146 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. \_GIypta. 



distinct in 9 ; petiolar area very short. Abdomen of 9 rufescent, 

 apically ^md sometimes also basally black-marked ; of J sometimes with 

 only the margins of the segments obscurely red; basal segment longer 

 than its apical breadth, with the discal carinae distinct to the centre and 

 the sides slightly sinuate beyond the spiracles ; the second to the fourth 

 quadrate or slightly longer than broad, deeply sculptured ; terebra as long 

 as the abdomen. Legs red ; hind tibiae apically nigrescent, their tarsi 

 dull ferrugineous with the base of the joints paler; ^ with coxae 

 castaneous, apices of the hind femora usually, tibiae and the tarsal 

 joints, together with occasionally the base of the tibiae, infuscate ; tarsal 

 claws stout and hardly pectinate. Wings slightly infumate with the stigma 

 dull stramineous, radix and tegulae fulvescent-flavous. Length, 8 mm. 



This species is somewhat similar to G. front icortii?, and G. ceratites, but 

 differs widely in the much more elongate body, the less posteriorly con- 

 stricted head, the strongly buccate temples, the longer than broad basal 

 segment with short and distinct carinae and in the transverse anal nervure 

 being distinctly intercepted only a little below its centre. Bridgman says 

 both sexes sometimes have only the margins of the abdominal segments 

 obscurely red ; and Thomson adds that the body is more strongly elong- 

 ate and the flagellum less apically attenuate than in G. monoca'us. 



It has been found in several localities in Scandinavia, where it is, how- 

 ever, said to be rare. With us it appears to be widely distributed and un- 

 common ; it has been captured at Brundall, near Norwich, in July, i88i ; 

 at Shere in Surrey and bred by Fletcher in July, i886, from larvae of 

 Bacfra lanceolmia at Worthing. S. PMwards captured a specimen at 

 Lynton in 1890 ; E. R. Bankes one in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, at the 

 end of July, 1894; and W. Evans another at Luifness in the middle of 

 June, 1898. I took a female by sweeping rushes at Dunwich in the 

 middle of July, 1897, others in the neighbouring Easton and Covehithe 

 Broads in early September, and a male in the same situation at Brandon 

 in Suffolk, at the beginning of the same month, 1903 ; I have also found 

 the male at Matley Bog in the New Forest, in the middle of June. 



3. monocerus, Gvav. 



Glypta moiioceros, Gr. I.E. iii. 16, i ; Holragr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 18(J0, n. 10, 

 p. 37 ; Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1863. p. 275 ; Thorns. O.E. xiii. 1338, i ? . 



A shining species with red abdomen. Head short and strongly 

 narrowed behind the eyes ; vertex broad ; frons acuminately unidentate 

 centrally above the scrobes ; palpi, labrum and apex of clypeus testa- 

 ceous. Antennae filiform, apically attenuate and in 9 a little shorter 

 than the body ; pale ferrugineous and darker above with the scape black. 

 Thorax with testaceous dots immediately before the radices ; metathorax 

 with five subcomplete upper areae, which become obsolete beyond the 

 prominent costulae ; petiolar area short, strongly carinate basally ; 

 apophyses minute. Abdomen red with the seventh, sixth or even fifth and 

 margin of the preceding segment black ; basal segment a little elevated, 

 punctate and laterally margined, with short discal carinae and often 

 basally infuscate ; the second to fourth punctate and nitidulous, remainder 

 pubescent and smoother ; terebra only slightly longer than abdomen with 

 its valvulae stout and shortly pilose ; anal styles of ^ short, stout, pilose 

 and black with a small acute appendix on either side. Legs somewhat 

 slender, red ; of ^ with the front coxae and trochanters flavescent ; hind 



