ICHNEUMONID.E. ICHNEUMON. 149 



abdomen blue-black, opaque, glossy at the apex ; legs black, 4 anterior 

 femora with a reddish or straw-coloured spot at the apex beneath ; anterior 

 tibiae pale straw beneath, middle either entirely fuscous, or rusty beneath; 

 wings smoky-hyaline ; stigma red or fuscous, costa and scales l)lack; cellule 

 somewhat 5-angular. 



Not common : found near London, and in the north of England, 

 in July. 



Sp. 62. Pratensis. Niger, lineis duabus albis ad radicem alarum, pedtim ante- 

 riorum tibiis et femorum latere altera dilute rufis. (Long. corp. 65 lin. ; 

 Exp, Alar. ISg lin.) 



Ic. Pratensis. Gravenhorst, i. 212. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit, col. 132. 



Black : antennae about half the length of the body ; thorax with a line before 

 the wings, and a streak beneath white ; scutellum also white ; abdomen 

 somewhat silky, with the extreme margins of the 2nd and 3rd segments 

 pitchy-straw; legs black, 4 anterior with the tibise and tarsi straw-colour; 

 femora red within, posterior somewhat silky, with the tibiae dull straw- 

 colour, fuscous externally at the apex ; wings smoky-hyaline, stigma pitchy, 

 costa black, scales white; cellule 5-angular. 

 Also found, but very rarely, within the metropolitan district, in 



July. 



Sp. 63. semiorbitalis. Niger, orbitis internis oculorum et articulo \-mo anten- 

 narum subtus albis, pedum anteriorum tar sis tibiis et femorum. latere altera 

 dilute croceis. (Long. corp. 5^ — 6 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 10^ — 1 1 lin.) 



Ic. semiorbitalis. Gravenhorst. — Steph. Catal. 346. No. 4338. 



Black : palpi pitchy ; facial orbits and 2 small dots between the antennae 

 white, the latter rusty-brown beneath, with the basal joint white; thorax 

 immaculate, or with 2 obscure whitish streaks at the base of the wings ; 

 scutellum white ; abdomen very finely punctured, opaque, with the 2nd and 

 3rd segments chestnut on the extreme edge ; legs black, anterior with the 

 tibise and tarsi, and the inside of the femora, dull saffron, the middle femora 

 beneath and towards the apex, and the tibise, dull saffron, the last black at 

 the tip, the hinder tibiae dull straw, with the apex and extreme base black; 

 wings somewhat hyaline, stigma and costa brown, scales black ; cellule 

 somewhat 3-angular. 

 Taken in June and July near London, but rare. 



Sp. 64. lugens. Niger, puncto albo ad radicem alarum; foemina antennarum 

 annulo albo. (Long. corp. 7^ — 9lin. ; Exp. Alar. 134 lin.) 



Ic. lugens. Gravenhorst, i. 215. — Steph. Nomen.. 2d edit. col. 133. 



Black: antennae porrect, incurved in the female, with about 5 joints towards 

 the middle white, beneath ferruginous; thorax with a streak beneath the 

 wings, and 2 dots on the upper margin of the collar, and in the males a spot 

 before the wings, white ; scutellum whitish ; abdomen with the 3 basal 



