152 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [Glypla. 



( 9 ) the first joint alone broadly white basal 1 v. Wings somewhat clouded, 

 stigma dull stramineous, tegulae and radix Aery pale stramineous. Length, 

 4 — 7 mm. 



The size and outline are similar to those of G. maisurator, but the J is, 

 like that of G. teres, more slender ; the 9 has tlie antennae a little longer 

 and the shorter terebra will also distinguish it from 6^. Tuliurator. It is, 

 too, much smaller than the last-named, with the body considerably duller, 

 the metathoracic areae incomplete, the head and thorax shorter and the 

 pedal colour different. Thomson adds that the costulae of the 9 are 

 wanting and of the (J obsolete, basal segment a little longer with the 

 spiracles not prominent and the sides not narrowed. 



Both sexes are said to be found on flowers on the Continent in July, in 

 which month it is not uncommon with us though usually found flying 

 about hedges. Dalglish has taken it at Bishopton in Scotland, Elliott at 

 Askrigg in Yorks, I have found it in a greenhouse at Ryde in the Isle of 

 Wight, on an aspen leaf at Monks' Soham in the middle of August and 

 once early in June at Belstead in Suffolk ; Bridgman records it from 

 IMousehold and Lynn in Norfolk. Brischke bred it in Prussia from Gra- 

 pholitha nebritana ; Bignell in South Devon from Spilonota oeellana at the 

 end of June ; and Lord Walsingham from a Tortrix larva feeding on 

 Myrica gale (Entom. 1883, p. 67). I have seen a female in Butler's collec- 

 tion from Wymondley, in Herts. 



11. trochanterata, Bridg. 



Glypta lineata, var. 1, Bridg. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 4;-?3, ? {ncc Desv,). 

 G. trochanterata, Bridg. lib. cit. 1886, p. 368 ; Thorns. O. E. xiii. 1352, <? ? . 



An elongate and nitidulous species with fine pubesence. Head con- 

 stricted behind the eyes ; frons mutic and somewhat sparsely punctate ; 

 clypeus densely pubescent, apically piceous and hardly discreted ; face 

 finely punctate with long pilosity and prominent epistoma ; mandibles 

 basally smooth ; palpi pale. Antennae of ^ as long as, of 9 three- 

 quarters the length of, body. Thorax immaculate ; mesonotum somewhat 

 confluently punctate, not discally deplanate ; metathoracic areae obsolete 

 or wanting, the basal laterally indicated ; petiolar area basally indistinctly 

 costate. Abdomen black with the apices of the three basal segments 

 distinctly red ; basal segment hardly longer than broad, coarsely punctate, 

 with carinae at base only ; second and third segments transverse, dull ; 

 anus somewhat nitidulous ; terebra about as long as abdomen. Legs red; 

 hind trochanters entirely, the anterior sometimes more or less, black ; hind 

 tibiae apically and before the whitish base infuscate, their tarsi concolorous 

 with the base of the joints pale ; tarsal claws coarsely and very sparsely 

 pectinate. Wings with the tegulae stramineous and stigma subinfuscate ; 

 transverse anal nervure intercepted below the centre, and about one-fourth 

 from the bottom. Length, 6 mm. 



Bridgman says that this species is of the same size and shape as 

 G. Imeata, with which also its clypeal pubesence agrees, but that the 

 thorax and hind trochanters are entirely black, the metathoracic areae 

 are less distinct and the transverse anal nervure is intercepted further 

 below the centre. It diflfers from G.fiUcornis in the rather shorter terebra, 

 obsolete metathoracic costae, the wanting 9 petiolar area, red coxae, 

 black trochanters and shorter calcaria. 



