BRITISH ICHNEUMONID.E. 19 



Male. Head, face and palpi yellow. Antennae half the length 

 of the body, porrect ; first joint beneath yellow, the remainder pale 

 orange, black above. Thorax with a line before and another be- 

 neath the wings reddish yellow; the central area of the metathorax 

 quadrate. Scutellum yellow, with a slight marginal reddish tinge. 

 Base of the wings and stigma brownish yellow; stigma lighter; 

 second cubital cellule 5-angular. Legs: coxae black; trochanters 

 yellowish at the apex ; femora pale reddish yellow, hinder pair with 

 the apex black ; tibiae and tarsi paler, the former black at the apex, 

 from the second to fifth joints fuscous. Abdomen a little broader 

 than the thorax; first segment black ; second rufo-fulvous; third 

 and fourth with a marginal, fascia, sinuated in the middle; fifth 

 with a small central apical spot; sixth with a broad fascia; 

 seventh pale fulvous, the latter with a triangular black spot at the 

 base. Length Q—6\ lines. 



Female. Head : face black. Mandibles with a ferruginous 

 pile. Antennae, as in diagnosis, involute. Thorax with a yel- 

 lowish line below the wings. Legs as in the male. Abdomen : 

 second segment rufo-fulvous; third with a margin" 1 ' yellowish 

 fascia ; fourth and fifth black ; sixth nearly entirely ^aie yellowish, 

 it has a small central black patch at the base; seventh blac^. 

 Aculeus subexserted. 



In Mr. Curtis's collection. 



Section VI b. — Scutellum and abdomen black.. Apex reddish or 



fulvous. 



114. Ichneumon ancipitebus, 



Scutello et abdomine nigris ano rufo-fulvo. Orbitis facialibus 

 fiavis. Palpis fiavis. Antennis setaceis. Alisfumato-hyalinis. 

 Stigma te fulvo, radio ferrugineo versus basim fusco-flavo, 

 radice et squamula piceis. Areold subquinque-angulari, 

 femoribus nigris anterioribus flavi-fulvis. Tibiis et tarsis 

 fiavis posticis apice nigro. Tarsis fuscis. (Long. 6 — 6^ 

 lin.) 



Ichneumon ancipiterus, Desv. 



In Mr. Desvignes' and Mr. Heysham's collections. 



