ICHNEUMONID.E.— ICHNEUMON. 130 



smoky-hyaline, with the stigma pale red, the costa and scales fuscous; 

 cellule somewhat triangular. 

 Femora sometimes dusky or blackish. 



Also rare, and taken in June near London, and in Warwickshire. 



•]-Sp. 34. transfuga. Niger, femoribus tibiis anterioribus et antennarum medio 

 rufis, ano subalbo notato. (Long. corp. 4 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 7\ lin.) 



Ic. transfuga. Gravenhorst, 1. l58.-^Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 132. 



Black: palpi fuscous; antennse with the 4th to 6th joints entirely, and the 7th 

 and 8th above, rusty-red; abdomen glossy, the 7th segment obsoletely 

 white ; legs with the coxae and trochanters black, the posterior ones above 

 chestnut-red; femora chestnut-red, anterior black at the base; anterior 

 tibise chestnut-red, posterior dusky, dull chestnut towards the base, 4 anterior 

 tarsi reddish, posterior fuscous; wings smoky-hyaline, with the stigma, 

 costa, and scales black. 

 Rare : taken in Shropshire, and near London, in June. 



§ III. Scutellum pale, or with pale marks ; abdomen totally black. 



Sp, 35. fossorius. Niger, subsericeus, stigmate, femoribus tibiisque dilute 

 croceis; mas faeie et antennarum articulo 1-mo inferne Jlavis ; foemina anten- 

 narum annulo albido. (Long. corp. 6|— 8 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 11—13 lin.) 



Ic. fossorius. Linnc.—Steph. Catal. 346. No. 4331. 



Silky-black : face and mouth yellow, mostly with an impressed black dot on 

 the sides of the clypeus, rarely 2 on the face ; thorax generally with a white 

 dot before the wings and another below ; scutellum white, or with only 

 the tip, a spot on the tip, or 2 minute dots of that colour, or totally black; 

 abdomen with the 1st segment rather swollen, with a slender peduncle, the 

 2nd to 6th nearly equal in width; legs dull saiTron red; the coxae and 

 trochanters black, the 4 anterior yellow beneath ; hinder tarsi and tibise 

 dusky at the apex ; antennae porrect, slightly curved at the tip, with the 

 basal joint white beneath ; wings ochreous-hyaline, the stigma and costa 

 saffron-red, the last sometimes fuscous ; scales fuscous or black, occasionally 

 with a white dot. 



Female with the antennae incurved, ferruginous below, with the 9th to 16th 

 joints generally white above; thorax with a yellowish dot beneath the 

 wings; abdomen rather narrowed towards the tip, and faintly compressed, 

 its 7th segment with an obscure yellowish line, and the 2nd and 3rd seg- 

 ments opaque. 

 Abundant in the vicinity of London, on flowers, &c. in June and 



July. 



Sp. 36. cognatus. Niger, femoribus tibiisque rufis ; foemina antennarum annulo 



albo. (Long. corp. 5|— 8 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 11—13 lin.) 

 Ic. cognatus. Steph. Catal. 346. No. 4332. 

 Black : mandibles generally reddish in the middle ; thorax often with a streak 



