146 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [Hemiteies. 



than the thorax and strongly contracted behind the eyes. Antennae 

 slender, about as long as the body, sub-filiform but attenuate towards both 

 base and apex ; the second and third flagellar joints sub-ecjual and nearly 

 four times longer than broad. Thorax sHghtly longer than high ; meso- 

 notum somewhat sparsely punctate, especially laterally, with the notauli 

 distinct ; metathoracic areae entire, costae prominent and coarsely rugu- 

 lose ; areola pentagonal, hardly longer than broad. Scutellum gibbose 

 and sparsely punctate. Abdomen elongate-ovate, with the second incisure 

 sub-rufescent and segments five to seven distinctly white apically ; post- 

 petiole roughly punctate, explanate and about one-fourth longer than the 

 breadth of the glabrous apex ; spiracles not prominent ; following segments 

 transverse, the second and third centrally impressed and rugosely punctate 

 discally ; terebra two-thirds the length of the abdomen. Legs slender, 

 red ; coxae, base of trochanters and of the posterior femora, nigrescent ; 

 tarsi apically infuscate. Wings slightly clouded, tegulae and radix white ; 

 stigma infuscate, basally pale ; areolet pentagonal and incomplete ; nervelet 

 distinct ; nervellus antefurcal. Length, nearly 5 mm. 



This unique female was found by G. C. Champion at Box Hill in 

 Surrey, and is probably in the Bridgman Collection in the Norwich Castle 

 Museum. 



27. niger, Tasch. 



Hemiteies niger, Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1865, p. 136, (? ?. 



A Stout black species. Head coarsely punctate, with piceous pubes- 

 cence, black with the mouth red ; clypeus discreted, short and a little 

 narrower than the face. Antennae shorter than the body, black, filiform, 

 with the joints not discreted and the scape red beneath ; of ? with a 

 central band white. Thorax black ; mesonotum coarsely and sparsely 

 punctate with the notauli strong and basally coalesced ; metathorax 

 strongly rugose, especially in the $ ; areae complete, areola elongate and 

 narrow, of c^ pentagonal and apically truncate with the basal area lanceo- 

 late ; petiolar area discreted. Abdomen elongate, basally dull and broadest 

 behind the middle ; basal segment gradually explanate, hardly angular 

 behind the spiracles, which are not prominent ; basally bicarinate with the 

 post-petiole margined ; the three basal segments distinctly and coarsely 

 striolate longitudinally, the following finely punctate and densely pubes- 

 cent. Legs red ; tarsi and 6 coxae and femora black. Wings with the 

 radix testaceous ; tegulae and stigma black ; fenestrae broadly separated 

 and the nervellus distinctly antefurcal. Length, 5-6 mm. 



The coarse sculpture and black abdomen, combined with the striate 

 second and base of the third segments will at once distinguish this species, 

 whose facies is much more that of a Phygadeuon, to which genus it prob- 

 ably more properly appertains, since the outer nervure of the areolet is 

 traceable though pellucid. 



Taschenberg first bred it from a ligneous fungus, wherein, I surmise, it 

 may have been parasitic upon Onhesia ?nica7is larvae. I found a male of 

 this species hibernating in moss in the Bentley Woods near Ipswich, on 

 23rd March, 1895. This is a most remarkable incident, and I can recall 

 no other instance of hibernation among jnale Ichneumonidae, excepting 

 my above record oi Hemileles pedeslris, Fab. On 4th April, 1896, I swept 



