ICHNEUMON! D-E. TRYPHON. - 240 



yellow beneath, 3rd entirely black, remainder fuscous, beneath pale rusty ; 

 abdomen rather narrow, yellow, the basal segment slightly grooved, 5th to 

 7th black, the base of the former chestnut ; legs rather slender, yellow, 4 

 anterior with a black spot on the coxse without, posterior coxae, femora, and 

 tibiae at the apex, black ; wings a little stained ; cellule wanting. 

 Scarce : found in the north of England and in Scotland, in July. 



Sp. 49. elegantulus. Niger, femoribus crassis,fronte mutica, abdominis medio 



tibiis nee nonfemorum anticortim latere interna, flavis. (Long, corp . 5 6i lin. ; 



Exp. Alar. 9—11 lin.) 



Ich. elegantulus. Schrank F. Aust. p. 361 — Tr. elegantulus. Steph. Nomen. 

 2d edit. Gen. 715. 49. 



Black : forehead unarmed; antennae short, porrect, reddish, or red, beneath; 

 basal joint black, yellow below ; thorax sometimes with 2 minute yellow 

 dots below the scutellum, and the extreme apex of the latter occasionally 

 the same ; body subpetiolated and clavate, the basal joint black, with its 

 tip yellow, 2 following yellow, the 2nd sometimes with a round black spot 

 in the middle of the base, the 4th either totally black, or with a yellow- 

 border at the base, or the 2 basal angles of that colour, the remainder black; 

 legs short and stout, especially the femora, coxae and trochanters black, 

 sometimes yellow beneath ; femora black, 4 anterior more or less yellow at 

 the tip, tibiae yellow, posterior with the extreme apex black ; 4 anterior 

 tarsi yellow, posterior fuscous; wings smoky-hyaline; cellule wanting. 

 Apparently very rare, and variable ; found in June near London. 



Sp. 50. elongator. Fronte cornuta, abdominis medio Jlavo, aut rufo, tibiis nee 

 non latere interna femorum anticorum flavis, tibiis pasticis apice nigra, antennis 

 subtus fulvis. (Long. corp. 2| — 5| lin. ; Exp. Alar. 4 — 94 lin.) 

 Tr. elongator. Fabricius. — Steph. Catal. 351. No. 4468. 

 Black : mouth generally yellowish or reddish, furnished with a short, erect, 

 rather acute or obtuse horn ; antennae shorter than the body, basal joint 

 black, rarely rusty beneath, the remainder tawny or rusty, sometimes 

 fuscous above ; abdomen somewhat pedunculated, subclavate or fusiform, 

 basal segment black, its margin more or less broadly red or tawny, 2nd to 

 4th, sometimes the base of the 5th, but rarely the whole thereof, yellow or 

 tawny ; remainder black ; legs moderate, a little thickened, coxae and tro- 

 chanters black, anterior femora sometimes entirely yellow or testaceous, but 

 generally black externally towards the base, 2nd pair black, with the apex 

 as in the anterior ; posterior entirely black ; tibiae yellow, or testaceous, 

 the apex and extreme base of the hinder ones black ; tarsi reddish ; claws 

 brown ; wings hyaline, sometimes yellowish ; cellule irregular, or somewhat 

 3-angular, slightly petiolated. 



Extremely abundant throughout the metropolitan district in June 

 and July : also found in Devonshire, the New Forest, Salop, Scot- 

 land, &c. 



