172 MANDIBULATA. — HYMEKOPTERA. 



femora and the convex side sometimes fuscous, tibiae generally fuscous ex- 

 ternally, the hinder tibiae and tarsi black, the femora chestnut towards the 

 base ; wings smoky-hyaline ; stigma, costa, and scales brown-black. 

 Not common : taken near Hornsey in April. 



Sp. 122. militaris. Niger, segmentis 2 ei 3 rufis j fcemina antennarum anniilo 

 albo. (Long. corp. 4 lin.; Exp. Alar. ?§ lin.) 



Ic. militaris. Gravenhorst, i. 342. — Steph.Nomen. 2d edit. eoL 134. 



Black : antennse, of the female, with the 10th to 14th joints white above and 

 on the sides ; scutellum white ; abdomen with the 2nd and 3rd segments 

 red, of the male with the margins of the 6th and 7th entirely white, of the 

 female with a white dorsal spot on those segments ; legs with the extreme tip 

 of the anterior femora and the inner edge of the tibiae straw-colour, the 

 middle tibiae within rusty-brown; wings smoky-hyaline, with the stigma, 

 costa, and scales black or fuscous; cellule 5-angular, 

 Not very common ; found in the spring near London, and in 



Salop. 



Sp. 123. motatorius. Niger, antennarum annulo et dorso segmenti 6-ii albis, 

 segmentis l-3,femoribus tibiisque rufis. (Long. corp. 4^ lin.; Exp. Alar. 8 lin.) 



Ic. motatorius. Fabricius. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 134. 



Black: mandibles dull ferruginous; antennae with the apex incurved, the 

 basal joint black, beneath ferruginous, 2nd brown, 3rd to 7th dull saffron or 

 dusky; the 8th to 12th or 13th white, fuscous beneath, the following black ; 

 thorax cylindric ; scutellum white ; abdomen slender, nearly as broad as 

 -the thorax, the 1st to 3rd segments red, 4th frequently with the back 

 reddish, 6th generally with the margin whitish, 7th with the back white; 

 ovipositor short, exserted, black; legs black; coxae and trochanters black, 

 with the apex more or less red, especially of the posterior ones; wings 

 somewhat hyaline, with the stigma dull straw, the costa and scales pitchy; 

 cellule somewhat 3-angular. 

 Moderately common : taken near London about the end of May 



and in June. 



§ VI. Scutellum pale : abdomen black, with the apex, and in general the middle 

 also, belted or spotted with yellow, or white. 



Sp. 124. infractorius. Niger, segmento 2 basi, 3 basi et margine, sequentibus 

 margine,Jlavis, tibiis tarsisquefulvis ; mas antennis rufis, faciejlavd ; fcemina 

 antennis apice fuscis, orbitis oculorum iniernisfiavis. (Long. corp. 6^ lin. ; 

 Exp. Alar. 12 lin.) 



Ic. infractorius. Panzer. — Steph. Catal. 348. No. 4404. 



Black : face yellow, with a black spot, or with the inner orbits alone yellow; 

 antennte porrect, dull reddish, paler beneath, with the 2 basal joints black 

 above and yellow below, or convoluted, pale saffron, with the apex brownish; 

 thorax with a streak before aiid a dot below the wings, with tJie scutellum 



