Glj-pta.] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 151 



body, ferrugineous beneath with the scape and annellus entirely black. 

 Thorax with a small, pale callosity before the radix, notauli wanting ; 

 metathorax scabriculous, areola elongate with distinct costulae ; petiolar 

 area short and well defined with no apophyses ; sternauli short and hori- 

 zontal. Abdomen dull, coarsely punctate and whitely pilose ; three basal 

 segments apically rufescent ; first segment bicarinate nearly to its apex 

 and laterally margined throughout, with the apical angles subrectangular. 

 Legs ochraceous, with the fiavous anterior coxae basally black; hind legs 

 nigrescent with the femora beneath and centre of their tibiae fulvous ; 

 hind tibiae basally white ; all the trochanters flavidous, the posterior 

 basallv nigrescent. Wings ample ; tegulae stramineous, stigma fulvous, 

 fenestrae entire ; nervellus intercepted only slightly below the centre. 

 Length, 7 mm. 



Bridgman says that this is a " very easily recognised " species ; indeed, 

 the black hind femora, if their colour prove to be constant, will distin- 

 guish it from all others of the genus ; he evidently had no personal 

 aquaintance with it, however, since he groups it with those having the 

 clvpeus subglabrous. 



From the specimen mentioned below, I am able to show some vari- 

 ability of this species' coloration. In this case the antennae are not at all 

 rufescent below, the radical callosities are immaculate, the stigma apically 

 infuscate, all the coxae are only narrowly pale apically with their tro- 

 chanters basally infuscate ; the hind femora only apically beneath, and 

 their tibiae centrally, are dull ferrugineous, with the latter nigrescent 

 nearly to the base. The female appears to be still unknown. 



The single imperfect (type) male in the National Collection is from 

 Desvignes' collection and is labelled " Dsvgns. 68. 52" ; from it I have 

 been enabled to somewhat amplify the original description. Late in the 

 afternoon of 14th June, 1900, I swept one specimen of this species from 

 long grass on the margin of Stanstead Wood, near Sudbury, Suffolk ; it 

 agrees entirely with the type specimen, except in the points indicated 

 above. A second, probably identical, male was swept at the same time 

 and place. 



10. haesitator, Grav. 



Glypta haesitator, Gr. I. E. iii. 12; Holragr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1854, p. 96, ? ; 

 lib. cit. 1860, n. 10, p. 42 ; Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1863, p. 276 ; Thorns. O. E. 

 xiii. 1351, S ? . 



Head with the palpi dull white ; clypeus apically ferrugineous with long 

 and dense fulvescent pilosity ; cheeks not elongate nor frons cornuted. 

 Antennae apically somewhat slender ; of J as long as the body, some- 

 times ferrugineous beneath, with the scape entirely black ; of 9 shorter 

 than the body with the apex subrufescent beneath.. Thorax cylindrical and 

 convex, immaculate ; mesonotum dull and coarsely punctate, discally 

 deplanate ; metathorax with complete upper areae only as far as the cos- 

 tulae. Abdomen fusiform-cylindrical, of J a little longer than, of 9 as 

 long as, head and thorax ; the three and sometimes four basal segments 

 with the apical margin castaneous, at least discally , second and third 

 broader than long ; terebra distinctly a little shorter than abdomen. Legs 

 fulvous with the coxae and base of trochanters black; intermediate tarsi 

 with the joints apically infusiate ; hind tibiae apically and before the white 

 base black, their tarsi nigrescent with (cJ) the joints basallv whitish or 



