Mr. Marshall's Catalogue of Ichneumonde. 158 
The one I take in this neighbourhood agrees best with 
P. probus, Tasch. 
Cryptus antennatus, n.s. (Pl. VIIL., fig. 10, 10 a). 
¢. Abdomine medio rufo; femoribus tibiis tarsisque 
anterioribus fusco-rufis, tarsis posticis annulo albo. 
Finely and closely punctured; head behind the eyes 
slightly narrowed, antenne filiform, rather thicker at the 
apex than at the base; thorax distinctly trilobed, meta- 
thorax with two distinct transverse lines, and a quadrate 
area above the front line, spiracles small and circular ; 
1st segment of abdomen rather slender, gradually taper- 
ing, one-third wider at the base than at the apex, 
spiracles not projecting, abdomen elongate-ovate, 2nd 
segment as long as wide, remainder transverse ; aculeus 
about two-thirds the length of the abdomen ; areolet of 
wings pentagonal, neither wide nor narrow above, the 
recurrent nervure received beyond the middle, a trace of 
the nervelet visible, transverse anal nervure subopposite, 
and divided just below the middle. 
Black; 1—4 segments of abdomen red, base of 1 and 
apex of 4 more or less brown or black. Legs fuscous- 
red, the front ones dilated, hind femora towards the apex 
and hind tibie rather infuscated ; coxe, trochanters, apex 
of front tarsi, intermediate and hind tarsi, brown or 
black; second, third and base of fourth, joints of hind 
tarsi white, base of second joint more or less dark. 
Length 3, 3°5, 2°5 mm. 
This insect apparently belongs to Thomson’s subgenus 
Cenocryptus. I took two females in this neighbourhood 
on the 4th of April, 1874. 
Cryptus amenus, Gr. 
Grav., I. E. ii. 623, 185, 2; Tasch., Zeits. Ges. Nat. 
1865, 100, 2. 
Pi MLOn. xi boos. 9% 
Cryptus elegans, Desy. 
Cryptus elegans, Desy., Cat. Brit. Ichn. 57, 53, 3, ?. 
Hygrocryptus Drewseni, Thoms., Opus. Ent. fase. v. 
Bits 2s Ba 2 
Entom. xiii. 52. 
This pretty and distinct species was first described 
