2gO BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [Ifop/ocrypius. 



scutellum apically pale, the head immaculate, segments two to four 

 suddenly red, and femora black, as in C. ?iigripes : but the head is strongly 

 transverse, the hind tarsi have the second joint wliitish, and the tibiae are 

 uniformly infuscate. 



I know of no further reference to this species as British, and its right to 

 inclusion in our fauna is extremely doubtful. 



5. subcinctus, Grav. 



Cryptiis siihciiictus, Gr. I. E. i. Suppl. 703 ; Ste. 111. M. vii. 287 ; Tasch. Zeits. Ges. 

 Ncit. 1865, p. loi, S . 



Head immaculate ; clypeus discreted and centrally dentate. Antennae 

 slender, filiform and rather shorter than the body. Thorax black ; meta- 

 thorax coarsely rugose, with both transverse costae distinct and far apart ; 

 apophyses obsolete. Scutellum with an apical white dot. Abdomen 

 nearly half narrower than thorax, black ; third segment red, with a central 

 infuscate fascia, the seventh dorsally white-marked ; basal segment some- 

 what broad, with sub-central tubercles ; post-petiole deplanate, a little 

 longer than broad, basally broader than the petiole, and, like the gradually 

 dilated second segment, very finely and closely punctate. Legs slender, 

 red ; coxae, trochanters, hind tarsi and apices of their femora and tibiae, 

 black. Wings somewhat clouded ; areolet sub-quadrate, nervelet wanting ; 

 radix stramineous, tegulae nigrescent. Length, 8 mm. 



The notes upon the position of the last species are also applicable to 

 this male, which is placed by Gravenhorst between Microcryptus leucosticius 

 and Spilocryptus abbreviator^ from which he says it differs in the strongly 

 linear basal segment, shorter and broader petiole and less convex post- 

 petiole. 



This species was described from an example taken by Hope at Netley 

 in Shropshire. Stephens records it from about London, in 1835 ; and 

 Bridgman so named a specimen taken by Marquand in the Land's End 

 district, in 1884. 



6. dubius, Tasch. 



Cryptiis diihiiis, Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1865, p. 99, ? . Hoplocryptiis diihiiis. 

 Thorns. O. E. v. 510, c5 ? . Crypttts a/bus, Tasch. Zeils. Ges. Nat. 1865, p 97, c5 ; (/■ 

 Brisch. Schr. Nat. Danz. 1879, p. 336. 



Head black ; of $ with clypeus centrally emarginate and epistoma 

 deplanate ; with face, a large genal and mandibular mark, and the palpi, 

 white. Antennae of ? bicoloured, with the three central joints white and 

 the basal flagellar at least four times longer than broad ; of S nearly as 

 long as the body, with the scape white beneath. Thorax black; basal meta- 

 thoracic transverse costa entire though fine and the apical one obsolete ; 

 spiracles small and sub-circular. Scutellum of $ white, of $ black 

 with its apex or apical half white. Abdomen black, with the three basal 

 segments red, the third being sometimes fuscescent apically ; segments 

 five to seven of 9 becoming gradually more broadly white ; post-petiole 

 of S sub-obsoletely canaliculate and sparsely punctate ; second and third 



