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TRYPHON SCABRICULUS, Grav.—Gravenhorst placed the male 
of this Ichneumon amongst the T’ryphonide ; Mr. Marshall in 
his list removed it to the Pimplide, as a doubtful species of 
Phytodietus ; Dr. Vollenhoven in the last part of ‘ Pinacographia’ 
(No. 7) figures the female under the generic name of Gidemopsis, 
Tschek., and says that it belongs to the T'ryphonide and ought 
to come after Hclytus. I cannot help thinking that Marshall and 
Tschek are right, and that it ought to remain amongst the 
Pimplide, and in Holmgren’s Sect. i1., A. a.+ ; I think the length 
of the-aculeus prevents it being a T’ryphon; but the object of my 
communication was not the discussion of its place in the list, but 
to call attention to what are either other species of this genus 
or varieties of a very variable species. I shall not minutely 
describe the insects, because Gravenhorst has already described 
the male (I. E. ii., 180), and there is a very good general figure 
of the female in Vollenhoven’s plate 82, fig. 1, but only point out 
the differences of each variety. No. 1 (female).—Antenne, four- 
teenth to eighteenth right hand joints white, the base of fourteenth 
and apex of eighteenth dark ; fifteenth to eighteenth left hand are 
entirely white; the lst segment of abdomen has no tubercles, 
gradually widens from base to apex, this latter twice as wide as 
the base; the 2nd segment about one and a half times longer 
than broad. This appears to be the variety figured by 
Vollenhoven; I have taken but one specimen. No. 2 (female).— 
I can detect no difference, but that the antennez have no white 
ring. I have three specimens of this variety, and they vary 
slightly in the width of the apex of the 1st segment of the 
abdomen. No. 8 (female).—Antenne, seventeenth and eighteenth 
joints white; Ist segment of abdomen with very projecting 
tubercles in about the middle of the segment; petiole gradually 
tapering to the tubercles: here it is about twice as wide as the 
base of the petiole; the post petiole a trifle longer than broad 
and only very slightly tapering; the 2nd segment has a node on 
each side rather in front of the basal third, the segment only very 
slightly longer than broad, almost quadrate. I have but one 
specimen of this variety: it is about 1 mm. longer than the two 
previous; they are 6—7 mm., and this is 8 mm. in length. 
No. 4 (male).—The first segment almost tapering and without 
tubercles ; not quite twice as broad at the base as the apex; the 
2nd segment nearly twice as long as broad; length 6°56 mm. 
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