Glypta.] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 149 



Sen'coris conchana, Diurnea fagella diud Phycis betulae ; about forty speci- 

 mens of his variety were raised by Fletcher ( I.e. supra ) from Rannoch 

 Etichromia flammeana, as well as captured at Sunderland. This species 

 is by far the commonest of those bearing a frontal horn in Britain; it has 

 been captured at Shere (Capron), Bury St. Edmunds (Tuck), Guestling 

 (Bloomfield), on heather at Selby in Yorks (Ash), commonly in Norfolk 

 (Bridgman), Dumbarton (Mallo'ch), Newton Abbot in Devon (Hamm), 

 Little Moor in Wigtonshire ((iordon), and St. Issey in Cornwall (Davies). 

 IMiss Alderson bred a male on nth July, 1900, from the larva of Batodes 

 angustiorana, Hw., feeding on yew, at Worksop ; Bignell in south Devon, 

 from Epiiippiphora nigrocostaiia in the middle of June — a very early date ; 

 and in (iermanv Taschenburg has raised it from the pupa of Earias clorana 

 and Brischke from Xcphopteiyx vacciniella. It is abundant upon the 

 flowers oi Angelica syhcstris on the banks of streams in August; and in 

 fulv, though very rarely in June, on those oi Heracleum sphondylium ; the 

 females remain abroad till nearly the middle of September. I have met 

 with it in Suffolk at Foxhall, Finborough Park, Henstead marshes. Clay- 

 don bridge, Beccles, 7\iddenham Fen, Barnby Broad, and Bramford ; at 

 Kirtling in Cambridgeshire (my only June record); and at Cromer in 

 Norfolk. 



6. parvicornuta, Bridg. 



Glypta ceratites, var. 2, Gr. I.E. iii. 20, cT ? . G. parvicornuta, Bridg. Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 367. ? ; cf. Trans. Norf. Soc. v. 69. 



Head obliquely constricted behind the eyes, frons somewhat closely 

 and coarsely punctate, with a minute horn above the scrobes ; clypeus 

 pale and very sparsely pubescent. Antennae longer than half the body, 

 filiform and entirely black throughout. Thorax of male with a stramin- 

 eous dot before the radix, of 9 immaculate ; mesonotal notauli anteriorly 

 distinct, mesopleura punctate ; metathoracic areae complete, petiolar 

 area smooth and nitidulous. Abdomen linear-cylindrical, slightly longer 

 than the head and thorax, and as broad as the latter ; black with the in- 

 cisures rarely rufescent ; carinae of the basal segment distinct and reach- 

 ing the centre ; second and third segments longer than broad ; terebra 

 as long as the abdomen with the spicula testaceous. Legs red ; hind 

 tarsi, except the base of the joints, and their tibiae at apex and before 

 their whitish base, infuscate ; tarsal claws distinctly pectinate. Wings 

 subhyaline, with the tegulae pale and the stigma pale piceous ; nervellus 

 intercepted one-fourth from the bottom. Length, 6 — 7 mm. 



This species is said by Bridgman to be very like G. eeratiles and 6". con- 

 smilis in its facies, but to differ in having the frons more coarsely punctate 

 and armed with a much shorter horn. 



Bonnelli took both sexes in Piedmont; and Mr. ¥.. A. Atmore has bred 

 a single female from Aerobasis eonsoeiella at Kings Lynn, in Norfolk. I 

 possess a female captured by Mr. Wilson Saunders at Greenings in Surrey 

 in June, 1 871, and took another myself in Tuddenham Fen, Suffolk, late 

 in August, 1905. 



7. genalis, Moll. 



Glypta genalis, Moller, Ent. Tidskr. iv., p. 95 ; Thorns. O.E. xiii. 1331, <f ? . 



A somewhat curved, black, shining and strongly punctate species. 

 Head with the cheeks below the eyes, half as long again as the basal 

 width of the black mandibles; frons mutic and strongly, with the face 



