Schizopyga!] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. l3: 



1. podagrica, Gvav. 



Schizopvi^cz podagrica, Gr. I. E.iii. 127 ; Holmgr. Ofv. 1856, p. 70; Sv. Ak. 

 Handl. 1860, n. 10, p. 45, cf ? ; cf. Brisch. Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1880, p. 118. 



A black and shining species, with variegated legs. Head hardly con- 

 tracted posteriorly ; frons very smooth and slightly impressed on either 

 side above the scrobes ; face punctulate and pubescent, somewhat nar- 

 rower than the frons ; palpi piceous or dull stramineous ; J with the 

 mouth and face flavous. Antennae filiform ; of S half length of the body 

 with the flagellum fulvous, and scape flavous, beneath ; of 9 rather 

 shorter, sometimes infuscate throughout but generally with the flagellum 

 ochraceous, and scape flavescent, beneath. Thorax somewhat smooth ; 

 pleurae impunctate and strongly nitidulous ; areola rectangular and com- 

 plete. Abdomen of cJ a little longer than the head and thorax, of 9 

 twice longer than the latter ; cylindrical and as broad as the thorax, with 

 segments two to four transversely impressed in the centre, and the 

 apical margin subelevated and nitidulous ; basal segment distinctly bicari- 

 nate longitudinally, but little longer than the hind coxae, margined and 

 gradually a little dilated towards the apex, before which are lateral im- 

 pressions ; second obliquely impressed basally on either side ; terebra 

 hardly exserted, black with the spicula red. Legs very stout, with the 

 coxae, except anterior in ^ , black ; anterior legs fulvous and paler 

 beneath ; hind femora also fulvous with their apices, and sometimes in 

 the S ^ longitudinal line, black ; posterior tibiae whitish with the apices 

 and a mark before the base nigrescent ; tarsi fulvous or white, with the 

 apices of the intermediate, and joints of the hind ones apically, black. 

 Wings normal, a little d^irker in 9 > stigma infuscate, radix and tegulae 

 stramineous ; first recurrent strong, distinctly postfurcal and intercepted in 

 the centre. Length, 6| — 8 mm. 



None of the British S 6 ^ h^^''^ examined have the face or mouth pale, 

 nor did Holmgren meet with such a one in Sweden. Hope sent 

 Gravenhorst a female from Netley, in Shropshire, which diff"ered slightly 

 in having the femora almost entirely red, the central hind tibial mark 

 extending to the base and the tarsi nigrescent throughout. I possess a 

 J with the hind tibiae red with only the apex infuscate. 



This is an uncommon species on the Continent and it appears to be 

 local in Britain. There is a long series in Capron's collection from Shere 

 in Surrey ; Donisthorpe took it somewhat commonly at Rossbeigh, in 

 Co. Kerry (Irish Naturalist, 1903, p. 68); and Bignell records it from Vin- 

 stone and Kxeter, in August and September. Its economy appears still 

 unknown. I took a male in my garden at Monks' Soham on 31st May, 

 1908. 



2. circulator, Panz. 



Ichneumon circulator, Panz. F.G. Ixxix. 12 ; Gr. I.E. iii. Suppl. 1059, ? . 

 Schizopyga tricingulator, Gr. lib. cit. 129 <? . S. analis, Gr. lib. cif. 130 ; Ste. 

 111. M. vii. Suppl. p. 1, pi. xxxix. f. 2; Holmgr. Ofv. 1856, p. 70; Sv. Ak. Handl. 

 1860, n. 10, p. 46, ? . 



Somewhat shining and black with the abdomen mainly red. Head 

 hardly contracted posteriorly, black with the mouth pale testaceous. 

 Antennae rather longer than half the body, black and basally flavidous 

 beneath. Thorax immaculate, black ; areola incomplete apically and 



