140 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [Hemifeks. 



with only the area spiraculifera indistuict. Abdomen very diffusely and 

 finely punctate and pubescent, black with the second and third segments 

 red, sixth and seventh whitish ; basal segment not longer than the terebra, 

 its spiracles obsolete ; petiole normally, with the aciculate and punctate 

 post-petiole strongly, explanate, its apex broad. Legs red with the apex 

 of the hind femora, base and apex of their tibiae, piceous. Wings hardly 

 reaching beyond base of mctathorax, extremely short and narrow. 

 Length, 5 mm. 



The female is by no means uncommon with us ; Piffard has taken both 

 sexes at Felden in Herts. ; Elliott has swe[)t the female from reeds in 

 Barnby Broad, in August ; Capron found it in Surrey ; Donisthorpe has 

 sent it me from Kerry in Leland ; and I have captured it beneath Ononis 

 on the shore at Southwold in Suffolk, in July. Butler has found the 

 brachypterous male at Abinger Hammer in Surrey ; Chitty at Hunting- 

 field in Kent, in October ; and Chapman has sent me a female bred at 

 Locarno from a black earthen cocoon in which I found a dead Acanis, 

 upon which it is extremely probable that it had subsisted. 



20. subzonatus, Grav. 



Ichneumon suhzonatits, Gr. Mon. Fed. 40 ; Pezomachus subzonatus, Gr. I. E. ii. 

 887 ; Theroscopus subzonatus, Foist. Wiegm. Arch. 1850, p. lOi,?. Hemiteles ctassi- 

 coi-nis, Gr. I. E. ii. 847 ; Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1865, p. 123 ; Schm. Term. Ftiz. 

 1897, P- 517, ?• 



9 . Head black, hardly narrowed posteriorly, with the mouth red ; 

 vertex convex, nitidulous and sub-glabrous. Antennae filiform, rather 

 longer than half the body, with the three basal joints usually red ; flagellum 

 very stout with eighteen joints, of which the basal ones are distinctly 

 discreted, the second being longer than the first. Thorax stout, sub- 

 cylindrical ; mesonotum nitidulous and centrally sub-aciculate ; metathorax 

 finely alutaceous with the costulae and apophyses entire; areola hexagonal 

 and not longer than broad ; petiolar area not discreted. Abdomen ovate, 

 petiolate ; infuscate with the three first segments indeterminately red or 

 luteous ; basal segment usually piceous, obsoletely aciculate, with the 

 petiole linear, rather narrower and twice longer than the narrow, bordered 

 and slightly explanate post-petiole; spiracles obsolete; following segments 

 glabrous and strongly nitidulous ; terebra one-third the length of the 

 abdomen. Legs not slender, entirely pale fulvous, with only the apical 

 tarsal joint infuscate. Wings normal, hardly clouded; stigma and costa 

 piceous, the former obsoletely paler basally ; radix and tegulae white ; 

 areolet pentagonal and incomplete, nervellus distinctly antefurcal. 

 Length, 3 mm. 



S ■ So similar to the female that it is strange it has hitherto been over- 

 looked. The head is identical in every way ; the antennae are nearly the 

 length of the body and much less incrassate, though the flagellum still 

 bears eighteen joints, of which the second is slightly longer than the 

 basally pale first joint ; mesonotum basally scabriculous and sub-deplanate ; 

 abdomen elongate and broadest behind the middle, with the basal segment 

 sub-linear and less explanate apically ; posterior coxae and base of the 

 trochanters black. Otherwise it exactly corresponds with the female. 

 The male type is in my collection. 



