148 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [Glypta. 



example and suggests that G. elongata had previously been mistaken for 

 it ('lYans. Norf. Soc. v, p. 67). I possess three females and a male, 

 which differ slightly from the above description in having the head only 

 a little constricted posteriorly, the antennae not longer than the body, 

 and the terebra slightly longer than the abdomen ; they were captured by 

 Rev. P^. N, Bloomfield near Hastings, Mr. Albert Piffard at Felden in 

 Herts and a pair by INIr. W. P2vans at Loch Ard in Perthshire in the 

 middle of July, igo6. The female has also occurred to me at Southwold 

 on Heracleum flowers in early September and at Kookley Wilderness in 

 the Isle of Wight at the end of June, 1907 ; Butler has also taken the 

 same sex at Hastings ; and Bankes bred one during the first week of June, 

 1903, at Corfe Castle in Dorset, " presumably from Clepsis rusticana, Tr., 

 though this seems to me a small host for so large a parasite." 



5. ceratites, Gvav. 



Glypta ceratites, Gr. I.E. iii. 18, excl. var. 2 ; Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1854, 

 p. 96 ; lih. cit. 1860, n. 10, p. 38 ; Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1863, p. 275 ; Thorns. 

 O.E. xiii. 1336, cT ? ; Voll. Pinac. pi. xiii, f. 4. Var., Bridg. Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 1886, p. 366. 



Elongate and black, with the three basal segments apically castaneous. 

 Head constricted posteriorly; frons smooth and nitidulous, bearing a 

 single cylindrical horn, which is smaller in the male ; palpi testaceous, of 

 9 sometimes infuscate ; labrum and apex of clypeus rufescent. Antennae 

 slender and filiform ; of J' as long as body, fulvous and sometimes darker 

 above, of 9 infuscate and rather shorter than the body ; flagellum with 

 the basal joint a little longer than the second, and the apical ones sub- 

 moniliform and discreted. Thorax subcylindrical, black with a stramin- 

 eous callosity before the radix ; pleurae strongly punctate ; metathorax 

 somewhat strongly punctate with the dentiparal areae generally laterally 

 open, the costulae and basal areae distinct. Abdomen somewhat longer 

 and narrower than the head and thorax, deplanate and cylindrical ; black 

 with the incisures of the three basal segments castaneous or in 9 rarely 

 flavidous ; basal segment punctate and somewhat convex, gradually con- 

 tracted basally with the discal carinae, especially in 9 » ver}' short or 

 almost wanting ; central segments punctate and subquadrate ; terebra not 

 as long as abdomen. Legs slender, fulvous or with coxae sometimes 

 nigrescent ; of ^ with the front coxae and trochanters pale, of 9 with 

 the coxae rarely basally black; hind tibiae apically and before the whitish 

 base infuscate, as also are their tarsi though with the joints evidently 

 whitish basally ; hind calcaria hardly reaching beyond centre of meta- 

 tarsus ; tarsal claws remotely but evidently pectinate. Wings hyaline or 

 slightly infumate, darker in 9 ! stigma narrow and dull stramineous or, 

 in 9 » piceous ; radix and tegulae whitish ; transverse anal nervure indis- 

 tinctly intercepted far below the centre. Length, 5 — 7^ mm. 



It is said to be similar to G. te/rs, but with the frons horned, the terebra 

 shorter and antennae a little longer. Bridgman tells us it differs from 

 G. paivicornuta in the glabrous frons bearing a horn of normal size. He 

 mentions a variety with the extreme base of the hind tibiae infuscate; and 

 Gravenhorst took another in May which had no rufescent colouration 

 on the abdomen and hind tibiae. 



This species occurs not uncommonly on umbelliferous flowers in Sweden 

 from June to August. It has been bred, according to Bridgman, from 



