134 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [Hemifeks. 



in March ; and Marshall tells us (Brit. Braconidae) that it is hyperparasitic 

 through Meteorus icleriais, which is itself sometimes a hyperparasite. 



I possess examples from Surrey, Suffolk, Middlesex, Sussex, Essex, Herts., 

 Notts., York, Kent, Ayrshire and Carnarvon ; and have seen it also from 

 Hants., Renfrewshire, Warwick, Oxford, Dunfermline, Langton Herring 

 and Devonshire. 15ankes has given me both sexes bred at Bexley from 

 Coleophora ardeaepeniiel/a, Scott, in July, probably through a small Pimpla 

 which emerged at the same time ; and Sich a female from Middlesex 

 pupa of C. anatipennella, and a male from Clandon pupa of C. ihipejinella. 

 Chapman has bred it from Depressaria thapsieiia at I'aormina, in Sicily. 

 I took it in February, 1899, associating, though perhaps accidentally, with 

 Phloeopora repfa/is beneath pine bark near Ipswich ; and hibernating 

 in burrows in holly alongside larvae of Raphidia notaia. 



15. cingulator, Grav. 



Heiiiileles cingulator, Gr. I. E. ii. 858, 9 ; Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1854, p. 58 ; 

 Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1865, p. 136 ; Thorns. O. E. x. 974, S 9 . 



Head black, with the mouth rufescent and the clypeus discreted. An- 

 tennae of the $ slender and filiform, with the joints discreted, hardly 

 shorter than the body, basal half testaceous, becoming darker apically; of c^ 

 elongate, black, with the joints not discreted. Thorax black with the 

 prothorax, usually the mesopleurae and very rarely the scutellum, with 

 disc of the closely and coarsely punctate metathorax, sometimes castaneous 

 or testaceous ; areola hexagonal and often slightly rounded apically, areae 

 distinct ; petiolar area oblique and sub-scabriculous ; apophyses very 

 distinct. Abdomen of S black, of ? piceous, ovate, shortly pubescent 

 and as broad as the thorax, with the two basal segments either black with 

 the incisures indeterminately castaneous, or red with an infuscate fascia, 

 the following usually apically, and the apical segment entirely, red ; basal 

 segment strongly elongate, aciculate and slightly impressed apically, of S 

 closely punctate ; post-petiole only slightly longer than broad, with some- 

 what prominent spiracles ; second segment also aciculate ; terebra very 

 short. Legs slender; of ? testaceous with the hind tibiae mainly, generally 

 their femora and base of their coxae, nigrescent ; of $ with all the coxae 

 and the hind legs black, except a white basal tibial band. Wings normal ; 

 of ? with a broad, indeterminate fascia beneath the testaceous stigma ; 

 radix and tegulae whitish, the latter sometimes rufescent, areolet with the 

 outer nervure obsolete; nervellus antefurcal. Length, 4-7 mm. 



Gravenhorst gives two varieties ; one with pronotum alone red, the 

 other having the abdomen ferrugineous with the two basal segments 

 stramineous-margined. Brischke adds a S with head, thorax and abdomen 

 black and the scape ferrugineous beneath. 



This differs from all our other indigenous species in having the scape 

 sub-cylindrical and not excised ; the flagellum long, slender and nearly 

 filiform ; the vertex narrow and mesonotum dull, the fenestrae small and 

 confluent ; the petiolar area impressed, shining and not discreted, the 

 terebra shorter than the basal segment, the epipleurae of the second and 

 third segments wanting, with their spiracles far from the lateral margin. 

 The indeterminately piceous legs and abdomen, and clouded wings render 

 its facies sufificiently distinct. 



