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SYSTEMATIC ARRANGEMENT 
Perhaps the largest of the European Iclineumonidee, 
and met with occasionally in most parts of Britain. 
STEPHANUS CORONATUS. 
Plate XXXII. Fig. 2. 
Jurine's Hymenop. PL 4, genus £. 
In this group the head approaches to a globular form, 
the mandibles terminate in an entire or slightly 
notched point ,* the thorax is narrowed and elongated 
in front, and the abdomen appears almost sessile. 
The antennse are long and slender, consisting of 32 
joints. The species named coronatus is black, the 
abdomen dark red ; legs likewise red, the tarsi and 
and anterior tibiae pale. The insect is usually found, 
according to Jurine, on dry wood, and, when it flies, 
the abdomen forms a right angle with the thorax. 
PELICIXUS POLITURATOR. 
Plate XXXII. Fig. 3. 
Drury's Exotic Ins. Yol. II. PI. 40, fig. 4. 
This generic group is at once known by the singular 
appearance of the abdomen, which is very long, nearly 
filiform, arched, and inserted in the thorax a little 
above the origin of the posterior legs. The hinder 
legs are thickened, and the antennse straight and 
extremely slender. The species above referred to 
is entirely black, the wings tinged with brownish 
yellow. It is a native of Jamaica. It is probable 
that the very long and slender abdomen serves, in 
these insects, the same purpose which a lengthened 
ovipositor does in others, enabling them to place 
