ICHNEUMONIDiE CRYPTID/E. 



DESCRIPTION. 



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Abdomen black, rather glossy, very thickly punctured with minute and often confluent punctures. 

 Head transverse, triangular, not quite so wide as the middle of the trunk ; anterior margin of the 

 face rounded ; palpi reddish ; eyes long, subelliptical ; antennas shorter than the trunk, spirally con- 

 voluted : trunk oblong, subcompressed; scutellum subtriangular, rounded at the apex; metathorax 

 armed on each side with a short tooth, with several elevated longitudinal and oblique lines ; legs with 

 decumbent whitish hairs, anterior tibiae obscurely, and all the tarsi, rufous ; wings embrowned with 

 a rufous tint, nervures darker: abdomen lineari-lanceolate, rufo-ferruginous, with the first joint, 

 which is dilated at the apex, black ; footstalk channelled longitudinally on each side. 



Family CRYPTIDtE. Cryptidans. 



CLII. Genus CRYPTUS. Fab. Grav. 

 § ii. Scutello pallido, abdomine niyro. Grav. 



(359) 1. Cryptus viduatorius. (Fabricius.) Widowed Cryptus. 



Cryptus viduatorius. Fab. Syst. Piezat. 70, 2. Grav. lchn. Eur. ii, 476,40. 

 Ichneumon viduatorius. Thunb. Hymenopt. n. 82. 



t t c ,.1 u j ( including the ovipositor 5i > ,■ 

 Length of the body, -J wkhout b ditto ' . . 3 | \ lines. 



One specimen taken in Lat. 54°. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body black. Head subtriangular, transverse, very minutely and thickly punctured ; palpi pale 

 rufous ; face plane with two elevations in the middle ; eyes large, oval ; antennae shorter than the trunk, 

 rather slender, involute, black with a white band in the middle ; orbit of the eyes behind with a 

 very indistinct white line : trunk oblong, cubical, gibbous, very thickly and confluently punctured 

 except on the back ; tegulae white ; metathorax armed with two minute teeth on each side, one in 

 the middle and the other at the base, forming the terminal angle, marked out into three areas by 

 elevated lines : legs red with coxaj, trochanters, and posterior tarsi black ; wings subtestaceous with 

 the larger nervures black : abdomen, excluding the ovipositor, scarcely so long as the trunk ; first 

 segment impunctured, glossy, dilated at the apex, which is subquadrangular ; footstalk flat ; second 

 and third segments very large, with their gloss obscured by infinitely minute punctures ; ovipositor 

 shorter than the abdomen ; borer red. 



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