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TAB. LII. 
ICHNEUMON persuasorius. 
Class 5. Insecta. Order 5. Hymenoptera. 
Spec. Char. Scutellum with two white spots. Thorax 
spotted. Abdomen black, with the segments 
marked on each side with two white spots. 
Syn. Linn. Syst. Nat. Ed. 12. 932. n. 16. 
Faun. Suec. 1593. 
Fabr. Ent. Syst. Em. 2. 145. n. 49." 
De Geer. 1. t. 36. f. 8. 
Pan z. Faun. Germ. Mit. n. 19. t. 18. 
Pimpla persuasoria. Fabr. Syst. Pie z. 112. n. 1. 
Length of the body without the aculeus, 1 1 lines. 
of the acuIeuSj 1 inch 1 line. 
Mr. W. J. Hooker took this rare insect, which we do 
not recollect to have seen in any other English collection, 
in a garden at Coltishall near Norwich. 
Linnaeus describes his insect in these terms: — “Black. 
Lip white. A white line before and behind the eves. 
Thorax with three white stripes ( lituris ) on each side. 
Scutellum with two white dots : the anterior the largest. 
Abdomen cylindrical, sessile, with the margin of the first 
segment wholly white, that of the second interruptedly, 
the rest have four white dots. Legs ferruginous. Posterior 
tibiae black. Stature of Ichneumon manifestator.” Syst. 
Nat. 
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