ICHNEUMOXID.E. ICHNEUMON. Vc3 



alarum radicem albis, pedibus anterioribus subtus ferrugineis. (Long. corp. 

 5§ ]in.; Exp. Alar. 10 lin.) 



Ic. opticus. Gravenhorst, i. 131.— Steph. Nomen. '2d edit. col. 131. 



Black : palpi sometimes pale, the internal and part of the external orbits 

 white ; antennae with the basal joints whitish beneath, the remainder some- 

 times ferruginous; thorax with a minute white dot beneath the wings, and 

 sometimes another below; 4 anterior femora ferruginous beneath, tibis the 

 same, or yellowish, with the outer edge fuscous; anterior tarsi ferruginous, 

 fuscous above, posterior fuscous ; wings smoky-hyaline, with the stigma, 

 costa, and scales fuscous, or black ; cellule somewhat triangular, or nearly 

 5-angular. 

 Found, near London, in July, but uncommonly. 



Sp. 17. albimanus. Niger, facie, ore, articulo 1-mo antennarum, orbitisque 

 exfernis, albis, pedum anteriorum tibiis et latere infero femorum et coxaruni 

 albis, abdomine nitido subsericante. (Long. corp. 4 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 8 lin.) 



Ic. albimanus. Gravenhorst, i. 132. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 131. 



Black : face, mouth, and a faint streak on the outer orbits white ; antennea 

 filiform, porrect, shorter than the body, with the 1st joint white beneath ; 

 thorax with a small streak beneath the wings and another before them 

 white; abdomen with the 2nd to 6th segments nearly of equal breadth, 

 shining, smooth, with a griscesent silky pile ; anterior legs with the coxEe, 

 trochanters, and femora black, white beneath, tibiee and tarsi dull white, 

 the middle ones fuscous above, posterior black, with the 3 last joints of the 

 tarsi red ; wings hyaline, the costa and stigma black, scales black, testaceous 

 at the apex, cellule 5-angnlar. 

 Also found near London, in June and July, not common, and in 



Shropshire. 



Sp. 18. corruscator. Niger, orbitis oculorum internis tibiisque anterioinbusjlavis, 

 abdomine nitido subsericante. (Long. corp. 5 — 5|- lin. ; Exp. Alar. 10 — 1 1 lin.) 



Ic. corruscator. Linnc. — Steph. Catal. 345. No. 4312. 



Black : palpi and mandibles in the middle yellowish or red ; clypeus sometimes 

 yellow, inner orbits of the eyes and a part of the outer ones yellow ; antennae 

 porrect, generally rusty-brown beneath, with the basal joint black ; abdomen 

 long and narrow, with the 1st segment small, smooth, shining, the peduncle 

 slender ; the 2nd to the 5th of equal width, the 2nd and sometimes the 3rd 

 with the extreme edge reddish; 4 anterior femora beneath, either entirely, 

 or at the apex only red; anterior tibiae yellow, with the outer margin brown 

 or brownish, posterior sometimes pitchy-brown towards the base. 

 Abundant near London, in June and July. 



Sp. 19. maculifrons. Niger, facie et orbitis oculo7-um externis pro parte pallide 

 flavis, fronte macula nigra ; femoribus tibiisque anterioribus rufis. (Long, 

 corp. 41—5^ lin.; Exp. Alar. 8—10 lin.) 

 Ic. maculifroiis. Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. Appendix. 



