iCHNKUMOMD.ii CllYP'JlJS. 277 



Cry. cyanator. Gravenhorst, ii. U2.~Siej,h. Nomen. 2d edit. Gen. 721. 1. 

 Black : head pubescent ; antennae of the male about half the length of the 

 body, thicker than the female, in which sex they are nearly as long as the 

 body, slender and curved at the tip ; thorax pubescent, of the female fre- 

 quently with a red dot beneath the wings ; abdomen blue-black, of the male 

 slender, 2nd to 6th segments of equal width, the 1st with a groove and 

 pubescent; of the female as wide as the thorax, ovate, the basal segment 

 pubescent; ovipositor shorter than the abdomen, black; legs rather 

 elongate, red, coxae pubescent, red, with the trochanters black, posterior 

 tibiiE with the apex dusky or blackish ; tarsi fuscous; wings smoky-hyaline ; 

 cellule 5-angular. 



Larva feeds upon that of Phragmatobia fuliginosa, Clisiocampa Neustria, &c. 

 Not uncommon : found in the vicinity of London, at Ripley, 



Hertford, &c. 



Sp. 2. tarsoleucus. Niger, femoribus tihiisque rufis, iarsis posticis palUdiorihus , 

 facie pallide-maculata. (Long. corp. 4i— 74 lin.; Long. ovip. 3 lin. ; Exp. 

 .Alar. 7—9 lin.) 

 Ich. tarsoleucus. Schrank, Anst. 725.— Cry. tarsoleucus. Steph. Nomen. 2d 

 edit. Gen. 721. 2. 



Black : male with the pal[)i rusty or fuscous, inner orbits and middle of the 

 mandibles, and rarely the vertical ones and 2 facial dots ochreous, female 

 with the inner orbits obsoletely whitish ; thorax of the male at times with a 

 yellow line before the wings ; abdomen (of the male) sometimes bluish- 

 black, with the extreme edge chestnut ; ovipositor shorter than the abdomen ; 

 legs red, coxse and trochanters black, the 3 or 4 anterior sometimes with a 

 white dash beneath, and the apex of the hinder tibia; occasionally blackish ; 

 posterior tarsi of the male with the basal joint rusty, paler or yellowish 

 at the apex, the 2nd to 4.th whitish, of the female the 2nd to 4th pale 

 fulvous; wings rather hyaline, more obscure in the female; cellule 5- or 

 4-angular. 



Larva subsists on that of Achalia piniperda and other cognate Noctuidae. 

 Considerably more abundant than the foregoing- in the vicinity of 



London, especially at Birch wood, llipley, &c. in June. 



Sp. 3. moschator. Niger, tibiis anterioribus et femoribus fulvis ; mas iarsorum 

 posticorum articulis 2-4 albis. (Long. corp. 3 — .5 \'m. ; Exp. Alar. 5—8 lin.) 



Ich. moschator. Fubricius, Mant.p. 266.— Staph. Nomen. 2d edit. Gen. 72L 3. 



Black: palpi fuscous, inner orbits mostly whitish; antennae of the male 

 shorter than the body, of the female very slender, considerably more so than 

 in the male, curved; thorax with 2 more or less acute tubercles on the 

 metathorax ; abdomen of the male half the width of the thorax, linear- 

 fusiform, the basal segment somewhat linear, of the female about as wide as 

 the thorax, oblong-ovate, the basal segment a little dilated towards the 

 apex ; ovipositor about as long, or but little shorter than the abdomen, dull 



