116 MANDIBULATA. HYMENOPTERA. 



wood, on BesselPs green, beyond Darenth, at Cobliam, in profusion 

 near Shrewsbury, and at York ; also occasionally in Norfolk, Suffolk, 

 &c. from the end of July to the middle of September. 



C. Maxillary palpi uniarticulate ; labial biarticulate. 



Sp. 6. Magus. Atro-cerulescens, alls fusco nebulosis macula cnstali testacea ; 

 antennis apice (in Jasminis) albis. (Long. corp. ? ovip. incl. 1 unc. 4 lin. ; 

 Exp, Alar. ? 1 unc. 6 lin.) 



Si. Magus. Fabricius. — Steph. Catal. 343. No. 4002. 



Head blue-black, pubescent, occiput with a fovea, and forehead with two 

 tubercles ; thorax also pubescent and blue-black, rough ; abdomen above 

 finely punctured, silky, blue-black ; the 2nd and 3rd segments with a minute 

 whitish dot, and an elongate streak on the sides ; the 4 following with a 

 minute spot only, the 8th with a white rhombic spot, the rest immaculate ; 

 femora blue-black, tibiae brownish-bluei with the base whitish; tarsi with 

 the basal joint bluish-brown at the tip, the base whitish, the 3 following 

 joints bluish-brown, the 5th whitish; claws brown ; antennae glossy-black, 

 with the 9 terminal joints white. 



Male said to have the antennae totally black, the abdomen immaculate, and the 

 legs entirely blue-black. 

 Taken, but very rarely, in the vicinity of London. 



Subdivision B. of the Terebrantia embraces those insects which form the 

 genus Ichneumon of Linne, and may be considered as a sub-section by the 

 name 



PUPOPHAGA, Latreille, 



Which have, as stated in page 4, the abdomen united to the thorax by a 

 distinct peduncle. 



This is a very extensive subdivision, and is again further divisible 

 into 2 distinct sections, and into several families, which I shall treat 

 of in the order given in my Catalogue, although probably not quite 

 natural, as the 1st of these appears to have but little affinity with the 

 preceding, and would rather seem to connect the Cynipidse with the 

 Ichneumonidse, while the last (as Pimpla) are evidently allied to the 

 Uroceridae. 



The 1st section upon which I shall treat contains the following 

 families, which may be thus cursorily distinguished ; premising that 

 the group itself may be generally recognized by the posterior wings 

 being furnished with distinct (frequently radiating) nervures — a 

 character scarcely found in the 2nd section, and never wanting 



