114 CATALOGUE OF 



beneath rusty. Thorax cylindrical ; $ with a yellow line above 

 the first pair of the coxae leading to the collar, and on the breast a 

 darker spot before each ; a short yellow line below the scutellum 

 $ and 2 . Wings, $ , base and scales pale ; J > ferruginous ; 

 costa and stigma dusky black ; the latter in the $ palish in the 

 centre. Legs elongate ; $ , anterior coxae yellowish ; legs pale 

 fulvous, $ red; hinder tibiae and tarsi, $ and $, blackish, with 

 a whitish pubescence. Abdomen, $ , cylindrical throughout ; first 

 segment four times longer than broad; the remaining segments of 

 equal length, a little more than half the length of the first; $ 

 deeply punctate, sides with a hoary pubescence ; first segment twice 

 as long as broad ; third quadrate ; fourth to the sixth transverse ; 

 seventh gradually sloping to the apex ; the fifth ventral segment 

 slightly protuberant. Aculeus a little longer than the abdomen , 

 chestnut ; valves stout, black. Length 5 — 7 lines. 



£, $>• In Mr. Desvignes' collection. 



Subgenus 3. ECTHRUS. 

 Ecthrus, Grav. 



1. ECTHKUS RELUCTATOR. B. M. 



Ichneumon reluctator, Linn. Faun. Suec. n. 1603. Fab. Syst. Ent. 



333, n. 33. Ent. Syst. 150, n. 69. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 2686, n. 



27. Vill. 160, n. 77. Christ. 355. Panz. Faun. Ins. Germ. 



fasc. 71, t. 13. Schrank, Faun. Boica, n. 2078. Walclc. 



56, n. 35, Lamarck, 138, n. 5. 

 Ecthrus reluctator, Grav. iii. 863, 19. 

 Cryptus reluctator, Fab. Piez. 79, n. 35. 

 Ichneumon reluctatorius, Oliv. 176, n. 62. 

 Ichneumon obex, Mali. Prod. n. 1794. 

 Ichneumon usurpator, Scop. Cam. n. 743. Vill. 161, n. 78. 



Christ. 353. Oliv. 212, n. 30. 

 Ichneumon rubiginosus, Christ. 353, t. 36, f. 2. 



