60 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



(see also fig. 8°-). The posterior arese are in the same figure 

 divided into three by two distinct lines ; fig. 2, 2 is the postero- 

 medial area. The varieties are referred to as in the Oxypygi. 



LiMERODEs, Wesm. 



Abdominal segments 1st to 3rd or part of 4th red, remainder black ; 

 less red ; apex of hind femora and tibiae black. 



A. Scutellum white; coxse black, 



1. arctiventris, 5 — oi lines, male and female. 



B. Scutellum black ; coxse red ; base of bind tibiae also black. 



2. cambrensis, 3f — 4 lines, male. 



A Limerodes is at once recognisable by its long, slender, 

 compressed abdomen. A. arctiventris, Boie, is well figured, with 

 details of abdomen and head, on the plate illustrating Wesmael's 

 'Ichneumones Amblypygi Europsei' (figs. 1-4). This species 

 has been bred from EuhoUa mensuraria (Boie), Miana literosa 

 (Brisehke), Tapinostola Elymi (Brischke), and Vollenhoven says 

 from a grass-feeding Noctua, probably one of the Leucanidce. It 

 is not common in Britain. Although Desvignes said that his 

 Ichneumon cambrensis belonged to the Pncustici, it is certainly a 

 Limerodes ; there are two specimens of it in the British Museum, 

 captured near Milford Haven. 



Amblyteles, Wesm. 

 Section 1. — Scutellum and abdomen black. 

 Legs red ; coxse and trochanters black ; hind tarsi brown (female and 

 male). 27. castiyator, 7} — 8^ lines. 



Section 2. — Scutellum pale ; abdomen black. 



A. Gastrocseli large (females). 



a. Arese of metathorax, three. 



* Femora entirely or partly red, sometimes blackish. 



28. fossorius, G — 7^ lines (A, t, I, a). 

 :;■* Femora black, front one sometimes partly red. 



34. funereus, 5^ — 7^ lines. 



b. Arese of metathorax, five ; front tibiae partly pale. 



36. Proteus, 11 — 13 fines. 



B. Gastrocseli small ; areae of metathorax, five (females). 

 Tibiae and femora reddish or fulvous ; apex of hinder black. 



12. notatorius, 7 — 9 lines {a). 

 A. Arese of metathorax, five (males). 



a. Femora and tibiae dilute red or orange. 



13. suhsericans, 5|- — 7 lines [h, s, a). 



b. Femora black. .... 36. Proteus, 11 — 13 lines. 

 , B. Arese of metathorax, three (males). 



* Abdomen with ventral fold ; hind tibioB towards the base straw- 



coloured. - - - - 28. fossorius, 6 — 7^ lines {h, I, a). 



