ICHNEUMON ID.E.' — ICHNEUMON. 199 



7th fuscous ; legs black ; 4 anterior with the tarsi, tibiae, and femora red, 

 the convex side of the last brownish, or black, with the femora testaceous 

 beneath, the tibiae and tarsi ferruginous below ; wings subhyaline ; cellule 

 5-angular. 



Found, in June, at Darenth wood, in Shropshire, and in Scotland, 

 apparently scarce. 



Sp. 196. gasterator. Niger, femorum anteriorum apice et latere interno, tibiisque 

 anterioribus antice rufescentibus, abdomine rufo, annulo antennarum albo. 

 (Long. Corp. 4 — 5 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 7 — 8 lin.) 



Ic. gasterator. Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 137. 



Black : palpi fuscous ; mandibles pitchy ; abdomen bright red, the peduncle 

 pitchy towards the base ; legs black, the tips of the 4 anterior femora and 

 the anterior side of the 1st pair, and also of the 4 anterior tibiae reddish ; 4 

 anterior tarsi rufescent ; antennae involuted, with from about the 8th to 

 14th joints white. 



Posterior tibiae sometimes pitchy at the apex, and reddish at the base. 



May not this be the female of the foregoing ? 

 Taken, not uncommonly, near London. 



Sp. 197. castaneus. Niger, abdomine pedibusque rtifis, cox is et trochanteribus 

 nigris, antennarum annulo albo, scutello rufescente. (Long. corp. 5§lin. ; 

 Exp. Alar. 9| lin.) 



Ic. castaneus. Gravenhorst, i. 568. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 137. 



Black : frontal orbits faintly whitish, or testaceous ; antennae incurved at the 

 tip, black, with the 10th to 13th joints white, or with the 2 basal ones 

 black, the 9th to 14th white, the remainder fuscous; thorax with an obso- 

 lete spot before and another beneath the wings, with a streak below the 

 scutellum, and the latter reddish, or ferruginous ; abdomen red, the 5th 

 segment entirely black, or with its base chestnut, the 6th and 7th black : 

 legs red, with the coxae and trochanters black, or with the anterior femora 

 testaceous, the middle red, fuscous at the base within, hinder brown-black, 

 with the base red ; tibiae red, posterior brownish towards the apex. 

 Rare : taken at Darenth in June, and in Wilts .'' 



Sp. 198. semivulpinus. Niger, coxis posticis calcaratis, segmentis 1-5 pedi- 

 busque rufis, coxis et trochanteribus nee non genuhus posticis nigris, antennis 

 3-coloribus. (Long. corp. 3 lin.; Exp. Alar. 5 lin.) 



Ic. semivulpinus. Gravenhorst, i. 565. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 137. 



Black: antennae curved, the 2 basal joints fuscous, 4 following red, 3 next 

 red-brown, 4 or 5 following white, remainder fuscous ; abdomen with the 

 1st to 5th segments fulvous or red, peduncle black; legs red or fulvous, 

 with the coxEB and trochanters black ; posterior coxae armed with a long 

 spur, the tips of their femora and of their tibiae black or fuscous ; wings 

 subhyaline. 

 Found in June near London, and in Norfolk : not common. 



