196 MANDIBULATA. HYMEXOPTERA. 



Ic. sputator. Fabricius. — Steph. Catal. 34.9. No. 4371. 



Black: antennsE curved at the tip in the female, with about the 8th to 14th 

 joints white above, and in the male with a white dot on the 11th and 12th; 

 thorax immaculate ; abdomen variable, the 2nd and 3rd segments red or 

 chestnut, the base of the former and margin of the latter being sometimes 

 black, or the former Is occasionally black, with the margin red, and the 3rd 

 red, with 2 black dorsal spots ; legs black, the anterior femora red at the 

 tip, and the 4 anterior tibise red, dusky towards the apex ; posterior red, 

 with the tip black ; hinder coxae neither armed with tubercle nor spines. 

 Scarce : found at Darenth wood, in the beginning of June. 



Sp. 187. culpator. Niger, coxis posticis calcaratis, segmentis 2 ef 3 tibiisque 

 castaneis aut rujis, antennarum annulo albo. (Long. corp. 5 — 7lin. ; Exp^ 

 Alar. 9—104 lin.) 



Ic. culpator. Schranck.— Steph. Catal. 347. No. 4374. 



Black: antennae curved at the tip, with about the 9th to 14th joints white 

 above ; abdomen rather obtuse at the apex, the 2nd and 3rd segments chest- 

 nut, or dull red; legs black, 4 anterior femora at the tip testaceous or 

 reddish, tibise dull red or chestnut, 4 anterior fulvous beneath, posterior 

 sometimes with the tip blackish ; posterior coxae beneath armed with a 

 short robust obtuse tooth ; wings smoky-hyaline. 

 Taken at Coombe and Darenth woods in June. 



Sp. 188. procerus. Niger, segmentis 2 et 3 nee nan lateribus 4i-ti ryfis. (Long, 

 corp. 4 lin.; Exp. Alar. 7i lin.) 



Ic. procerus. Gravenhorst, i. 550. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 136. 



Black : inner orbits faintly whitish ; antennae rather ferruginous towards the 

 apex ; abdomen with the 2nd and 3rd segments entirely, and the sides of 

 the 4th, red, the basal segment rather smooth and narrow ; legs black ; 

 anterior femora rusty beneath, tibise entirely ferruginous, or with one side 

 fiiscous, the other somewhat testaceous, the extreme tip of the middle femora 

 and the inner edge of their tibise ferruginous ; cellule irregularly 5-angular. 

 Found, but very rarely, within the metropoHtan district, in June. 



Sp. 189. fugitivus. Niger, ahdomine castaneo basi nigra, pedum anteriorum 

 tibiisjemoribusquefulvis, his supra nigris, facie Jlavomaculatd. (Long. corp. 

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



Ic. fugitivus. Gravenhorst, i. 552. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 136. 



Black : inner and outer orbits, 2 dots below the antennae, and the mouth 

 yellow ; antennae porrect, with the basal joint beneath sometimes yellow, 

 and the remainder fuscescent : thorax immaculate ; abdomen with the basal 

 segment black, 2nd black, with the tip chestnut, remainder chestnut, palest 

 towards the apex ; legs with stoutish femora, 4 anterior pale red, with the 

 coxae and trochanters, and more or less of the outer base of the femora, and 

 the tarsi above black, posterior black, rusty towards the base; wings 

 hyaline, a little smoky at the apex. 



