286 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. \_Banchus. 



W. Ellis) ; the New Forest (Miss Chawner) ; Ravenscar in Yorks, in 

 August (Col. Bingham) ; and Derbyshire (Jourdain), but have not myself 

 met with it. I have also recently seen it from Bradford, in Yorks {cf. 

 Bradf. Sc. Jour. 1908, p. 71), and Woking, in Surrey. 



4. moniliatus, Gvav. 



Banchus monileatus [sic'], Gr. I. E. iii. 393, excl. var. 1; Holmgr. Sv. Ak. 

 Handl, 1858, n. 8, p. 149; Thorns. O.E. xxii. 2413, i ? . Corynephanus moni- 

 leatus, Wesm. Bui. Ac. Brux. 1849, p. 631, <? . ? Banchus hastator, Curt. B. E. 

 588 (nee Fab.). 



^ . Black and nitidulous. Head hardly buccate behind the strongly 

 emarginate eyes ; frons not strigose between the margined scrobes; face 

 and clypeus, except a longitudinal line on former and the basal angles of 

 the latter, stramineous ; mandibles concolorous with the unequal teeth 

 black ; the red maxillary palpi reaching to apex of the laterally subspinose 

 mesosternum, their second joint stout and slightly arcuate, the third and 

 fourth elongate-linear and apically clavate and black, fifth minute circular 

 and black. Antennae black, as long as the body, stoutest a little before 

 their apices ; scape and base of first flagellar joint rosy, and the flagellum 

 beyond its centre ferrugineous, beneath. Thorax finely and closely punc- 

 tate, black with the mesopleurae and sternum broadly stramineous in 

 front ; metathorax short, apophyses subacute with their intermediate 

 carina nearly entire ; spiracles linear. Scutellum black and strongly con- 

 vex with a deflexed and acuminate spine, nearly as long as its total length, 

 projecting over the postscutellum. Abdomen immaculate ; two basal seg- 

 ments strongly nitidulous, the remainder duller and pubescent. Legs 

 elongate, red with the coxae, base of the hind trochanters, apices of their 

 tibiae and the whole hind tarsi black ; anterior coxae apically stramineous ; 

 hind tarsal claws apically red and pectinate. Wings silaceous ; tegulae, 

 radix and stigma infuscate, radius basally ferrugineous; areolet rhomboidal, 

 subsessile with the external nervure somewhat curved. 



9 . Head with the maxillary palpi, mandibular marks and the margin 

 of the clypeus, red ; external orbits flavous. Antennae more slender api- 

 cally, shorter than the body, apically curved and dull rufescent toward the 

 base. Thorax gibbous. Scutellum with an erect and ferrugineous spine. 

 Abdomen hardly longer than the head and thorax, subfusiform, ventrally 

 and laterally compressed throughout, apically more slender and less obtuse 

 than in the (^ ; basal segment thrice longer than broad, subparallel-sided 

 with the prominent spiracles a little before the centre. Legs elongate, 

 fulvous ; coxae, base of trochanters and apices of the hind tibiae black, 

 their tarsi infuscate. Wings slightly infumate, darker than those of the (J ; 

 stigma ferrugineous, radius and radix and stigma red ; areolet sessile. 

 Length, 10 — 12 mm. 



