ICHNEUMONID.E. PHYGADEUON. 301 



Phy. nitidus. Gravenhorst, ii. 708.— Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. Gen. 1122. 13. 



Black : antennae abovit half the length of the body, the 2nd to 4th joints more 

 or less distinctly red beneath ; abdomen rather narrower than the thorax, 

 lanceolated, with the 2nd to 4th segments chestnut-red ; ovipositor about 

 one fourth the length of the abdomen ; legs red ; coxse and trochanters 

 black ; wings more or less hyaline ; cellule 5-angular. 

 Ttiken at Darenth wood in June, and also in other places within 



the metropolitan district, and in Salop. 



Sp. 14. assimilis. Nige?', abdominis medio, femorum anteriorum apice, tihiisque, 



rtifis, harum post ids apice nigra. (Long. corp. 3 — 4rm.; Exp. Alar. 5 7 



lin.) 



Phy. assimilis. Gravenhorst, ii. 711. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. Gen. 122. 14. 



Black: palpi fuscous, or dull straw-colour ; antennae porrect, half the length 

 of the body; abdomen rather narrower than the thorax, somewhat oblong- 

 ovate, basal segment foveolated, black, 2nd and 3rd red, 4th either totally 

 red, or black, with the base and sometimes the margin reddish, remainder 

 black, silky ; legs moderate, black, posterior trochanters generally rusty at 

 the tip, 4 anterior femora rusty-red at the apex ; tibise red, posterior black 

 at the tip ; 4 anterior tarsi red, middle sometimes fuscescent at the apex, 

 hinder fuscous; claws all black; wings smoky-hyaline; cellule 5-angular. 

 Found, but not commonly, in June, within the metropolitan 



district. 



Sp. 15. Spinolse. Niger, segmentis 2-is pedibusque rufis , femorum latera altera 

 nee non tarsis pasticis et tibiarum apice nigris, antennis tricoloribus. (Long. 

 corp. 3J lin.; Exp. Alar. 6 lin.) 



Phy. Spinolse. Gravenhorst, ii. 712. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. Gen. 722. 15. 



Black : palpi and middle of the mandibles rusty ; antennae scarcely half the 

 length of the body, incurved, a little compressed and dilated in the middle, 

 slender at the tip, 5 basal joints fuscous, rusty beneath, 2 next fuscous, 8th 

 to 10th white, fuscous beneath, remainder fuscous ; abdomen as wide as the 

 thorax, oblong-ovate, the basal segment smooth, petiole black, red ante- 

 riorly, 2nd to 4th segments red, remainder black, the terminal one white at 

 its apex ; ovipositor half the length of the abdomen ; legs moderate, red, 4 

 anterior with the outer edge of the trochanters and femora blackish ; 

 posterior with the tarsi, the apex of the tibiae and the femora black, the base 

 of the latter red, chestnut within ; wings somewhat hyaline ; cellule narrow, 

 nearly 3-angular. 

 Found near London, and in Salop, in June. 



Sp. 16. erythrostictus. Niger, abdominis media, stigmate,femoribus anteriori- 

 bus, tibiisque, riifis. (Long. corp. 4 — 5 lin.; Exp. Alar. 7—8 lin.) 



