14 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [Ischnoceros. 



number of localities given for it : captured at Horrabridge, in Devon, 

 early in August (Bignell) ; Lastingham (Yorks. Nat. 1877, p. 39) and 

 probably Huddersfield {lib. cit. 1878, p. 70) ; South Kerry (Irish Nat. 

 1903, p. 68) ; Fairlight in Sussex, May, 1889 (Vict. Hist.) ; I have seen a 

 male taken by Hocking at Copdock, near Ipswich, in 1902 ; a female by 

 Routledge, about Carlisle, in 1901 ; and two females by Day at Orton, in 

 the same district, in the middle of March and of May, 1900. Of these 

 latter, Mr. Day writes on the 2nd May, 1900, "They were bred from rotten 

 fir logs in which Rhagium hifasciatum was feeding and are undoubtedly 

 parasitic upon that Longicorn. I have just bred another pair from 

 cocoons, which are their own and not those of the beetle ; they were 

 taken on i8th March last. I fancy they are not uncommon here, as I 

 have during the last few years repeatedly noticed similar cocoons in the 

 Rhagium burrows" ; one of the examples sent me by Mr. Day has the 

 wings only partly developed, as though, unlike the majority of Ichneu- 

 monidae, these members became mature only shortly before emergence. 

 Thornley took it at Theddlethorpe in Lines, in 1896 (in coll. Marshall) 

 and I also possess females taken by Adams and Miss Chawner at 

 Lyndhurst, towards the end of May; at Ardross in Ross by Perrins ; 

 three females by Bedwell, in the New Forest, during the last half of 

 June, 1904 ; and both sexes from Shere, in Dr. Capron's collection. 



XORIDES, Latrielle:'-- 



Latr. Gen. Crust, et Ins. iv, 4 (1809), 



Abdomen subpetiolate, smooth and shining ; areolet wanting ; legs 

 slender ; face apically contracted. Head transversely subglobose, short, 

 buccate, tumidous, dilated behind the oval eyes and usually rugulose before 

 the postocular orbits ; face strongly narrowed towards the mouth ; mandi- 

 bles of normal breadth, with the apical teeth subequal in length ; 

 clypeus strongly depressed apically. Antennae slender, filiform and 

 shorter than the body, with the scape externally excised at apex. Thorax 

 cylindrical, nearly twice longer than high ; notauli very distinct, meso- 

 sternum elongate, epicnemia wanting ; metathorax with the upper areae 

 incomplete or obsolete ; spiracles small, rotund-ovate and situated a little 

 before the centre. Scutellum convex or gibbulous, and apically obtusely 

 truncate. Abdomen subpetiolate or subsessile, oblong-fusiform, convex, 

 smooth, shining and longer but hardly narrower than the thorax ; basal 

 segment twice longer than broad, obsoletely canaliculate and gradually 

 explanate towards the apex, with spiracles before the centre; eighth 

 segment of 9 exserted ; fifth ventral segment prominent, apical of 9 

 strongly retracted ; terebra about as long as the abdomen. Legs slender, 

 femora sparsely pubescent, tarsal claws simple, tibiae slender or a little 

 incrassate, the front ones denticulate above, hind legs elongate. Wings 



*The genus Clepticus, Hal. (characterised :—" Abdomen petiolatum, segmenti li tuberculis niediis 

 s. anticis. Thorax gibbulus. OcuH magni protuberantes. Clypeus basi iinpressus seniicircularis. 

 Antennae pedesque graciles. Areola nulla; radius cum cubito medio connivens. Terebra exerta." 

 — Ann. Nat. Hist. 1839, p. 116) was placed by Marshall (Cat. 1872, 95) and Ashmead (Proc. U.S. 

 Museum, 1900, p. 61) in the Xoridini. In Marshall's private copy of his Catalogue, however, I find a 

 MS. noie:—" ClepticussXwuXdgone^t Plectiscus,-p.(>2-C. praetor, Hal. ec[ua.\s Aniseres pallipes, Fst. Af 

 (Verh. pr. Rheinl. 1871, p. 9^) or Proditns i^randis, Fst. (lib. cit. p. 118)". It will at once be seen from 

 the generic characters above that it cannot be placed in Xoriditles, as was done by Curtis in his 

 ■' Guide" ; audit must be treated of under the Ophioninae. The types are probably extant, though 

 unlabelled, in the Dublin Museum. That Marshall possessed specimens of this genus and Bridgman 

 did not, is stated by the latter {in lit. loth Nov. 1890, in my possession) to the former, 



