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found before in England to my knowledge, and is very rare on the 
Continent. 
In conclusion, the only fly belonging to another family to 
which I shall allude is the Morellia (Cyrtoneura) curvipes, Macq. 
I had formerly captured several males of this rather rare Muscid 
in the same neighbourhood, but on the present occasion I found 
numbers of both males and females (the latter I had not previously 
seen) on the leaves of strawberry plants in the garden. 
Bradford, Yorks, July, 1880. 
INTRODUCTORY PAPERS ON ICHNEUMONIDA. 
By J° B. Bripeman anp E. A. Firtcu. 
No. I1—ICHNEUMONID (continued). 
Srecrion 5.—Scutellum and abdomen black; apex reddish or fulvous. 
Tarsi and tibiee yellow (B) or saffron (A), apex of hind one black. 
A. Intermediate segments of abdomen rufo-fulvous at the sides. 
122. dubitatus, 6 lines. 
B. Intermediate segments not so marked. 
111. ancipiterus, 6—6+4 lines. 
Sxction 6.—Scutellum pale; abdomen red and black; apex with white or 
whitish marks.(*) 
A. Middle area of post-petiole aciculate; supero-medial area of meta- 
thorax rectangular or subquadrate (females). 
Subdivision I.— Antenne filiform or the apex slightly attenuated, rather 
stout, after death involuted; mesothorax a little higher than 
the metathorax. 
Scutellum white or yellowish. 
a. Hind coxee pubescent beneath. 
* Qnd and 8rd segments either entirely red, red and black, or some- 
times quite black; tibiz, especially the hinder ones, reddish 
at the base ; femora black. 30. computatorius, 6—9 lines (a). 
** Qnd and 3rd segments, the latter with a black basal band and 
hinder femur, red; apex black, and tibize the same. 
32. vaginatorius, 5—6 lines. 
«kk Qnd and 8rd segments red; hinder tibize with a wide straw- 
coloured band in the middle. 34. confusorius, 5—7 lines (a). 
b. Hind cox not pubescent beneath; greater part of the femora 
black, especially the hinder ones. 
(1) Generally it is the last two or three segments that are pale marked, 
sometimes the last four, and sometimes only the last: these marks often vary in the 
same species 
