40 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [Ephialies. 



shorter terebra — compare that of E. carbonari us — entirely red legs and 

 stigma, and in its more shining and svelt appearance. It is very possibly 

 synonymous with E. tiibercidatus, var. i, Grav. 



It has not before been recorded from Britain, owing probably to its 

 resemblance to E. tiibercidatus, but is I think not rare with us. On the 

 Continent it is only instanced from Lund, where Thomson says it was 

 bred from the Musk Beetle, Aromia moschata. I possess three females of 

 the above variable sizes, captured by Hamm in the city of Oxford in July, 

 1898 ; by Piffard at Feldon, in Herts., in 1899 ; and by Wainwright in 

 Wyre Forest on i6th September, 1900. Elliott swept a female from 

 rushes in Matley Bog in the New Forest on i8th June, 1907 ; I have seen 

 Aromia ??ioschata abundantly in the same spot in August. 



5. carbonarius, Christ. 



Ichneumon carbonarius, Christ, Hym. 365, pl.xxxviii, fig. 5. /. leucopalpus, 

 Gmel. S. N. i. 2700. Epliialtes carbonarius, Gr. I. E. iii. 240, excl. var. 1 ; Ratz. 

 Ichn. d. Forst. i. 119 ; ii. 99 ; iii. 109 ; Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1860, n. 10, p. 14 ; 

 Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1863, p. 253 ; Thorns. O. E. viii. 724, <? ? . E. gracilis, 

 Schr. F. B. ii. 289; Gr. I. E. iii. 254; Zett. I. L. 373; Ratz. Ichn. d. Forst. 

 iii. 109 ; Brisch Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1880, p. 109, j . 



A somewhat small species, with pale radical callosities and no tubercles. 

 Head black and not as broad as the eyes, with the clypeus pale and palpi 

 flavidous ; vertex not broad, tinely and somewhat closely punctate and 

 pubescent with the occiput bordered and not emarginate ; face finely, 

 evenly and rather closely punctate, nitidulous, subdeplanate with long 

 grey pilosity ; clypeus strongly transverse, a little depressed centrally and 

 not strongly produced on either side ; mandibles stout with the lower 

 tooth a little the longer. Antennae not longer than half in $ and three- 

 quarters in (5* of the body, filiform, black with the scape deeply excised 

 and the flagellum consisting of 29 or 30 joints ; $ with the two basal 

 antennal joints usually flavous beneath. Thorax black, nitidulous, finely 

 punctate and grey-pubescent throughout ; notauli not reaching centre 

 of mesonotum ; a short sutural line, terminating in a concolorous callosity 

 before the radix, stramineous ; mesopleurae and sternum shining, finely 

 and uniformly punctate, with the lateral sulcus deeply impressed, but no 

 sternauli ; metathorax somewhat longitudinally punctate and not scabrous, 

 with its pleurae hardly smoother ; central area distinct at most only at 



base, whence it indeterminately 

 diverges towards the centrally 

 longitudinally substrigose petio- 

 lar area, which is apically but 

 not basally bordered ; spiracles 

 quite circular. Scutellum sub- 

 convex and shining with very fine 

 puncturation and pilosity. Abdomen elongate, linear, black, not broader 

 than and rather longer in 9 than twice, in $ four times, the thorax with 

 all the segments scabrous, apically nitidulous and elevated ; basal segment 

 not or hardly longer than broad, bicarinate obtusely towards the apex 

 and divergently towards the base, with its sides slightly rounded and not 

 explanate ; the remaining segments elongate and not laterally tuberculate ; 

 the second obsoletely impressed obliquely from base to its basal third ; 

 the two basal ventral segments at most plicate ; terebra one and three 

 (juartcrs to very nearly double the length of the body, black and strongly 



