28o BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. \Spilocr\pliis. 



single specimen at Mousehold in August ; and in his collection at Norwich 

 is the pair bred together by Fletcher on April 25th, 18S4. It has been 

 found at Maldon by Fitch, Botusfleming and Lee by Marshall, near 

 London and in Salop by Stephens, on the goat-field in the Isle of Arran 

 by Curtis, both sexes at Land's End by Marquand, and by Chitty in 

 Oxfordshire, Yorkshire and Charing in Kent. Capron has caught the 

 male at Shere, W. Saunders at Greenings in Surrey, and early in August I 

 have netted it at Hursthill in the New Forest, and on Fennel flowers at 

 Dunwich in June. Hopei has been sent to me from Dover by Sladen, 

 Ivybridge by S. Edwards, Hastings and Peppering by Esam, Stroud in 

 June by Bradley, Scotland by ^Vilson ; Dale says it is rare at Glanvilles 

 Wootton ; and I possess specimens from Greenings, Felden, Knowie 

 (W. Ellis), New Forest in August (S. Kemp), and have taken it under 

 sods in Wicken Fen in June, in moss at Ipswich, and in the Bentley 

 Woods in the autumn. My typical female appears much rarer with us ; 

 Chitty has found it near Reading, associating with Formica sanguinea, and 

 Donisthorpe has sent it to me from Wicken Fen in September. 



The male has been bred from Boinbyx neusiria, Dicra?iiira bifida, 

 Psyche viciella and Lophyrus pini or similis (Ent. 1883, p. 36); and the 

 female from Psyche fusca and P. viciella. It has no connection with 

 Hemi7nachus albipetinis, as suggested by Brischke. I have seen a female, 

 taken by Evans at Cockburnhill in Midlothian, with no white central 

 flagellar band. 



6. adustus, Grav. 



Cryptus adtistiis, Gr. I. E. ii. 513, ? ; Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1865, p. 94, (5 9. 

 (?) C. opisoleticus, Gr. I E. ii. 522, i . Spilocryptus adustus. Thorns. O. E. v. 507 et 

 xxi. 2369, 9 . Var. C. alholineatus, Gr. I. E. ii. 525, i . 



9 . Head with internal orbits narrowly white and epistoma sub-promi- 

 nent ; cheeks sub-buccate ; clypeus a little convex, indistinctly discreted 

 and apically depressed. Antennae filiform, centrally white, not tricoloured. 

 Thorax with pronotum white ; metathorax somewhat coarsely rugose, with 

 spiracles large and oval ; apophyses stout and sub-acute ; mesonotum 

 somewhat closely punctate and nitidulous. Scutellum apically, and post- 

 scutellum transversely, white. Abdomen as broad as thorax, short and 

 ovate ; black with the four basal segments, except petiole and sides of the 

 fourth, dark red ; sixth and seventh white-marked ; basal segment 

 deplanate, strongly explanate and laterally curved, with not very prominent 

 spiracles and the carinae extending to beyond its centre ; post-petiole 

 transverse, dorsally glabrous and nitidulous, with a few deep and isolated 

 punctures, and laterally punctate ; second and third segments shining and 

 sub-glabrous ; terebra less than half the length of the abdomen, with its 

 spicula obtuse and hastate. Legs black, with tibiae sub-spinulose and not 

 white-banded ; front femora apically broadly red ; anterior tibiae dull 

 stramineous and not inflated ; hind femora beneath, and their tibiae 

 internally towards the base, red. Wings distinctly clouded at the apex, 

 the disc with an infuscate fascia ; nervelet short, areolet sub-quadrate ; 

 radix and tegulae black ; nervellus nearly opposite and intercepted below 

 the centre. Length, 8-12 mm. 



c?. Head with palpi, internal orbits, and a spot on the apically sub- 

 bidentate clypeus, white. Antennae immaculate. Thorax black with 



