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Show 98 INSECTA. ovipositot· as d ts on each ring of the ab d omen; legs fulvous; Ioong as the body. Vestator, L.; Panz., Ibid., P mani~'estator; Ichneumon man'J' 1 ur· legs fulvous. xix, • 'J. f l arne co o ' 21. Black; scutellum o t lC s The of the Baron Ferussac P. ovivo?'a, Bullet. Univers. des Sc., destroys the eggs of Spiders( 1 ). oval and bas an elon- 1 ost borders on an ' In others the abdomen a m . 1 They form the gated, slender and arcuatetl pedlc e. CRYPTUS, Fab. . ht. ch t h e rle males are apterous, ahn d Some species are known m w d h form of the thorax, t at f h. h racter an t e b which by reason o t lS c a . ht constitute a separate su . is divided m. to two par ts or knotst, mn1dg on the ground ( 2 ) . genus They are almost always oul . concealed or but slightly The.r e, the ovipos.t tor of the fema es lS Prolonged beyond the anus. d and falciform, or clavate Sometimes the ab d omen 1· s compresse and truncated. 0PHION, Fab. . e filiform or se t a ceous ' and where the ab· Where the antennre ar h tremity. The ovipositor ·r d truncated at t e ex 11 domen is falcllorr m an b' t I cell is very small or nu . The second cu 1 a is somewhat sa lent. L • Schreff., Icon. Insect., I, 10. 0. luteus; Ichneumon luteus, . ' Russet-yellow with green eyes. h k'n of certain caterpil· d 't her ova on t e s l The fe~ale eposl s lied in France the queuefourchue7" Iars, particularly on that ca 1 d t it by means of a long . z They are attac 1e o Bombyx vmu ad. ' 1 There t h e 1a rv .......,. 1·1ve and grow, with the and slend~r pe lC e. l . b d '1'n vol vecl in the pellicle of the . t ·emity of t 1c1r o Y • posterior ex t . 1 t preventing the Caterpt1· r h. h they sprung, w1t lOU eggs rom w. 1·c 't cocoon·butthey fi nalYl k1'l l it by consum· lar from spmmng 1 s ~ tl ey make their own cocoons, ing its internal substance, w he~ ~d at length issue forth under which are placed close to get Cl' a the form of Ichneumons. (1) Fab., Syst. Pt. ez.; and E ncyc. M~"th· od. ' article Pimple. (2) Fab., Ibid. HYMENOPTERA. 99 The larva of another species, the 0. moderator, Fab., destroys that of another Ichneumon, the Pimp/a strobilell:z, Fab.( 1) llANoHus, Fab. Similar as to the antennre, but the abdomen of the females is narrowed at the e-nd and terminated in a point(2). HELWIGIA. The port of the preceding Insects, but the antennre thicker near the extremity(3). Sometimes the abdomen is rather flattened than compressed, aeing either somewhat oval, or almost cylindrical, or fusiform. In these~ the abdomen is considerably narrowed at base in the manner of a pedicle. JoPPA, Fab. The Joppre are removed from the following subgenera by their antennre, which are widened or thickened anterior to the extremity, and then terminate in a point( 4). IcHNEUMON proper. Where the head is transversal and the abdomen somewhat oval, and almost equally narrowed at both ends. Panzer has separated generically, under the name of Trogus, those species in which the scutellum forms a conical tubercle, and the abdomen presents deep transversal incisures(5). ALOMYA, Fab. Where the head is narrower and more rounded, with the abdomen more widened near its posterior extremity . An Ichneumon inhabiting France, and which appears to us nearly allied to the femora/is of Gravenhorst-Ichn. Pedem., (1) l~ab., Syst. Piez.; and Encyc. M6thod., article Ophion. (2) Fab., Ibid. (S) See the Bullet. Univers. des Sc. of Baron F~russac. (4} Fab., Syst. Piez. (5) 'Fab., Ibid., and Panz. Hymenopt. |
