ICHNEUMONIDiE. — ICHNEUMON. 195 



§ IX. Scutellum black : abdomen either entirely red, or red and black. 



Sp. 183. fumigator. Niger, segmentis 2 et 3 rufis. (Long. corp. 6—7^ lin.; 

 Exp. Alar. 10— ll§lin.) 



Ic. fumigator. Gravenhorst.— Staph. Catal. 347. No. 4375, 



Black : antennae porrect, involuted in the female, and with the middle joints 

 beneath sometimes fuscescent; thorax with 2 minute spines behind; 

 abdomen ovate in the fenaale, narrower in the male, 1st segment black, with 

 2 elevated lines, 2nd and 3rd red or fulvous, remainder black ; legs black; 

 anterior tibiae straw-coloured within in the male, 4 posterior black, or 

 fuscescent, paler within ; of the female the anterior are red within, and the 

 4 posterior fuscescent ; wings smoky-hyaline ; cellule 5-angular. 

 Not very common : found near London, at Darenth wood, and in 



the New Forest. 



Sp. 184. hsemorrhoidalis. Niger, abdomine rufo, segmento 1 nee non macula 

 dorsali segmentorum 3-6 nigris. (Long. corp. S — 7§ lin.; Exp. Alar. 9—11 

 lin.) 



Ic. haemorrhoidalis. Gravenhorst.— Steph. Catal. 347. No. 4366. 



Black : mouth and face white, the last with a longitudinal black streak, or 

 the inner orbits alone white; antennae porrect, sometimes fuscescent 

 beneath ; thorax with a white dot before the wings ; scutellum frequently 

 with 2 very minute approximating white dots at the apex ; abdomen rather 

 depressed, finely punctured, basal segment black, occasionally with a red 

 dot at the apex, 2nd entirely red, 4 following red, with a quadrate black 

 spot on the disc of each, extending from the base nearly to the extreme 

 margin, 7th entirely red ; legs black, anterior femora and tibiae more or less 

 straw-coloured in front, posterior pair reddish at the base within ; wings 

 smoky-hyaline. 



The 2nd segment of the abdomen has, rarely however, a black dorsal patch. 

 More abundant than the foregoing : taken at Darenth wood in 



June. 



Sp. 185. melanopyrrhus. Niger, ore, orhitisque oculorum facialibus albidis, 

 abdominis apice pedibusque rufis. (Long. corp. 7i lin. ; Exp. Alar. 11^ lin.) 



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



Black : mouth and facial orbits whitish; thorax with a white dot at the base 

 of the wings; abdomen rather slender, the 3 basal segments black, the 

 margin of the 3rd red, 4th black at the base, its apex and all the following 

 segments bright rusty-red; legs with all the coxse and trochanters black; 

 the femora, tibise, and tarsi red, the hinder tarsi fuscous above; wings 

 hyaline, with black nervures and stigma ; antennae porrect. 

 Found in June, near London. 



Sp. 186. sputator. Niger, coxis posiicis maculis segmentis 2 et 3 tibiisque rufis, 

 antennarum annulo albo. (Long. corp. Sf— 7?lin.; Exp. Alar. 9— 10|lin.) 



