100 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [Pii/ipla. 



and the Havenstreet Woods, in the Isle of Wight ; Blean Woods, near 

 Faversham ; Gosfield in Essex ; Hurst Hill, in the New Forest; and Fel- 

 den, in Hertfordshire. 1 possess examples from Kings Cross, in Arran, 

 in August (I)alglish) ; Harnstaple, Devon (Marshall); Greenings, in Surrey 

 (W. Saunders) ; Halstead, i^ssex (Beaumont) ; Gucstling, in Sussex 

 (Bloomfield) ; Bury, Southwold and Tostock, Suffolk (Tuck) ; Taunton 

 and Lynmouth in August, (Charbonnier) ; Wimbledon Conmion (Bed- 

 well) ; Abinger Hammer, near Dorking (Butler) ; and Shere in Surrey 

 (Capron). I have seen males from St. Issey in Cornwall (Davies) ; 

 St. Albans (Gibbs) ; Queensferry, Lundine Wood near Dunfermline, Kirk- 

 newton and Loganlee in the Pentlands (PZvans). It is recorded from the 

 Lands End district (.Marquand) ; as seen daily throughout the summer in 

 Devon (Bignell) ; Norwich (Bridgman) ; from Scotland (Encycl. Brit. ix. 

 1 842) ; and as bred by Bignell from Toiiiix viridami and by Sang from 

 Orni'x torquiklla (Entom. 188 1, p. 141) ; by Gregson from Troch ilium scoliae- 

 forme (Buckler) ; as well as from Cymatophora ocularis and JVor/ini phrta 

 (Marshall, Ent. Ann. 1874, p. 125).' 



On the Continent it has been very widely bred : by Gravenhorst from 

 pupae of both Tinea padella and Bombyx fidiginosa ; by Ratzeburg from 

 Bombjx proccssionca, B. chiysorrhoea, Lithosia quadra, Tortrix Buoliana, 

 T, piceana, T. qucrcana and perhaps T. p7-asinana, as well as from Bombyx 

 moTuic/ia and I'inea evony»iella by Holmgren ; Prof. Hering bred it (Stett. 

 Zeit., Aug. 1847) from Psyche S/ef/inetisis ; Taschenburg adds Psyche 

 hirsntella. Harpy gia viuiila and Zerene grossulariaia ; Brischke Gastropacha 

 nrustria, G. trifolii, Ciicidlia argentea, Yponomeuta ma Unci I us, Nephopferyx 

 vaccifiiella, Pyralis sp. and Ajithonomus ponmrum ; Kirchner brings forward 

 Cucullia artemisiae and luimea nitidella ; and Dr. Giraud (Ann. Soc. Fr. 

 I'^l'], '^. ^o()) Psyche granunella, P. caliM'lla, and Hyponomeuta cognatclla ; 

 and his Pimpla cheloniae was bred by M. Fallou in France from Chtlonia 

 ccrvini (cf. loc. cit. et lib. cit. 1864, p. 687). Pimpla gram iiiel lac of 

 Schrank is synonymised with this species by Schmiedeknecht because the 

 latter has since been bred from Schrank's host (Psyche graminclla) and 

 he has himself often seen it flying in company with that moth. 



30. turionellae, TJnn. 



Ic/niciinioii tiirioiiclhn', Linn. F.S. 404. Crypfiis turioucUae, Fab. Piez. 87. 

 Pimpla turionellae, Gr. I.E. lii. 192; Zett. I.L. 376; Ratz. Ichn. d. Forst. i. 883; 

 Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1860, n. 10, p. 21 ; Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1863. pp. 53 

 et 262 ; Thorns. O.E. viii. 747; xiii. 1408, <? ? ; c/. Voll. Pinac. pi. ix, fig. 7. Var. 

 P. strigiplenris, Thorns. O.E. viii. 747; xiii. 1408; xix. 2125, <? ? . Var. P. flavi- 

 coxis, Thorns, lib. cit. viii. 747 ; xiii, 1408, d ? . 



A somewhat smooth black species, with the legs partly red and white, 

 and the coxae red. Head short and transverse ; frons concave, somewhat 

 smooth ; face punctate ; frontal orbits immaculate ; palpi of (J pale. 

 Antennae slender, of 9 sometimes entirely black but usually with the 

 flagellum more or less ferrugineous beneath ; of c^ with the scape rarely 

 flavidous beneath. Thorax stout ; pleura shining, remotely and sub- 

 obsoletely punctate ; metathorax with the upper areae obsolete, the 

 petiolar of 9 sometimes basally carinate ; spiracles ovate. Scutellum 

 black, or more or less llavidous. Abdomen somewhat smooth ; basal 

 segment not dorsally carinate ; the four basal segments distinctly and 

 evenly punctate, hardly impressed laterally with the smooth apices nar- 



