160 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. {Glypta. 



red, the colour of the tarsi and tibiae and the antennal structure are differ- 

 ent, the central abdominal segments are more strongly punctate, with the 

 first narrower towards its base, the cheeks are less buccate and the size is 

 slightly larger. This is one of the largest species of the genus. 



It has been bred by Atmore at Kings Lynn, in Norfolk, from Ptnthiiia 

 picatia ( Bridgnian, Trans. Norf. Soc. v, p. 72); and van Volk-nhoven says 

 (Pinac. pi. xiii) that it was " got from the resinous tumours, inhabited by 

 Retinia nsitwlla.'" Apparently rarer than the preceding, with which it is 

 probably much mixed in collections, since it occurs with it in marshy 

 situations in August. West Runton, Norfolk, in 1900 (Wainwright); 

 Earlham, near Norwich (Bridgman); in railway carriage near Horsham in 

 August (J. H. Morley); a male at Wicken Fen, in 1905 (Bedwell); 1 have 

 taken onlv females, at Great Bealings, Woodbridge and Henstead marsh, 

 in Suffolk, usually by sweeping long and rank herbage. 



22. annulata, Bridg. 

 Glypta anntilata, Bridg. Trans. Norf. Soc. v, ^.l\,i ? . 



Head with the clypeus not clothed with long and dense pubescence ; 

 frons with no horn ; cheeks below the eyes not or hardly longer than 

 the basal width of the mandibles. Thorax immaculate. Abdomen black 

 or at most with some of the incisures red ; second and third segments 

 not distinctly transverse ; terebra about as long as the abdomen. Tegs 

 with the coxae black ; hind femora mainly or entirely red, their tibiae 

 infuscate at apex and before the whitish base ; fifth joint of the hind tarsi, 

 especially in 9 . decidedly longer than the fourth. Length not indicated. 



This species, which is thus meagrely and not very lucidly described, 

 appears to differ from G. nigriiia and G. incisa only in its black coxae and 

 the length of the terebra, which is longer than that of the former and 

 shorter than that of the latter. 



Four females in mv collection appear to belong here ; they have the 

 mandibles very sparsely punctate, with the upper tooth slightlv the longer; 

 labrum and clypeus, except the latter's extreme base, rufescent, the latter 

 convex and discreted, subglabrous with sparse pilosity and punctures ; face 

 finely and evenly punctate, with sparse grey pilosity and unusually promi- 

 nent epistoma ; vertex not very narrow. Antennae shorter than the body, 

 filiform, not apically attenuate, with the flagellum dull ferrugineous below, 

 the joints cylindrical and the first half as long again as the second. 

 Thorax evenly punctate and shining ; mesonotum not centrally deplanate, 

 notauli subobsolete ; metathorax more sparsely punctate with onlv the 

 areolar lateral costae indicated ; petiolar area not short and distinctly 

 carinate basally. Abdomen not twice longer than thorax, with all the 

 segments narrowly red ; basal segment not longer than apically broad, 

 with the discal carinae reaching the apex ; second and third a little broader 

 than long, with the deep oblique impressions not ba.sally coalesced ; tere- 

 bra a little longer than the abdomen. Radix and tegulae flavous, stigma 

 testaceous; first recurrent antefurcal and intercej)ted a fourth from the 

 bottom. Length, 7 mm. 



Females of this species are said {/il). cit. 08) to have been bred from 

 some unascertained host by .Mr. Fletcher, probablv at Worthing. My 

 females were captured by Piffard at Felden, in Herts.; Tuck at Tostock, 

 in Suffolk, in the middle of July; and by myself on fiowers of Angelica 

 sylveslris in Barnby Broad, near Lowestoft, in the middle of July and the 

 middle of August. 



