ICHNEUMONID.E. TRYPHON. 241 



Jacle peciore et lined ante alasjiavis, pedibusfulvis, coxis anterioribusjlavis, 

 tarsis posticis et tibiarum posticarum apice fascis. (Long. corp. 3^ lin. ; Exp. 

 Alar. 54 lin.) 



Tr. sternoxanthus, Gravenhorst, ii. 178. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. Gen. 715. 28. 



Black : mouth and face yellow^ the latter with a short longitudinal black line ; 

 antennse porrect, longer than the body ; thorax with a line before the wings, 

 hooked at the tip, a streak beneath them, and the breast, yellow ; scutellum 

 yellow, dull red in the middle ; abdomen with the margins of the segments 

 obsoletely white; legs tawny-red, 4- anterior with the coxse and trochanters 

 yellow ; posterior with the tarsi and tip of the tibiae black, the base of the 

 latter dull luteous ; wings somewhat hyaline, iridescent ; cellule none, or 

 irregular, subsessile. 

 Found at Darenth wood in June and July, but rare. 



Sp. 29. armillatorius. Niger, segmentis pallide viarginatis, mediis dorso testa- 

 ceis, pedibus rufis anterioribus coxis et trochanteribiisjlavis, posticis tarsis et 

 tibiarum apice nigris, pectore facie et thoracis picturis albidis. (Long. corp. 

 3—4 lin.; Exp. Alar. 5—7 lin.) 



Tr. armillatorius. Gravenhorst, ii. 182. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. Gen. 715. 29. 



Black : face and mouth yellow, whitish, or rosy ; tip of the mandibles brown; 

 antennae more or less curved at the apex, with the 2 basal joints whitish or 

 yellow beneath, the remainder rusty or fulvous; thorax with the margin of 

 the collar, the breast, a broad sutural line or spot before the wings, a dot 

 beneath them, and frequently a streak below the scutellum, and the lateral 

 suture between the pro- and metathorax, and the scutellum, yellow; 

 abdomen rather depressed, the margins of the 2nd to 7th segments, and 

 rarely that of the 1st, whitish, the intermediate ones somewhat testaceous, 

 the colour sometimes extending on the back so as to form an irregular con- 

 fluent spot on the 3rd and 4th segments ; legs rather slender, red ; 4 anterior 

 with the coxse and trochanters, and sometimes the base of the femora pale 

 yellow; posterior with the tarsi blackish, the tibise testaceous or whitish, 

 with the apex black or fuscous, and sometimes that of the femora the same, 

 with their coxae and trochanters more or less yellow beneath; wings hyaline, 

 iridescent ; cellule wanting, or obscurely and irregularly 3-angular. 

 Scarce: taken near London in June and July. 



Sp. 30. thoracicus. Niger, prothorace pectore scutello pedibusque rufis, horum 

 posticis apice nigro, segmentorum marginibiis albidis : n\as facie Jlava, lined 

 longitudinali nigra. (Long. corp. 4 lin.; Exp. Alar. 5 J lin.) 



Tr. thoracicus. Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. Gen. 715. 30. 



Black : face in the male yellow, with a longitudinal black streak ; tips of the 

 mandibles black ; anteimee fuscous, reddish beneath and towards the tip, 

 which is curved ; thorax pitchy, its disc or prothorax bright red ; collar, a 

 streak before the wings, and one beneath them entirely pale yellow; the 

 pleurae, breast, and scutellum red ; a spot below the scutellum and 2 obscure 



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