Glyphicnemis.] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 69 



'I'he snow-white tibiae and large size will at once distiivj,ni.sli this species 

 from all the others of its genus. 



This species occurs throughout northern and central luuope, " nicht 

 haufiig," and has been bred in Prussia from both Lophyrus pini and 

 L. simi/is by Brischke. In Britain, however, we have no records since 

 the assertion by Stephens that the type form had been found, though 

 apparently scarce, in June, near London ; and that the var. ctiemargus was 

 not common near London in the same month. It certainly requires con- 

 firmation as a British insect ; although a single examijle from Stephens' 

 collection, which I have examined, still exists in the pjritish Museum. 



6. brevis, Grav. 



Phygadeiioii hievis, Gr. I. E. ii. 743 ; Ratz. Ichn. d. Forst. i. 145 ; Tasch, Zeits. 

 Ges. Nat. 1865, p. 35, ?. Stylocryptus hevis. Thorns. O. E. ix S70, S $. 



? . Head incrassate and black, with the clypeus discreted and broadly 

 rounded at the apex ; palpi pale and mandibles centrally red. Antennae 

 filiform, rather less than half the length of the body, with the flagellar 

 joints sub-moniliform ; the four central joints dull white above and 

 the basal ones ferrugineous beneath. Thorax immaculate ; metathorax 

 nitidulous and finely sculptured, with sharply defined areae ; areola 

 hexagonal, spiracles circular, apophyses distinct. Scutellum black. Abdo- 

 men shining, ovate, deplanate and not broader than the thorax ; red, with 

 the laterally curved petiole alone black ; post-petiole nearly i)arallel-sided, 

 sub-quadrate and twice broader than the petiole, bicarinate and centrally 

 impressed ; terebra half the length of the abdomen. Legs normal, red ; 

 coxae and trochanters black ; femora rarely entirely red, the anterior above, 

 and the hind ones almost or entirely, infuscate ; hind tarsi and apices of 

 their tibiae nigrescent. Wings sub-hyaline, with the radix stramineous and 

 the tegulae black. 



S . Palpi black ; antennae short, the flagellar joints individually dis- 

 tinct, with the first hardly longer than broad ; the abdomen smooth, the 

 post-petiole not transverse and a little dilated apically ; the red femora and 

 tibiae with the latter and sometimes the former apically black. 



Both sexes are said to be black with the abdomen, except its base, 

 and the black-marked legs, red ; the mandibular teeth of equal length ; 

 the peristomium not very broad ; and the tibiae not strongly spinose, with 

 the hind ones simple. Length, 4-7 mm. 



The 9 is similar in size to G. parviventris^ but the tibiae are not white, 

 the flagellar band is narrower, the metathorax is more nitidulous and less 

 rugose. 



This species is doubtless connuon with us, as it extends throughout 

 the northern half of Europe ; Ratzeijurg records its [)arasitism upon 

 Carpocapsa pomonana, which is also referred to by Miss Ormerod {cf. 

 " Re|>ort of Injurious Insects," 1896, p. 9). Bridgtnan took it at Earlham, 

 near Norwich, in August ; Marshall, in Yorkshire and St. Albans ; Chilty, 

 in South Wales, in Septemlier ; and I possess examples from Shere, ni 

 Surrey (ex coll. C'apron) ; Kelden, in Herts, (ex coll. Piffard) ; Pitlocliry, 

 in Pertiishire, early in September (ex coll. Beaumont) ; and have taken it 

 myself, about the same date, U|)on fennel flowers, at Alderton, on the 

 Suffolk coast. Ratzeburg's specimens emerged in May or June. 



