Hoplocryptus.\ BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 287 



spiracles elongate. Scutellum black. Abdomen black, with whole of the 

 seventh and an apical dot on the sixth segment, white. Legs black ; 

 anterior with the apices of the femora, tibiae internally and apices of the 

 tarsal joints, testaceous ; intermediate tibiae darker. Wings slightly 

 clouded ; areolet quadrate, tegulae infuscate, radi.\ ferrugineous, nervelet 

 wanting. Length, 11 mm. 



That C. aterrimus is the female of H. hicingtdatus was queried by 

 Gravenhorst, and I tentatively here treat it as such, simply on account of 

 the similarity of conformation, and more especially of the quadrate areolet, 

 which excludes it from the genus Cryptus as herein restricted. 



Cnpius l)iii>i}^n/ati/s was first recorded from Britain in Marshall's 1872 

 Catalogue, but I have heard of no actual records, and the Continental 

 authors seem to have recently quite ignored it in their revised classifica- 

 tions. C. aterrimus is recorded as British in the 1870 Catalogus, but no 

 more appears to be known of it. I possess a single male taken by Adams 

 at Lyndhurst, in the New Forest, at the end of June, 1902. It is extremely 

 probable that all previous mentions of this species as British refer to the 

 male of Aritranis signaiorii/s, since the male standing under Cryptus 

 bicingulatus in Marshall's collection in the British Museum is certainly 

 referable to the latter species. 



2. confector, Gmv. 



Cryptus coufeclor, Gr. I. E. ii. 518: Ste. 111. M. vii, 2S4 ; Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 

 1865, p. 95, 9 ; Tschek. Verb. z.-b. Ges. 1870, p. 143, <? 9 ; cf. lib. tit. 1872, p. 246. 

 Hoplocrypttis confector, Thonis. O. E. xxi. 2371. //. clegaiis, Thoms. lib. cit. v. 511, 

 excl. i (cf. Bridg. Trans. Knt. Soc. 18S1, p. 154). Var. Cryptus fiigitivus, var 3, Gr. 

 I. E. ii. 517, 9. 



Shining and punctate, with whitish pubescence. Head sub-buccate ; 

 clypeus apically a little produced, transversely impressed and laterally 

 deflexed ; frons deplanate ; ? with epistoma bicanaliculate ; $, with palpi, 

 centre of mandibles, cheeks, cly[)eus and face white. Antennae slender, 

 filiform ; of ? with central flagellar joints above, of $ with scape be- 

 neath, white. Thorax with metanotum convex and finely rugulose, with 

 lateral areae complete, the petiolar broadly arcuate and finely delineated ; 

 transverse costa of $ sub-obsolete ; spiracles oval ; $ with pronotum and 

 lines beneath radix white. Scutellum of $ with an apical dot, of $ as 

 well as post-scutellum, white. Abdomen alutaceous, narrower than thorax, 

 black ; of ? ovate-fusiform, with three basal segments, except sometimes 

 the petiole, red ; of ^ sub-linear, centrally red ; anus white in both sexes ; 

 basal segment, at least in 9. distinctly elongate, slightly convex, glabrous, 

 with the petiole somewhat curved ; post-petiole parallel-sided, somewhat 

 longer than broad and a[)ically dilated, with no carinae ; 9 with ventral 

 segments four to six prcjminent and terebra as long as abdomen. Legs 

 slender and elongate, hind tibiae of 9 spinulose ; red, with coxae and 

 trochanters black, tarsi and hind tibiae exlernally, ^ also with ajiices of 

 hind femora, nigrescent ; hind tarsi centrally, and in J anterior tro- 

 chanters and basal hind tibial band, white. Wings clouded ; radix ferru- 

 gineous ; tegulae infuscate, of 6 white ; second recurrent emitted from far 

 before centre of areolet ; radial nervure apically infltxed ; lower basal 

 nervure interstitial. Length, 9-1 i mm. 



This species is very similar to //. duhius, but the spiracles are longer, 



