ICHNEUMONID.E.^ — ICHNEUMON. 205 



including the coxse and trochanters, pale pitchy-red, posterior pair dark 

 pitchy, their coxse faintly spurred ; wings hyaline. 

 Found near London, in June. 



§ X. Scutellum black ; abdomen of three colours. 



Sp. 216. tergenus. Niger, abdomine rufo, apice nigra, ano albo : foemina 

 annulo antennarum albo. (Long. corp. 4 — 5 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 6 — 8J lin.) 



Ic. tergenus. Gravenhorat, i. Q\5.—Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 137. 



Black : male with the antennae porrect, female involuted, with about the 9th 

 to 14th joints white; abdomen oblong-ovate, the 3 basal segments red or 

 chestnut, the 4th entirely black, or with the base more or less red, and the 

 margin in the male whitish, and reddish in the female, 5th black, with the 

 margins in the male whitish, 6th and 7th also black, with a white dorsal 

 spot, or a dot only in the female ; legs moderate, black, the anterior femora 

 at the extreme tip and the tibiae within flavescent, the middle tibiae and tarsi 

 fuscous, the hinder tibite in the middle dull ferruginous. 

 Not common : taken occasionally in July and August within the 



metropolitan district, and in Salop. 



Sp. 217. incubitor. Niger, abdomine rufo, apice nigro, ano albo, femoribus et 

 tibiis rufis, annulo antennarum albo. (Long. corp. 2§ — 31 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 

 4—51 lin.) 



Ic. incubitor. Linne ?—Cr. incubitor. Steph. Catal. 345. No. 4111. 



Black: palpi fuscous; mandibles rusty; occipital orbits faintly white, or 

 with a white dot ; antennae with the apex curved, the 8th to about the 13th 

 joints white above ; abdomen oblong-ovate, the 3 basal segments red or 

 fulvous, 4th either black, or black, with the basal angle red, or entirely red, 

 6th with a marginal white spot or dot, 7th with the back totally white ; legs 

 rather stout, redj coxse and trochanters black, posterior tibiae black at the 

 tip, femora occasionally with a fuscous or black cloud towards the inner 

 base. 

 Scarce : found near London in June. 



Sp. 218. analis. Niger, abdomine rufo, apice nigro, ano albo, tibiis femoribusque 

 rufis, horum posticis apice nigro, antennis tricoloribus. (Long. corp. 3 — 4 lin. ; 

 Exp. Alar. 4i— 6 lin.) 



Ic. analis. Gravenhorst, i. 621. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 137. 



Black : antennae with the 1st to 8th joints red, 9th to 12th whitish, remainder 

 brown ; abdomen with the 3 basal segments red, remainder black, the 6th 

 and 7th with the back white ; legs red ; coxa? black, anterior pair beneath 

 red ; trochanters black, red at the tip ; posterior femora black, with the base 

 red, or red, with the extreme tip black ; wings somewhat smoky-hyaline ; 

 cellule 5-angular. 

 Also scarce, and found within the metropolitan district, in July. 



