ICHNEUiMONID.E. — ICHNEUMON. 129 



remainder more glossy ; legs with the anterior femora beneath rufous, or 

 with the extreme tip chestnut, tibiae with the apex red, the inner edge 

 yellowish ; middle femora reddish beneath, tibiae with the inner margin on 

 the apex externally yellow; wings hyaline, sometimes smoky, with the 

 stigma, costa, and scales fuscous, the cellule 3-angular, with nearly equal 

 sides. 



Rare ; taken in Norfolk. 



Sp. 6. nigrocyaneus. Nigro-cyaneus, annulo antennarum albo, cellula 3-angulari 



(Long. Corp. 5k lin. ; Exp. Alar. 8 lin.) 

 Tc. nigrocyaneus. Gravenhorst, i. 117.— Sieph. Nomen. ^d edit. col. 131. 



Blue-black: mouth fuscous; antennae with the 11th to the 15th joints white 

 above and on the sides; abdomen bluish, shining; anterior legs with the 

 inner side of the femora and of the tibiae pale yellowish ; wings smoky, 

 hyaline, with the stigma, costa, and scales black, the cellule 3-angular. 



Larva feeds on that of Plusia Festucse, 



My specimen of this beautiful species was taken in Plaistow 



Marshes, in the larva of Plusia Festucse. 



Sp. 7. pallifrons, ' Niger, punctis ad alarum radicem, Ubiisque latere externo 

 albis; mas facie alba; icemma. annulo antennarum albo. (Long. corp. 4—6 

 lin.; Exp. Alar. 7^— S§lin.) 



Ic. pallifrons. Gravenliorst, i. lll.—Stepli. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 131. 



Black : an interrupted faint line round the orbits and palpi white ; labrum 

 rufescent ; antennae half as long as the body, curved inwards at the tip, 

 with the 9th to the 14th articulations white above and on the sides ; thorax 

 with a spot before, and another fainter one, beneath the wings, white; apex 

 of anterior femora ferruginous, their tibiae within whitish, with the apex 

 ferruginous, and a white dot near the base without ; 4 posterior with a 

 white rhig near the base, broadest on the hinder pair ; tarsi fuscous ; wings 

 somewhat smoky-hyaline, with the stigma pitchy or ferruginous, the costa 

 and scales fuscous ; cellule, generally, 5-angular. 



Male with the face, clypeus, palpi, and mostly a portion of the outer orbits 

 white; antennae as long as the body, fuscous, with the basal joint beneath 

 whitish, the remainder more or less ferruginous ; legs nearly as in the female, 

 but more ferruginous within. 

 Taken, but not very commonly, in the vicinity of London and in 



Shropshire. 



Sp. 8. fasciatus. Niger, tibiis tarsisque, nee non orbitis oculorum internis et 

 puncto ad alarum radicem albis. (Long. corp. 7i lin. ; Exp. Alar. II4 lin.) 



Ic. fasciatus. Gmelin.—Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. I3I. 



Black : palpi, spot on the mandibles, inner orbits, and a dot on the occipital 

 orbits, white; antennae with the under side of the basal joint more or le?s 

 white; thorax with a white dot above and beneath the wings; abdomen 



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