Phv/odiaiius] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 247 



I have not examined ; and its subsequent record from Sweden by Holm- 

 gren. Tosquinet, however, (Ann. Soc. Belg. 1897, p. 319) tells us that 

 Prof. Wesmael took it at Diest in 1848; and Bridgman regarded it as 

 "conunon" in Norfolk. It is probably mixed with P. coryphaeus in col- 

 lections. I have a male and two females found by Capron about Shere 

 in Surrey, and have myself twice captured the latter sex : in the Bentley 

 Woods, near Ipswich, on 23rd June, 1903 and by sweeping rank herbage 

 in Barnby Broad on i8th May, 1905. On July loth, 1901, a single male 

 emerged (with Pimpla vtnliiaKsn, cf. ante, p. 91, and both sexes of a 

 Linuuria) from lar\ae of Mompha {Lar'tiiia) coutiirbafiUa, Hb., near Ash- 

 ford in Kent ; with it is its cocoon, which is pale testaceous and dull with 

 a paler, narrow central band, it is 7J mm. long and 2 mm. broad in the 

 centre, and the parasite emerged from a circular hole well before the 

 apex. 



6. astutus, Gvav. 



Phytodictus astutus, Gr. I.E. ii. 939; Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1863, p. 292; 

 Schm. Opusc. Ichn. 1256, ? . P. coiitinuus, Thorns. O.E. viii. 773. 



Head immaculate ; genal costa not inflexed. Antennae filiform and 

 nearly as long as the body. Thorax gibbulous ; pronotal epomiae indi- 

 cated ; mesosternum laterally very closely and very finely punctate. 

 Scutellum entirely black. Abdomen subsessile, oblong, as long and as 

 broad as the head and thorax, with the anus subcompressed ; basal seg- 

 ment smooth, twice longer than broad and gradually explanate apically ; 

 entirely black ; terebra a little longer than half the abdomen, with the 

 spicula fulvous. Legs normal, somewhat slender, fulvous ; coxae and 

 trochanters black ; hind tarsi and tibiae infuscate, the latter becoming 

 subrufescent basally. \\'ings normal, subhyaline and iridescent ; stigma 

 and radius piceo-stramineous ; radix and tegulae stramineous ; areolet 

 irregularly subtransverse and petiolate. Length, 6 mm. 



The J does not appear to be yet known ; Thomson does not indicate 

 whether he knew it or not, but he says that even the mouth is black, and 

 it is nearly certain that the (^ would have at least part of the head pale- 

 marked. 



Gravenhorst remarks upon the relationship set up by the compressed 

 anus to the Banchidcs. 



This species is said to occur uncommonly on umbelliferous flowers in 

 July in Sweden and Germany. JNIarshall recorded it from Britain in 

 both his Catalogues, but beyond this I knew nothing of it as indigenous 

 and none of the local lists contain it ; nor does it appear to have been 

 yet bred. 



