12 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 



costae strong, areae complete ; areola transverse, narrowed basally and 

 truncate apically ; posterior area tri-divided and transversely wrinkled ; 

 spiracles linear. Scutellum conical, finely punctate and pilose, shining, 

 concavely declived behind vertically, bright flavous ; basal carinae strong, 

 coalescing truncately in a fine cosla across the vertex. Abdomen sub-ovate, 

 apically obtuse, distinctly margined, not very coarsely and alutaceously 

 punctate, black ; incisures and thyridii ferrugineous ; post-petiole stout, 

 its carinae strong, central area shagreened, with a transverse row of five 

 distinct (and perhaps accidental) punctures before the apex, its spiracles 

 somewhat large and oval ; gastrocaeli normal, deep and striate ; thyridii 

 oblique ; ventral segments 2-5 with a ferrugineous fold. Legs normal, 

 piceous ; coxae and trochanters black ; anterior femora and tibiae testa- 

 ceous internally. Wings milky-hyaline ; stigma, radix and tegulae piceous ; 

 areolet broadly pentagonal. Length, 10 mm. S- 



The male above described was recently taken in the New Forest by 

 Miss Ethel Chawner, who has kindly presented me with the type, together 

 with a large number of other parasitic Hymenoptera. I have seen no 

 female of this very distinct species. 



AUTOMALUS, Wes?mieL 

 Wesm. Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux. 1844, pp. iii, 144; Tragus, Gr. I.E. ii. p. 371 (part). 



Head sub-tumidous ; cheeks and temples a little buccate ; mandibles with 

 two stout apical teeth ; clypeus with the apex mutic and the lateral angles 

 rotund ; labrum nearly invisible. Antennae setaceous, of S attenuate 

 beyond centre. Thorax robust, strongly punctate ; mesothorax evenly 

 rounded in front ; metathorax rugose, short ; dentiparal area transverse, 

 coxal wanting; spiracles linear. Scutellum centrally elevated, sub-pyramidal ; 

 sides and apex distinctly bordered. Abdomen elongate, obtuse, sub- 

 equilateral, segments not laterally bordered ; second segment only ventrally 

 plicate ; post-petiole rugose ; gastrocaeli large ; hypopygium covering base 

 of terebra. Legs slender ; scopulae wanting. Wings normal ; areolet 

 deltoid ; radial nervure incurved at base and apex. 



M. Duprez mentions an hermaphrodite of A. albogiiitatiis in Ann. Soc. 

 Entom. Belgique, 1896, p. 507. 



I. alboguttatus, Grav. 



Tragus alhogutlatus, Gr. I. E. ii. 373 ; cf. Siippl. i. 695 ; Ste. 111. M. vii. 269 ; 

 Boie, Kroy. Tids. 1840, p. 317 ; Ratz. Ichn. d. Forst. i. 131. Automalus alhogtitlatus, 

 Wesm. Nouv. M(^m. Ac. Brux. 1844, p. 144; Bui. Ac. Brux. 1854, p. 136; Holmgr. 

 Ichn. Suec. i. 286 ; Berth. Ann. Soc. Fr. 1896 ; p. 294, i "i ; cf. Thorns, lib. cit. 1888, 

 p. 121. Amhlyteles dimidiativentris, Rud. Ent. Nachr. 1888. Ichneumon ballicus, 

 Ratz. Ichn. d. Forst. i. 135, i ? . 



A rather large, shining, black species, boldly marked with white. Head 

 black, finely punctate, with long white pubescence ; the scrobes large and 

 shining ; $ alone has the palpi, a mandibular and genal mark, two on the 

 clypeus, the facial and frontal orbits, white. Antennae inserted high on 

 forehead ; of $ black, sub-dentate, of ? with a flavous band. Thorax 

 somewhat strongly punctate, dull ; generally with the callosities at radix 

 white ; metanotum strongly rugose, the upper areae complete, of which 

 the areola is elevated, sub-circular, and anteriorly rounded. Scutellum 



