Hemtteles.'] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. I45 



The above male and female were standing under this name in a collec- 

 tion kindly given me by Mr. Alfred Piffard, and were captured by him 

 at Felden in Hertfordshire ; Wilson Saunders also took it, probably at 

 Greenings in Surrey. It is said to have been bred by lirischke from the 

 cocoon of a species of Chrysopa in (lermany, where alone it has been 

 noticed on the Continent. 



25. floricolator, Grav. 



Ileiniteks Jloricolator, Cr. I. E. ii. 841, ? (? c? ) ; Tasch. Zeils. Ges. Nat. 1S65, p. 132, 

 ?; Thorns. O. E. x. 981, (? 9. Micro^^aster petlae, Doumerc, Hull. Soc. Fr. 1855, 

 p. 81 ; cf. Sichel, ///'. cil. p. 88 et 1857, p. 96. 



Head black, with the mandibles generally castaneous ; epistoma not 

 prominent ; clypeus short and discreted. Antennae slender, filiform, 

 shorter than the body ; of c? black, of ? with the flagellar joints discreted, 

 ferrugiiieous with the scape concolorous beneath. Thorax black, epomiae 

 wanting. Metathorax finely alutaceous, with distinct apophyses and 

 complete u[)per areae ; lateral costae wanting or, like the spiracles, sub- 

 contiguous with the pleural ; areola sub pentagonal. Abdomen oblong, as 

 broad as the thorax ; black, of $ with the second and third segments 

 apically, of ? with the second and third segments entirely, generally also 

 apex of the first, base of the fourth and the sides of the fifth, red ; basal 

 segment stout, carinate, twice longer than broad, gradually dilated apically, 

 and more or less distinctly canaliculate ; tubercles wanting, post-petiole 

 closely punctate ; segments two to four very finely punctate with apical 

 margin sub-callose and nitidulous ; terebra nearly length of abdomen. 

 Legs rather pale red, with femora and tibiae stout, and hind tarsi some- 

 times infuscate. Wings hyaline and somewhat ample ; stigma and tegulae 

 stramineous or piceous, radix pale ; areolet pentagonal with outer nervure 

 obsolete. Length, 3-52 mm. 



Thomson says the stout legs, inflated front tibiae and entirely or partly 

 red second and third segments of the $ , and the black abdomen with 

 the second and third segments only apically red of the $ , will distinguish 

 this species, which is most closely allied to H. mehifiogaster. 



It occurs in Sweden and Germany and is probably quite common with 

 us. W. H. B. Fletcher has bred both sexes from old birds' nests — perhaj)s 

 from Tinea riistkella — at Bognor, together with Phyi^adeiwn rtislicellae 

 (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 338) ; and Ikidgman adds that the female 

 varies much in colour, one having the abdomen almost entirely black, with 

 only the two basal segments apically rufescent. It is said to occur in 

 June and has been taken at Maldon in Essex (Fitch), Shere in Surrey 

 (Capron), Ireland (Beaumont), Earlham and Lakenham in Norfolk 

 (Bridgman), and bred from Depn'ssaria ncrvosella, on 20th August, in 

 Devon (Bignell). I swept a male at Matley Bog, in the New Forest, on 

 loth August, 1901. 



26. albomarginatus, Bridg. 



Heini teles albomarginatus, Bridg. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1887, p. 363 ; .Schm. Term. Fiiz. 

 1897. P- 5'9. ¥• 



A shining black species with the legs mainly red and anus broadly 

 white. Head transverse, sub-glabrous and slightly pubescent, i)roader 



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