244 ICHIfETTMONIDJE. 



8 (7) Frons sparsely punctate ; areolet sub- 



petiolate. 



9 (10) Metanotum convex, not sulcate, with 



all costse wanting nitidus, Cam., p. 249. 



10 (9) Metunotum centrally strongly sulcate, 



with basal costte fornicator, F., p. 250. 



171. Exetastes cinctipes, Eetz. 



Ichneumon atrator, Forster, Nov. Spp. Ins., 1771, p. 84 ( $ ) ; cf. 



Gravenhorst, Ichn. Eur. iii, 1829, p. 903 (?). 

 Ichneumon cinctipes, Retzius, Ins. 1783, p. 168 ($ ). 

 Ichneumon osculatorius, Fabricius, Mant. Ins. i, 1787, p. 261 (tf). 

 Ichneumon claoator, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. ii, 1793, p. 151 ( $ ). 

 Ophion clavator, Fabncius, Piez. 1804", p. 134 ($ ). 

 Ophion tarsator, Fabricius, 1. c. ( $ ). 



Exetastes osculatorius, Gravenhorst, Ichn. Eur. iii, 1829, p. 413 ( c? ). 

 Exetastes clavator, Gravenhorst, /. c. p. 405 ( $ ) ; Vollenhoven, 



Pinac. pi. xvii, fig. 3 (rf $). 



Tryphun tarsator, Zetterstedt, Ins. Lapp. 1840, p. 386. 

 Exetattes tarsator, Holmgren, Sv. Ak. Handl. 1858, no. 8, p. 159 



(<?$) 



Exetastes cinctipes, Thomson, Opusc. Ent. xxii, 1897, p. 2414 ; 

 Morley, Ichn. Brit, iii, 1908, p. 291 (rf $). 



3 $ . A black and slender species, with the metatarsus always, 

 and most of the c? abdomen, red. Head somewhat narrowed 

 behind the eyes ; face evenly and distinctly punctate ; d" with the 

 palpi testaceous and basally infuscate, the mandibles (except their 

 infuscate teeth), the face and cheeks, flavous ; clypeus shagreened 

 and deplanate, with a few scattered punctures and the apex sub- 

 truncate, of d flavous and of $ rarely badious. Antennae setaceous 

 and about as long as the body, with the basal flagellar joint nearly 

 twice as long as the second ; of $ with the scape usually pale 

 below, of $ with eight or nine of the central joints white. 

 Thorax narrower than the head, punctate and somewhat nitidu- 

 lous ; of 3 with a line before, and another transversely beneath, 

 the radix and sometimes two pectoral marks, flavous ; inetathorax 

 dorsally evenly subrugulose throughout, with no trace of areas or 

 petiolar costa ; spiracles linear. Scutellum distinctly punctate 

 and black, of d nearly always apically flavidous or white ; post- 

 scutellum basally bifoveolate. Abdomen glabrous and nitidulous, 

 black ; in $ immaculate, in c? with the apex of the basal segment 

 sometimes castaneous, the second and third usually mainly red, 

 the fourth black and nearly always with its base rufescent, its 

 ventral plica pale testaceous ; basal segment slightly curved and 

 gradually dilated apically, with the postpetiole nearly double the 

 width of the petiole ; second and third segments of about equal 

 length ; terebra half the length of the basal segment. Legs 

 slender, pale red. with the finely punctate coxa3 and trochanters 

 black, or in <$ with the anterior flavidous beneath ; tarsi always 

 red, with the three central joints of the hind ones stramineous ; 

 anterior tarsi of $ infuscate. Winys hardly clouded aud not 



