Coliviia.] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 263 



May, and INIr. Adams has taken it at Lyndhurst as late as 2nd July. There 

 are records of this species' occurrence as common in Norfolk (Curtis and 

 Bridgman) ; Essex (Vict. Hist.) ; Guernsey and Alderney (Luff) ; Suffolk, 

 Combe Wood, Darent, Dover and Battersea Fields (Curtis). I have 

 seen it from Croydon (Brunetti) ; East Isley in Berks. (Hamm) ; Widmer- 

 pool, Notts (Carr) ; near Bedford (Lucas) ; and Ampton, West Suffolk 

 (Nurse). I possess specimens from Felden, in Herts. (Piffard) ; Filton, 

 near Bristol (Charbonnier) ; Tostock, in Suffolk (Tuck) ; Hastings and 

 St. Leonards (Esam) ; F"reshncy Bogs, South Leverton and Mablethorpe 

 (Thornley) ; Cadney (Peacock) ; Guestling, in Sussex (Bloomfield) ; 

 Greenings (W. Saunders) and Shere (Capron), in Surrey ; Totham, in 

 Essex (Image) ; and Deal (E. Saunders). It has occurred to me abun- 

 dantly at Mildenhall, Felixstowe, Nacton, Bentley Woods, Blakenham, 

 Bawdsey and Ipswich, in Suffolk ; Chippenham, in Cambs. ; Filby Broad, 

 in Norfolk ; and at Godshill, Ningwood, Calbourne, and Norton Wood, 

 in the Isle of Wight. I was very much surprised to find a female on the 

 flowers of Angelica here as late as 2qth August, in 1907; Curtis also found 

 both sexes at the end of July. 



2. puncticeps, Thorns. 



Pachynients calcitrator, Gr. I.E. iii. 727 et aitctt. (part.). P. puncticeps. 

 Thorns. O.E, viii. 734, <? 9 . 



Black with the flagellum beneath, centre of abdomen and the anterior 

 legs mainly pale ; eyes clothed with sparse and short pilositv ; the vertex 

 of head and sides of the mesosternum shining and closelv, but not con- 

 fluently, punctate. Length, 5I — 9 mm. 



A race of the preceding species differing in the above characters has 

 been raised to specific rank by Thomson, though it is extremelv impro- 

 bable that it is more than an inconstant variety. It differs from C. caUi- 

 tralor in the less profuse pilosity of the eyes, in the much smoother, more 

 shining and evenly punctate vertex around the ocelli, in the narrower 

 petiole, slightly longer terebra and hardly clouded wings. 



This species has not before been noticed in Britain, but it doubtless 

 occurs with frequency along with the last described. Tuck has taken 

 them in company at Tostock, in Suffolk, Peacock at Cadney, in Lines, 

 and I at Mildenhall ; it has also occurred to Beaumont at Blackheath, 

 near London and to me at Lavenham. in Suffolk and Wicken, in Cambs. 

 from 27th May to 14th June. 



