Giyphicnetnis.] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 65 



or less beneath, front tarsi and in 9 the intermediate, red ; 9 coxae and 

 trochanters piceous ; posterior tibiae strongly spinose externally. Wings 

 hyaline, sub-flavescent in ? ; radix fulvous and tegulae apically piceous ; 

 stigma of $ always testaceous, of $ piceous. Length, 6^-8^ mm. 



Taschenberg was quite correct in describing this species as smaller than 

 P. vagabundus, with the terebra longer ; but I fail to understand what he 

 intended to convey by the trisinuate apex of the areola. It is very closely 

 allied to the next species, but will easily be separated by the distinctions 

 indicated under the latter. 



Most of the records of this species have been attributed to the following. 

 Curtis tells us it is a common parasite of Depressaria daucella ( = ner- 

 voselhi) ; and Stephens that it used to be abundant about London in the 

 summer, in Shropshire, etc. Johnson has recorded it from Armagh, in 

 Ireland (Irish Naturalist, 1904, p. 256); and I have examined specimens 

 from Tostock, in Suffolk (Tuck) ; St. Margaret's and Huntingfield, in 

 Kent (Chitty) ; Far Forest, Bewdley (W. Ellis) ; Carlisle, in September 

 (Tomlin) ; Plumstead (Beaumont) ; South Leverton, in Notts. (Thornley) ; 

 Cheddar and Bristol (Charbonnier) ; Dover and Kingsdown (Sladen) ; 

 Nairn, in Scotland ; Kenmare, in Ireland ; and Tarrington, in Hereford 

 (Yerbury) ; Kingscross, in Arran (Dalglish) ; Bonhill (Malloch) ; Guest- 

 ling, in Sussex (Bloomfield) ; Felden, in Herts. (PifiFard) ; Shere, in Surrey 

 (Capron) ; Bury St. Edmunds (Tuck) ; and Greenings, in Surrey (W. 

 Saunders). The male is first seen about the 12th June, flying among the 

 herbage in woods, but as soon as the Heradeum is out both sexes often 

 abound upon its tables, though they sometimes affect the flowers of 

 Chaerophyllum ; few males are seen in August, though the females are 

 still common then upon the flowers of the Angelica, and remain abroad 

 till the first few days of September. I have found the species in Suffolk, 

 at Henstead, Southwold, Finborough, Bramford {21 S S and 2 ? ? on 

 Heracleutn at once), Ipswich, Stoke-by-Clare, Claydon, Tattingstone, 

 Moulton, Aldeburgh, Burgh Castle, and Bentley. It has also occurred to 

 me at Huntingfield, in Kent ; commonly at Metton, in Norfolk, at the 

 end of August ; in the New Forest ; Felden, in Herts., etc. ; and I once 

 took the male upon the flowers of Alisma, by the Gipping. 



2. vagabunda, Grav. 



Fhygadeuoii vagahiindus, Grav. I. E. ii. 735 ; Ste. 111. M. vii. 304 ; Ilolms^r. Sv. 

 Ak. liandl. 1854, p. 56, 9 ; Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1865, p. 37, excl. i. Stylocryptns 

 vagabundus. Thorns. O. E. ix. 869, excl. ? . Var. Phyi^adetion /<roJJii;ator, varr. i et 

 3, Gr. I. E. ii. 731, 6. Var. P. podagricus, Gr. lib. cit. i. Suppl. 710; Ste. 111. M. 

 vii. 305, ? . 



A stout, l)lack species with the legs broad and somewhat short, and the 

 abdomen from the apex of the first segment, together with part of the legs, 

 red ; antennae of 9 with no white band in the centre. Length, y-S.^ mm. 



This species is so like the preceding that a detailed description would 

 be but a vain repetition. Therefrom it is, however, abundantly distinct 

 in a variety of minor, though |)erfectly constant, details. The 9 is a 

 stouter and more thick-set insect, but the ^ needs close scrutiny for 



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