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PLATE CCCCLXXVI. 



FIG. I. I. 

 ICHNEUMON LEUCQPJLEUS. 



WHITE-TAILED ICHNEUMON. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Mouth with a ftraight horny membranaceous bifid jaw : the tip 

 rounded and ciliated : mandibles curved, iharp; lip cylindrical, mem- 

 branaceous at the tip, and emarginate ; feelers four, unequal, and fili- 

 form, and feated in the middle of the lip : antennae fetaceous, of more 

 than thirty articulations : {ling exferted, inclofed in a cylindrical {heath 

 compofed of two valves, and not pungent. , 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Ichneumon Leucorh/eus. Head and thorax black : body fub- 

 globofe, and rufous, terminating in a black band, 

 and yellowifh white tip. 



Ichneumon oclogefimus primus. Sclucff. Icon. pi. l&ll.Jig. 1. ? 



The fmaller figure denotes the natural fize of this curious infecl, the 

 larger being coniiderably magnified. The gloLonty of the abdomen 

 is remarkable, but not peculiar to this fpecies : its legs are brown and 

 black, and the antennae rather longer than the wings. V\ e have reason" 

 to believe this a rare fpecies. 



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