lO BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [Flectocrypius. 



confined lo Sweden, though recorded by Gravenhorst from Austria and 

 Prussia. 



4. tinctorius, Gmv. 



Crypttis thniorius, Gr. I. E. ii. 509 ; Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1865, p. 98, i. 



Head l)lack, with the internal orbits and margin of labrum whitish ; 

 clypeus not discreted, anteriorly truncate, with deeply impressed basal 

 foveae ; epistonia not prominent. Antennae setaceous, longer than body, 

 with the central flagellar joints white above. Thorax rarely with a white 

 callosity beneath the radix ; metathorax rugulose, its basal transverse costa 

 wanting, the apical entire and strongly arcuate ; areola distinct, its lateral 

 costae continuous to base of the metathorax ; petiolar area elongate and 

 discreted ; spiracles linear and distinct. Scutellum white. Abdomen not 

 broader than the thorax, oblong and closely punctate ; black, with segments 

 two and three, apex of first, and margin of the fourth and of the fifth, 

 lighter or darker red ; the sixth and seventh white-margined ; basal segment 

 apically explanate, with weak tubercles ; post-petiole deplanate, sub-acicu- 

 late and nearly quadrate. Legs somewhat elongate, black ; anterior 

 femora internally, tibiae and tarsi, red ; hind ones with the incrassate 

 femora, except apically and basal half of the tibiae, rufescent, and the 

 coxae sometimes castaneous-niarked. Wings clouded; areolet sub-coalesced 

 above, nervelet obsolete ; stigma pale, radix and tegulae dark. Length, 

 7-9 mm. 



I am quite at a loss to conjecture the true position of this male, which 

 may even be a Platylabus allied to P. volubi/is, as indeed actually is the 

 example representing this species in the British Museum, upon the 

 strength of which, probably, Desvignes brought it forward as indigenous. 

 If it appertain to the Cryptinae, the metathoracic sculpture proclaims it 

 one of the Fhygadeuoiiides, among which the elongate spiracles, the pale- 

 banded antennae and truncate clypeus appear less incongruous in the 

 present genus than in \\\^ perspicillator group of Microcryptus. 



Confirmation of this species as British is greatly needed, since the 

 above appears to be the foundation of our claim to it in our catalogues, 

 and it is ignored by recent Continental authors. 



TRICHOCRYPTUS, Tkomso?i. 



Thorns. O. E. vi. 609. 



Body clothed throughout with silky pubescence. Head anteriorly 

 triangular, vertex not broad, frons slightly excavate with obsolete scrobes ; 

 clypeus convex, not transverse, apically mutic ; mandibles short and 

 narrowed towards their apices, with the teeth sub-equal ; cheeks elongate 

 and compressed, genal costa inflexed. Antennae hardly reaching apex of 

 thorax. Notauli nearly entire ; metathoracic areae complete and very 

 strongly delineated ; spiracles circular. Abdomen sub-oval and black, 

 basal segment dorsally carinate, the seventh nearly entirely white ; ventral 

 fold wanting. Legs red, tibiae mutic, claws somewhat elongate. Areolet 

 large, with its sides nearly parallel ; first recurrent of lower wing far 

 behind the cubital fork. 



This genus comprises two species, one of which was recorded from 

 Britain over a century ago by Fabricius, the other (which may be no 



