ICHNEUMONID.f:. — PHYOADEUON. 303 



apicem versus nigricantihus, femoribus posticis totis, ante?-ioribus pro parte, 

 nigris ; foemina annulo antennarum albo. (Long. corp. 2\ — 4 lin. ; Exp. 

 Alar. 4 — 7 lin.) 



Phy. abdominator. Gravenhorst, ii. 726. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. Gen. 722. 19. 



Black: palpi generally fuscous; middle of the mandibles and the labrum 

 reddish; antennae with the 5th to llth joints, or the greater portion of them, 

 white, the 2 basal ones often rusty beneath ; metathorax slightly bispinose ; 

 abdomen red, petiole black, the basal segment and sometimes a dorsal spot 

 on the 2nd black, the 3 terminal ones occasionally fuscous; ovipositor 

 scarcely half the length of the abdomen ; legs rather silky; coxse and tro- 

 chanters black ; 4 anterior femora red or rusty, black towards the base^ and 

 sometimes almost wholly blackish ; the anterior in the male often wholly 

 red, posterior always black ; tibiae red, or ochreous, posterior with the apex 

 blackish, rarely wholly red, or entirely blackish; tarsi reddish; wings 

 hyaline ; cellule more or less 5-angular, or somewhat 4- or 3-angular. 

 Common within the metropolitan district, in June ; found also in 



Salop, Scotland, &c. 



Sp. 20. protligator. Niger, abdomine rvfo, petiolo nigro, tibiis femoribusque 

 rufis : mas femorum posticorum apice nigro ; foemina antennarum annulo albo' 

 (Long. corp. %—S\ lin.; Exp. Alar. 3— 6i lin.) 



Ich. profligator. Fabricius. — Steph. Catal, 345. No. 4112. 



Black : palpi and middle of the mandibles reddish ; antennse of the male 

 porrect, half the length of the body, rusty-brown beneath, or wholly black; 

 of the female involuted at the apex, the basal joint black, the 5 next fuscous 

 or rusty, the 7 following, or most of them, white, tawny beneath, the 

 remainder brown-black ; abdomen of the male narrower than, and of the 

 female as wide as, the thorax, red, the basal segment smooth, with 2 raised 

 lines, the base black, the 7th occasionally dusky ; ovipositor scarcely a third 

 of the length of the abdomen; legs stout, shortish, clothed with a silky pile^ 

 red ; coxae and trochanters black, coxae of the females at times dull ferru- 

 ginous ; posterior femora of the male at the tip, and sometimes above, 

 black ; hinder tarsi and apex of the hinder tibise, in the same sex, black ; 

 wings rather smoky-hyaline ; cellule irregularly 5-angular, or 3-angular. 

 Abundant within the metropolitan district in the summer ; found 



also in Salop, &c. 



Sp. 21. cneraargus. Niger, abdomine rufo, petiolo nigro, pedum anteriorum 

 femoribus tibiisque rufis, his externe albis. (Long. corp. S\ lin.; Exp. Alar. 

 64 lin.) 



Phy. cnemargus. Gravenhorst, ii. 734i.—Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. Gen. 722. 21. 



Black: palpi whitish; abdomen with the basal segment black, its apex red, 

 remainder red, with the sides of the 5th to 7th fuscous ; legs moderate, 4 

 anterior with the coxffi and trochanters black, femora tawny-red, middle 

 pair a little fuscous without; tibise tawny, whitish without; tarsi testa- 



