Glypia.] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 159 



infuscate, and the radix and tegulae flavous or testaceous ; fenestrae entire ; 

 first recurrent nervurc of lower wings antefurcal, emitting the nervellus 

 nearly from its apex, latter of (J pellucid. Length, 8 — lo mm. 



G. sciilptiiraia is very like G. bifoveolata, \\\\\\ which it was confounded 

 by Gravenhorst, and dift'ers only in its much larger size, buccate cheeks, 

 posteriori}' broader hi'ad and darker stigma ; from G. scalaris it may be 

 known by its subquadrate central abdominal segments. 



Gravenhorst mentions a $ variety with the three basal segments red- 

 margined and the size nearly five lines ; the radix and tegulae are paler, 

 the legs red and slightly longer than in the typical form, with the apices 

 of their hind tibiae infuscate. 



On the Continent it is found on umbelliferae in August, and it has 

 always occurred to me during that month, on flowers of Angelica and 

 Heracfeum in P^ngland. It appears to have been hitherto much over- 

 looked or mixed among the next species with us, probably on account of 

 the meagre original description and its involved synonomy ; and there 

 are no records, nor has it been bred, it is, however, a somewhat com- 

 mon species, and I possess specimens taken by Capron at Shere; Thorn- 

 ley at Freshney Bog in Lines.; Sladen at Ripple, near Dover, in the 

 middle of July ; Saunders at Greenings and Copthorne Common ; and 

 Tuck at Bury St. P'dmunds. It was somewhat common in Finborough 

 Park, near Stowmarket in 1900 and Lyndhurst in 1901 ; and I have also 

 taken it at Covehithe and Monks' Soham in Suffolk, and Huntingfield, 

 near Faversham. Davies has found it at St. Issey in Cornwall. 



21. incisa, Gvav. 



Glypta incisa, Gr. I.E. iii. 23; Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1863, p. 277 ; Thorns. 

 O.E. xiii. 1343, i ? . 



Head with the vertex somewhat broad and only a little narrowed behind 

 the eyes ; mandibles basally punctate ; clypeus and palpi generally dull 

 ferrugineous, the former evenly and finely punctate and discreted from 

 the prominent epistoma. Antennae black ; flagellum of 9 subattenuate 

 towards the apex, with the basal joint rather longer than the second ; of 

 (5 infuscate or ferrugineous beneath. 'I'horax somewhat nitidulous with 

 (5 dull rufescent callosity before the radix ; notauli very distinct ; meta- 

 thorax coarsely punctate, areae of $ complete ; of 9 a])ically obsolete 

 with areola subglabrous and reniform. Abdomen linear-cylindrical, as 

 broad as the thorax and in J twice longer, of 9 slightly longer, than the 

 head and thorax ; first segment somewhat contracted basally, and the two 

 following longer than broad and narrowly rufescent aj)icallv; terebra 

 slightly longer than the body, with the spicula red. Legs stout and red ; 

 anterior tibiae basally fla\ous, hind ones with the apex and a band before 

 the white base nigrescent, as are also the hind tarsi and apices of their 

 femora; the fifth tarsal joint longer than the fourth, their claws obsoletely 

 pectinate. Wings clouded witli the stigma piceous, radix pale stramineous 

 and tegulae rufescent; fenestrae entire; first recurrent of lower wing 

 antefurcal and intercepted about one-third, or in J rather less, from the 

 bottom. Length, 9 — 12 mm. 



The 9 is somewhat like a large G. mcnsurator, but the $ differs there- 

 from in its longer and more linear abdomen which more closely conforms 

 with that of G. jIaTolintata or G. sculpturata. The j)resent species also 

 resembles G. sculpturala in conformation, but the coxae in both sexes are 



