ICHNEUMONID.E. ICHNEUMON. 1^3 



yellow; metathorax with 2 short spines ; abdomen with the base of the 2nd 

 segment, the base and margin of the 3rd, and the margins of the rest yellow; 

 legs pale tawny-yellow, with the coxse, base of the trochanters and femora 

 in the middle black, the 4< anterior femora in the males entirely rusty-yellow; 

 wings yellowish-hyaline. 

 Very scarce : taken in June near London. 



Sp. 125. mercatorius. Niger, antennis rijfis, orhitis internis oculorum, segmentis ' 

 2 e^ 3 basi, sequentibus mm^gine, tibiis, tmesis maculdque coxarum Jlavis. 

 (Long. Corp. 7 lin.; Exp. Alar. 12 lin.) 



Ic. mercatorius. Fabricius. — Steph. Catal. 348. No. 4408. 



Black : inner orbits and a spot on the sides of the clypeus yellow ; antennse 

 red, with the apex brownish, the basal black, yellow beneath; thorax with 

 a yellow dot beneath the wings ; scutellum yellow ; abdomen with the base 

 of the 2nd and 3rd segments, and the margins of the others yellow ; legs 

 with a yellow spot on the coxae, the tip of the trochanters rusty, 4 anterior 

 femora above and at the apex, and posterior with the knees yellow ; tibiae 

 and tarsi pale yellow ; wings yellowish-hyaline. 

 Also found near London in June, but extremely rare. 



Sp. 126. xanthorius. Niger, segmentis omnibus Jlavomarginatis : mas antennis 

 ''"ufis, facie Jlavd ; foemina antennis tricoloribus , orbitis internis oculorum flavis. 

 (Long. Corp. 5—7 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 10—12 lin.) 



Ic. xanthorius. Forster. — Steph. Catal. 348. No. 4407. 



Black: face yellow, with a black streak, or the inner orbits only yellow; 

 antennse porrect, pale red, with the 2 basal joints black, yellow beneath, or 

 involuted, with the 1st joint black, yellow beneath, 6th to 16th fulvous, the 

 basal ones sometimes fuscescent, and the apical ones yellowish ; thorax with 

 the anterior edge of the collar, a streak before, and dot below, the wings 

 yellow ; scutellum the same ; abdomen with all the segments broadly edged 

 with light yellow; legs with the coxae, trochanters, and femora black; tibiae 

 and the 4 anterior femora at the tip, and the hinder coxae above with a spot, 

 yellow ; the apex of the posterior tibia? black ; tarsi pale orange ; wings 

 yellowish-hyaline. 

 Also rare, especially the male, of which I have only seen my own 



specimen : found within the metropolitan district, and in other 



parts of England, near Carlisle and Netley, in Devonshire, &c. about 



June, 



Sp. 127. dimidiatus. Plate xxxix. fig. inf. dext. — Niger, orbitis oculorum 

 Jacialibus, antennarum basi pedibusme Jlavis, femorum et tibiarum posticarum 

 apicibits nigris, segmento 2-do maculis 2-bus Jlavicantibus. (Long. corp. 

 5ilin.; Exp. Alar. 9^ lin.) 



Ic. dimidiatus. Steph. Nomen. 9,d edit. Appendix. 



Black : inner orbits broadly yellow ; antenna? with the basal half bright 



