60 Mr. John Curtis's Descriptions of Hemerohii, Sfc. 



With the moths I reared two parasites, one is a Fig'ites and the 

 other is a fine species of the family Ichneumonidce, It is aUied to 

 Gravenhorst's Cremaslus conjluens, but as it does not agree with 

 any of his species I shall describe it. 



Genus Cremastus, Grav. 

 Biioliana, Curt. 



Male black, orbits of eyes, clypeus and mandibles yellow, tips 

 pitchy ; palpi brown. Antennae longish, tips of basal joints pale 

 beneath. Thorax with a hooked yellow line on the shoulders ; 

 scutel yellow, sometimes with a black spot. Petiole long and 

 clavate. Abdomen compressed ; second, third and fourth segments 

 with the margins more or less ferruginous ; belly yellowish-wliite, 

 banded with black beyond the middle. Wings very transparent, 

 nervures and stigma fuscous. Legs yellow, including the coxae ; 

 anterior legs tinged with ochre ; hinder coxae and trochanters 

 black, tipped with ochre; thighs rusty, tipped with yellow; tibiae 

 yellowish ; base and tips, as well as the apex of tarsi, brown. 



Length 3| lines, expanse 5 lines. 



Female with the face black, the yellow orbits narrow ; scutel 

 black, with a narrow yellow margin. Abdomen black ; belly 

 straw-colour, with four black bands ; ovipositor shorter than the 

 body ; hinder thighs black, tipped with yellow. 



Length 4| lines, aculeus If. 



Three males, and as many females, hatched the fourth week in 

 July, after the moths had ceased to appear. 



