388 Mr. F. Smith's descriptio?is 



spotted with white, their femora and tibijB in front, and the 

 three basal joints of the tarsi, white ; the joints tipped with 

 black ; the posterior legs have the tips of the trochanters 

 and basal half of the tibife white. Abdomen : the posterior 

 margin of the first segment and a minute spot on each 

 side of apical margin of the second segment, white. 



Var. 1, 3 . Only differs in having the face black, with 

 only a naiTow line at the inner margins of the eyes. 



Var. 2, $ . The face black and the spots on the second 

 segment of the abdomen wanting. 



Var. 3, S. Has the face white, with the abdomen 

 entirely black. 



Var. 1, ?. Black, with the apical third of the antennse 

 and the anterior tibiae in front obscurely pale yellow. 



This species is almost identical wjth the European one, 

 Ichneumon Proteus, the male of which is 1. laminntorius ; 

 indeed, it would be difficult to point out a specific difterence ; 

 on examining a series of ten males and eight females in 

 the British Collection at the jMuseum, both sexes are 

 constant in ha%nng the scutellum white ; all the males 

 liave the face white below the insertion of the antenna*. 

 The Japanese specimens have the wings much darker than 

 Ichneumon Proteus. 



3. Ichneumon doUturus. 



INIale. — Length 4;^ lines. Black : the face, and scape 

 of the antennjB in front, white. The anterior femora in 

 front, the apex of the intermediate pair and the tibia* and 

 tarsi of both pairs, Avhite ; the basal half of the posterior 

 tibife, and the spines at their apex, white ; wings sub- 

 hyaline, their nervures and stigma black. Abdomen 

 shining. 



4. Ichneumon cursorius. 



Female. — Length 6 lines. Head and thorax black, 

 abdomen red and black, scutellum yellow. Head : the 

 face beloAv the antenna? and a line at the inner margin of 

 the eyes ferruginous ; antenna? obscurely ferruginous, with 

 five or six of the middle joints white. Thorax : the legs 

 rufo-piceous, with the cox^e, and posterior femora above, 

 black ; wings subhyaline, the nervures black, the stigma 

 yellow. Abdomen : the first segment and the apical 

 margins of the following segments black. 



Male. — Differs in having the head entirely black ; the 



