Crypius.] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 309 



with hind tarsal hand, and marks on front or anterior coxae and trochanters, 

 white ; ? with front tibiae stout. Wings distinctly clouded towards their 

 apices, stigma of ? pale ; radix and tegulae dark, the latter white-marked 

 in c^ ; nervelet short ; areolet pentagonal and somewhat large, its sides 

 strongly convergent above ; nervellus evidently post-furcal and intercepted 

 just below its centre. Length, 10-12 mm. 



The colour of the coxae and position of the nervellus will render this 

 species distinct ; the 9 very rarely has the antennae entirely black. 

 Gravenhorst points out that it is similar to C. Dianae, but that the 

 antennae are a little shorter and stouter. 



Stephens says this widely distributed European species used to be not 

 uncommon near London, in June, and in Salop ; Gravenhorst records it 

 from Netley, bred from Nocttia val/igera and on Uinbelliferae^ in June and 

 July. The variety filiformis has been bred by Ratzeburg from Trachaea 

 piniperda. I know of no recent Uritish record. 



8. apparitorius, Vill. 



IchneuDiou apparitorius, Vill. Linn. Ent. iii. 143, ? . Crypttis appari/oriiis, Gr. I. E. 

 ii. 499 ; Ste. 111. M. vii. 283 ; Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1865, p. 83, 9 . Var. C.pitiigciis, 

 Gr. I. E. ii. 505, 9 . 



Head black, with traces of white at internal and external orbits ; 

 epistoma distinctly prominent. Antennae centrally white above. Thorax 

 black, with white callosity beneath radix ; metathorax centrally longi- 

 tudinally rugose, with petiolar area strongly emarginate basally, and the 

 spiracles large and elongate. Scutellum mainly, and post-scutelkim, white. 

 Abdomen ovate, castaneous ; petiole alone black and laterally curved ; 

 post-petiole laterally straight, quadrate and centrally sub-canaliculate, with 

 prominent spiracles ; terebra nearly as long as abdomen. Legs red, coxae 

 and trochanters entirely black ; hind tibiae and tarsi infuscate, the former 

 rufescent basally, the latter with central joints somewhat paler. Wings 

 only slightly clouded, with the nervelet distinct. Length, 10 mm. $ un- 

 known. 



The \Vix\eiy pii /likens differs in nothing but in having the post-scutellum 

 and callosity beneath the radix immaculate, and the post-petiole somewhat 

 laterally rounded. 



Coombe Wood in June and elsewhere about London (Stephens). This 

 would appear to be the only record outside Germany, and must be re- 

 garded as somewhat doubtfully reliable. 



9. attentorius, Schiif. 



Ichneumon attcitlorius, .Schaf. Ic. pi. clxxv. f. 7. Cryptus atlculorius, dr. I. E. ii. 

 492, 9; Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1865, |). 79, excl. 6; Tschek, Verh. z.-b. Ges. 1870, 

 p. 125, 6 9. C. ohscunts, var. 2, Gr. I. E. ii. 551 ; var. 2, Tasch. Zeits. CJes. Nat. 

 1865, p. 86, 6. 



Head black, with palpi ferrugineous ; 9 epistoma not prominent ; c^ 

 sometimes with a mandibular dot, and the internal orbits obsoletely, pale. 

 Antennae of $ sub-filiform, rather Kjnger than half the body, with flagellar 

 joints not elongate and the central five white above ; of <? witii scape 

 sometimes testaceous beneath. Thorax l)lack ; metatiiorax broad, longi- 

 tudinally rugose with no costae ; the anteriorly foveate apices of the denti- 



