162 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [Gljpta. 



House, on 5th August, 1905. The female was described from six speci- 

 mens, from Desvignes' and Heysham's collections, still extant in the Bri- 

 ish jNIuseum ; I possess three others captured by INIiss Chawner in the 

 New Forest, Piffard at Felden and Beaumont, late in June at Oxshott in 

 Surrey. 



24. parvicaudata, Bridg. 



Glypta parvicaudata, Bridg. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 435, g ? . 



A dull and punctate species, with the abdomen entirely black. Head 

 constricted behind the eyes ; face shining, evenly punctate and centrally 

 carinate ; palpi pale ; the often testaceous clypeus with no dense pubes- 

 cence, and the frons mutic. Antennae about two-thirds the length of 

 body. Thorax immaculate ; metathorax usually with five areae. Scutellum 

 black. Abdomen with the basal segment extending beyond the hind 

 coxae, with the carinae hardly reaching beyond its centre ; the second and 

 third segments transverse, more especially in the 9 » ^^'ith the oblique im- 

 pressions somewhat deep ; terebra about three-quarters the length of the 

 abdomen. Legs red with the apices of the hind femora infuscate ; apices 

 of the hind tibiae, and of their tarsal joints, dark piceous, with the indica- 

 tion of a concolorous band before the somewhat pale base of the former ; 

 hind claws distinctly pectinate. Wings with the tegulae ferrugineous, 

 stigma pale piceous and the nervures dark ; transverse anal nervure inter- 

 cepted below the centre and rather less than one-third from the bottom. 

 Length, about 8 mm, 



Bridgman says that this species difters from G. resinanae in having the 

 scape black, tegulae red, the terebra and the central segments shorter and 

 the anal transverse nervure intercepted at a lower point. 



A single pair were bred by Mr. Fletcher out of " /fi'^/^t/tJ " r/^/^cra/^ 

 from Stornoway at the end of jMay (Trans. Ent. Soc. /.c.) and he subse- 

 quently also bred it from Pcronea niixtaiia (Trans. Norf. Soc. v. p. 72). 

 Buckler adds that Chapman has also raised it from Ypsipetcs riiheraria. 1 

 have seen a female captured by A. Roman at Upsala, in Sweden. 



25. lugubrina, Holmgr. 



Ichneumon lucnsurator, Fab. S. E.33S; Piiiipla menstirator, Fab. Piez. 116(?). 

 Glypta mensurator, Gr. I. E. iii. 21 ; Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1863, p. 277 (part.) ; 

 Thorns. O. E. xiii. 1349, j ? . G. lugubrina, Holragr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1860, 

 n. 10, p. 41, cJ ¥ . Var. G. bifoveolata, var. 2, Gr. I. E. iii. 26, ¥ . 



A somewhate curved insect with the abdomen centrally red. Head 

 circularly constricted behind the eyes ; face strongly tuberculate ; palpi 

 rarely pale, labrum sometimes obscurely and clypeus always ferrugineous, 

 latter not strongly convex and subglabrous with very sparse black pilosity. 

 Antennae filiform ; of ^ nearly the length of the body, black with the 

 flagellum generally ferrugineous beneath ; of 9 rather longer than half 

 the body, black and rarely entirely red beneath. Thorax evenly and some- 

 what closely punctate, black, generally with a white radical callosity; meta- 

 thorax short and convex with the areola entire and apically explanate, 



