238 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [Pezomachits. 



57. hyponomeutae, Bridg. 



Heniiinachits hypcnoiiieulae, Bridg. Trans. Enl. Soc. Lond 1SS3, p. I55> <? • 



Finely reticulate, opaque ; head transverse, slanting behind the eyes. 

 Antennae as long as the insect ; first joint of flagellum four times as long 

 as wide ; following joints gradually tapering to about the middle, thence 

 sub-equal to the apex. Mesothorax trilobed, the lines reaching to the 

 middle of the disc ; metathorax without superior areae, its transverse costa 

 strongly projecting without interruption. Abdomen about as wide as the 

 thorax ; first segment gradually tapering, nearly twice as wide at the apex 

 as at the base ; spiracles very prominent ; post-petiole about one-and-a-half 

 times as long as wide ; remaining segments transverse, apex of third being 

 the widest. Legs slender. Wings with pentagonal areolet ; outer nervure 

 wanting ; transverse anal nervure divided below the middle. 



Black ; scape and first joint of flagellum red, the former stained with 

 brown ; apical third of first segment, base and apex of second, red ; the 

 black band in the middle of second segment rather more than one-third 

 the width of the segment. I^egs red ; apical half of hind femora slightly 

 stained with brown, as is also the apex of hind femora and apex of the 

 tarsal joints. Base of wings pale ; nervures and stigma fuscous, the latter 

 white at the base. Length, 6 mm. 



This insect is at first sight like F. zonatus, but the head is narrower 

 behind the eyes ; the first abdominal segment, although of the same 

 shape, is stouter, and the spiracles much more prominent ; the metathorax 

 has no areae and the coxae are red. 



Bred from Hyponotneuta evonymellus by Mr. Mosley, probably at 

 Huddersfield. 



58. indagator, Forst. 



Pezoiiiachiis iiidaga/or, Forst. Wiegm. Arch. 1851, p. 47; YoU. Pinac. pi. xxxvii. 

 fig- 9) c?. (?) P. tachypiis, Forst. lib. cit. 1 851, p. 53, $ . 



Head black with the palpi dull flavescent and the mandibles red with 

 their apices black. Antennae with the four basal joints pure rufo-tes- 

 taceous and the remainder dull ferrugineous ; basal flagellar joint slightly 

 longer than the second ; fifth twice longer than broad. Thorax black ; 

 pro- partly and apex of the meso-thorax more or less fulvous ; petiolar area 

 not large, its basal carina not very prominent and centrally depressed. 

 Scutellum wanting. Abdomen very diffusely punctate, black, with the 

 apex of the basal segment, base and apex of the second, fulvous ; basal 

 segment with no tubercles, equally explanate throughout or with the post- 

 petiole slightly more explanate. Legs rufo-testaceous with the hind femora 

 almost entirely, their tibiae at base and apex slightly, infuscate. Length, 

 3 mm. 



I am of the opinion that F. tachypiis, which Chapman has sent me from 

 Cannes, where he bred it from Fiimea nitidella, is only a much better 

 developed form of this species, having the scutellum distinct and the 

 abdominal puncturation and pubescence fine and close. 



