102 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. {Pimpla. 



and three taken by myself at Claydon Bridge on flowers oi Angelica syhcs- 

 tris in September, at Barham Oak Wood on flowers oi Herackum sphondy- 

 liu77i in the middle of July, and at P^arlham, near Norwich, early in June. 

 The last form of this species 1 shall mention is also undescribed : — I call 

 it var. RUFISTIGMA [nov.), since it is instantly recognised by the pale 

 testaceous stigma of the wings and in my three 9 9 > which were taken by 

 Tuck at Bungay in Suffolk, Capron at Shere in Surrey, and Piffard at 

 Felden in Herts., the size does not exceed 4 mm.; in fact, it appears to 

 bear the same relationship to P. turiofiellae that the form intermedia does 

 to P. instigator, being a small and debilitate race. 



At Gosfield in Essex, I swept from grass in a park on 24th July, 1902, 

 three typical $$ P. turionellae, three SS oi \ts vzx. flavicoxis dJ\d four 

 $ $ P. examinator ; in Wicken Fen, in June, 1902, I swept $ $ oi both 

 species; at Felden, in Herts., early in August, 1903, I took $ $ oi 

 P. examinator, P. turionellae and its var. flaricoxis, flying together along 

 hedgerows; from oaks at Brandon on the evening of June 5th, 1903, I 

 beat S 6 -P- examinator side by side with ^ ^ P. turionellae; in August, 

 1900, Butler took $ $ P- examinator, S 6 P- turionellae xax. Jlavicoxis 

 and typical 99 of the latter at Abinger Hammer; on 29th of the same 

 month I took $ P. examinator and 9 P. turionellae side by side on flowers 

 in the marshes at Eye, in Suffolk ; lastly as illustrating a very common 

 observation, $ $ oi P. examinator and 99 oi P. turionellae were flying 

 together, both very commonly, on 20th June, 1907, in a grassy path 

 through Norton Wood, in the Isle of Wight. 



I possess males of the var. Jlavicoxis, with the scutellum varying from 

 the apical half bright flavous to the extreme apex obsoletely badious, 

 taken at Lyndhurst (Adams), Shere in Surrey (Capron), Greenings in 

 Surrey (W. Saunders), Lewisham in Kent (Beaumont), and Tostock in 

 Suffolk (Tuck). And females of the var. strigipleuris from Lymington 

 Salterns in June, beneath seaweed'--' ; Tostock and Aldeburgh, in Septem- 

 ber (Tuck) ; Shere (Capron) ; Kilmore, in Ireland, in August (Beaumont) ; 

 New Forest (Miss Chawner) ; Deal, in 1907 (Donisthorpe) ; and Cambus- 

 lang, in Lanark, in June (Dalglish). 



This species is abundant everywhere, more particularly in woody places 

 from the middle of May to the end of August ; I have frequently beaten 

 the males from birch and hazel, found the female sitting on maple and 

 bracken stems, as well as upon the flowers of Angelica, Heracleum and wild 

 carrot. Lyndhurst, Brockenhurst, Matley Bog and Pond Head Wood, in 

 the New Forest ; Assington, Brandon, Bury St. Edmunds, Wherstead, 

 Bramford, Bentley Woods, Benacre Broad, Tostock, Ampton, Timworth, 

 and Foxhall, in Suffolk ; Greenings, Shere and Mayford, in Surrey ; 

 Colwyn, Lewisham, Marsh Mills, Spring Vale in the Isle of Wight, 

 Lymington Town, West Runton in Norfolk, Ely, and Chippenham 

 Fen in Cambs., Felden, Guestling, Hastings, Carlisle, Solihull near 

 Birmingham, Kirkby and South Leverton in Notts., Selby in Yorks., St, 

 Issey in Cornwall, Ramsey in the Isle of Man, Guernsey ; and in Scotland 

 from Braemar (Elliott), Irvine Moor (Dalglish), Dumbarton in September 

 (Malloch), Raith in Fife, Currie, Dirleton and Lwenhall near Mussel- 



* It was here associated with Pogoiuis chalceus, Homalnta halobrectha, Quedius molochinus, Ca/ius 

 xantholoma, Agriotes sordidus, Cassida vittata and Aiithicus salinus ; but it more probably had 

 preyed upon some coast Lepidopteroii, since BridKiiian records twenty ? ? and one c^- (which 

 latter has all the coxae black !) as bred by Fletcher at Worthing from Dcpn'ssana heracliana in 

 September, 1883. These specimens were doubtfully referred to P. spuria, Grav. (Entom. 1883, 

 p. 251) and certainly to the present variety (I.e. 1884, p. 69— c/ also Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 433). 



