Thymaris?^ BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 277 



1. pulchricornis, Brisch. 



Thymaris pidchricornis, Briscli. Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz., 1880, p. 145, i ?. 

 Thymarus coiiipresstts. Thorns. O.E. ix. 909, s ? • 



A black species, with somewhat badious abdomen and pale legs. 

 Head shining and pubescent, hardly narrower than the thorax, with the 

 facial orbits imi)resscd ; palpi and mouth testaceous ; clypeus concolor- 

 ous, normal and transverse, basally subtuberculate in the centre, apically 

 a little rounded and not depressed. Antennae very slender, with the 

 scape rufescent ; flagellum of 9 tricoloured, black with the four basal 

 joints red and the eleventh to fifteenth white, of J longer and infuscate 

 throughout or basally rufescent. Thorax shining and pubescent ; areola 

 longer than broad, parallel-sided, basally rounded and apically truncate, 

 emitting the costulae near its base ; basal area not short. Abdomen with 

 the apical margin of the second and often third segments dull testaceous ; 

 basal segment longer than the hind coxae and trochanters, aciculate, 

 slender and centrally imi)ressed ; the second almost longer than broad, 

 dull and finely aciculate ; the quadrate third and the following shining ; 

 anus stramineous ; terebra as long as or slightly longer than the basal 

 segment. Legs dull testaceous, hind ones in 9 rufescent ; coxae and 

 trochanters pale ; hind tibiae basally paler and apically subinfuscate. 

 Wings of normal breadth ; radix flavous and tegulae fulvous ; stigma of 

 J infuscate. Length, 5 — 6 mm. 



The descriptions leave no room for doubt that Brischke's and Thom- 

 son's species are synonymous. 



Thyviariis compressus is recorded as a new Britisli Tryphonid by Bridg- 

 man (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1887, p. 373 and — by an oversight — 1889, p. 433) 

 on the strength of specimens taken and determined by Dr. Capron in the 

 neighbourhood of Shere in Surrey ; these were one male and two females, 

 which are now in my own collection. They are the only recorded speci- 

 mens in this country, though I do not anticipate that the species is rare 

 with us, having been found in Scandinavia and Prussia ; more especially 

 as 1 took the male at Jirandon on 9th June, 1903, by beating a pine tree, 

 and the female on 8th August, 1902, by sweeping some heath grass 

 beneath pine trees in a sandy lane at Tuddenham Fen ; both specimens 

 were caught in Suffolk and appeared attached to Pinus sylvesiiis. On 

 14th June, 1907, I swept a third female from bracken on the borders of 

 Wilverley Enclosure, in the New Forest. 



2- fenestralis, sp.n. 



A small black species with only the clypeus, mandibles and palpi 

 stramineous ; the anterior legs, except the intermediate coxae, testaceous; 

 and the hind tibiae basally whitish ; the three basal segments very finely 



