Patiarg)ro/'s.] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. IO7 



iMtch think Wilson's record of this species' parasitism upon Emphytus 

 tinc/us an error ; and it is recorded from lissex by Harwood. Bridgman, 

 in lit. to Fitch, says he bred it at Norwich in May, 1881, from the 

 previous year's nests of " Agelia hninnicornis " ; it has been found not 

 rarely by Cliarbonnier at Freshford near Bath in May, Capron at Shere, 

 Felden in Herts, by Piffard, and Newbery has swept it at Ivybridge in 

 Devon, in August, 1905. Elsewhere it has only been noticed in Ciermaiiy, 

 where Brischke bred H. fragilis from both a spider's nest and hyperpara- 

 sitically from a cocoon belonging to the Ophionid genus Liinneria. I 

 have recently examined a male bred by Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge 

 from another species of spider, Agroeca proxiina, Cambr., in Dorsetshire ; 

 Beaumont has taken it at Exeter in July. 



6. tenerrimus, Grav. 



HemileUs tcncninius, Gr. I. E. ii. S31 ; Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1S65, p. 135 ; Sclim. 

 Term. Fiiz. 1S97, p. 542, i. 



Antennae slender, filiform, nearly the length of the body, with the scape 

 white beneath. Metathoracic areae feeble but complete ; petiolar area 

 oblique and discreted ; apophyses wanting. Abdomen fusiform, sub- 

 petiolale, a little narrower than the thorax ; black, with segments two and 

 three and the base of the fourth piceous, the two former with the incisures 

 stramineous ; basal segment aciculate and gradually dilated apically, twice 

 longer than broad with sub-obsolete tubercles ; post-petiole parallel-sided 

 and the following segments less strongly aciculate. Legs normal, the 

 anterior stramineous, with the trochanters and apices of the coxae white, 

 coxae basally and femora externally in the centre infuscate ; hind legs 

 infuscate, with the coxae black, apices of the trochanters and base of tibiae 

 stramineous. Wings hyaline, with the stigma dull stramineous, radix and 

 tegulae whitish. Length, 3 mm. 



The slender antennae, absence of apophyses, parallel post-petiole and 

 aciculate basal segments ally this $ with Panargyrops (among which it is 

 comparable with P. claviger, Tasch.), though its true position can hardly 

 be ascertained in the absence of the female. 



This species has been captured at Dousland in Devon, late in the 

 autumn, by Bignell ; and bred, according to Bridg.-Fitch, by Parfitt from 

 Microgasier cocoons in the same county. It has also been bred by 

 Goureau from " nids pedoncules d'Araignees " (1 Agelemi brunnea) ; and 

 it is, consequently, strange that Schmiedeknecht, who retains this species 

 in the genus Hemiteies, quotes only Gravenhorst's original record of it 

 from Silesia, in 1905. 



7. claviger, Tasch. 



Cryptus claviger, Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1865, p. 76, <5 . Leptocryptiis davii^er. 

 Thorns. O. E. x. 964, 6 ?. Cryptus atet; Brisch. Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 18S2, p. 337, 

 (J 9. Nciiiatopodius ater, Bridg.-Fitch, Enlom. 1883, p. 38, i 9- 



A shining, black species with grey pubescence. Head not narrowed 

 behind the eyes, cheeks broad and face pubescent ; clypeus flat and 

 apically bidentate in the centre ; palpi and mandibles, except the apices 

 of the latter, tlavous. Scape of 6 flavous beneath. Metathorax gradually 



