Glyphicnemis.] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. J I 



alone distinct ; areola not transverse, apically contracted and emitting the 

 costuiae from before its centre ; petiolar area basally entire and trans- 

 versely coriaceous; spiracles circular, apophyses stout and acute. Scutellum 

 black. Abdomen elongate, linear and narrower than the thorax ; black, 

 with segments two to five testaceous or dull red ; the second and third 

 longer than broad and smooth ; petiole elongate and sub-linear ; post- 

 petiole nearly twice longer than apically broad, sub-glabrous, bicarinate 

 and centrally pale red. Legs black ; the anterior with trochanters apically 

 and tibiae internally testaceous, their femora sometimes infuscate above ; 

 apices of the hind trochanters, and bases of their tibiae obscurely, ferru- 

 gineous. ^\'ings hardly clouded ; radix pale stramineous and tegulae 

 sub-testaceous. Length, 7 mm. 



9 . Head black, with long whitish pubescence ; clypeus not distinctly 

 discreted, apically broadly rounded. Antennae stout, half the length of 

 the body ; scape red and sometimes infuscate above ; the basal seven 

 or eight flagellar joints pale red and the remainder infuscate. Thorax 

 immaculate, with long whitish pubescence ; metathorax coarsely rugose, 

 with the areola nearly semicircular and longitudinally rugose ; petiolar area 

 discreted, spiracles circular, apophyses distinct and somewhat stout. 

 Scutellum black. Abdomen red, with the petiole alone black ; post- 

 petiole glabrous, laterally curved, with weak carinae and an apically deep 

 central impression ; terebra half or one-third the length of the abdomen. 

 Legs red ; the base and sometimes the apex of the hind femora, and the 

 apex of their tibiae, nigrescent. Wings somewhat narrow, infumate; radix 

 stramineous and tegulae ferrugineous. Length, 5-7 mm. 



Ph\\^adeuon senilis and P. plagiator are treated as good species in 

 Marshall's Catalogue, and I here tentatively associate them as sexes of the 

 same on account of the similarity of the descriptions, and also because 

 Thomson says, under the former, " Kanske Fhygadeuon plagiator iir honan 

 till denna art." 



The coarsely sculptured metathorax is very different from that of 

 G. brevis and erythrogastra, and the long pilosity of the head and thorax 

 appears unlike any other species of the genus which we possess. 



The male is common on the Continent in May and June, and Stephens 

 took it near London during the latter month. I took it near Ipswich in 

 1894, and again at Dunwich, in Suffolk, early in July, 1900 ; but the only 

 females I have seen or heard of were captured by the late Mr. Alfred 

 Beaumont at Clandon, late in June, 1897, and by Mr. A. J. Chitty at 

 Huntingfield, in Kent, in August, 1903. 



PHYGADEUON, Gravenhorst. 



Gr. I. E. ii. (1829), 635 ; Thorns. O. E. .\. (1SS4), 939. 



Body very often coarsely punctate, more especially as regards the frons 

 and mesonotum. Cheeks generally short ; clypeus usually bidentate at its 

 apex ; face hardly ever white-marked ; eyes of 9 sometimes pubescent. 

 Antennae not slender, of 9 (with one exception) not white- banded. 

 Metathoracic areae nearly always complete and strong, the basal laterally 

 convergent, with the costuiae very distinct ; spiracles small and circular, 

 apophyses rarely stout. Scutellum always black or castaneous. Abdomen 



