26 CATALOGUE OF 



Head: face white, with a large, somewhat triangular, black 

 patch below the antennae ; mouth and palpi pale. Antenna seta- 

 ceous, porrect, about half the length of the body. Metathorax 

 covered with a short hoary pile ; the central area lunate, not well- 

 defined. Wings fuscous at the base ; stigma pale fulvous or straw- 

 colour. Legs : coxae black ; first pair ferruginous at the tip, as also 

 the trochanters; the second joint of hinder pair (apophysis) rufous ; 

 femora black, rufous at the base ; first pair dirty yellow on the inner 

 side ; tibiae and tarsi pale orange ; hinder pair of the latter fuscous, 

 pale at the base ; posterior tibiae with the apex black. Abdomen 

 somewhat narrower than the thorax ; first segment rather scabrous, 

 with two elevated ridges, narrower than the second, the apical outer 

 margins of which are dull ferruginous ; third segment light chest- 

 nut, with a large oblong black patch at the apex ; the second and 

 third segments beneath testaceous ; fourth and fifth more obscure 

 Length 7 lines. 



Mr. Stephens has only given the diagnosis of this insect in his 

 Illustrations. 



In Mr. Desvignes' collection. 



SECTION IX. Scutellum black. Abdomen red or red and black. 



142. ICHNEUMON FUMIGATOR. B. M. 

 Ichneumon fumigator, Grav. Pede. n. 89. 



143. ICHNEUMON H^MORRHOIDALIS. B. M. 



Ichneumon haemorrhoidalis, Grav. i. 539, 224. 

 <j>. Ichneumon castaniveutris, Grav. i. 556, 233. Wesm. Tent. 32, 

 20, <?, ?. 



144. ICHNEUMON CULPATOR. B. M. 



Ichneumon culpator, Schrank^ Faun. Boica, n. 2077. Grav. i. 

 548, 227. 



$ . Segmentis 2 et 3 castaneo-rufis, annulo antennarum albo. 



Var. 1. Abdomine nigro, incisuris obscure ferrugineis. Antennis 

 ut in genuinis. 



, ?. Ichneumon culpator, Wesm. Tent. 82, 82 (varietate exclusa). 



