ICHNEUMONID.E. CRVPTUS. 287 



Sp. 28. subcinctus. Niger, segmento 3-tio rufo, fascia nigra, l-timo macula 

 alba, tibiis femoribusque rufis, posiicis apice nigro. (Long. corp. 4 lin. ; 

 Exp. Alar. 6glin.) 

 Cry. subcinctus. Gravenhorst, i. 703.— Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. Gen. 721. 28. 

 Black : antennae porrect, a little shorter than the body ; scutellum with a white 

 dot at the tip ; abdomen as narrow again as the thorax ; basal segment 

 blackj flattish, sublinear, 2nd black, 3rd red with a central black fascia, 4th 

 and 5th quadrate, black, 6th and 7th shorter and narrower, also black, the 

 7th having a white dorsal spot; legs slender, red ; coxae, trochanters, and 

 tips of the hinder femora and tibise black, hinder tarsi fuscous ; wings smoky- 

 hyaline ; cellule somewhat 4-angular. 



i\lso taken near London, and in other places within the metropo- 

 litan district. 



§ IV. Scutellum Ja\sic\i ; abdomen red, or red and black. 



Sp. 29. Dianas. Niger, abdominis medio rvfo,femoribus tibiisque riifis, po.sticis 

 apice nigro : mas picturis capitis et annulo tarsorum posticorum albis ; foemina 

 annulojintennarum albo. (Long. corp. 4 — 5 lin. ; Long. ovip. l,^ lin. ; Exp. 

 Alar, 7—8 lin.) 



Cry. Dianas. Gravenhorst, ii. 545. — Steph. Nomen. '2d edit. Gen. 721. 29. 



Black : male with the inner orbits, a spot on the face, and another on the 

 clypeus, the labrum, clypeus, and base of the mandibles white; female 

 sometimes with the inner and vertical orbits very narrowly white ; antennae 

 of the male with a white dot beneath the basal joint, of the female with about 

 the 6th to 9th joints white above ; thorax occasionally with a minute dot 

 before the wings, another below, and a 3rd on the lateral edge of the collar 

 white ; metathorax with 2 moderately acute tubercles ; abdomen with the 

 basal joint red, black at its apex, 2nd and 3rd red, remainder black, the 3rd 

 with the edge sometimes fuscous in the female, and the 4th often red in that 

 sex ; ovipositor shorter than the abdomen ; legs red, coxse and trochanters 

 black, the anterior ones, and at times the middle trochanters beneath white 

 in the male ; the hinder femora occasionally tipped with black, and their 

 tibiae always fuscous or black at the apex, their tarsi fuscous, and in the 

 male white, with the basal and apical joints black ; wings smoky-hyaline; 

 cellule 5-angular, or somewhat 3-angular. 

 Not uncommon, in the vicinity of the metropolis, in June and 



July. 



Sp. 30. obscuriis. Niger, abdomine rufo basi nigra, tibiis anterioribus femori- 

 busque rufis : mas tarsis posticis annulo albo. (Long. corp. 4 — 8 lin.; Long, 

 ovip. 2 — 3 lin.; Exp. Alar. 7— 9ilin.) 



Ich. obscurus. Gmelin, p. 2704. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. Gen. 721. 30. 



Black : palpi of the male fuscous or whitish, mandibles mostly with a whitish 

 dot, labrum testaceous, sometimes an obsolete palish spot on the face, and 

 another on the clypeus, the orbits white, interrupted on the occipu the 



