6o BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 



Berthoumieu considers the typical S, which would appear to be /. 

 zephyrus^ Wesm., has no white antennal band, and that the banded form 

 always has the face red, not stramineous-marked, and the post-petiole 

 aciculate. 



Colonel Yerbury has given me a female, which he took at The Mound, 

 in Sutherland, on 8th August, 1900. This has the frontal orbits (as 

 described by Grav.) and vertical dots testaceo-rufous ; clypeus and mouth 

 badious ; upper lateral metathoracic areae glabrous with large, individual 

 punctures and distinctly discreted by the costulae ; scutellum black ; ab- 

 domen, except anus, black with apical margins of the two basal segments, 

 and the thyridii, castaneous ; agreeing in other respects well with the above 

 description ; its contour is that of a small C. annulator. 



Stephens says it has been taken rarely near London, and, he thinks, in 

 Wiltshire, but it is doubtful whether much reliance may be placed upon 

 his record, since Gravenhorst's male may have belonged to a distinct 

 species. Neither Bridgman nor Bignell took it, and it does not appear to 

 have been bred. On the Continent it ranges from France to Sweden, 

 where it is not infrequent, in August. 



9. fabricator, Fab. 



Ichneumon fabricator, Fab. E. S. ii. 166 ; Piez. 68, i ; Gr. I. E. i. 185 ; Ste. 111. M. 

 vii. 143 ; Zett. I. L. 360, i 9 (part.); Lab. und Imh. I. S. ii. 22, S ; Wesm. Nouv. 

 M^m. Ac. Brux 1844, p. 69 ; Bui Ac. Brux. 1848, p. 168, excl. varr. 11 et 12 ; Ratz. 

 Ichn. d. Forst. iii. 169 ; Holmgr. Ichn. Suec. i. 142 ; Thorns. Ann. Soc. Fr. 1887, p. 

 12 ; Berlh. lib. cit. 1895, p. 259, i, ? . Cratichneninon fabricator, Thorns. O. E. xviii. 

 1951. /. versicolor, Gmel, S N. i. 2700. /. leitcostoina, Gniel. lib. cit. 2702. /. 

 quadricolor, Gmel. lib. cit. 2702. /. maciilifrons, Ste. 111. M. vii. 133, S. I. fulvipes, 

 Ste. lib. cit. 144, S. I. Hartigii, Ratz. Ichn. d. Forst. i. 133 ; ii. 132, i. I. extincttis, 

 Ratz. lib. cit. i. 133, cf. iii. 164,?. Var. /. albifrons, Ste. 111. M. vii. 144. /. ini- 

 piignator, Wesm. Nouv. M6m. Ac. Brux. 1844, p. 72, i . Var. /. spiracularis, Tisch. 

 Stett. Zeit. 1881, £. Var. (?) /. dissiinilis, Gr. I. E. i. 190, e.xcl. 9 . 



$ . Much more nitidulous, especially on the mesonotum, than the 

 rubricosus group. Head black, palpi fuscous, labrum and mandibles 

 generally red; temples and cheeks broad. Antennae short and very stout, 

 central band white, the remainder black, piceous or dark ferrugineous 

 beneath. Thorax immaculate, somewhat dorsally deplanate ; metathorax 

 finely scabriculous, with three well-defined upper areae ; areola quadrate 

 or slightly longer than broad. Scutellum black. Abdomen ovate, usually 

 more or less castaneous ; post-petiole broad, aciculate-alutaceous, carinae 

 not elevated ; second segment transverse, evenly punctate, shining ; thy- 

 ridii transverse, distinct ; gastrocaeli nearly wanting, rugose ; abdomen 

 becoming smoother posteriorly ; terebra somewhat incrassate, hardly ex- 

 tending beyond apex of seventh segment. Legs red, piceous or black ; 

 coxae and base of trochanters black; all the tibiae somewhat thickened and 

 externally broadly white in the centre ; hind tarsi and tibiae at the apex, 

 or base and apex, blackish, sometimes red ; the hind coxae are punctate 

 beneath, and elevated longitudinally on the inner side, the elevation 

 bearing a large, fuscous scopula. Radix, tegulae and stigma piceous ; 

 radial nervure very little inflexed at the apex. 



$. Head black; palpi, mandibles and clypeus stramineous; cheeks 

 very short; face either entirely flavous, flavous with black markings, or black 

 with the orbits flavous; the frons black, its orbits being sometimes flavous; 

 the exterior orbits, too, are very narrowly flavidous, but are always dis- 



