ICHNEUMOH. 499 



The head and the antennae are black, the latter longer 

 than the body ; the feet are yellow *. 



The black ichneumon f . The antennae, head, thorax, 

 and abdomen of this fpecies are all black : it is farther 

 diftinguifhed by the three filiform appendices of the tail, 

 ivhich are longer than the body, and that in the middle 

 of a red colour. It frequents the meadows and gardens t. 



• Der1ia.\i's Phyfico Theol. 1. 8, c. 6. 



f Vefpa Ichneumon tota nigra, Rai Inf. p. 256, 



^ M. de Geer, VoL I. p. ■yoj. 



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