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Might be an IcTineimon, but for its exserted ovipositor. Allied to 
Tiygadeuon desertor, Gr., from which it differs in the number of white 
ints of the antennae, the coloration of the legs, the sculpture of the 
etathorax, etc. 
One specimen from the London district. 
The following strange piece of synonomy among the Ichneimonidce 
serves mention, if only for the purpose of inviting criticism. Of its 
ith I have thoroughly convinced myself, although unwillingly. 
? Ichneumon cbassipes, Gr., i, 622. 
(? Ichn. latrator, Gr., i, 572 {excl. ? ). 
? Var. with short wings, BracJiypterus means, Gr., i, 675 ; 
Ste. Mand. vii, pi. 40, fig. 2 ; Pterocormus means, Torst., 
Mon. Pez., 24. 
The original description of BracJiypterus means was drawn up by 
•avenhorst from a single specimen sent him by the Eev. F. W. Hope 
)m Netley, in Shropshire. A similar form does not seem to have 
eurred on the Continent ; but I fortunately possess four, taken long 
somewhere in the Midland Counties,— I believe at Bridgenorth. 
ley agree ad amussim with I. crassipes, even in the sculpture of the 
Jtathorax, the most certain proof of identity. My specimens of I. 
issipes are undoubtedly rightly named, having passed through several 
amiuations, including one by the late Mr. Desvignes. 
Genus Aptesis, Forst., Mon. Pezom., 34. 
The insect named Pezo7nachus Jiemipterus by Gravenhorst (ii, 874) 
s described from a single German specimen, now lost. Upon the 
ength of that description only, it is placed in Forster's genus Aptesis ; 
rightly remarking that it cannot be assigned to any other. It cannot 
assigned even to Aptesis, unless the following character of the genus 
modified, " das erste Segment punktirt, nicht langsrunzlig," for the 
}t segment of A. liemiptera is most distinctly wrinkled longitudinally. 
;e of the new species here to be described exhibits the same rugosity, 
1 it is only by claiming for them the same privilege as for liemiptera 
.t I can allow myself to refer them to this genus. 
Aptesis qeaviceps, n. sp. 
A. nigra, capite maxima, antennis piceis, basi testaceis, alio semi- 
\vXatis; abdomine picescente, segmentis V apice, 2''° disco, plu^ minus 
