64 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. \Glyphictiemis. 



(2). 5. Frons finely punctate ; areola not 



broader than long. 

 (7). 6. Costulae strong ; coxae not pale ; cly- 



peus black 3. Suffolciensis, Mori. 



(6). 7. Costulae obsolete ; coxae and clypeus 



pale 4. CLYJ'EALis, Thorns. 



(i). 8. Mandibular teeth of equal length ; 

 hind tibiae simple and not oblique 

 (Stylocryptus, Thorns.). 



(10). 9. Tibiae externally white 5. PARVIVENTRIS, Cr^??/. 



(9). 10. Tibiae not white-marked. 

 (14). II. Pilosity and metathoracic sculpture 



normal ; anus pale. 

 (13). 12. Palpi of (^ black; four central flagellar 



joints of $ white 6. BREVI.S, Gtuv. 



(12). 13. Palpi of (J and seven (or no) central 



flagellar joints white 7. ERYTHROGASTRA, g'n??'. 



(11). 14. Pilosity elongate; metathorax rugose; 



anus black 8. SENILIS, G)nel. 



I. profligator, Fab. 



Ichneumon profligator, P'ab. S. E. 334. Crypliis profligator. Fab. Piez. 83 ; Curt. 

 Farm. Ins. 44. Phygadenon profligator, Gr. I. E. ii. 729, excll. varr. ; Ste. 111. M. 303 ; 

 Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1865, p. 37 $ - Stylocryptus vagabundtis. Thorns. O. E. ix. 869, 

 excl. 9 • 



Head black, with long, sparse, grey hairs ; frons shining, strongly, 

 evenly and not confluently punctate ; face and clypeus short, broad and 

 rugulose, the latter discreted and distinctly margined in the centre before 

 the truncate apex; epistoma small and convex; face of $ smoother with 

 the clypeus apically emarginate and palpi piceous ; lower mandibular tooth 

 half as long again as the upper ; palpi and centre of mandibles rufescent. 

 Antennae rather longer than half the body, black ; of $ filiform and very 

 slightly incrassate towards the obtuse apices, with the central five joints 

 clear white and transversely impressed before their apices, and the basal 

 flagellar joints at most dull ferrugineous at their apices ; of $ setaceous 

 and entirely immaculate. Thorax black and pilose ; mesonotum shining 

 and finely punctate, with the disc strongly deplanate, with very deep, 

 longitudinally confluent punctures ; metanotum shining and obsoletely 

 punctate with strong and complete areae ; areola distinctly transverse and 

 tw ce broader than long, hexagonal and in $ basally rounded, its apical 

 costa (and in $ the basal) quite straight ; dentiparal area not trans- 

 costate ; petiolar area glabrous, nitidulous and indistinctly discreted ; 

 spiracles oval and somewhat large, apophyses obsolete. Scutellum black, 

 sparsely punctate and shining with the basal fovea apically margined and 

 centrally bisected by a transverse costa. Abdomen about as broad as the 

 thorax, smooth and glabrous with white pilosity ; red, with the first seg- 

 ment except the post-petiole, and in $ disc of the seventh, black ; $ with 

 extreme apices of the sixth and seventh glaucous ; petiole of c^ parallel- 

 sided, of ? explanate ; post-petiole dilated towards the apex, of $ smooth, 

 of $ bicarinate and obsoletely punctate ; terebra as long as the basal 

 segment, infuscate, apically obtuse and setigerous ; valvulae of c^ large, 

 piceous and basally rufescent ; ventral plica in both sexes flavous. Legs 

 stout, pilose, somewhat short ; black, with all the tibiae, front femora more 



