NATURAL HISTORY. W 



ORDER IIYMENOPTERA. 



Fam.— ICHNEUMONID^. 

 Gen. 484.— ichneumon. {Liirn.) 



2. Lariee. Antennse curled ; rufous, tips of antennse, head, underside of the trunk, 

 with the coxse, and a spot and a broad stripe on the abdomen black. 



Plate A, fig. 1. 



Leno-th five lines, breadth ten lines. 



Clothed with very short brownish pubescence, pale castaneous, minutely punctured ; 

 antennse and head black, the former filiform, the basal joint rufous, third and four 

 following joints paler red ; trunk black, the upper surface of the mesothorax and 

 scutellum rufous and shining, metathorax dull and darker above, with a black furcate 

 stripe down the back ; abdomen ovate, very thickly punctured, a black dot at the 

 base of the second segment, the third \Mth a broad black stripe down the middle, 

 concave on each side, the remainder black with a rufous spot on each side at the base 

 of the fourth segment, petiole rather short, narrowed at the base ; wings tinged with 

 yellowish fuscous, nervures and stigma ferruginous ochre, areolet quinquangular ; legs 

 rather stout, coxa and trochanters black, the former with a red spot on the upper side 

 in the hinder pair. 



This Ichneumon infested the larva; of the Laria Rossii, from which it was bred 

 early in July, another was taken on the 8th of the same month, but they were not 

 very numerous. 



Gen. 516.— EPIIIALTES. (Grav.) 



A fragment only of a female was preserved, but from the existence of the specmien 

 it might be inferred that fir trees or stumps were in the neiglibourhood. The meta- 

 thorax, abdomen, sheaths of the oviduct, and posterior coxa; and trochanters are black, 

 the remainder of the legs red, the tarsi dusky at the apex; oviduct ochreous ; mfcrior 

 wings transparent, nervures piceous. It is similar in form to E. Carbonarius (Cliris;.), 

 but considerably smaller I believe. 



