320 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. \Hahrocryptus. 



with segments two and three, and in ? most or whole of first, red ; of $ 

 parallel-sided, very finely and closely punctate, with post-petiole as long as 

 broad, canaliculate, gradually dilated towards the obtuse apical angles, of 

 5 oblong-ovate, with post-petiole canaliculate, the petiole infuscate and 

 the anus with an obsoletely white membrane ; basal segment of ? very 

 slightly explanate with straight sides, dorsally deplanate and glabrous with 

 obsolete spiracles, of $, slightly curved laterally ; $ with second segment 

 closely and finely punctate and the third apically the broadest ; terebra 

 rather shorter than abdomen. Legs slender and red ; coxae, trochanters, 

 hind femora except at base, and the base of the anterior, black ; hind 

 tibiae black, the posterior basally white-banded ; posterior tarsi infuscate, 

 their basal joints and calcaria white. Wings sometimes clouded, with 

 areolet of $ strongly convergent above ; radix white, tegulae black. 

 Length, 5-7 mm. 



The nervelet of the female is longer than that of H. forrectorius, and in 

 the male is punctiform. 



From the preceding, this species differs in its immaculate head and 

 thorax, and in the hind tibial white basal band, in the female having the 

 four apical segments black, with the seventh whitish and one or two hind 

 tarsal joints white ; the coloration of the male is similar to that of the 

 female, but the second and third segments are sometimes nigrescent. 



This species, which is by no means uncommon on the Continent, was 

 not introduced as British till the publication of Marshall's 1872 Catalogue ; 

 and the only record I can find is that of Bignell's capture of it at Bickleigh 

 early in August (Trans. Devon. Assoc. 1898, p. 484). 



4. minutorius, Fab. 



Ichneumon rnbricator, Panz. F. G. Ixxxiv. 14 f'«^c Thunb.) ?. Ciy/'tits constrictor. 

 Fab. Piez. 84, ? . C. minittorius. Fab. lib. cit. 72 ; Gr. I. E. ii. 625 ; Ste. 111. M. vii. 

 294 ; Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1S65, p. 88 ; Tschek, Verb. z.-b. Ges. 1870, p. 135, <J ?, 

 Habrociypttis minutorius, Thorns. O. E. v. 500 et xxi. 2364, i 9 . 



Sanguineous red, shining, alutaceous, with white pubescence. Head 

 black ; clypeus discreted and sub-prominent, with its apex rounded and 

 sides depressed, centrally impressed transversely ; epistoma not prominent ; 



5 with orbits in part narrowly, sometimes also the palpi and a dot on the 

 niandiljles and on the cheeks, stramineous ; S with face, orbits and 

 cheeks also stramineous. Antennae slender, filiform ; scape black, of c? 

 white beneath ; flagellum centrally white-banded in both sexes, of ? 

 basally ferrugineous, with first joint about four times longer than broad. 

 Thorax red, with pronotum, sterna and the scutellar region, black ; pro- 

 notuni white-marked 5 metanotum finely and transversely rugose, with the 

 lateral areae complete and the petiolar wanting ; spiracles circular ; apo- 

 physes, at least in ? , small and sub-acute. Scutellum of ? sanguineous 

 red, of (J, with post-scutellum, white. Abdomen densely {nmctulate ; of 



$ ovate and as broad as thorax, of S linear-fusiform ; red, with the four 

 apical segments, as well as sometimes in ? the disc of the third and the 

 petiole, black ; 6 with apices of first or third to fifth stramineous-mar- 

 gined ; 9 with post-petiole convex and glabrous, rather longer than 

 broad and gradually dilated towards the obtuse apical angles, and its 

 second segment closely punctate ; terebra half the length of the abdomen. 



