Coleoccninis.] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 265 



clypeus of 9 apically obtusely bidentate. Antennae filiform and longer 

 than half the body; of 9 ferrugineous with the scape black, of ^ croceous 

 with the scape and basal flagellar joint black above and flavous beneath. 

 Thorax gibbulous, of 9 coarsely punctate ; metathorax rugulose and 

 apically bidentate, witli the areola glabrous, sulciform and elongate ; 

 lateral areae wanting, though longitudinal costae distinct. Scutellum 

 black and deplanate. Abdomen narrow, double length of head and 

 thorax, laterally compressed tow ards the anus, black ; of 9 eoarsely 

 punctate with the four basal segments transverse and bearing lateral red 

 lines before the apices, the basal segment rugosely punctate with a flat 

 and abbreviated central furrow, and the hypopygium vomeriform ; J with 

 basal segment subcanaliculate and ai)ically red, the second to fifth except 

 apical mark on the latter red, sixth laterally castaneous ; terebra scarcely 

 as long as the abdomen. Legs elongate and in 9 entirely red ; (J 

 anterior legs flavescent with the trochanters above, coxae and femora ful- 

 \idous, hind legs red with the tibiae apically nigrescent and the tarsi pale 

 flavous with their basal joint dull ferrugineous ; 9 "^vith the penultimate 

 hind tarsal joint scarcely half the length of the apical, ^ with the two 

 apical joints of equal length. Wings normal, subhyaline ; stigma dull 

 fulvous, radix and tegulae subtestaceous ; areolet irregular, small and 

 elongately petiolate ; lower wing with first recurrent intercepted nearly at 

 its top. Length, 15 — 16 mm. 



The cj var. solealits has the face entirely flavous and the abdomen 

 mainly red. The hypopygium of the 9 is said by Brauns {loc. ciL) to be 

 a good specific character and to be much less developed than in the two 

 remaining palaearctic species. Viewed laterally, it is centrally explanate 

 and apically constricted to an obtuse point, which in the others is acumi- 

 nate ; the lateral lines on second segment are also shorter. 



Desvignes' single male is still extant in his collection in the British 

 Museum ; from it I took the above metathoracic sculpture, but it has not 

 the apical hind tarsal joints of equal length. It has mucli the facies of 

 A}w?nalon. 



This species, though })crhaps the conuuonest of the genus throughout 

 Euroi)e, appears to be everywhere rare. Gravenhorst took a single male 

 near Gottingen, Boheman another in Sweden, Kirchner records it from 

 Vienna and Hungary and it has not been found in Belgium since the 

 capture of Wesmacl's two specimens ; nor does Dours mention it from 

 France, and Jirischke gives no details of capture respecting his Prussian 

 female. It was introduced as British by Desvignes on the strengtii of a 

 single male, given to him by Doubleday, nearly sixty years ago. This is 

 the only indigenous example 1 have seen. 



