ICHNEUMOXID.E. — TRYPHON. 239 



tawny; posterior tarsi and tibiffi fuscous, and generally the upper portion of 

 the coxse and the base of the trochanters blackish and silky : wings hyaline ; 

 cellule irregular, petiolated. 

 Rare : taken within the metropolitan district in July. 



Sp. 23. quinquecinctus. Niger, segmeniorum marginibus albis, pedibusfulvis, 

 posticorum tarsis tibiisque nigris, facie albo-flavci, antennis subtus fulvis, 

 articulo l-mo albo. (Long. corp. 4 lin.; Exp. Alar. 7 lin.) 



Tr. quinquecinctus. Gravenhorst, ii. 165. — Steph. JVomen. 2dedit. Gen. 715.23. 



Black : head subglobose, broader than the thorax ; face and mouth yellowish- 

 white ; antennse shorter thhn the body, porrect, fuscous, tawny beneath, 

 with the basal joint whitish; thorax with a transverse line below the scu- 

 tellum, and sometimes the lower part of the collar and a spot on the sides 

 of the metathorax yellow- white; scutellum white at the tip; abdomen 

 somewhat sessile, a little narrower than the thorax, the basal segment with 

 2 elevated lines, the 2nd with a marginal white dorsal streak, the remainder 

 more glossy, with the lateral and apical margins broadly white; legs rather 

 slender, tawny, 4 anterior paler beneath ; posterior with the tibiae and tarsi 

 black and silky ; wings hyaline ; cellule irregular, petiolated. 

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



Sp. 24. elegans. Niger, segmentoriim marginibus albidis, pedibus rufis, postico- 

 rum tarsis nigris, tibiis fulvescentibus apice vigro,ore trochanterib usque anteri- 

 orihusjlavis, scutello rufo. (Long. corp. 4 lin.; Exp. Alar. 8 lin.) 



Tr. elegans. Steph. Nomen. ^d edit. Gen. 715. 24. 



Black, shining : mouth yellow ; palpi straw-coloured; antennae black, beneath, 

 except the basal joint, tawny-red; thorax with a yellow dot before and at 

 the base of the wings; abdomen very smooth, rather broad, the 1st and 

 2nd segments edged with tawny-white, the remaining ones rather broadly 

 edged with brightish white; legs bright red, the 4 anterior trochanters, and 

 their tibiie in front, yellow ; posterior tibiae pale fulvous, with their apex 

 black; hinder tarsi black ; wings ample, hyaline; cellule 3-angular, petio- 

 lated. 

 Rare : taken in June at Darenth wood. 



Sp. 25. aulicus. Niger, pedibusfulvis aid rufis, posticorum tarsis et tibiis nigris, 

 his medio albis ; mas facie flavd; antennis subtus testaceis ; foemina 07-e 

 iestaceo. (Long. corp. 3—4 lin.; Exp. Alar. 5—7 lin.) 

 Tr. aulicus. Gravenhorst, ii. 173.— Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. Gen. 715. 2t» 

 Black : male with the mouth and face pale yellow, the tip of the mandibles 

 black; former with the mouth testaceous and the clypeus sometimes ferru- 

 ginous; mandibles with the apex black; antenna fuscous, testaceous 

 beneath, with the 1st and 2nd joints pale yellow ; of the females as long as 

 the body, with the tip recurved, black, mostly fuscous beneath ; thorax with 

 a more or less distinct yellow dot before and beneath the wings, and in the 

 female with 2 minute dorsal ones before the collar and on the upper margin 



