Hemiteks.] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 167 



57. hadrocerus, Thorns. 



Hemiteles hadrocerus, Thoms. O. E. x. 991 ; Schm. Term. Fiiz. 1897, p. 548, i 9 ; 

 cf. Bridg. Trans. Norf. Soc. 1SS9, p. 64. 



A bright red species with black head, tricoloured antennae and fasciated 

 wings. Frons finely alutaceous ; apex of clypeus with a small, sub-quadrate 

 lamina. Antennae elongate and somewhat stout, with the scape sub- 

 globose and excised, pedicellus not internally produced ; of $ tricoloured 

 with a white central band. Thorax of $ testaceous, of $ black ; meso- 

 notum finely alutaceous, dull and densely pubescent, with mesopleurae 

 not striolate ; metathorax smooth and shining with the petiolar area not 

 reaching the centre ; areola elongate, emitting the costulae from before its 

 centre ; lateral costae distinct. Abdomen rufo-testaceous, of $ with the 

 base and apex black ; second segment smooth, and the central epipleurae 

 acute ; terebra a little longer than the narrow basal segment. Legs red, 

 of $ partly black ; claws not stout. \\^ings broadly fasciated with the 

 areolet sub- entire ; fenestrae confluent and not large ; discoidal cell 

 apically longer than broad, its lower angle acute and emitting the parallel 

 nervure below the centre ; nervellus intercepted and post-furcal. Length, 

 4-5 mm. 



Closely allied to H. viicator in its intercepted nervellus, etc., but 

 distinguished therefrom by its simple pedicellus. 



The only British record of which I am aware is that of a female taken 

 by Bridgman, at Earlham near Norwich, in July, 1889 ; he says it is the 

 handsomest species of the genus. On the Continent it ranges from 

 Sweden to Germany, but has not yet been bred. 



58. minutus, Bridg. 



Hemiteles minutus, Bridg. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1S86, p. 340 ; Schm. Term. Fiiz. 1897, 

 p. 545, <J ?• 



A very smooth and shining black species of small size. Head sub- 

 quadrate, rather narrower than the thorax ; face quadrate and sub-promi- 

 nent ; clypeus hardly discreted. Antennae a little shorter than the body ; 

 scape somewhat longer than broad, externally notched ; flagellum sub- 

 filiform, basally attenuate, with the first joint four times longer than 

 broad. Thorax longer than high ; notauli anteriorly distinct ; mesonotum 

 very finely pubescent and sub-obsoletely punctate ; metathorax transverse 

 with two distinct transverse costae ; areola constricted behind, slightly 

 broader than long and obsoletely punctate ; petiolar area discreted. " 

 Abdomen ovate, slightly broader than the thorax, glabrous and nitidulous ; 

 black with sometimes the second segment piceous ; basal segment slender, 

 with the post-petiole hardly broader and distinctly aciculate ; spiracles not 

 very prominent, just beyond the centre ; following segments transverse ; 

 terebra about as long as the first segment. Legs very slender, black, with 

 the front femora, tibiae and tarsi partly, and sometimes the hind tibiae at 

 ajjex and before base, piceous. ^Vings slightly clouded, with the nervures 

 pale and apically incomplete ; areolet externally wanting ; tegulae piceous, 

 stigma infuscate and more or less pale basally ; lower outer angle of the 

 discoidal cell sub acute ; nervellus opposite and not intercepted. Length, 

 2-2 i mm. 



