ICHNEUMQNID.E. TllYPHON. 235 



Found at the Hermitage in August, and in other places within the 

 metropolitan district; apparently not common. 



Sp. 12. scalaris. Niger, marginibus. dorsalihus segmentorum facie et lima ante 

 alas, alhidis, pedibus fulvis, coxis posticis nigris, antennis suhtus feri'vgineis, 

 articulis lei 2 albidis. (Long. corp. 3 — 4 I'm. ; Exp. A\a,x. 5—7 lin.) 



Tr. scalaris. Gravenhorst, ii. ng.—Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. Gen. 715. 12. 



Black : face^ mouth, and cheeks whitish-yellow ; base of the mandibles, and 

 sometimes 3 dots beneath the antennae, black ; antennae fuscous above, 

 rusty beneath, with the 1 or 2 basal joints whitish; thorax with an 

 irregular streak on the margin of the collar, and a dot below the wings 

 yellowish-white; abdomen oblong, somewhat sessile, basal segment with 2 

 slightly elevated lines, and frequently with a white dot on its dorsal edge, 

 the remaining ones with a marginal dorsal line or dot, of similar hue ; legs 

 red ; 4 anterior coxa and trochanters pale yellow ; posterior coxse black, 

 with the tip and their trochanters pale yellow beneath, the latter above 

 black, with the apex tawny, the apex of the tibiae and the tarsi fuscous ; 

 wings hyaline; cellule irregularly 3-angular, petiolated. 

 Found at Coombe wood in June : rare. 



Sp. 13. calcator. Niger, pedibus fulvis. (Long. corp. 2§— 3 lin. ; Exp. Alar, 

 4— 5i lin.) 



Tr. calcator. Gravenhnrsf , ii. 138. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. Gen. 715. 13. 



Black : labrum and mandibles ferruginous ; antennae rather above half the 

 length of the body, slightly curved at the tip, blackish, a little rusty towards 

 the apex; scutellum elevated; abdomen subsessile, as broad as the thorax, 

 ovate, and a little depressed, the 4 basal segments with a more or less 

 distinct channel, the basal one nearly as broad as long, slightly narrowed 

 towards the peduncle ; the margins of the 2 next narrowly edged with 

 chestnut ; legs short, entirely tawny-red ; wings moderate, hyaline ; cellule 

 wanting. 



Scarce : taken in July, near London. 



Sp. 14. pinguis. Niger, marginibus segmentorum rufescentibus, pedibus flavis 

 posticorum coxis et femoribus, nee non tibiarum et articulorum tarsi apicibus 

 nigris: foemina antennis subtus ferrugineis. (Long, corp. 3 — 4 lin.; Exp. 

 Alar. 5— 7i lin.) 



Tr. pinguis. Gravenhorst, ii. 130. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. Gen. 715. 14. 



Black and silky : male with the palpi and labrum red, mandibles yellow ; 

 female with the mouth yellowish, the tips of the mandibles black ; antennae 

 shorter than the body, of the male rusty-brown beneath, with the basal 

 joint yellow ; of the female with the 2 basal joints yellow, 3rd black, the 

 remainder generally ferruginous ; abdomen rather broad, especially in the 

 female, oblong or ovate, somewhat sessile ; the extreme margins of the seg- 

 ments red or chestnut; legs more slender in the male than in the female, 4 

 anterior yellow, the coxae black, yellow beneath ; femora tawny without. 



