122 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. {Hemiteles. 



(135). 140. Mesonotum nitidulous and sub- 

 glabrous. 



(142). 141. Second seyment sub-punctulatc ; 



9 flagellum incrassate 65. VALIDICORNIS, Thorns. 



(141). 142. Second segment totally glabrous ; 



flagellum filiform 66. POLlTUS, Bridg'. 



1. pullator, Grav. 



Cryptus pullator, Gr. I. E. ii. 584, ?. Phygadeuon pullator, Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 

 1865, p. 29, ? . Hemiteles pullator. Thorns. O. E. xxi. 2388 ; Schm. Term, Fiiz. 1897, 

 P- 553. <5 ?. 



Head with the mouth dull stramineous. Antennae infuscate with the 

 scape entirely and flagellum beneath red. Metathorax with complete 

 areae. Abdomen black with the second and third segments broadly red 

 or testaceous basally, darker in $ ; terebra about half the length of the 

 abdomen. Legs stramineous or fulvidous ; darker in $ . Wings ample, 

 sub-hyaline ; stigma piceous, radix and tegulae whitish ; areolet entire, 

 pentagonal but with the outer nervure sub-pellucid ; nervellus intercepted 

 below the centre. Length, 4-5 mm. 



Thomson, whom Schmiedeknecht copies in his inadequate description 

 of the (?, says this species is very like H. gracilis, but that the head is less 

 narrowed behind the eyes, the clypeus less elevated, the areolet entire, the 

 nervellus antefurcal, and that the two pale segments bear an apical black 

 shade. 



This species was introduced as British by Marshall in 1870, but I know 

 of no indigenous records ; it is only found in Germany and Sweden on 

 the Continent and has not yet been bred. (Ci? Phygadeuon bitindus, 

 p. 92 ante). 



2. inustus, Grav. 



Hemiteles iiiiistus, Gr. I. E. ii. S28 ; Schm. Term. Fiiz. 1897, p. 517, S. 



Abdomen black ; second segment except a large discal mark, and the 

 basal angles of the third, red. Anterior legs red, with the coxae basally 

 infuscate ; intermediate femora dark-marked above ; hind legs black with 

 the trochanters, tarsi, base of femora and of tibiae, ferrugineous. Wings 

 slightly clouded ; stigma black, with its extreme base white ; tegulae 

 infuscate, radix white ; areolet pyramidal-pentagonal with the outer 

 nervure sub-obsolete. Length, 6 mm. 



Bridg.-Fitch very truly remark (Entom. 1883, p. 105) that Gravenhorst's 

 description is utterly inadequate, since it refers solely to the indistinctive 

 coloration of the abdomen, legs and wings, its only pertinent point being 

 the shape of the areolet. They surmise it to refer to the $ of some 

 Fezoniachus, to which Gravenhorst's bare mention of its similarity with 

 Hemimachus palpator lends probability. I should consequently have 

 omitted this " name," were it not that Schmiedeknecht re-described it in 

 1897 to such an extent — overlooking, however, the shape of the areolet — ■ 

 that the species should, I think, be ascribed to him rather than to his pre- 

 decessor. I give their useless description, since its name has figured in 

 the British lists, for what it is worth ! 



