ICHNEUMONID.E. — PHYGADEUON. 299 



moderate, red, cox£e and trochanters black, 4 anterior white beneath in the 

 male, posterior with the tarsi and tips of the femora and of the tibiae black ; 

 wings hyaline ; cellule 5-angular. 



This beautiful insect occurs in plenty in the vicinity of London 

 in June ; it is also found in the New Forest, in Salop, Scotland, &c. 



Sp. 8. curvus. Niger, abdominis medio, tibiis anterioribus, femoribusque rufis, 

 stigmate piceo, annulo antennarum albo. (Long. corp. 3 — 5 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 

 5—7 lin.) 



Ich. curvus. Schrank, Boic. 2. 2087. — Phy. curvus. Steph. Nomev. 2d edit. 

 Gen. 722. 8. 



Black: antennas about half the length of the body, involuted, with about the 

 8th to 12th joints white : abdomen ovate, as broad as the thorax, the basal 

 segment small, red or fuscous, a little dilated at the apex, petiole black and 

 grooved, 2nd and 3rd chestnut or tawny-red, the apex of the latter some- 

 times black, remainder black, the edge of the 7th whitish; ovipositor about 

 one-third the length of the abdomen ; legs moderate, tawny or dull red, 

 coxae and trochanters, and the hinder tarsi and tibiae black, the latter at 

 times reddish at the base ; wings smoky-hyaline ; cellule 5-angular. 

 Rare within the metropolitan district : found in June. 



Sp. 9. galactinus. Niger, segmentis2-3 rufis, tibiis femoribusque ruJis,posticis 

 summo apice nigro, ore, orbitis internis oculorum, coxis et trochanteribus 

 anterioribus, albidis. (Long. corp. 2| — 3| lin. ; Exp. Alar. 4 — 6§ lin.) 



Phy. galactinus. Gravenhorst, ii. 176. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. Gen. 722. 9. 



Black : mouth, clypeus^ and inner orbits, and sometimes also a dot on the 

 face, white or ochreous ; mandibles with the tip fuscous ; antennse porrect, 

 half the length of the body, the basal joint ochreous beneath ; abdomen 

 rather narrower than the thorax, oblong-fusiform, the basal segment slightly 

 channelled, black, occasionally with the edge red, 2hd and 3rd red, 4th dull 

 brown or reddish on the back, remainder black, with the anal membrane 

 white ; legs slenderish, red ; 4 anterior trochanters and coxfe white, the 

 latter sometimes red above, posterior coxae, trochanters, tarsi, and tips of 

 the tibiae black ; wings somewhat hyaline ; cellule 5-angular. 

 Found at Darenth wood in June. 



Sp. 10. sperator. Niger, abdominis medio rufo,femoribus tihiisque rufis, posticis 

 apice nigris, ore, et orhitis oculorum internis albis. (Long. corp. 2-^ — 3|lm.; 

 Exp. Alar 4 — 6 lin.) 



Ich. sperator. M'uller, Prod. 1829.~Phy. sperator. Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. 

 Gen. 722. 10. 



Black : mandibles, palpi, inner orbits, and a small dot on the clypeus, white ; 

 antennae porrect, nearly the length of the body, the basal joint more or less 

 white beneath; abdomen somewhat linear-fusiform, or a little dilated 

 towards the apex, narrower than the thorax, basal segment slightly ehan- 



