BRITISH ICHNEUMONID.E. 19 



Male. Head, face and palpi yellow. Antennae half the length 

 of the body, porrect ; first joint beneath yellow, the remainder pale 

 orange, black above. Thorax with a line before and another be- 

 neath the wings reddish yellow; the central area of the metathorax 

 quadrate. Scutellurn yellow, with a slight marginal reddish tinge. 

 Base of the wings and stigma brownish yellow; stigma lighter; 

 second cubital cellule 5-angular. Legs: coxae black; trochanters 

 yellowish at the apex ; femora pale reddish yellow, hinder pair with 

 the apex black ; tibiae and tarsi paler, the former black at the apex, 

 from the second to fifth joints fuscous. Abdomen a little broader 

 than the thorax ; first segment black ; second rufo-fulvous ; third 

 and fourth with a marginal fascia, sinuated in the middle; fifth 

 with a small central apical spot ; sixth with a broad fascia ; 

 seventh pale fulvous, the latter with a triangular black spot at the 

 base. Length 6 6J lines. 



Female. Head : face black. Mandibles with a ferruginous 

 pile. Antennae, as in diagnosis, involute. Thorax with a yel- 

 lowish line below the wings. Legs as in the male. Abdomen : 

 second segment rufo-fulvous ; third with a marginal yellowish 

 fascia ; fourth and fifth black ; sixth nearly entirely pale yellowish, 

 it has a small central black patch at the base; seventh black. 

 Aculeus subexserted. 



In Mr. Curtis's collection. 



SECTION VI b. Scutellum and abdomen black.. Apex reddish or 

 fulvous. 



114. ICHNEUMON ANCIPITEKUS. 



Sculello et abdomine nigris ano rufo-fulvo. Orbitis facialibus 

 flams. Palpis flams. Antennis setaceis. Alisfumato-hyalinis. 

 Stigmate fulvo, radio ferruaineo versus basim fusco-flavo, 

 radice et squamula piceis. Areola subquinque-angulari, 

 femoribus nigris anterioribus flavi-fulvis. Tibiis et tarsis 

 flavis posticis apice nigro. Tarsis fuscis. (Long. 6 6 

 lin.) 



Ichneumon ancipiterus, Desv. 

 In Mr. Desvigues' and Mr. Heysham's collections. 



