Pinipla.] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 61 



strongly though not very closely punctate, with the lateral longitudinal 

 costae distinct ; areola laterally very strongly costate, apical ly explanate 

 and confluent with the smooth but centrally distinctly carinate petiolar 

 region ; spiracles circular. Scutellum black. Abdomen black with the 

 central segments nearly always subcutaneously badious, strongly con- 

 stricted at base and apex, densely punctate with strong lateral tubercles 

 and the apices of the segments bnjadly elevated and subnitidulous ; basal 

 segment not longer than broad, slightly narrowed and deeply excavate 

 basallv with the carinae indistinct and not extcMiding to the centre ; the 

 second stronglv punctate, apically glabrous and obliquely deeply impressed 

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

 culate and apically subglabrous ; terebra less than half the length of the 

 abdomen (abdomen 4^, terebra if nun.). Legs not very stout, red with 

 all the coxae black, those of ^ usually with the apices of the anterior 

 rufescent ; tibiae not paler, the hind ones together with their tarsi exactly 

 concolorous, with onlv the apex of the former and of their tarsal joints 

 determinately black ; hind coxae distinctly and somewhat strongly punc- 

 tate beneath ; tarsal claws of 9 basally lobate. Wings normal, somewhat 

 infumate ; stigma infuscate and basally indistinctly paler ; radix and 

 tegulae piceous ; ner\'ellus very strongly postfurcal but intercepting only 

 slightly above the centre. Length, 6 — 8 mm. 



This species is strongly allied to P. gramincllac in its punctate coxae, 

 the entire conformation of the thorax and abdomen and in the strongly 

 postfurcal nervellus, but is very distinct in its shorter basal segment, cari- 

 nate petiolar area, the almost centrally intercepted nervellus and in the 

 shorter petiolar carinae, besides the superficial distinctions of the differ- 

 ently coloured legs, J face and scape. 



I ha\e drawn the above description from four males and two females 

 cai)tured by the late ]\Ir. Alfred Beaumont at Kilmore, in Ireland, between 

 the nth and 23rd August, i8q8, and from one female taken by Colonel 

 Yerbury at Kenmare, in Co. Kerry, on 30th June, iqoi (mentioned by me, 

 K.M.M. 1902, ]). 55). The types are in my collection. 



5. rufipleura, Biguell. 



Pinipla nifiplctinuVn^neW, Trans. I^nt. Soc. 1889, p. 15; Young Naturalist, 

 1890, p. 96, >? ? . 



Head smootli and shining; internal orbits, clypeus, base of mandibles, 

 palpi and in J whole face, "i)inkis]i." Antennae longer than half body; 

 J with flagellum and scape " pinkisii " beneath. Thorax smooth and 

 shining, sparsely and superficially punctate^ ; "a pinkish dash on the 

 scutellum and metanotum, and a line bi'fore the wings"; pleurae rufescent. 

 Abdomen about twice length of head and thorax, subcylindrical; segments 

 subquadrate and coarsi-Iy punctate with their apical margins somewhat 

 broad, smooth and glabrous ; terebra one-third the length of the abdo- 

 men. " Legs, tricolor ; middle and hind coxae, trochanters and femora 

 ferrugineous ; front coxae, much lighter ; hind femora, the extreme apex 

 whitish, a black dot on the uj^jht side at the base ; front and middle 

 tibiae and tarsi ferrugineous ; middle tarsi at the extreme apex, fuscous ; 

 hind tibiae, base and middle, whitish; a ring near the base, and \.\\v entire 

 apex, black ; tarsi whitish ; extreme apex of joints, black". Xer\ellus 

 intercepting in the centre. Length, 7 — 8 nnn. 



