238 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [Mnifscus. 



blossoms have any attraction for them. I possess specimens from 

 Felden (Piffard), New Forest (Miss Chawner), Carlisle (Day), Bristol 

 (Charbonnier), South Leverton and Treswell Wood in Notts (Thornley), 

 Shere (Capron), and Lyndhurst (Adams), where I have myself taken it in 

 his garden in June. Two females were bred on 24th and 28th April, 

 1 899, from Taeniocampo miniosa at Selby in Yorks by Rev, C. D. Ash. 

 Blair has sent me both sexes bred in the New Forest on 3rd April, 1904, 

 from the same host ; he adds : "a good number were obtained from one 

 batch of these larvae, which were taken when quite young ; the host goes 

 down into the earth, but the parasite destroys it before it pupates " ; he 

 also sent the parasites' cocoon, which is very dark red, \z\ mm. long and 

 4 mm. broad in the centre, which is slightly constricted throughout its 

 circumference ; its apices are strongly obtuse and the emergence hole is 

 ver)' irregular, much longer than broad and hardly reaching to the apex 

 of the cocoon. On loth May, 1899, W. M. Christy also bred this species 

 from the red form of Taaiiocampa gracilis in the New Forest ; and Tuck 

 has found it at Tostock in Suffolk. 



8. plantarius, Gvav. 



Phytodietns plaiitarius, Gr. I.E. ii. 941 ; Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1863, p. 192 ; 

 Schm. Zool. Jahr. 1900, p. 342, ? . Meniscus plantarius, Brauns, Zeits. Hyra.- 

 Dip. 1901, pp. 160 et 177, j ? . 



9 . Head not narrowed behind the eyes ; face and frons somewhat 

 flat, dull, evenly and closely punctate ; clypeus apically badious. Antennae 

 stout, filiform and a little shorter than the body with the central joints 

 broadlv ferrugineous beneath and apex obtuse. Thorax gibbous, dull, 

 closely and coarsely punctate ; a small and circular white spot on either 

 side on front of mesonotum ; metathorax evenly, confluently and not very 

 finely punctate, dull ; petiolar area basally obsolete ; spiracles almost 

 circular. Scutellum distinctly convex and black. Abdomen subpetiolate, 

 oblong-ovate, somewhat dull, finely and transversely aciculate, as long as 

 the head and thorax ; first segment basally canaliculate, hardly twice 

 longer than broad and gradually narrowed basally, with the conspicuous 

 spiracles between the centre and base; second sometimes laterally bright 

 red at the apex ; hypopygium retracted ; terebra as long as the abdomen, 

 with spicula red or flavidous. Legs somewhat dark red with the coxae and 

 trochanters black ; all the tibiae distinctly white at their base ; hind tarsi 

 and apex of their tibiae black with joints two to four of the former, except 

 internally, pure white ; apices of the hind femora black ; claws finely 

 setiferous, hardly pectinate. Wings normal and a little clouded ; stigma 

 and radius nigrescent, tegulae and radix castaneous ; areolet sessile or 

 subpetiolate and nearly regularly triangular, emitting the recurrent nerv'ure 



