BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 



3. uniguttatus, Grav. 



Hoplisiiieiiits unii;tiltatui, (Jr. I. E ii. 423, $ ; Wesm. Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux. 1844, 

 p. 109 ; Bui. Ac. Brux 184S, p. 292 ; Berth. Ann. Soc. F"r. 1894, p. 516, $ $. 



Head black ; clypeus large, smooth and apically rotund, slightly reflexed. 

 Antennae slender, setaceous, white-banded in both se.xes. A callosity at 

 the tegulae and the pronotum white ; metathora.x feebly bidentate ; areola 

 sub-hexagonal, posteriorly sharply arcuate. Scutellum very convex, per- 

 pendicular behind ; white. Abdomen of $ black, of $ red, with apical 

 segments, and sometimes the first, black ; both sexes with anus white- 

 marked ; post-petiole nearly glabrous ; gastrocaeli sulciform, deep, occupy- 

 ing nearly the whole base of second segment, intervening space very 

 narrow ; terebra distinctly exserted ; $ with hypopygium and the genital 

 valvulae white. Legs slender, red ; coxae, as well as hind tarsi and 

 base of tibiae laterally, black; tarsi white-banded in c^. Wings slightly 

 clouded ; stigma ferrugineous, radix white, tegulae black ; areolet narrowed 

 above. Length, 7-8 mm. 



A variety of the (^ with the internal orbits, post-scutellum, margin of fifth 

 and sixth segments, &c., pale, is found in Germany. 



It is recorded as British by Marshall, and Bridg.-Fitch considered it 

 uncommon with us. I know of no records and it has not been bred. It 

 is by no means common on the Continent, where it extends from France 

 to Russia. 



HYBOPHORUS, Tischbein. 

 Tisch. Stett. Zeit. 1875, p. 281. 



Head sub-triangular, strongly narrowed behind the eyes \ mandibles 

 slender ; clypeus strongly convex and broadly emarginate at apex ; face 

 protuberant. Antennae setaceous, centrally incrassate. Metathorax 

 somewhat short and abruptly declived posteriorly, distinctly bidentate, 

 with basal sulcus not very deep, spiracles elongate ; costulae wanting. 

 Scutellum gibbous or tectiform ; declived from apex. Abdomen oblong- 

 ovate ; of 9 with eight visible dorsal segments, the hypopygium reaching 

 to its apex and covering base of terebra ; of $ with ventral segments 2-4 

 plicate. Legs long and slender ; tarsi setose beneath ; onychii simple. 

 Areolet pentagonal. 



I do not know this genus, which is said by Berthoumieu to be in his 

 Amblypygi what Hoplismejius — with which it was identified in the absence 

 of the female by Marshall, following Wesmael — was among the Oxypygi. 

 There can, however, be no doubt that Ashmead is in error in leaving it 

 among the Ichneumonini, since Tischbein distinctly says {loc. cit.) that 

 the mesonotum is short, abruptly declived and similar to that of Tragus ; 

 indeed, since the erection of the tribe Joppides, /. aulicus appears to 

 scarcely merit generic rank, as it differs from Hoplismenus only in the 

 extended hypopygium. 



I. aulicus, Grav. 



Ichneumon anlicus, Grav. I. E. i. 562, 6. Hoplismenus aulicus, Wesm. Bui. Ac. 

 Brux. 1857, p. 396; Tisch. Stett. Zeit. 1874, p. 139, i. Hyhophoriis aulicus, Tisch. 

 lib. cit. 1875, P- 281; Berth. Ann. Soc. Fr. 1896, p. 291, 6 9. I. Jlavipetiolattis, 

 Tisch. Stett. Zeit. 1873, i> - Var. /. auxilifer, Tisch. lib. cit. 1876 ; Berth. Ann. Soc. 

 Fr. 1894, p. 591, (J. 



