Cryptus.'] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 305 



as synonymous with Macrocrypfus huiciffr) has been bred from the nests 

 of bees or wasps, or the burrows of the longicorn beetle, A^apanihia 

 cardiii, in Eupatorium stems. Marshall has taken what he calls C. denfatiis, 

 Tasch., at Botusfieming in Cornwall.] 



It occurs throughout the Continent, where it has been bred by Siebold 

 from Talaeporia pseudohomhycella. In Ihitain it is probably uncommon, 

 and I have seen nothing quite like it. Taken near London towards the 

 end of June, but rarely (Stephens) ; captured in August, near Lydford 

 (Parfitt's Devon List). 



3. moschator, Fab. 



Ichneumon vioschator. Fab. ISI. I. i. 266, var. anlennis totis nit^ris {necN\\\.); Piez. 

 67, (5. Cryptus moschator, Cr. I. E. ii. 451 ; Ste. 111. M. 277 ; Tasch. Zeils. Ges. Nat. 

 1865, p. 72 ; Vol!. Pinac. pi. vi. f. 4 ; Thorns. O. K. v. 478, 6 9 ; </■ />/>■ dt. xxi. 2349. 



Head without black hairs, palpi infuscate ; $ with clypeus discreted, 

 centrally tuberculate and apically truncate, its internal orbits more or 

 less narrowly, $ with dots at the vertical orbits, white. Antennae of $ 

 apically sub-setaceous, of $ much more slender, filiform. Thorax with 

 no black hairs, immaculate ; nietathorax rugose, $ with basal costa 

 bisinuate and the apical centrally obsolete ; ^ with petiolar area small 

 and only centrally strigose ; apophyses acute, of $ very stout ; spiracles 

 short and oval. Scutellum black. Abdomen black, not or hardly sub- 

 caeruleous, rather narrower than thorax ; basal segment of $ laterally 

 curved, of $ slender and glabrous ; post-petiole longer than broad and 

 sub-canaliculate ; terebra shorter than abdomen. Legs elongate and 

 slender ; the anterior red, with coxae and trochanters black, and tibiae not 

 inflated ; hind ones black, with femora and more or less of the $ tibiae 

 red ; hind tarsi of $ centrally white. Wings clouded ; nervelet puncti- 

 form, areolet convergent above ; tegulae black, stigma infuscate and in 9 

 sometimes ferrugineous. Length, 10 mm. 



Taschenberg's remark that the anterior transverse costa is entire appears 

 to be inaccurate. 



This species may be known by its black body, which is not hirsute, 

 the hardly caeruleous abdomen of which the second segment is apically 

 castaneous-margined, the narrow petiole with its almost wanting dorsal 

 carinae, the nearly filiform ? antennae and by the length of the terebra. 



Gravenhorst mentions a large variety of the $ with the inner and part 

 of the outer orbits narrowly white and an apical white dot upon the 

 scutellum. 



Bridgman says this is a common species in Norfolk, and adds that it has 

 been bred by Fletcher from Acrotiycia myricae ; Stephens found it about 

 London, in June, and in Salop ; Francis Walker took it in the Isle of 

 Man ; Harwood in Essex; Parfitt rarely in Devonshire, in July; and 

 there is one male in Dr. Capron's collection, probably from Surrey. It 

 occurs on flowers of Paslimuea, etc., throughout the Continent, in May 

 and July ; and in his Mantissa, Fabricius notes it as " moschum spirans." 

 Chitty has recently taken it at Monks' Wood in Huntingdon. 



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