Ghpta.] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 105 



Both sexes were originally bred by Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher from Eupae- 

 cilia fjolulana from Wicken Fen, in June, 1886; and are probably in Bridg- 

 man's collection at Norwich. I possess a single pair, which was given by 

 Bridgman to Dr. Capron. 



27. scalaris, Grav. 



Glypta scalaris. Gr. I.E. iii. 24; Zett. I. L. 376, ? ; Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 

 1860, n. 10, p. 42 ; Thorns. O.E. xiii. 1345, i ? . 



A somewhat shining, alutaceously punctate and black species. Head 

 with the mouth infuscate, clypeus often apically rufescent but with no 

 dense pubescence ; frons not cornuted, but epistoma with a prominent 

 tubercle. Antennae entirely black, not very long nor slender. Thorax 

 somewhat convex, with a pale callosity before the radix ; metathorax with 

 five subcomplete upper areae ; the petiolar area elongate and basally 

 angular ; areola basally parallel-sided and not extending beyond the 

 obsolete costulae. Scutellum black. Abdomen hardly parallel-sided, of 

 $ somewhat nitidulous, of ^ dull and constricted towards the anus, with 

 the three basal incisures very narrowly rufo-ferrugineous ; the second and 

 third segments decidedly transverse ; terebra nearly as long as the 

 abdomen. Legs somewhat stout, fulvous with the hind tarsi except at 

 their apices and the apices of their tibiae nigrescent ; 9 ^^ith base of coxae, 

 J with whole of the coxae and base of the trochanters black. Wings normal, 

 subhyaline with the stigma dull stramineous ; radix and tegulae pale 

 stramineous, the latter sonirtimcs becoming fulvous. Length, 

 5 — 6i mm. 



A variety of this species is inlennediate between G. sajlan's and G. 

 /i/rs, but with the body larger and stouter than either : the head has the 

 mandibles centrally flavous ; antennae ferrtigineous and darker above with 

 the scape black ; thorax with a flavous callosity before the radix ; tegulae 

 fulvous, radix and stigma stramineous ; legs red with most of the coxae, 

 the hind tarsi and apices of their tibiae black ; terebra as long as the 

 abdomen with the spicula red. 



In outline this species is similar to the 9 of G. mcjisurator differing, 

 according to Gravenhorst, in the shorter terebra. Holmgren savs it 

 resembles G. lugubrina, except in the colour of the hind legs and terebral 

 length. 



Brischke records Ntphoptcryx vaccincUa as the host of G. scalaris, 

 Holmgr., which he considered distinct from that of Gravenhorst. I 

 possess four females, taken by Capron at Shere, in Surrey, which agree 

 with the above description of authors ; they are, however, distinctly 

 smaller than G. hifoveolata. Piffard has also found it at ?\Iden in 

 Herts. 



