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third abdominal segment pale. All are from New Zealand. 

 Colobacis forticornis, Cam. (Trans. New Zealand Institute, 1901, 

 xxxiii. p. 110) is entirely synonymous with the above, and is 

 erroneously placed by its author in the Amblypygini on the shape 

 ■ — not structure — of the abdomen. Colobacis cannot be diffe- 

 rentiated from Ichneumon, Thoms. 



[" Tinctorius, Sw. MS3." — A large Ichneumon (s. s.) or Amhly- 

 teles, with the abdomen coated with ?dirt.] 



19. vaginatorius. — 1. Banchus sp., ? (probably B. pictus, 

 Fab., with the scutellar spine mutilated). " Scutello albo " = 

 apical half only ; ** thorace maculato " = two round dots on meta- 

 notum and the same on front of mesonotum, and linear cal- 

 losities beneath radices ; third abdominal fascia is not " in- 

 terrupta." 



21. bidentorius. — 1. Amblyteles armatorius, Forst., (? . 



20. annulatorius.* — 1. Amblyteles palliatorius, Grav., ^ . I 

 am not quite sure of this determination, since the head and 

 front legs are missing, and the four first segments are alone 

 basally black, but I have no doubt respecting the genus (c/. Ichn. 

 Brit. iii. 45). 



[" Punctatorius, Sw. MSS." — Amblyteles oratorius, Fab., S .] 

 32. sollicitorius.* — This male ichneumon is not, as I had at 

 first sight expected, the male of /. lotatorius {ante. No. 16), but of 

 the somewhat closely allied /. invectus. Smith (Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. 1876, p. 475), as the sculpture of the metanotum at once 

 proclaims. Consequently both Fabrician titles stand, with, as 

 its author originally suspected, and I have little doubt is the 

 case, I. insidiator. Smith {I. c. p. 476, nee Tischb.) as male of 

 /. lotatorius. There is a small series of both sexes in the 

 General Collection in British Museum. Hutton (Cat. New Zeal. 

 Dipt. 1881, p. 120) is the only author who has mentioned 

 2. sollicitorius since 1824. 



[" Ferrugator, Act. Holm. 1787, p. 280." — Two females, 

 marked with a type-label, as though they had passed from 

 Swederus, who first described the species {loc. cit. viii. pi. iv. 

 fig. 2), through the hands of Fabricius to the Banksian cabinet. 

 Both sexes of this species, which I am inclined to regard as a 

 Melanichneumon on account of its hexagonal areola, were re- 

 described by Cresson (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 208). It 

 is entirely distinct from Ichneumon ferrmjator, Kirby, Fauna 

 Bor.-Amer. iv. (1837), p. 258, the type of which does not appear 

 to be in the British Museum.!] 



f I am not aware that CryiHoce^itrum lineolatum, Kirby, has been 

 meutioued in Uterature since the erection of both genus and species in the 

 above work in 1837 (pi. vi. fig. 1). I have discovered the type of this species 

 in the General Collection of the British Museum, where are three others of 

 which two are labelled " Georgia," and the third, received in 1844, from 

 Albany River, Hudson's Bay, bears the MS. name '^ Pimpla Annulata." 

 That they are typical representatives of the genus Bhyssa there can be no 



