Pimpla.] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 59 



i8q6, p. 8i); and Barrett from Rtiiuia iurionatia (Entom. 1880, p. 68). 

 I possess two females (above described) of variable size, bred on 9th and 

 1 2th July, 1903, together with a male of the Ophionid Cn?}iastus intcr- 

 niptor, Grav., on 23rd, from Ret 17110 buoliana, Schiff., in the buds of pine 

 at Corfe Castle, in Dorset, and kindly given to me by !Mr. E. R. Bankes. 

 Beaumont took it at Courten, in Ireland, early in September, 1893. 



3. graminellae, Holmgr. 



Pimpla graitiinellae, Gr. I. E. iii. 181, excl. cf ? et varr. 2, 3, 4 [nee Schr. et 

 RatE.); Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1854, p. 88 et lib. cit . 1860, n. 10, p. 22; Tasch. 

 Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1863, pp. 59 et 266 : Brisch. Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1864, p. 112; 

 Thorns. O. E. viii. 752 et xiii. 141, c? ? . P. stcrcorator, Fab. Piez. 117; Gr. 

 I. E. iii. 18(3. excl. ? . P. Holnigreni, Schm. Zool. Jahrb. 1888, p. 502 et Opusc. 

 Ichn. 1088, cf ¥ . 



Head black, in 9 ^^ith the palpi infuscate and apex of clypeus more or 

 less ferrugineous, in J with the palpi, clypeus and face entirely flavous ; 

 clypeus depressed and, more especially in 9 , apically distinctly emarginate ; 

 face somewhat closely punctate centrally ; orbits immaculate. Antennae 

 filiform, slightly longer than half the body, testaceous and darker above with 

 the basal joints entirely black ; of J fulvescent with the scape entirely 

 flavous beneath. Thorax black with only a badious callosity before the 

 radix ; metathorax diffusely rugose and nitidulous, with lateral longitudinal 

 costae distinct ; areola obsolete but laterally strongly costate and apically 

 confluent with the somewhat smooth but not centrally carinate petiolar 

 area ; spiracles circular. Scutellum black. Abdomen entirely black, 

 strongly constricted at base and apex, densely punctate with strong lateral 

 tubercles and the apices of the segments broadlv elevated and subnitidu- 

 lous ; basal segment a little longer than broad, slightly narrowed and deeply 

 excavate basally with the carinae somewhat distinct ; second strongly 

 punctate, apically somewhat smooth and obliquely deeply impressed on 

 either side at the base ; third to fifth strongly punctate, laterally tubercu- 

 late and apically subglabrous ; h3popygium retracted and emarginate ; 

 seventh J segment subtransverse ; terebra about half the length of the 

 abdomen. Legs somewhat stout, red with the front coxae mainly black 

 basally ; tibiae paler, the hind ones dull stramineous and broadly infuscate 

 at apex and before base ; hind tarsi also dull stramineous with apices of 

 their joints black ; hind coxae coarsely, shallowly and granulatelv punctate 

 beneath ; tarsal claws of 9 basally lobate ; J with the anterior legs 

 mainly, front coxae usually entirely, flavescent and the hind tibiae and 

 tarsi whitish, causing the infuscate bands to appear more distinct than in 

 9 . Wings normal, flavescent ; stigma infuscate and basally indistinctly 

 pale ; radix and tegulae piceous ; nervellus very strongly postfurcal, inter- 

 cepting far above the centre. Length, 8 — 12 mm. 



This species is entirely distinguished by the rugose underside of the 

 hind coxae and the height above the centre at which the nervellus inter- 

 cepts. 



I certainly consider Schmiedeknecht has but added to the cumbrous 

 synonomy of this species by erecting a new name for it : priority provides 

 that a species shall be known by the olde.st name under which it was 

 recognizably described. Schrank's description is inadequate, Graven- 

 liorst's is too involved with distinct species to be intelligible, Ratzeburg's 

 refers to an entirely different and already described species, consequently 



