292 MANDIBULATA. HYMEKOPTERA. 



Ich. migrator. Fabricius, Syst. Ent. 334. — Cry. migrator. Steph. Nomen. 

 '2d edit. Gen. 721. 41. 



Black : inner orbits generally slightly whitish, but very obsoletely so in the 

 female; antennae rather above half the length of the body, curved at the 

 tip, of the female, and with about the 7th to 11th joints white, the 2nd to 

 4th occasionally rusty beneath ; metathorax thickly and coarsely punctured ; 

 abdomen, of the male, somewhat linear, of the female ovate, red, the petiole 

 dusky or black, the apex of the 4th segment and the remaining segments 

 black, the 5th sometimes chestnut on the edge, and the 6th and 7th with a 

 white dorsal spot ; ovipositor about half the length of the abdomen ; legs 

 rather slender, 4 anterior with the coxae and trochanters black, femora rusty, 

 more or less black at the base, tibiae red, fuscous without, and whitish at 

 the base, tarsi reddish ; posterior black, the coxee of the female red, with a 

 black spot, the femora red, with the tip more or less black, tibiae black, with 

 a white basal ring, tarsi fuscescent, and sometimes with a whitish ring; 

 wings hyaline, of the female sometimes with an obscure cloud on the disc ; 

 cellule 4-rate. 



The legs vary somewhat in the colour of the respective parts, the red or the 

 black more or less predominating, and occasionally the scutellum bears 1 or 

 2 minute whitish dots. 



Larva feeds on that of Spilosoma Erminea, &c. 



Abundant within the raetropohtan district in June and July ; also 



found in Salop, &c. 



Sp. 42. subguttatus. Niger, segmentis 1-4 riifis, tibiis femoribusque rufis, 

 posticis apice nigris, orbitis internis oculorum, antennarum articulo 1-mo 

 subtus, puncto infra alas, annuloque tarsorum albis. (Long. corp. 4 lin. ; 

 Exp. Alar. 6g lin.) 



Cry. subguttatus. Gravenhorst, ii. 610. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. Gen. Il'il. 42. 



Black: palpi, a spot on the mandibles, and the inner orbits white; antennae' 

 porrect, shorter than the body, with the basal joint white beneath; abdomen 

 somewhat fusiform, red, the basal segment deeply channelled, and the 5th 

 to 7th black ; legs rather slender, red, coxae and trochanters black, 4 ante- 

 rior with the 3rd and 4th joints of the tarsi white, posterior with the tip of 

 the femora and of the tibiae black ; tarsi white, the 1st and 5th joints black ; 

 wings smoky-hyaline ; cellule 5-angular, pyramidal. 

 Found near London in June, but very rarely. 



Sp. 43. peregrinator. Niger, abdomine rufo, ano albo, tibiis et femoribus rufis, 

 posticis apice nigris, antennarum annulo albo. (Long. corp. 2 — 4i lin. ; Long, 

 ovip. 2^ lin. ; Exp. Alar. 3§ — 6 lin.) 



Ich. peregrinator. Linnc — Cry. peregrinator. Steph. Caial. 345. No. 4316. 



Black : antennae slenderish, about half the length of the body, involuted at the 

 apex, the 7th to 11th joints, or most of them, white; abdomen fusiform, 

 or ovate-fusiform, the basal segment very smooth, red, with the petiole 



