ICHNEUMONID^. CRYPTUS. 293 



dusky, 2nd and 3rd tawny-red, 4th mostly black, with the base and sides 

 red or tawny, rarely wholly black or red, remainder black, the sides of the 

 5th occasionally red, and the 6th and 7th with the extreme edge whitish; 

 legs moderate, red, coxae and trochanters black, posterior with the tips of 

 the femora and of the tibioe black, tarsi dusky or blackish, the extreme base 

 of the middle femora sometimes black, and the hinder femora occasionally 

 entirely black; wings moderate, smoky-hyaline; cellule 5-angular or 

 4-rate. 



Common about London, on umbelliferous plants, in May and 

 June ; also taken in the New Forest, Salop, &c. 



Sp. 44. nubeculatus. Niger, abdomine rufo, apice nigra, ana alba, Jemoribus et 

 hbiis anticis ,ubtus testaceis, fosmina antennarum annulo albo. (Long. corp. 

 ^ 4—5 liii.; Long. ovip. li lin. ; Exp. Alar. 6— 7^ lin.) 



Cry. nubeculatus. Gravenhorst, ii. QW.—Steph. Nomen. ^d edit. Gen. 721 44 

 Black: inner orbits faintly pale; antenna rather above half the length of the 

 body, of the male porrect and a little thickened, of the female slender 

 curved, the 8th to 10th joints white, the basal one rusty beneath; meta- 

 thorax deeply punctured, with 2 rather acute tubercles; abdomen of the 

 male ovate-fusiform, basal segment red, with the petiole black ; of the 

 female ovate, thickened towards the apex; the basal segment smooth, red 

 2 following chestnut, red in the male, 4th black, its base and limb red, or 

 wholly so in the males, remainder black, the terminal ones more or less 

 bordered with white, obscure in the females; ovipositor about half the 

 length of the body; legs moderate, slightly elongated, black, anterior 

 femora more or less testaceous beneath, posterior of the female dull chest- 

 nut interiorly ; anterior tibise testaceous, dusky without, middle black, 

 reddish within in the females, posterior in this sex rusty within towards the 

 base : wings smoky-hyaline, of the female with an obscure cloud beneath 

 the stigma; cellule 4-rate. 

 Taken in June within the metropolitan district 



rare. 



Sp. 45. ornatus. Niger, segmentis 1-3 rufis, 7 dorso albo, pedibus rufis, posticis 

 femorum et tibiarum apice nigris, antennis 3-coloribus. (Long. corp. 3—4 

 lin.; Long. ovip. li iin.; Exp. Alar. 5-6k lin.) 



Cry. ornatus. Gravenhorst, ii. 620.—Stc'pL Nomen. 2d edit. Gen. 721. 45. 



Black: antennae with the 3rd and 4th or 5th joints red, sometimes fuscous 

 beneath, the 8-10 white above; abdomen with the 3 basal segments red 

 or tawny, the petiole frequently black or fuscous at the base, the remainder 

 black, with the back of the 7th white; ovipositor about half the length of 

 the abdomen ; legs red, posterior with the tip of the femora and of the tibis 

 black, the extreme base of the latter fuscous, and sometimes the tibia are 

 fuscous without, with a reddish ring towards the base; wings smoky, 

 hyaline; cellule 4-rate, or somewhat 5-angular. 

 Not common : taken near London in June and July. 



