288 MANDIBULATA. HYMENOPTERA. 



latter sometimes faintly whitish in the female, and the palpi rusty-brown ; 

 antennae porrect, nearly as long as the body, the basal joint white beneath ; 

 of the female much more slender, shorter than tlie body, curved at the tip; 

 thorax with a faint ochreous dot beneath the wings ; metathorax with 2 

 rather acute tubercles : abdomen chestnut-red, of the male narrow, elongate- 

 fusiform, of the female oblong-ovate, basal segment black, the apex more or 

 less chestnut ; ovipositor nearly as long as the abdomen, red, with black 

 sheaths ; legs long, slender, red, or tawny ; coxae and trochanters black, 

 anterior of the female at times brown, and the anterior trochanters of the 

 male occasionally with a whitish streak beneath, and the hinder femora of 

 the same sex occasionally black at the base ; hinder tibise fuscous, rusty at 

 the base ; their tarsi fuscous, 2nd to 4th joints of the female rusty, of the 

 male white ; wings more or less smoky-hyaline ; cellule 5- or somewhat 

 3-angular. 



Extremely abundant in the vicinity of London ; found also in 

 Devonshire, Salop, in Scotland, &c. in June and July. 



Sp. 31. sponsor. Niger, pedibus abdominisque rufis, petioJo, macula coxarum, 

 tarsis posticis, apice tibiarum, nigris, antennarmn annido albo. (Long. corp. 

 4 — 6§ lin. ; Long. ovip. 2 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 7 — 8^ lin.) 



Ich. sponsor. Fabricius. — Cry. sponsor. Steph. Catal. 345. No. 4117. 



Black : inner orbits obsoletely palish ; antennae half the length of the body, 

 curved at the tip, the 8th to 11th joints, or some of them, white above; 

 metathorax with 2 slight spines ; abdomen ovate, chestnut-red, or brown- 

 chestnut, the petiole, and occasionally the greater portion of the 1st seg- 

 ment, black; ovipositor about the length of the abdomen, legs rather 

 slender, long, dull red, trochanters and coxse black, the latter sometimes 

 with a chestnut spot, or red with a black spot ; hinder tibiae tawny or 

 chestnut, with the tip blackish ; their tarsi generally rusty, with the basal 

 joint fuscous ; wings smoky-hyaline; cellule 5- or somewhat 4-rate. 

 Rare : taken near London and in Salop, in June. 



Sp. 32. minator. Niger, abdominis medio, iibiis anterioribus femoribusque 

 rufis, orbitis oculorum, internis albis : mas annulo tarsorum posticorum et 

 picturis faciei albis ; fcemma, annulo antennarum albo. (Long. corp. 2§ — 3^ 

 lin. ; Long. ovip. 2 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 4—6 lin.) 



Cry. minator. Gravenhorst, ii. 556. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. Gen. 721. 32. 



Black : inner orbits of the female slightly palish, of the male white, with a 

 spot on the face and on the clypeus, the labrum, palpi, and base of the 

 mandibles the same ; antennae about the length of the abdomen, of the male 

 porrect, with the 1st joint white beneath, of the female with about the 7th 

 to 9th joints white; metathorax of that sex with 2 rather acute tubercles; 

 abdomen of the male gradually iricrassated to the 5th segment, of the female 

 broader : basal segment black or dull chestnut, 2nd to 4th or 5th dull red, 

 remainder fuscous ; ovipositor about the length of the abdomen ; legs red, 



