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BRITISH ICHNEUMOXS : ADDITIONS AND CONFIRMATIONS.* 

 BY CLAU-DE MOELEY, F.Z.S.. 



In my former paper upon this subject, one additional species was 

 placed upon the British list and three others confirmed. Subsequent 

 matter is so scanty that I am beginning to modify the conviction held 

 throughout the course of my study of the " British Ichneumons," that 

 we were as yet no more than " scraping the surface," as Bingham used to 

 ss\.j, of the subject ; and that perhaps, after all, the 1523 species there 

 described may pretty fully represent our indigenous fauna in this family. 

 Most of the new matter was brought forward by Kev. W. F. Johnson 

 in the "Irish Natui'alist," xxix, 1920, p. 19; and this needs no more 

 than passing comment here. 



1. Ichneumon am-pliiholus Kriechb. 



Kriechb. Ann. Nat. Hofmus. AVien, ili, 18S8, p. 26, $ . 



Two 5 $ taken on 17th September at Portnoo, in Donegal, in 1918, 

 and atPoyntzpass, in Armagh, in 1919, by Johnson. Dr. A. Roman has 

 some notes on the species, whose S is still unknown, in Entom. Tidskr. 

 XXV, 1901, p. 115. In the 1915 British Catalogue it should be entered 

 as No. 106 a, next to Iclineumoii analis Grrav. 



2. Phygadeuon fumator Grrav. 

 Grav. (Ichn. Brit. ii. p. 97), var. oppositus Thomson. 



Among the very slight variations of P. fumator, regarded as forms 

 by Bridgman in his Norwich collection and by me, but erected into species 

 by Thomson (Opusc. Entom. 188-1, p. 960, $ ), is oppositus, which differs 

 very little from typical P. fumator in having the head less cubical, pro- 

 notum and metapleurae smoother, petiolar area parallel-sided, fenestrae 

 of second recurrent nervure punctiform and low^er angle of brachial cell 

 nearly rectangular. It is a common form throughout Northern Europe, 

 and Schmiedeknecht has assigned it a 6 in Opusc. Ichn. ix, 1905, p. 714. 



3. Hemiteles fumipennis Thoms. 



Thoms., I.e. p. 984, $ . 



One at Portnoo, in Donegal, on 17th September, 1918. It differs 

 from the common H. aestivalis In its moi-e elongate body, transverse 

 and bicarinate postpetiole, entirely and very finely alutaceous head and 

 mesonotum, distinct epomiae, hardly geniculate mandibles, distinct lateral 



* Cf. Eat. Jklo. U&s.. 1916, p. 99. 



