158 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. {Glypta. 



castaneous ; strongly punctate with the carinae of the basal segment not 

 reaching its apex ; terebra about as long as the abdomen. Legs not very 

 slender, fulvous with the anterior coxae and trochanters fla\ous ; hind 

 coxae red, their tibiae broadly white with their apices and a mark before 

 the base black ; tarsi also black with the joints basally white ; calcaria 

 concolorous, of equal length, one-third of metatarsus ; fifth hind tarsal 

 joint nearlv thrice longer than the penultimate, their claws short and 

 pectinate. Wings with the stigma testaceous, radix and tegulae flavous. 

 Length, 8 mm. 



Desvignes says this species is " somewhat allied to G. bifoTeolata and 

 G. menstirator, but differs in the legs and aculeus." Although Thomson 

 places G. pictipes in \-ery close relationship with the present species and 

 gives no exact distinctions, he did not, as I am certainly lead to doing, 

 consider them altogether synonymous. 



It is the only species of the genus with the hind tibiae centrally clear 

 white. 



Three males, all distinct inter se, are placed under this species in the 

 National Collection ; one labelled "■ flavipcs " by Desvignes, is identical 

 with the type of that species, which is similarly labelled and placed in its 

 proper position. 



This species has been bred by W. H. B. Fletcher from Spihmota oa liana 

 (Trans. Norf. Soc. v. p. 72 ); taken at Kings Lynn by Atmore and a dark 

 variety at Earlham, near Norwich, bv Bridgman {lib. cit. p. 631); bred at 

 Halle in February from a microlepidopterous larva (Tasch. /.t.); by van 

 Vollenhoven in April from Teras phimbatana ( Pinac. pi. xiii ) ; and bv 

 Fletcher of Worthing from Eiipaecil ia udafia {Y-ntom.. 1884, p. 71). All 

 the specimens I have seen were taken in August : in the New Forest by 

 IMiss Chawner ; at Abinger Hammer, near Dorking by E. A. Butler ; on 

 flower?, oi Angelica sylvestris ?[.\.hdick{ord bridge, in Suifolk ; on those of 

 Heracleufu sphondylitim at Lyndhurst, in Hants, and Feldcn, in Herts.; 

 Bankes bred a female from Tortrix larvae, found at Yarmouth, in the Isle 

 of Wight, in June, 1905. 



20. sculpturata, Gvav. 



Glypta sculpturata, Gr, I.E. iii. 7, c? ; Thorns. O.E. xiii. 1342, ^ ? . G. bifove- 

 olata, Gr. lib. cit. iii. 25, excl. i ; Holragr. Sv, Ak. Handl. 1854, p. 97, ? ; lib. 

 cit. 1860, n. 10, p 41, ^ ? . 



Black and shining. Head short, laterally rounded and hardly narrowed 

 behind the eyes ; checks buccate and epistoma hardly convex ; face 

 closely and evenly punctate, subglabrous ; clypeus discreted, finely and 

 sparsely punctate, ferrugineous ; frons evenly punctate. Antennae some- 

 what slender apically, longer than half the body ; black with annellus 

 rufescent beneath and basal flagellar joint as long as scape. Thorax black 

 with a flavidous callositv immediately before radix ; mesonotum evenly 

 punctate and discally subdeplanate ; petiolar area of normal length, 

 basal costa strong ; metathoracic costae of the c? subcomplete, of 9 want- 

 ing apically. Abdomen black and nitidulous, with the central segments 

 subquadrate and rarely subcastaneous apically ; basal segment much 

 longer than broad, with strong carinae extending beyond the centre ; 

 terebra nearly as long as the body. Legs stout and fulvous- red ; ot ^ 

 with the coxae and bases of the trochanters always black ; hind tarsi 

 apically only slightly infuscate. Wings somewhat clouded, with the stigma 



