5© BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [Microcryphis. 



appear to have been since met with, though there is another female in his 

 collection from Nunton, in Wilts, (in Brit. Mus.). 



25. brachypterus, Grav. 



Ichneumov ahbreviator, Tanz. F. G. Ixxi. 17 {nee Fab.), 9. /. htaehypterus, Gr. 

 Mon. I'etl. 29 Pezoniaihus hraeliypterus, Gr. I. E. ii. 876; Suppl. i. 715. Aptesis 

 brachyptcra, FiJrst. VViegm. Arch. 1850, p. 91,?. Phygadeuon jejiinaior, var. 2, Gr. 

 I. E. ii. 717, i. Mieroerypttis brachypterus. Thorns. O. E. ix. 864, i 9. 



$ . Head black, with the mouth an*d internal orbits, often also nearly 

 the whole face, white ; frons obsoletely punctate ; clypeus immaculate and 

 apically sub-produced in the centre. Antennae infuscate ; scape testaceous 

 beneath, flagellum with several raised lines. Thorax immaculate ; costae 

 obsolete, spiracles circular. Scutellum black. Abdomen elongate-ovate, 

 narrower than thorax ; black, with segments two to four, apex of the first 

 and sometimes base of the fifth, red ; post-petiole sub-quadrate, canalicu- 

 late. Anterior legs pale red, with the coxae and trochanters black ; hind 

 ones black, with the basal half of the femora and the tibiae, except 

 apically, red. Wings normal, sub-hyaline ; stigma pale piceous, radix and 

 tegulae white. 



9 . Head black, with the cheeks and mandibles castaneous ; frons 

 deeply and diffusely punctate, the vertex more finely. Antennae tri- 

 coloured ; the five basal joints fulvous, the seventh and eighth white and 

 the remainder infuscate. Prothorax nigrescent or rufescent ; mesonotum 

 red, with a broad black central vitta ; mesopleurae rufescent, strongly and 

 deeply punctate ; metathorax black, basally rufescent ; meta- much shorter 

 than mesonotum, with the petiolar area very broad and basally entire ; 

 areola weakly defined, apophyses obtuse and lateral costae distinct. Scu- 

 tellum dark red. Abdomen black, with the four basal segments red and 

 the anus whitish ; first segment laterally infuscate, sometimes longitudinally 

 canaliculate. Legs entirely red. Wings reaching to the apex of meta- 

 thorax. Length, 3-6 mm. 



The conformation is very like AI. basizonius in the ? , which differs 

 from M. juicropterits in the ferrugineous thorax, stout spicula sub-buccate 

 cheeks and broader, sub transverse post-petiole. The c^ only differs from 

 the preceding in the partly pale frontal orbits, more broadly white face, the 

 evidently produced clypeus, red anterior femora of which the hind ones, 

 together with the apices of their tibiae, their tarsi, coxae and trochanters, 

 are entirely black ; the $ resembles that of M. abdominator but the 

 anterior femora are entirely fulvous and the metathoracic costae more 

 obsolete. 



The male is said to occur throughout a wide Continental area in May 

 and June, but I have heard of no British records. The female is not 

 common with us, though Dale records it to be so at Glanvilles Wootton, 

 and Bignell took it at Exeter, early in September ; only two examples, 

 found by Piffard, at Felden, in Herts., have come under my observation. 

 I have, however, taken males at Huntingfield, near Faversham, and at 

 Assington Thicks and Farnham, in Suffolk. Beaumont, too, took it at 

 Blackheath, in August. 



