94 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [Phygadeiwn. 



apex, with spiracles not prominent and a little behind the centre ; second 

 segment twice longer than broad and more strongly punctate than the 

 following transverse segments. Legs slender, red ; coxae, excepting some- 

 times the apex of the front ones, together with the base of the hind 

 trochanters, their tarsi and the apices of both their tibiae and femora, 

 black ; intermediate trochanters infuscate. Wings hardly clouded ; radix 

 and tegulae stramineous. Length, 7 mm. 



Bridgman says this $ differs from the genuine P. pfocerus in its incom- 

 plete metathoracic areae, narrower post-petiole and in the abdominal 

 coloration. He makes no mention of clypeal teeth, however, and its 

 position is consequently to a great extent a matter of conjecture. 



This male appears to be very little known, and I have seen nothing like 

 it. It is said to occur in central Europe towards the end of July. Bridg- 

 man refers to it two males in Marshall's collection captured at Bugbrook, 

 near Northampton. 



? $ . Head black, with palpi and mandibles red, the latter apically 

 black ; whole head, including cheeks and clypeus, rugose ; pubescence 

 short and fine. Antennae with the four or seven basal joints fulvous and 

 the remainder piceous ; basal flagellar joint slightly longer than the 

 second, fifth sub-quadrate. Pro- and meso-notum red, their pleurae 

 piceous ; metalhorax black and rugose, with the spiracular area distinct 

 and apophyses conspicuous. Abdomen glabrous, with diffuse pubescence ; 

 whole of second and third, apices of the first and remaining segments, 

 fulvous ; the sixth and seventh obsoletely whitish ; second alutaceous, 

 third laterally piceous ; terebra shorter than basal segment, which is 

 narrow throughout, with spiracles prominent and post-petiole canaliculate. 

 Legs fulvous, with the hind tibiae apically piceous. Length, 5 mm. 



P. Marshalli is certainly the male of some Theroscopus, and, although 

 affinity with the present species is but conjectural, the latter's position 

 here is rendered natural by its stout antennae, posteriorly contracted head, 

 basally red flagellum, normal petiole, discreted petiolar area, etc. There 

 appear to be no British records, though it has long stood in our catalogues, 

 and the only example I have seen Piffard took at Felden in Herts. It 

 has only been noticed elsewhere in Germany. 



25. hercynicus, Grav. 



Phyi^aJeiioi! hercyniitis, Gr. I. E. ii. 709; Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1865, p. 29,?; 

 Thorns. O. E. x. 958, i ? . 



Head cubical, not narrowed posteriorly ; genal costa inflexed, eyes 

 glabrous ; $ with mandibles centrally red. Antennae black, flagellum 

 basally attenuate ; of ? sub-filiform, shorter than half the body, with the 

 third to fifth joints alone red. Thorax immaculate ; pronotum and meta- 

 pleurae closely punctate ; notauli short but distinct ; metathorax smooth 

 and convex, with shar[)ly defined areae ; areola sub-hexagonal, emitting 

 the costulae from its centre ; petiolar area discreted and sub-parallel- 

 sided ; apophyses small, spiracles circular. Scutellum black. Abdomen 

 strongly nitidulous, lanceolate and narrower than the thorax ; black, with 

 segments two to four red, the fifth and usually a fascia on the fourth 

 infuscate ; anus of 9 compressed and white ; basal segment sub-linear, 



