8 Rev. T. A. Marshall's Monofjrcqih of 



Alysia {Ccelinius) anceps, Hal., lib. cit., 20, ^ $ . 



? Ichneumon cultrifoo'mis, Latr., Hist. Nat. Cr. et Ins., 



iii (1802). 

 Ccelinius flcxuosus, H. Sch. Fortsetz. v. Panzer, 156. 13. 



9 Black ; abdomen rufous, black at the base. Face clothed with 

 Avhitish pubescence ; mandibles piceous ; clypeus and palpi 

 testaceous; antenna) pubescent, shorter than the body, 50-55- 

 jointed, the 2nd, or more joints, brownish testaceous. Meso- 

 sternum beset with whitish hairs. Wings slightly infumated ; 

 squamulae rufous ; stigma and nervures fuscous; hind wings pro- 

 portionately broader than in Ccel'mms. Legs rufous, hind tibia3 and 

 tarsi black, as well as the tips of the hind femora and of the 4 

 anterior tarsi ; hind tibiae sometimes rufous at the base ; hind coxae 

 somewhat compressed, punctulate, often fuscescent, scarcely shorter 

 than the 1st abdominal segment. This latter, and the base of the 3nd 

 segment, black, the 2nd striolate at the extreme base ; 3rd and 

 following rufous with a black streak on the dorsal ridge ; hypopy- 

 gium and valves of the terebra black. $ Antennse longer than the 

 body, 60-67 jointed ; posterior segments infuscated, or at least 

 cinctured with fuscous. Length, 2^-85 ; exp. 3^41 lines. 



Var. (J Palpi and squamulae fuscous ; intermediate coxse blackish 

 at the base ; middle of femora and tips of tibiae and of tarsi in the 

 same pair blackish ; hind legs blackish with the trochanters and the 

 extreme base of the femora rufous ; abdomen black above, rufous in 

 the middle. Haliday. 



The white cocoon of C. anceps was found by Nees 

 attached to a dead larva unknown. If this remark of Nees 

 refers to the present species, the larva in question must 

 have been dipterous : but there is nothing to shew that 

 the $■ intended was not the second specimen sent by 

 Dahl from Vienna, which could not have been C. anceps. 

 This species is not very common, but occurs occasionally 

 in marshy places throughout Great Britain and Ireland, 

 also in Sweden, Lapland, and France. I have found the 

 $ in Devonshire, singly, and once captured several of both 

 sexes in a watery meadow on the banks of the Dee near 

 Braemar. 



X. POLEMON, Giraud. 

 Giraud, Verb, der zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, 1863, p. 17, sqq. 



This genus, now first introduced into the British Fauna, 

 has many of the characters of Ccelinius and Chmnon, but 



