278 MANDIBULATA. HYMENOVTEEA. 



chestnut; legs slender, elongate, 4 anterior red, coxse and trochanters 

 black ; posterior black, femora red, tibise of the female either black with the 

 base red, or red with tlie tip black ; tarsi of the male with the 2nd to 4th 

 joints white; wings rather smoky-hyaline; cellule 5- or somewhat 3- 

 angular. 



Found in the neighbourhood of the metropolis in June, and in 

 Salop. 



Sp. 4. spiralis. Niger, femoribus tibiisque rufis, harum posticis apiee nigro^ 

 areola interiore vestigio nervi dividentis ; foemina antennarum annulo alho^ 

 (Long. corp. 34 — 5i lin. ; Long. ovip. 2| lin. ; Exp. Alar. 5 — 8 lin.) 



Ich. spiralis. Fourcroy, Ent. Par. 407. — Cr. spiralis. Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. 

 Gen. 721. 4. 



Black : mouth of the male occasionally pale ; female with the inner, and 

 sometimes the outer, orbits faintly whitish ; antennge shorter than the body, 

 of the female more slender than in the male, curved, with the 7th to 11th 

 joints, or most of them, white above; thorax with 2 acute tubercles on the 

 metathorax, most prominent in the female, in^which sex there is occasionally 

 a yellow dot beneath the wings ; abdomen of the male narrower than the 

 thorax, somewhat fusiform, petiolated and linear, the extreme edge of the 

 2nd and 3rd segments sometimes chestnut ; of the female a little narrower 

 than the thorax, oblong-ovate ; ovipositor nearly as long as the abdomen ; 

 legs slender, red, coxae and trochanters red, middle tarsi at times fuscous ; 

 posterior tarsi and apex of their tibise dusky or fuscous ; wings smoky- 

 hyaline ; cellule 5-angular or somewhat 3-angular ; internal cubital areolet 

 with a rudiment of the divisional nervure. 

 Taken near London, towards the end of June, but rarely. 



Sp. 5. brachycentrus. Niger, pedibus rujis, cellula minuta : mas facie, coxis 

 trochanteribusque anterioribus, alhis, coxis posticis nigris i foemina annulo 

 antennarum albo. (Long. corp. 3 — 4 lin. ; Long. ovip. 1\ lin.; Exp. Alar. 

 S— 7 lin.) 



Cry. brachycentrus. Gravenhorst, ii. 457. — Steph. Noinen. 2d edit. Gen. 721.5. 



Black : male with the mouth, face, and cheeks white, the tip of the mandibles 

 fuscous; female with the palpi fuscous, labrum straw-coloured; antennae of 

 the male half the length of the body, the basal joint white beneath ; of the 

 female very slender, shorter than the body, curved at the tip, the 8th and 

 9th joints white above ; abdomen slightly pedunculated, of the male sub- 

 linear, the 2 basal segments a little dilated at the apex, 3rd to 7th of equal 

 width, the last with an exserted conic appendage, of the female as broad as 

 the thorax, ovate-fusiform, flattish on the back towards the apex, basal 

 segment dilated towards the tip, 2nd to 7th transverse, faintly edged with 

 whitish ; ovipositor one-third the length of the abdomen ; legs slender, 

 elongate, testaceous in the male, 4 anterior coxse and trochanters white, 

 hinder ones black, the tip of the trochanters red, tarsi and tibise fuscous,, 

 the latter somewhat testaceous beneath; of the female the legs are red. 



