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ON THE ICHNEUMONIDA OF THE BANKSIAN 
COLLECTION IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 
By CuaupE Mortey, F.Z.S., F.E.S., &e. 
Fapricius’s connection with Sir Joseph Banks is obscure, 
but it is probable they became acquainted at the time that the 
former was working upon insects at the British Museum. This 
was previous to 1775, for many Banksian specimens were brought 
forward by him, including all the Australian ones, in ‘Systema 
Entomologiz’ of that date. In these notes, however, I have had 
before me his ‘ Species Insectorum,’ published at Hamburg and 
Kiel in 1781, and the numbers preceding each species refer to 
that work (pp. 420-442), since all were not enumerated at the 
earlier date, and such as were there instanced are again referred to 
at the later. 
Besides these, the collection contains only the types of the 
three species given by Nils 8. Swederus in his paper “ Fort- 
sittning af Beskrifningen pa 50 nya Species af Insecter”’ (Sv. 
Ak. Handl. 1787, pp. 279-281). 
The following list comprises all the specimens in the Banksian 
Collection in their order as placed, which has been preserved as 
at first received by the Museum authorities. The Collection was 
presented by the Linnean Society in 1868, and to those speci- 
mens especially referred to as typical, in the ‘ Museum Register 
of Zoological Accessions,’ I have here suffixed an asterisk.+ From 
the same source comes the information that ‘‘ the following type 
Specimens were not in the Collection when it was presented to 
the British Museum. . . . Ichnewmon melioratorius, Otaheite ; 
Cryptus nutatorius, New Holland; C. fuscator, Sandwich Isles ; 
Pimpla barbator ; and Ophion luteus, New Zealand.” 
It may be well to mention that the Antipodean insects were 
taken by Sir Joseph Banks while on his memorable voyage round 
the world with Captain Cook; most of them when the latter was 
stranded at Endeavour River, where Cooktown now stands, in 
1770, and where he had to remain for repairs for four months. 
A copy of Cook’s own sketch of the spot of beaching is in 
the library there. 
MS. Generic Lassen :—ICHNEUMON. 
1. sugillatorius.—2. Calichnewmon sugillatorius, Linn. One 
female with immaculate post-petiole, and one male with neither 
head nor front legs. 
+ Ichnzwmon oculator, there indicated as such from “ England,” is not 
now represented in the collection, though said by Fabricius (Spp. Ins. No. 80) 
to have been in ‘‘ Mus. Dom. Banks”; nor do I find the equally indigenous 
representatives of Ophion latrator and O, saltator. 
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