaceous with base and apex smoother; more or less, 

 and especially with incisures and petiolar base, rufescent; terebra as long 

 as the second segment, with valvulae apically subexplanate. Legs red, 

 more or less nigrescent; the front ones flavidous; all the tibiae basally 

 whitish and the hind ones curved. Wings short and usually hyaline. 

 Length, 10-14 nun. 



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