Microcryphis.] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 39 



sub-attenuate and black, with the central joints white above,' and by the 

 frontal orbits of the c? being entirely, and of the ? with a line, white. 



The development of the 9 metathoracic costae appears to be variable, 

 and the 3 abdomen varies greatly in colour, being sometimes no more 

 than dull badious in the centre. Care must be exercised in separating the 

 latter sex from that of the next species, which it closely resembles in 

 colour and conformation, especially of the head ; it differs in having the 

 frontal orbits more broadly white, the scutellum always white-marked, tlie 

 areola more distinctly defined, the petiole carinate and the areolet entire, 

 with the outer nervure very distinct. 



This species is not uncommon in northern and central Europe, and 

 Bridgnian (loc. cif.) records the female from the neighbourhood of Nor- 

 wich and, later, the male as common in Norfolk. Bignell has found both 

 se.xes at Bickleigh, in Devon, in August and September ; Mr. Albert 

 Piffard has given me a male which he found at P'elden, in Herts., early in 

 June, I goo; and I possess several females from Shere, in Dr. Capron's 

 collection. The male has occurred to me in June, at Lakenheath, on 

 fennel flowers at Alderton, in Suffolk, in September, and at Lyndhurst, in 

 the New Forest, early in August. Beaumont took it at Kilmore, in 

 Ireland, and Harting in Sussex, in August ; Charbonnier at Redland, near 

 Bristol, in May ; Wilson Saunders at Greenings, in Surrey, in June ; and 

 Tuck in Finborough Park, in Suffolk, as late as 19th October. 



14. galactinus, Grav. 



Phygadeuon /^alactinits, Gr. I. E. ii. 683 ; Ste. 111. M. vii. 299 ; Tasch. Zeits. Ges. 

 Nat. 1865, p. 54, S ; cf. Brisch. Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1882, p. 341. P. fulgens, Tasch. 

 Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1865, p. 36, ? . 



? . Head black, with red palpi ; clypeus discreted with deep basal 

 foveae. Antennae filiform, apically obtuse, centrally white-banded, and 

 basally red only beneath. 'I'horax and scutellum black ; metathorax 

 convex, with the areae complete and distinct ; spiracles small and circular. 

 Abdomen strongly nilidulous, ovate, with the apex of the second segment 

 as broad as the thorax ; black, with the post-petiole and the two following 

 segments red, the anus white ; basal segment gradually explanate, laterally 

 curved, dorsally sub-deplanate and nitidulous, with obsolete carinae and 

 no aciculation ; terebra half the length of the abdomen. Legs red, with 

 coxae, tarsi and a[)ices of the hind tibiae black ; intermediate tibiae simple. 

 Wings with the radix white. Length, 7 mm. 



<^. Head black, with mouth, the discreted clypeus, internal orbits, and 

 sometimes a facial dot, or the whole face and cheeks, white ; mandibles 

 apically infuscate. Antennae sub-setaceous, nearly half as long again as 

 the body ; scape white beneath. Thorax and scutellum black, with the 

 pronotum and a callosity beneath the radix white ; metathorax coarsely 

 scabrous, with the costae indistinct ; areola small, (juadrate, all ill defined ; 

 petiolar area reaching beyond the centre, discreted and somewhat pointed, 

 with the apophyses wanting ; spiracles circular. Abdomen pubescent and 

 nitidulous, sub-cylindrical and slightly narrower than the thorax ; black, 

 with the second, third, and sometimes apex of the first segment, pale red 

 or castaneous ; fourth obsoletely rufescent and the anal membrane white ; 



• Thomson calls the ? antennae bicolourcd, making no reference to a red base. 



