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TAB. LIL 

 ICHNEUMON persuasorius. 



Class 5. Insecta. Order 5. Hymenoptera. 

 Spec. Char. Scutellum with two white spots. Thorax 

 spotted. Abdomen black, with the segments 

 marked on each side with two white spots. 



Syn. Linn. Si/sL Nat. Ed. 12. 932. ?z. 16. 



Faun. Suec. 1593. 



Fahr. Ent. Syst. Em. 2. 145. n. 49. 



De Geer. 1. t. ^Q. f. 8. 



Panz. Faun. Germ. Mit. n. 19. t. 18. 



Pimpla persuasoria. Fahr. Syst. Piez. 112. n. 1, 



Length of the body without the aculeus, 1 1 lines. 

 of the aculeus, 1 inch 1 line. 



JVlR. W. J. Hooker took this rare insect, which we do 

 not recollect to have seen in any other English collection, 

 in a garden at Coltishall near Norwich. 



Linnaeus describes his insect in these terms : — " Black. 

 Lip white. A white line before and behind the eves. 

 Thorax with three white stripes (liiuris) on each side. 

 Scutellum with two white dots : the anterior the largest. 

 Abdomen cylindrical, sessile, with the margin of the first 

 segment wholly white, that of the second interruptedly, 

 the rest have four white dots. Legs ferruginous. Posterior 

 tibiae black. Stature of Ichneumon manifest at oi\" Syst. 

 Nat. 



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