Cremnodes.] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 63 



smooth. Abdomen ovate, as broad as the head, with fine and diffuse 

 lateral pubescence ; basal segment narrow, curved and explanate through- 

 out ; the two basal segments alutaceous, rest smooth ; the second as long 

 as apically broad, basally contracted, with the sides straight ; third cjuad- 

 rate and remainder transverse ; terebra hardly exserted. Legs normal. 

 Wings rudimentary, scarcely extending beyond base of scutellum. 



Black ; scape beneath, and basal flagellar joint apically, rufescent. 

 Legs ferrugineous, with the hind coxae basally, and their femora centrally, 

 piceous ; posterior tarsi concolorous. Second and third segments cas- 

 taneous, with the latter apically black. Length, 3 mm. 



As was indicated by its author in his description, this species differs from 

 Xhe genus Apterophygas {Y'ox'nt. Verb. pr. Rheinl. 1868, p. 172) in having 

 the second segment basally contracted and the first flagellar joint longer 

 than the scond ; but from Crei/inodes it diverges to almost an equal 

 extent in the normal length of the nietanotum ; the sub-clavate antennae, 

 liowever, appear to preclude its inclusion in Thaumatotypus^ etc., in the 

 Hemitelini, and the present genus (which certainly cannot long survive 

 Aptesis, etc.) is a convenient resting-place for the present. 



Rev. T. A. Marshall took a single example at Nunton, in Wilts. It 

 has not been found elsewhere. 



GLYPHICNEMIS, luirster. 

 Forst. Verb. pr. Rheinl. 186S, p. 181 ; Stylocryptits, Thorns. O. E ix (1883), 869. 



Head cubical ; clypeus broad, discreted and apically rotundate ; face 

 short, black and roughly sculptured ; genal costa continuous, mandibular 

 teeth of variable length ; eyes of ? pilose. Antennae stout and filiform, 

 with the scape elongate, cylindrical and not apically excised ; in 9 usually 

 basally red or centrally white-banded ; of $ pilose, immaculate or dully 

 rufescent basally. Metanotum strongly deplanate and discally deeply 

 strigose-punctate ; metanotal area entire and strong. Scutellum with its 

 basal fovea centrally bisected. Abdomen with its petiole carinate ; the 9 

 with second almost longer than the third segment, and terebra only 

 slightly longer than the first. Tibiae externally denticulate. Upper 

 wings with the lower angle of the discoidal cell acute and its fenestra 

 centrally corneous. 



The salient feature of Forster's genus appears to be the distinct tibial 

 spines, and these are present, at least upon the anterior tibiae, in all the 

 species of Thomson's genus. I think, therefore, that, although the hind 

 tibiae may not always be distinctly produced api'cally beyond the insertion 

 of the tarsi, the earlier name of this genus should be retained in an 

 expanded sense. 



Tabic of Species. 



(8). I. Mandibular teeth unequal ; tibiae spinose, hind ones apically 

 oblique ((■.N.VTHOCRVITUS, Tlioiiis.). 



(5). 2. Frons deeply punctate ; areola sub- 

 transverse. 



(4). 3. P'rons confluently punctate ; dentiparal 



area transcostate 2. v.xcahitnda, Gnw. 



(3). 4. Frons not confluently punctate ; denti- 

 paral area simple 1. I'KOILIC.VTOR, Fdd. 



