Il8 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 



and trochanters) and the hind tarsi red ; hind coxae not scopuliferous. 

 Wings sub-hyaline, stigma and tegulae red. Length, 8-11 mm. 



First joint of flagellum nearly twice longer than broad, five and six sub- 

 quadrate ; metanotum punctate-scabriculous, with only three distinct upper 

 areae ; post-petiole a little elevated between the spiracles, the central area 

 finely aciculate, narrower than the space between the small and not trans- 

 verse gastrocaeli, which is strongly and roughly punctate. 



This species may be at once distinguished from the rest of the section 

 by its small size, the fifth segment pale-marked in the $ , the' sixth and 

 seventh in both sexes. 



From his /. decipiens, with which Holmgren confused it, the apically 

 pale-marked abdomen of the $ at once renders it distinct, as do the 

 narrow and not transverse gastrocaeli from /. viultipictiis. 



Apparently very rare ; found in July, near London, and in Norfolk 

 (Stephens, whose description of the $ , taken direct from Gravenhorst, is 

 probably correct) ; Bignell and Bridgman, however, in the very full lists of 

 their respective districts, make no mention of it ; nor does the latter refer 

 to Stephens' Norfolk record, which he consequently, probably, considered 

 unreliable. 



7. multipictus, Grav. 



Ichneumon mnltipictns, Gr. Mem. Ac. Sc. Torin, 1820, p. 312 ; I. E. i. 347 ; Wesm. 

 M6m. couion. Ac. Belg. 1859, p. 43 ; Thorns. O. E. xviii. 1927 ; Berth. Ann. Soc. Fr. 

 1894, p. 658, ? . 



Very similar to /. latrator, from which it differs primarily in the white 

 scutellum and stouter form. Head black, broader than thorax ; apex 

 of maxillary palpi and mandibles fulvous, latter apically black ; juxta- 

 antennal orbits shortly fiavous. Antennae filiform, white-banded above ; 

 scape fulvous beneath, first six joints red, apical ones piceous above. 

 Thorax black, pronotum red ; areola quadrate, costulae indistinct. Scu- 

 tellum white. Abdomen black ; post-petiole very broad and very finely 

 aciculate centrally, punctate laterally; gastrocaeli shallow, transverse linear; 

 segments one to three red, a little deplanate ; six and seven white-marked. 

 Legs black ; tibiae and tarsi red ; hind legs with all the articulations in 

 part red. Wings somewhat clouded ; stigma stramineous, tegulae fuscous. 

 Length, 6-7 mm. S unknown. 



It differs from the continental /. grains, Wesm., in the somewhat 

 slender mandibles, the quadrate areola, whose costulae are more distinct, 

 the small metathoracic spiracles and in the thyridii, which are nearly 

 broader than the intervening space. 



I do not know Marshall's authority for this as a British species, but it is 

 recorded from Essex, and Bignell has taken it at Cann Wood and Bickleigh, 

 in Devon, on March 6th, probably in moss. It appears to be rare on the 

 Continent, being recorded only from Piedmont and Holstein. 



8. latrator, Fah. 



Ichneumon latrator^ Fab. S. I. i. 431, cj ; Gr. I. E. i. 572, excl varr. et ? ; Ste. 111. 

 M. vii. 200, i ; Wesm. Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux. 1844, p 63, excl. varr. I et 2 ; Bui. Ac. 

 Brux. 1848, p. 162 ; Ruthe, Stett. Zeit. 1859, p. 363 ; Ilolmgr. Ichn. Suec. i. 87 ; S. v. 

 Voll. Pinac. pi. xxxvi. ff. 4 et 5 ; Thonis. O. E. xviii. 1928 et xxi. 2395 ; Ann. Soc. Fr. 

 1887, p. 9 ; Berth. /. c. 1895, p. 576, 6 9. I. crassipes, Gmel. S. N. i. 2709, ? ; Gr. 

 I. E. i. 622 ; Ste. 111. M. vii. 206, ?. Var. /. elegans, Gr. I. E. i. 571 ; Wesm. M6m. 



