INSECTA. 383 
A. Abdomen of moderate size or elongate. 
+ Borer exsert. 
Aulacus JuRINE. Abdomen compressed. Antenne setaceous. 
Sp. Aulacus striatus, JURINE, Hymén. Tab. 7, fig. 13: habit. on the moun- 
tains of Switzerland. 
Fonus Fasr. Abdomen elongate, clavate at apex, exceeding 
the length of head and thorax. Antenne filiform. 
Sp. Fenus jaculator, Ichneumon jaculator L., Reaumur, Ins. tv. Pl. 10, 
figs. 14, 15, PANnzER, Deutschl. Ins. Heft 96, Tab. 16, Dumérin, Cons. 
gén. 8. l. Ins. Pl. 32, fig. 2, &e. 
tt Borer concealed. 
Pelecinus Latr., Fasr. Inferior wings almost without ner- 
vures. Abdomen very long, filiform in females, moderate and 
clavate in males. 
Sp. Pelecinus polycerator Larr., Guérin, Iconogr., Ins. Pl. 65, habit. in 
North and South America. 
Comp. on this genus LEPELETIER and ServiLLE, Encyl. méthod., Ins. 
Tom. x. 1825, pp. 29, 30; Dr Romanp, Note sur le genre Pelecinus, 
Guerin, May. de Zool., 1840, Ins. Pl. 48, 49; ejusd. Notice s. l. genre 
Pelec.; ibid. 1842, Pl. 86 ; Kuue, die Arten der Gattung, Pelec., GuR- 
MAR’S Zeitschr. f. d. Entom. 11. 1841, s. 377—388, Tab. u. (A genus in 
the opinion of this author related to the Oxywra, the genus Monomachus 
Westw., forming the transition to the genus Proctotrupes.) 
B. Abdomen very short, ovato-triangular, compressed, abruptly 
petiolate, often inserted almost beneath the scutellum. 
Hvania Fapr., Later. 
Sp. Lvania appendicigaster, KirBy and Spence, Introd. to Entom. Pl. tv. 
fig. 2, Dum&R. Cons. gén. s. 1. Ins. Pl. 32, fig. 3, &e. 
Sub-genera: Brachygaster Luacu, Hyptia Intra. Comp. on this genus 
and the allied sub-genera SprnoLa, Guérin, Revue Zoolog. 1840, pp. 244— 
248, and Wustwoon, Trans. of the Entom. Soc. of Lond. 111. 1843, 
Pp. 237, &e. 
Family XXII. Cynipsea s. Gallicole. Posterior wings with 
no nervure or one only, anterior with radial cell, and two or three 
cubital cells, the second triangular, third incomplete produced to 
apex of wing. Antenne of the same thickness, or gradually 
thicker towards the apex, with twelve to fifteen joints. Maxillary 
