182 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. \Cryptopimpla. 



nervure curved before its apex ; anal of hind wing strongly oblique and 

 emitting the pellucid nervellus in 9 from its lower third and in J from 

 its lower angle. Length, 8 — 9 mm. 



Thomson first described the $ in 1888; Schmiedeknecht's of 1900 

 is probably identical though differing in its laterally white-marked face 

 and the colour of the hind tibiae ; it is also noted by Brischke. 



This species is uncommon throughout northern and central Europe ; 

 it is not recorded from Belgium in Tosquinet and Jacobs' very full Cata- 

 logue, but Brischke bred it in Prussia from Cidaria ruhidaria, C. simtaria 

 and C. galiaria ; he says that the cocoon is cylindrical, shining and dull 

 red-brown. It would appear to be very rare in Britain, since none of our 

 local lists include it and I possess but a single pair ; the female was cap- 

 tured by Dr. Capron, presumably about Shere, in Surrey, and the male 

 occurred to me on the flower-table of Angelica sylvestris in a very marshy 

 situation on 21st August, 1898, at Barnby Broad, in northern Suffolk. I 

 have also seen a female captured on ist August, 1896, by Bignell at Plym- 

 bridge, in Devonshire. 



5. blanda, Gvav. 



Phytodietiis hlandus, Gr. I.E. ii. 932, ? . Cryptopiinpla blanda, Tasch. Zeits. 

 Ges. Nat, 1863, p. 293, ? ; Schm. Opusc. Ichn. 1250, <? ? . Lissonota altipes, 

 Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1860, n. 10, p. 53 ; Thorns. O.E. viii. 761, ? ; xiii. 1416. 

 <f ? . L. subftimata, Thorns, loc. cit. s ? . Xenacis hungarica, Szepl. Term. 

 Fuz, 1900, p. 30, 



Head densely punctate and almost dull, in $ immaculate ; ^ with the 

 palpi, cheeks, mandibular spots, clypeus, facial orbits, facial spots or 

 oblique lines, and the vertical dots, flavous. Antennae slender, filiform, 

 of 9 slightly shorter and of J longer than the body, ferrugineous and 

 becoming apically nigrescent with the two basal joints black. Thorax 

 densely punctate, gibbous and in 9 immaculate ; (J with hamate humeral 

 marks and a callosity before the radix flavous ; metathorax more finely 

 punctate than the mesonotum and apically smoother ; petiolar area basally 

 carinate ; spiracles circular. Scutellum black. Abdomen subpetiolate 

 and becoming gradually incrassate apically, a little longer and narrower 

 than the head and thorax ; basal segment gradually dilated towards its 

 apex, not basally explanate, twice longer than broad, subcanaliculate and, 

 like the three following, red ; (J with first segment basally and the fol- 

 lowing sometimes laterally black ; second quadrate and the remainder 

 transverse ; fourth sometimes apically, and the fifth entirely or apically, 

 like the remainder, black ; plica infuscate ; terebra hardly longer than 

 the basal segment, black with the spicula red. Legs slender, rufo-cas- 

 taneous with the coxae sometimes infuscate and the anterior of the ^ 

 flavous ; hind tarsi, tibiae and apices of their femora nigrescent. Wings 

 normal or rather small, in 9 distinctly and in (J slightly clouded ; stigma, 



