ICHNEUMONIDyE. ICHNEUMON. 151 



radicem alarum albis ; foetnina antennarum annulo albo. (Long. corp. 7 — 8 

 lin.; Exp. Alar. 11— 11| lin.) 



Ic. deliratorius. Linne. — Steph. Catal. 346. No. 4340. 



Black : male with the mouth and face white, outer orbits ferruginous ; antennae 

 with the basal joint white beneath, of the female with the 9th to 18th, more 

 or less, white ; thorax with a dot below the wings, another before, and two 

 minute ones beneath the scutellum, white; of the female with an obscure 

 whitish dot below the wings only ; metathorax slightly bispinose ; scutellum 

 white ; sometimes black at the base in the male ; abdomen bluish, with the 

 extreme margin of the segments chestnut, the 2nd aciculated at the base ; 

 ovipositor faintly exserted ; legs black ; anterior femora beneath more or 

 less rusty-white, tibiae white, with the external apex fuscous or black, 4 

 posterior black, with a broad white ring towards the base ; anterior tarsi 

 white, posterior black : the male with the coxse and trochanters more or less 

 white, the anterior femora beneath straw-colour ; wings smoky-hyaline, 

 with the stigma reddish or brown, the costa and scales fuscous, the last 

 sometimes black or rusty, with a white dot in the male ; cellule 5-angular. 

 Not very abundant : found occasionally within the metropolitan 



district, in June and July, widely diffused ; also found in Salop. 



Sp. 68. multiannulatus. Niger, facie, punctis duobus ad radicem alarum annu- 

 loque tibiarum et tarsorum albis, abdomine nigro-cceruleo. (Long. corp. 6^ — 

 71 lin.; Exp. Alar. 11 lin.) 

 Ic. multiannulatus. Gravenhorst, i. 128. — Steph. Nomen. 'id edit. col. 133. 

 Black: face and mouth white; antennae with the basal joint white beneath; 

 thorax with a dot or streak before the wings, and another beneath white ; 

 scutellum white ; abdomen blue-black, opaque, with the apes shining, the 

 extreme edges of the 2nd and 3rd segments sometimes chestnut; legs black, 

 with the anterior femora interiorly pitchy-straw, the middle slightly straw- 

 coloured at the tip ; the tibise white, 4 anterior towards the apex externally 

 black or fuscous ; posterior from the middle to the tip black ; 4 anterior 

 tarsi white, with the tips of the joints fuscous ; posterior black, with the 

 basal joint half white ; wings smoky-hyaline, stigma and costa fuscous or 

 rusty ; scales black, with a white dot ; cellule 5-angular. 

 More abundant than the last ; found in June within the metropo- 

 litan district ; also in Salop, Scotland, &c. 



Sp. 69. fuscipes. Niger, orbiiis oculorum, punctis duobus ad radicem alarum 

 annuloque tibiarum albis : mas maculis faciei et antennarum articulo 1-mo 

 subtus albis ; foemina antennarum ammlo albo. (Long. corp. 64 — 7 lin.; Exp. 

 Alar. Hi lin.) 



Ic. fuscipes. Gravenhorst. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 133. 



Black : male with the palpi and spot on the mandibles white ; face white, 

 black in the middle, and frequently the outer orbits and a spot on the vertical 

 ones also white; female with the orbits alone more or less white; antennse 



