82 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 



Stephens did not find this species, which is widely distributed though 

 rare on the Continent, in Britain. Mr. Bradley has taken both sexes at 

 Sutton, near Birmingham, in July and September ; it is recorded from 

 Essex ; and I have found it on flowers of Ani^e/ica sy/vesiris, at Matley 

 Bog, in the New Forest, towards the end of August. It does not appear 

 to have been bred ; the female hibernates in moss, &c. 



9. erythraeus, Grav. 



lilineiiiiion erythraeus, Gr. Mem. Ac. Sc. Torin, 1820, p. 357 ; I. E. i. 632 ; Ste. 

 111. M. vii. 206. $ ; Wesm. Mem. couron. Ac. Belg. 1859, p. 80 ; Berth. Ann. Soc. Fr. 

 1895, p. 229, i 9 . 



$ . Head narrowed behind eyes, anteriorly red ; internal and external 

 orbits whitish. Antennae very slender, filiform ; white-banded. Thorax 

 cylindrical, red or reddish, with its sides and the vicinity of the scutellum 

 black ; humeral marks and post-scutellum white ; areola sub-hexagonal, 

 apically emarginate. Scutellum red, apically white. Abdomen elliptic, 

 black ; segments one to four red ; seventh entirely, fifth and sixth apically 

 white ; post-petiole finely aciculate ; gastrocaeli small ; terebra exserted. 

 Legs piceous ; coxae white-marked, the anterior sometimes red ; femora 

 slender, anterior internally flavous ; front tibiae pale beneath ; hind coxae 

 not scopuliferous. Wings a little clouded ; stigma piceous ; tegulae red- 

 dish with a flavous dot ; areolet in both sexes sub-deltoid. 



$ . Palpi, mandibles, face, and nearly all the orbits, white. Antennae 

 centrally white-banded ; ferrugineous, with the scape white, beneath. 

 Thorax red ; a line on the meso-, two dots on the metanotum, and the 

 vicinity of the scutellum black ; pronotum, mesosternum and humeral 

 lines, white ; areola semi-elliptic. Scutellum white, basally reddish. Ab- 

 domen black ; segments two to four and the finely aciculate post-petiole 

 red ; sixth apically, seventh entirely, last ventral segment and valvulae, 

 white ; gastrocaeli normal, though shallow. Legs reddish ; coxae in part, 

 tibiae beneath, and apical tarsal joints basally, white ; the remainder of 

 tarsi and coxae black. Length, 8-10 mm. 



The c? very rarely has the clypeus discreted by a black mark, the scu- 

 tellum entirely red, and the legs black, the front ones laterally flavous and 

 the anterior coxae mostly white. 



The small gastrocaeli and sub-hexagonal areola approximate this species 

 to Melanic/uteianon, from which its colour cannot be considered sufficient 

 basis for separation. 



Very scarce ; taken in June, near London (Stephens) ; captured at Plym 

 Bridge, Devon, 27th May (Bignell). Widely distributed in Central Europe ; 

 the female hibernates in moss. It appears to have been much mixed in 

 British collections with the following species. 



10. sanguinator, Rossi. 



Ichneumon san^t^iiinator, Rossi, Mant. ii. App. n. 85 ; Gr. I. E. iii. 918, ? ; Berth. 

 Ann. .Soc. Fr. 1895, p. 230, ,5 9. /. riijicollis, Ste. 111. M. vii. 206, 9 ; cf. Mori. E.M.M. 

 1902, p. 121. /. discrepator, Wesm. Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux. 1S44, P- 102, i 9. Cryptus 

 sanguinator, Desv. Cat. 58, 9 ; (/• Bridg. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 142. 



? . Head much less narrowed posteriorly than in the preceding ; 

 anteriorly, vertically and at the external orbits, red ; frontal and vertical 



