ffemiteles.] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 1 69 



fourth and fifth, segments discally testaceous ; Iwsal segment sul) linear, a 

 little dilated towards the apex, where it is less than half the breadth of its 

 total length ; petiole slender, post-petiole parallel-sided, smooth and 

 bicarinate with prominent spiracles ; terehra longer than first segment. 

 Legs slender, testaceous ; hind ones partly black, wilh their coxae some- 

 times infuscate above ; ^ with all coxae and trochanters black. Wings 

 sub-hyaline ; stigma and costa dull stramineous, radix and tegulae pale ; 

 discoidal cell apically longer than broad, with its lower angle sub-acute ; 

 nervelet wanting, nervellus intercepted. Length, 3-5 mm. 



Gravenhorst mentions a 9 variety with the abdomen entirely fusco- 

 piceous, the antennae black throughout and only 2^ mm. in length. 



Thomson says the shining and smoothish head and mesonotum, elevated 

 lateral metathoracic costae, sub-infumate wings, basally broadly white 

 stigma, red legs with hind tarsi and apices of their tibiae and of their 

 femora black, will distinguish this species, the $ of which has the an- 

 tennae, tegulae, coxae and trochanters, black. The dentate pedicellus is 

 peculiar to the species. 



It is said to be distributed throughout Europe, but if the dentation of 

 the pedicellus be constant, I can safely say I have never seen an example 

 yet. It is, however, recorded from Yorkshire (Marshall) ; Hastings 

 district (List) ; Bickleigh and Hartley in Devon, in September (Bignell) ; 

 Maldon in Essex (Fitch). 



61. subannulatus, Bridg. 



Heiniteles stilhiitnulaius, Bridg. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1883, p. 147 ; Schm. Term. Fiiz, 

 1897, P- 547. ? • 



A dull, black, closely and finely punctate species. Head narrowed 

 behind the eyes and anteriorly sub-triangular ; clypeus indistinctly dis- 

 creted, epistoma slightly prominent, frons canaliculate. Antennae with 

 first and second flagellar joints basally dull red, of equal length and about 

 thrice longer than broad ; the fourth to seventh more or less annulated 

 with white. Thorax with notauli distinct ; metathorax elongate, costae 

 fine but distinct ; areola hexagonal, about twice longer than broad and 

 apically sub-explanate ; petiolar area distinctly defined basally and dis- 

 creted ; apophyses distinct. Scutellum with basal depression finely 

 aciculate. Abdomen elongate, ovate ; black with segments two to four 

 and apex of first castaneous, third and fourth laterally infuscate and anus 

 pale ; basal segment bicarinate, gradually explanate throughout, rather 

 longer than twice its apical breadth with s[)iracles obsolete ; post-petiole 

 ovally foveate ; segments two and three of equal lenglii, the latter twice 

 broader than long; terebra about one-third lengtii of abdomen. Legs 

 slender, pale castaneous. Wings hyaline, with a transverse indeterminate 

 fascia below the piceus and apically white stigma ; radix flavidous ; areolet 

 transverse, pentagonal, emitting recurrent nervure before its centre ; 

 second recurrent of lower wing sub-opposite, emitting nervellus distinctly 

 below centre. Length, 5 mm. 



The original specimens were taken in the neighbourhood of Shere by 

 Dr. Capron and are now in my collection ; it was subsefjuently found at 

 Earlham near Norwich, in September, by Bridgman ; and bred from 

 Gelechia mulinella by W. Fletcher. It is still unknown on the Continent. 



