ICHNJiUMOKID.E. ICHNEUMON. ,107 



more or less ferruginous beneath, with the 12th to 15th or 18th joints pale 

 or white above, or ferruginous, with the rest of the antennae black; thorax 

 of the male frequently with a minute white dot beneath the wings ; scutellum 

 for the most part entirely white, but in the female with the tip only; 

 abdomen with the 2nd and 3rd joints finely punctured and somewhat opaque, 

 of the female with the margins sometimes obscurely chestnut, or entirely 

 dull bay ; the 6th with a spot, and the 7th above, entirely white ; legs red ; 

 coxse and trochanters, and also the apex of the hinder tibiae and tarsi, black ; 

 wings smoky-hyaline, or yellowish, the stigma red or dusky, costa and scales 

 black ; cellule somewhat 5-angular. 

 Not common : found in Jvine near London, and at Darentli. 



Sp. 83. qusesitorius. Niger, femoribus tibiiigue riifis, puncio dorsali 3-um ulti~ 

 morum segmentorum annuloque antennarum aJbis. (Long, corp 5 lin. ; Exp. 

 Alar. 8^ lin.) 



Ic. qusesitorius. Linne. — Steph. Catal. 347. No. 4344. 



Black: antennae involuted at the apex, with about the 9th to I4th joints more 

 or less white above and on the sides ; thorax with a small white dot beneath 

 the wings ; metathorax with 2 slightly acute tubercles ; scutellum white ; 

 abdomen with the 3 terminal segments having a whitish-yellow spot on the 

 back; ovipositor scarcely exserted ; legs pale red; coxse and trochanters, 

 and tips of the hinder tarsi and tibiae black ; wings smoky-hyaline, with the 

 stigma ferruginous, costa and scales black ; cellule 5-angular. 

 Scarce : taken in the north of England. 



Sp. 84. cingulipes. Niger, orhitls oculorum verticis anmdogue antennarum et 

 tibiarum albis: mas Jacie alba macull nigra. (Long. corp. 6| lin.; Exp. 

 Alar. 10 lin.) 

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



Black : palpi pale ; vertical orbits broadly white, and in the male the face and 

 inner ones, the face having a large black patch ; thorax of the males with a 

 white dot before the wings ; scutellum white ; abdomen rather slender, of a 

 brownish- black, with a bluish tinge, the 2 last segments with a white spot 

 on the back ; legs black ; 4 anterior femora in the male ochreous-white in 

 front and at the extreme tip ; tibiae also white in front, with a fuscous cloud 

 outside towards the apex ; in the female the 4 anterior femora are whitish 

 at the extreme tips, and the 4 tarsi black, with a white ring towards the 

 base, the lower portion of the inner edge also white ; posterior legs in both 

 sexes black, with a broad white ring towards the base of the tibiae ; 4 ante- 

 rior tarsi pale ; antennae long and slender, porrect in the male, with about 

 the 12th to 15th joints white above, and in the female incurved, with from 

 the 7th to 14th joints white above and on the sides; wings somewhat 

 smoky-hyaline, with the stigma ferruginous ; costa and scales rusty-brown ; 

 cellule 5-angular. 



Taken, long since, at Daren th wood in June ; apparently very- 

 rare. 



