INSECTA. 383 



A. Abdomen of moderate size or elongate. 



t Borer exsert. 



Aulacus JURINE. Abdomen compressed. Antennae setaceous. 



Sp. Aulacus striatus, JURINE, Hymen. Tab. 7, fig. 13: habit, on the moun- 

 tains of Switzerland. 



Fcenus FABR. Abdomen elongate, clavate at apex ? exceeding 

 the length of head and thorax. Antennas filiform. 



Sp. Fcenus jaculator, Ichneumon jaculator L., REAUMUR, Ins. IV. PL 10, 

 figs. 14, 15, PANZER, Deutschl. Ins. Heft 96, Tab. 16, DUMERIL, Cons, 

 gen. s. I. Ins. PL 32, fig. 2, &c. 



ft Borer concealed. 



Pelecinus LATR., FABR. Inferior wings almost without ner- 

 vures. Abdomen very long, filiform in females, moderate and 

 clavate in males. 



Sp. Pelecinus polycerator LATR., GUERIN, Iconogr., Ins. PL 65, habit, in 

 North and South America. 



Comp. on this genus LEPELETIER and SERVILLE, Encyl. method., Ins. 

 Tom. x, 1825, pp. 29, 30; DE ROMAND, Note sur le genre Pelecinus, 

 GUERIN, Mag. de ZooL, 1840, Ins. PL 48, 49 ; ejusd. Notice s. I. genre 

 Pelec. ; ibid. 1842, PL 86 ; KLUG, die Arten der Gattung, Pelec., GER- 

 MAR'S Zeitschr.f. d. Entom. in. 1841, s. 377 388, Tab. 11. (A genus in 

 the opinion of this author related to the Oxyura, the genus Monomaclius 

 WESTW., forming the transition to the genus Proctotrupes.) 



B. Abdomen very short, ovato-triangular, compressed, abruptly 

 petiolate, often inserted almost beneath the scutelmm. 



Evania FABR., LATR. 



Sp. Evania appendicig aster, KIRBY and SPENCE, Introd. to Entom. PL IV. 

 fig. 2, DUMER. Cons. gen. s. 1. Ins. PL 32, fig. 3, &c. 



Sub-genera: Brachygaster LEACH, Hyptia ILLIG. Comp. on this genus 

 and the allied sub-genera SPINOLA, GUERIN, Revue Zoolog. 1840, pp. 244 

 248, and WESTWOOD, Trans, of the Entom. Soc. of Lond. in. 1843, 

 p. 237, &c. 



Family XXII. Cynipsea s. Gallicolce. Posterior wings with 

 QO nervure or one only, anterior with radial cell, and two or three 

 cubital cells, the second triangular, third incomplete produced to 

 apex of wing. Antennas of the same thickness, or gradually 

 thicker towards the apex, with twelve to fifteen joints. Maxillary 



