60 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [Pmpla. 



Ph)ipla gmminellae ot HolingrL'n must, in luy Dpinion, stand, since ncllieir 

 the P. stercorator of Fabricius' later work nor of (iravenhorst's ^ ari- suf- 

 ficiently lucid to take priority. The earlier authors, to Oiraud in i!S')3, 

 confused it mainly with P. (htrita, Hohngr. 



From all others of the difficult group to which this species belongs, it 

 may easily be distinguished by combining the two determinate dark bands 

 of the testaceous 9 or white j hind tibiae, the short terebra, dark stigma, 

 shining metathorax, granulate hind coxae and position of the nervellus ; 

 the face, but not the frontal orbits, of $ are flavous. 



This species is widely distributed but uncommon throughout Kurope, 

 though not rare in Scandinavia. In central (Germany, where Taschenberg 

 has bred it somewhat doubtfully from Toiiri.x viridaiia and (a .-'larva of) 

 Cosniia (iijjjiiis, it is rare and appears twice a year, in May when the males 

 are attracted to young beech foliage and again later; in Belgium it is also 

 somewhat rare, occurring in July and August. Giraud records it as bred 

 in France from Grapholilha 'Stn'illana ; he adds in a footnote that a variety 

 einerged from larvae oiOlindia ulmaua collected on ash trees at H\eres in 

 May (<y. Ann. Soc. Fr. 1877, p. +og). 



Lands End (^Iar(}uand); Bolts Head and Bickleigh, in the middle of 

 June (Bignell), also at Ivybridge, in Devon (S. Edwards); bred by (Gard- 

 ner from Orgyia antiqua (Buckler); connnon in Norfolk and bred by 

 Cross hoiw Phishi fistucac (Bridgman); on hawthorn lea\es near Hudders- 

 field in 1880 (Bairstow); near Carlisle, bred from Deprcssciria heracleana in 

 igoo (Day); Pettycur, in the middle of June (Evans); on hemlock in July 

 in Wigtonshire (Gordon); near Birmingham in September (Martineau); 

 Hastings (Butterfield); St. Leonards and Essex (\'ict. Hist.); both sexes 

 hxiiA{xo\w^w\)-A. oi Odomstis potatoria (Froc. S. Lond. Soc. 1896, p. 85). 

 Probably all the above British records are incorrect ; Bridgman's, upon 

 which most reliance can be placed, certainly refers to some other species: 

 I cannot think tliat a " common " Norfolk species can be represented in Suf- 

 folk by four specimens as the result of thirteen years collecting ! The only 

 specimens upon which J can rely are two females and a male taken by Capron 

 about Shere, a male by Piffard at Felden, in Herts., another by 'Lhornley 

 at Mablethorpe, in Lines, and one female, with three males taken in Suf- 

 folk b}- myself. The female was vivaciously investigating a thistle- stem 

 fOnopurdon acanthiiim), covered w ith Aphis cardui, Linn., on the bank of 

 the river Gipping at Great Blakenham, on 24th June, 1899; of the males, 

 one was captured in the Bentley Woods at the end of July, 1894; one 

 swept from Artemisia by the ri\'er Orwell at Wherstead early in August, 

 1904; and the third found on Angelica flower at Eye, at the end of 

 August, 1900. It has also been recorded from Odoiustis pota/oria (Entom. 

 1880, p. 68), Ephippipliora scutulana ox E. pfliigiana [I.e. 1884, p. 68) and 

 Cliis/cni nr/iisa {/.c. \>. ']i). My record (E.M.M. 1900, }). 42) refers to 

 P. maculalor. Fab. 



4. Hibernica, sp.n. 



Head black with the palpi testaceous, and the clypeus of $ ferrugineous ; 

 clypeus depressed and apically distinctly emarginate ; the immaculate face 

 closely and very obsoletely punctate throughout ; orbits immacalate. An- 

 tennae filiform, distinctly longer than half the body, testaceous and darker 

 above with the basal joints in both sexes entirely black. 'J'horax black 

 with no pale callosity before the radix ; metathorax evenly and somewhat 



