26 CATALOGUE OF 



Head: face white, with a large, somewhat triangular, black 

 patch below the antennae ; mouth and palpi pale. Antennae seta- 

 ceous, porrect, about half the length of the body. Metathorax 

 covered with a short hoary pile ; the central area lunate, not well- 

 defined. Wings fuscous at the base ; stigma pale fulvous or straw- 

 colour. Legs : coxae black ; first pair ferruginous at the tip, as also 

 the trochanters; the second joint of hinder pair {apophysis) rufous ; 

 femora black, rufous at the base ; first pair dirty yellow on the inner 

 side ; tibiae and tarsi pale orange ; hinder pair of the latter fuscous, 

 pale at the base ; posterior tibiae with the apex black/ Abdomen 

 somewhat narrower than the thorax ; first segment rather scabrous, 

 with two elevated ridges, narrower than the second, the apical outer 

 margins of which are dull ferruginous ; third segment light chest- 

 nut, with a large oblong black patch at the apex ; the second and 

 third segments beneath testaceous ; fourth and fifth more obscure 

 Length 7 lines. 



Mr. Stephens has only given the diagnosis of this insect in his 

 Illustrations. 



In Mr. Desvignes' collection. 



Section IX. — Scutellum black. Abdomen red or red and black. 



142. Ichneumon fumigator. B. M. 

 Ichneumon fumigator, Grav. Pede. n. 89. 



143. Ichneumon hemorrhoidals. B. M. 

 Ichneumon ha?morrhoidalis, Grav. i. 539, 224. 



$. Ichneumon castaniventris, Grav. i. 556, 233. Wesm. Tent. 32 

 20, <?,?. 



144. Ichneumon culpator. B. M. 



Ichneumon culpator, Schrank, Faun. Boica, n. 2077. Grav. i. 

 548, 227. 



$ . Segmentis 2 et 3 castaneo-rufis, annulo antennarum albo. 



Var. 1. Abdomine nigro, incisuris obscure ferrugineis. Antennis 

 ut in genuinis. 



£, ?. Ichneumon culpator, Wesm. Tent 82, 82 (varietate exclusa). 



