168 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [Glypla. 



Holmgren mentions three varieties : both sexes with the thorax, except 

 scutellmii, entirely black ; both sexes with the hind tibiae, except their 

 infuscate apices, fulvous or rufescent ; and the female with its abdomen 

 above partly dull red. 



It occurs on the Continent in May and August and is not unfrcquent in 

 Sweden, etc. Porritt has bred it from Phycis Betulella (Trans. Norf. Soc. 

 V, p. 72) ; Gourcau (Dours' Cat. 66) from Aspidia cynosbona ; and two 

 males were bred from the larvae of Odoncstis potatoria by R. Adkin (Proc. 

 S. Lond. Soc. 1896, p. 82). There are records of this species from Eaton 

 and Bnmdall, in Norfolk (Bridgman) ; Bickleigh, in Devon, in late 

 August (Bignell) ; several of both sexes at Lynton, in the same county, in 

 1890 (S. Edwards) ; and I possess other examples from Brockenhurst in 

 August (Donisthorpe) ; Felden in Herts (Piffard) ; Guestling, near Hast- 

 ings, in 1889 (Bloomfield) ; Chickerell, near Weymouth, early in the 

 August of the same year (N. ]\I. Richardson) ; Treswell, in Nottingham- 

 shire, early in September (Thornley) ; and Shere in Surrey (Capron). It 

 is probably a somewhat local species, and is certainly rare in Suffolk, 

 occurring from the beginning of August to the middle of September only; 

 I once took a female on a flower of Angelica in the Bentley Woods, and 

 early in September 1899, a great many of both sexes were one morning 

 common on the numerous plants of Foeniiu/um 7'ulgan- at Alderton on the 

 Suffolk coast, about a mile from the sea. 



30. cicatricosa, Ratz. 

 Glypta cicatricosa, Ratz. Ichn. d. Forst. ii. 103; Thorns. O.E. xiii. 1333, $ . 



Head with the clypeus and mandibular marks flavous ; frons mutic. 

 Antennae pale beneath ; thorax with an elongate flavous callosity before 

 the radix. Scutellum apically flavous ; abdomen with the central seg- 

 ments transverse and their oblique impressions not nearly confluent 

 basally. Legs fulvous, the hind ones black-marked with their tibiae in- 

 ternally rufescent. Length, 8 mm. 



As Bridgman says (E.M.M. 1890, p. 208) " Ratzeburg's description of 

 this, and his other new species of Glypla, having the scutellum and thorax 

 marked with }ellow, are not so clear as they might have been "; but the 

 present difi'ers from G. fiavolirieala so little as to need no detailed descrip- 

 tion above. The central segments are, as Thomson points out, a little 

 shorter, more strongly rugose-punctate and nearly dull, with the impres- 

 sions distinctly less closely converging basally. The shape of these seg- 

 ments will also distinguish it from G. evanesccns. I have further noticed 

 that it appears to constantly have the mesonotum longitudinally subcana- 

 liculate and the second and apex of the first segment, especially in the $ , 

 strongly carinate longitudinally in the centre. 



A fine female was sent to Bridgman to name by the Rev. E. N. Bloom- 

 field, who took it in the vicinity of Guestling, in Sussex ; it is now in the 

 former's collection in the Norwich Castle Museum. Curiously enough on 

 1 8th August, 1902, 1 received both sexes of this species from both Mr. 

 F. C. Adams from Lyndhurst and Mr. J. W. Cross from Brockenhurst, in 

 the New Forest : these are the only specimens I have seen. Ratzeburg 

 (/.(•.), quoted by Kirchner, says that Reissig bred this species from Torlri.x 

 viridana, on 20th June, 184O, at Darmstadt. 



