19 i MANDIBULATA. HYMENOPTERA. 



culate ; scutelium white, but at the tip only in the female ; abdomen red, 

 basal segment black, its margin red or pale ; ovipositor slightly exserted ; 

 in the male the 2 or 3 terminal segments are sometimes fuscescent; 4 

 anterior legs red, coxae and trochanters yellowish, black in the female, femora 

 with a fuscous spot above at the base, middle tibise whitish at the base ; 

 posterior legs black, the femora more or less red, and the tibise white at the 

 base ; wings subhyaline ; cellule nearly 3-angular. 

 Rather uncommon ; found at Darenth wood in June. 



Sp. ISl. culpatorius. Niger, segmentis 2 et 3 rufis, tibiis sordide Jlavis aut 

 rufescentibus, posticis apice nigro : mas facie et punctis ad alarum radicem 

 albisj foemina antennarum annulo alho. (Long. corp. 4| — 6 lin.; Exp. Alar. 

 9—10 lin.) 



Ic. culpatorius. Falr'icius. — Ic. sputator/3 } Steph. CaiaLS4i7. No. 4371. 



Black : face and orbits white, or in the female the inner orbits and mouth 

 ferruginous ; antennae porrect, fuscous, beneath fulvous, with the basaljoint 

 white, or convoluted, with about the first 5 black, 3 following ferruginous, 

 the 7th to 15th yellowish- white, the 1st reddish beneath; thorax with 2 

 yellowish-white dots at the base of the wings scutelium of that colour, but 

 yellow in the female ; abdomen with the 2nd and 3rd segments rusty-red, 

 the basal angles of the 4th occasionally the same, 7th more or less fuscescent ; 

 legs slender in the male, 4 anterior flaVescent, coxae and trochanters, and 

 sometimes the outer margin of the femora black ; posterior black, with the 

 extreme base of the femora fulvous, tibiae flavescent, with the apex black; 

 female with the anterior femora reddish, more or less black at the base ; 

 tibiae reddish, with the tip ferruginous or black. 

 Not uncommon; found at Darenth and in other metropolitan 



woods, about the end of June. 



Sp. 182. amputatorius. Niger, segmentis 2 et 3, femoribus tibiisque riifis: 

 raBS punctis 2-bus ad radicem alarum ; ifsxcixadi puncto infra alas et antennarum 

 annulo albis. (Long. corp. 6 — 7i lin.; Exp. Alar. 11 lin.) 



Ic. amputatorius. Gravenhorst, i. 523 — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 136. 



Black: antennae porrect, slightly incurved at the tip, with the basal joint 

 sometimes rusty beneath, of the female about the 8th to 14th white; thorax 

 with a white line before and another beneath the wings, the latter only 

 present in the female ; scutelium white ; abdomen oblong ovate, a little 

 compressed at the apex in the female, in which sex the basal segment is 

 occasionally slightly rusty anteriorly, the 2nd and 3rd red, the last, some- 

 times, in the female with a dusky cloud, 4th, rarely, with the basal angles 

 on the extreme margins reddish ; legs fulvous, or red, with the coxae and 

 trochanters black, the hinder coxae of the male sometimes with 1 or 2 white 

 dots, and the tibise in that sex occasionally pale yellowish, with the tip 

 fulvous ; posterior tarsi mostly black. 

 Scarce : taken in June near London, 



