Pimpla.] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 109 



One female was taken by Kriechbaumeratthe end of June near Munich, 

 Schmiedeknecht records three analogous ones from Thuringia and it is very 

 rare in Central Europe ; Thomson's species was captured near Helsing- 

 borg, in Sweden. I possess one female and two males from Britain, 

 whence it has not hitherto been recorded ; the former was taken by Dr. 

 Capron, probably about Shere, in Surrey, and of the latter one was swept 

 from heather at 'Selby in Yorks. by Rev. C. D. Ash on 17th September, 

 1902, and the other found at Eraemar on loth August, 1907, by E. A. 

 Elliott, E.Z.S. • 



35. brassicariae, Poda. 



Ichneumon brassicariae, Poda. Ins. Graec. 105 ; cf. Rogenh. Verb. z-b. Ges. 

 1881, p. 597. /. varicornis, Fab. E.S. ii. 180. Pimpla varicornis, Fab. Piez. 

 119; Gr. I.E. iii. 167; Zett. I.L. 375 : Ratz. Ichn. d. Forst. i. 117; Holragr. Sv. 

 Ak. Hand. 1854, p. 87 ; Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 18(53, pp. 54 et 263, <r ? . P. rufata, 

 var. 1, Gr. I.E. iii. 166; Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1860, n. 10, p. 20; Thorns. 

 O. E. xiii. 1411, cf ? ; cf. Voll. Pinac. pi. ix, fig. 4 et P. ousata (sic), O. E. viii. 

 749. 



Head short and transverse, narrowed behind the large and internally 

 deeply emarginate eyes ; face subquadrate, sparsely punctate and sub- 

 elevated longitudinally in the centre ; cheeks short, frons unequally im- 

 pressed and smooth, clypeus depressed ; palpi piceous or testaceous with 

 the joints apically infuscate ; 9 occasionally with the internal orbits 

 narrowly ferrugineous or flavous ; ^ with mouth except apices of mandi- 

 bles, clypeus and more or less of the face, though sometimes only the 

 internal orbits, flavous. Antennae filiform, somewhat stout and not 

 apically attenuate, shorter than the body, ferrugineous and paler beneath 

 with the joints apically darker and the scape, except usually in 9 , flavous. 

 Thorax stout, gibbulous, black ; of $ sometimes with two mesonotal 

 vittae and a callosity beneath the radix flavous ; pleura smooth and 

 sparsely punctate ; metathorax strongly punctate with the supracoxal and 

 petiolar areae smoother and more sparsely punctate ; spiracles oval. Scu- 

 tellum apically usually flavescent or fulvous ; postscutellum at least later- 

 ally flavous. Abdomen with the three or four basal segments strongly 

 punctate ; of 9 double length of head and thorax, of S longer, subfusi- 

 form-cylindrical ; basal segment deeply canaliculate to apex, basally 

 excavate, centrally strongly bicarinate and elevated ; second basally 

 foveate on either side ; margin of segments slightly elevated and some- 

 what nitidulous, rarely badious, with obsolete lateral impressions; seventh 

 of (5 longer than broad, apically constricted and the hypopygium some- 

 what elongately acuminate ; terebra subcompressed, a quarter the length 

 of the abdomen with the valvulae black, pilose, subclavate and spicula 

 rufescent. Legs normal, fulvous or red ; front ones partly flavidous with 

 their coxae at least basally nigrescent ; hind tibiae ferrugineous or fulvous 

 with the base infuscate and sometimes a subobsolete whitish band before 

 it, their tarsi entirely rufescent or infuscate with the first joint basally 

 paler; tarsi stout and in 9 basally lobate. Wings normal, subflavescent ; 

 stigma and radius nigrescent, radix stramineous and tegulae black or pale; 

 areolet subregular, sessile or subpetiolate ; nervellus intercepting above 

 centre. Length, 7 — 14 inin. 



