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am particularly indebted, not only for his liberality throughout, but 

 especially as regards the Ichneumonidae, by the presentation of 

 numerous species, and the loan of the original specimens received by 

 him from Gravenhorst. 



Sp. 11. castigator. Niger, femoribus tibiisque rufis, stigmate alarum vinaceo, 



aut nigro. (Long. corp. 4>-~7h lin. ; Exp. Alar. 9—10 lin.) 

 Ic. castigator. Fabricius.—Steph. Catal. 347. No. 4359. 

 Black : antenna of the male porrect, of the female incurved at the apex and 

 rather shorter, rarely entirely black or totally red, with only the 4 basal 

 ones red below, for the most part the 3rd to 15th joints are red, the rest 

 fuscous; metathorax with 2 spines; abdomen of the male nearly twice as 

 long as the thorax, and narrow, slightly shining, with the ^nd to 5th seg- 

 ments of equal width ; of the female rather longer than the thorax, ovate, 

 very slightly compressed towards the apex, the 2nd segment with a fine 

 chestnut edge; legs dull red, with the coxae and trochanters, and the 

 apex of the hinder tibiae and the hinder tarsi black; wings yellowish-hyaline, 

 rarely smoky, with the stigma luteous, or ferruginous, in rare instances 

 black, costa and scales fuscous or black. 



Sometimes the inner orbits of the eyes are reddish or whitish, or there is a 

 white dot only on the occiput : the mandibles are occasionally red in the 

 middle ; and the wings fuscescent. 



Larvce feed on those of Vanessse Atalanta, lo, Cynthia Cardui, &c. 



Not uncommon within the metropolitan district, towards the end 



of June and beginning of July ; found also in Shropshire and South 



Wales. 



Sp. 12. compunctor. Niger, orbitis oculorum internis late albis, stigmate atro, 

 femoribus tibiisque rujis, antennis subtusferrugineis. (Long. corp. 7| lin.; 

 Exp. Alar. 12 lin.) 



Ic. compunctor. Marsh MSS.—Steph. Catal. 346. No. 4334.— Ic. calcea- 

 torius.^ Steph. Catal. 34!7. iVo. 4354. 



Black: inner orbits of the eyes broadly white; scutellum gibbous, nearly 

 black; abdomen opaque, punctured, with the apex rather shining, and the 

 extreme edge of some of the segments reddish, legs bright red, coxfe and 4 

 anterior trochanters black, also the apex of the posterior tibia?, and the 

 hinder tarsi; posterior trochanters black at the base and at the apex; 

 antennse beneath ferruginous ; wings hyaline, with the costa and stigma 

 deep black, scales pitchy ; cellule somewhat 3-angular. 

 Scarce : found within the metropoUtan district. 



Sp. 13. rufipes. Niger, femoribus tibiisque rufis, antennis rufis, basi apiceque 

 nigris: fogmina antennarum annulo albo. (Long. corp. 6— 6k lin.; Exp. 

 Alar. 8— 10§lin.) 



Ic. rufipes. Steph. Nomen, 2d edit. Apj)endix. 



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