Fhygadeuon.] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. QQ 



Essex. I have received examples from Abinger Hammer, Blackheatli, 

 \Vhitby, Botusfleming in Cornwall, Felden in Herts , Reigate, Shere, 

 Greenings, Nethy Bridge ; Tomlin has taken both sexes in the Bentley 

 Woods, and Tuck at Bury St. Edmunds, Tostock, Bungay and Aldeburgh, 

 in Suffolk. It has occurred to me at Brede, Crowhurst, Peppering, Battle, 

 Westfield, Beaufort Park and Sedlescombe, in Sussex ; in the New Forest 

 at Lyndhurst, Crookham in Berks., Horning and Winterton in Norfolk, 

 Ryde and Huntingfield, near Faversham. In Suffolk it is common 

 at Foxhall, Claydon, Kenton, Monks' Soham, Barton Mills, Codden- 

 ham, Assington, Eye, Finl)orough, Tuddenham, Southwold, Brandon, 

 Bawdsey, Blakenham, Ipswich, Kentford and Nacton. Considering its 

 prevalency, it 'has very rarely been bred, though Parfitt raised it from 

 Mamestra bmssicae, and Cameron is said to have bred the var. troglodytes 

 from Emphytus serotinus (Entom. 18S2, p. 276). On 3rd May, 1899, 

 Keys sent me a male of this species, which he had just reared from a 

 rotten mangold from Efford Farm, near Plymouth, and with it was the leaf 

 from which it had emerged containing, however, no trace of either host or 

 cocoon. I suspect it of preying mainly upon Anthonomyid diptera ; 

 Chitty has bred it from a dipterous puparium found in carrion. 



30. inflatus, Thorns. 

 Phygadeiwn inflatus. Thorns. O. E. x. 959, i 9 . 



Head cubical ; $ face with grey pubescence and white palpi. Antennae 

 black, with the three basal flagellar joints not elongate, of <? with the 

 scape flavidous beneath. Thorax immaculate ; notauli sub-punctiform, 

 pronotum and metapleurae coarsely punctate ; metathorax punctulate 

 and sub-rugose, with the petiolar area basally dilated ; areola transverse, 

 emitting the costulae from behind the centre. Scutellum black. Abdo- 

 men centrally rosy ; petiole basally depressed, broader than high, short ; 

 post petiole not rimose, of $ broad and nearly transverse with no carinae ; 

 third segment with the epipleurae hardly reaching beyond its centre ; 

 terebra shorter than the basal segment. Legs rosy ; front tibiae inflated 

 and the hind femora densely and finely punctate ; $ with the anterior 

 trochanters pale fiavous. Wings not clouded ; c? tegulae white. Length, 

 3-4 mm. 



This is by no means a rare species in Britain, though for so long mixed 

 with P. fiimator ; it was first detected by Bridgman in Norfolk, and its 

 range extends throughout northern Europe. Adams has found it in his 

 garden at Lyndhurst in the New Forest, Piffard at Feldon in Herts., 

 Beaumont at Blackheath, and Tuck at Benacre Broad and Bungay in 

 Suffolk, where also it has fallen to my net in the Bawdsey marshes, the 

 salt marshes of the Orwell near Ipswich and near Southwold, at the latter 

 of which localities the males were abundant on the long and rank grass of 

 the boat-pond at the beginning of June, 1905. It especially appears to 

 favour boggy spots, since I have swept both sexes in Wicken .sedge fen 

 and beaten the male from whitethorn blossoms in Burwell Yen, in Cambs., 

 in June. It probably hibernates in the perfect state, since nearly all my 

 dates are in May, June and September. 



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