ICllNKU.MOXID.E, ICHNEUMON. 165 



Sp. 103. primatorius. Niger, annulo autennarum et macula coxarum posiicarum 

 albis; bast tibiarumjlava, segmentis 2 et 3 rufis. (Long. corp. 10 — lli lin. • 

 Exp. Alar. 15—16 lin.) 



Ic. primatorius. Forster. — Steph. Catal. 349. No. 4427. 



Black : antenna; with the apex involuted^ with the 8th to 10th joints, mor-e or 

 less, yellowish-white ; metathorax with 2 very short obtuse spines ; scu- 

 tellum also yellowish- white ; abdomen a little wider than the thorax, 2nd 

 and 3rd segments externally red or bay, 4th sometimes reddish at the base, 

 with a marginal white dot, 5th to 7th with a yellowish- white dorsal spot; 

 legs black, with a large white spot on the upper external edge of the hinder 

 coxfe, smaller or minute on the 4 anterior ones ; tibiae yellow, anterior fuscous 

 or rusty at the apex, 4 posterior with the base and apex brown or black; 4 

 anterior tarsi more or less ferruginous, posterior dusky; wings rusty-brown- 

 hyaline, stigma ferruginous, costa black ; scales for the most part entirely 

 white. 



Rather common in the spnng within the metropolitan district, 

 about Hertford, &c. 



Sp. 104. flavolineatus. Nige^', facie etlhied ante alas Jlavis, segvientis2-i< pedi- 

 husque dilute o^oceis, trochanteribus nee non femorum posticorum geniculis 

 nigris. (Long. corp. 10 lin.; Exp. Alar. 17 lin.) 



Ic. flavolineatus. Gravenhorst, i. 300. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 133. 



Black : mouth and face yellow, or pale saffron, with the tip of the mandibles 

 black ; antennae porrect, with the basal joint yellow beneath, 2nd black, 

 following dull ferruginous, the terminal ones entirely black ; thorax with a 

 broad line on each side (the margin of the collar) before the wings, a minute 

 one below, and another beneath the scutellum yellowish; scutellum yellow; 

 abdomen as wide as the thorax, with the extreme edge of the basal segment 

 reddish; 3 following segments entirely yellowish-red, with the incisures 

 reddish, 5th and 6th with a pale yellowish streak, 7th with a longitudinal 

 yellow line ; legs yellow, coxae black, with an ochreous spot; trochanters 

 black, posterior fuscous, with the extreme apex fuscous or black ; wings 

 smoky-hyaline, with the stigma rusty or saffron, costa brown, scales white. 



I suspect this splendid insect, of which I have only seen my own specimen, to 

 be the male of the foregoing species : it is, however, very dissimilar. 

 Very rare : taken at the end of May in a garden at Ilertford. 



Sp. 105. sarcitorius. Niger, annulo autennarum puncto infra alas segmentoque 

 6-to albis, segmentis 2 et 3 rnfis, hoc basi nigra, tibiis femoribusque rufis, 

 posticis apice nigro. (Long. corp. 4 — 5§ lin.; Exp. Alar. 7 — 10 lin.) 



Ic. sarcitorius. Linne. — Steph. Catal. 342. No. 4430. 



Black: frontal orbits generally obscurely red; antennse with the 2 basal 

 joints black, sometimes rusty beneath, 3rd to about the 9th either entirely 

 ferruginous, or fuscous above, sometimes black; 8th to 16th, more or less, 

 yellowish-white, reddish l)eneath; thorax with a white dot beneath the 



