294 MANDIBULATA. HYMENOPTERA. 



Sp. 46. erythriiius. Niger, abdomine rufo, apice nigro, ano alio, pedibus nifis, 

 antennis 3-coloribus. (Long. corp. 3 lin. ; Long. ovip. 1| lin.; Exp. Alar. 

 5§]in.) 



Cry. erythrinus. Gravenhorst, ii. 621 — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. Gen. 721. 46, 



Black : antennse curved, half the length of the body, thickish, the 5 basa! 

 joints red, the 4th and 5th above, and the 3 following fuscous, 4 or 5 next 

 white, remainder fuscous; abdomen ovate-fusiform, red, the 5th to 7th 

 segments black, the last 2 whitish on the margins ; ovipositor as long as the 

 abdomen ; legs red, the extreme apex of the hinder tibiae sometimes dusky ; 

 wings narrowish, smoky-hyaline ; cellule 5-anguIar, somewhat pyramidate. 

 Taken, but not commonly, within the metropolitan district, in 



June. 



V. Scutellum and part of the thorax red ; abdomen red and black. 



Sp. 47. minutorms. Riifo-sanguineus, capite, coxis, trochanteribus et abdominis 

 apice nigris, thoracefemoribusque nigro maculatis, antennis 3~coloribus. (Long. 

 Corp. 2^—3^ lin.; Long. ovip. | lin.; Exp. Alar. 4^—6 lin.) 



Cry. minutorius. Fabricius. — Steph. Catal. 346. No. 4321. 



Head black : orbits slightly, palpi, a dot on the mandibles, and another on the 

 cheeks, straw-colour ; antennae shorter than the body, slender, a little 

 curved at the apex, the 3 basal joints black, 4th to Sth, or most of them, 

 rusty, 3 following white, remainder fuscous, or rusty ; thorax bright red, 

 the neck, breast, and margin red, the scutellum black; metathorax with 2 

 minute rather acute tubercles ; scutellum blood-red ; abdomen oblong- 

 ovate, basal segment red, or red-chestnut, petiole generally black, 2nd and 

 3rd red, or chestnut- brown, the latter sometimes dusky on the back, 

 remainder black ; ovipositor about a third or half the length of the abdomen 

 black; legs slender, rusty-red, coxse and trochanters black, 4 anterior 

 femora, more or less black on the convex side towards the base, posterior 

 entirely black ; hinder tibiae generally dusky at the apex ; wings somewhat 

 smoky-hyaline ; cellule 5-angular. 

 Not common : found in June at Darenth wood, and in other 



places within the metropolitan district. 



Sp. 48. llagitator. Abdominis basi rufo, apice albo, tkorace rtifo, macula pecto- 

 rali et regione circa scutellum nigris, tibiis Jerrugineis. posticis apice nigro, 

 annulo antennarum albo. (Long. corp. 2g lin. ; Long. ovip. f lin. ; Exp. 

 Alar. 5 lin.) 



Ich. flagitator. Rossi Mant. ii. App. 83. — Cry. flagitator. Steph. Nomen. 2d 

 edit. Gen. 721. 48. 



Head black, vvith the clypeus and an obscure spot between the antennae and 

 eyes reddish ; antennae involuted at the apex, rather longer than half the 

 body, 2nd to 4th joints rusty-red, 9th to 11th white, dusky beneath, 

 remainder black ; thorax red, the neck, a spot on the back, and the margins 

 of the scutellum black ; metathorax with 2 spines ; scutellum red ; abdomen 



