130 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 



tonus, var. 14, Wesni. Nouv. M6m. Ac. Brux 1844, p. 57, 9. /■ coiidnualoriiis, Ste. 

 111. M. vii. 166 9. (?) /. fulvosaitellatiis, Ste. loc. cit. 162; cf. Mori. E.M.M. 1902, 

 p. 120. 



Again we have the species with three anal pale marks, but that on the 

 fifth segment is now smaller than the following. 



Head pilose, black, a little narrowed beliind the eyes ; ? frontal 

 orbits and apices of mandibles and palpi red or flavescent ; <? with palpi, 

 mandibles, clyi)eus and face flavous. Antennae of $ stout, somewhat 

 attenuate apically, white-banded ; those of $ are entirely black, with 

 joints six to twenty finely carinate internally. Thorax stout, black ; scu- 

 tellum, sometimes post-scutellum in c?, and pronotum in both sexes flavous; 

 the lines at the rufescent radix being narrowly flavidous in <? ; metathorax 

 rather narrowed in $ , with rough {)uncturation, areola longer than broad, 

 in (? gradually narrowed towards the emarginate apex ; costulae wanting. 

 Abdomen oblong-oval in ?, elongate-elliptic in $ ; post-petiole aciculate, 

 gastrocaeli large and somewhat deep ; $ with segments two and three 

 fulvous or red, the latter with a black basal mark, five to seven with white 

 marks that on fifth being very small ; $ with segments two and three, 

 often base of four, and apex of first flavous, the third being sub-quadrate 

 with a basal, and rarely a lateral, black margin. Legs stout, black ; 

 anterior femora of $ mostly pale, the tibiae fulvous, hind ones in part 

 black ; all the tarsi red or flavous, those of $ only being very rarely 

 slightly marked with black, and its front coxae rarely with flavous; hind 

 coxae of ? not scopuliferous. Wings flavescent, stigma fulvous. Length, 

 15-18 mm. 



Both sexes of this species may be known by the flavous posterior tarsi, 

 the posterior femora red before the base only, the more strongly punctate 

 mesonotum, the longer pleurae and temples, thicker fulvo-griseous pubes- 

 cence, rugosely punctate metathorax whose areola is narrowed behind, and 

 the flavous scutellum and wings; the $ has three narrow citrinous anal 

 marks of which the first is the smallest, posterior femora very closely 

 punctate with the inner edge only smooth below, the third segment with 

 a basal black fascia ; the $ has the scutellum convex, the flagellum black 

 of which joints six to fifteen bear distinct raised lines, face and frontal 

 orbits flavous, the post-petiole with the central area sparsely but strongly 

 striate, hardly broader than the lateral. 



Gravenhorst took the $ from Angelica sylvestris, in September ; it 

 hibernates in moss. Stephens says it is not uncommon about London, 

 at the end of the summer. He again describes the ? under the name 

 /. concinnatoriw;, which differs only from his previous description of /. 

 tenninator-ius^ in having the margin of the pronotum yellow and the tarsal 

 joints apically infuscate ; he evidently considered it distinct, however, 

 since he says it is a " splendid species, taken near London, but very rare." 

 The pale vertical orbits, never found in the genus Ichneumon {sensu 

 Thoms.), would appear to render it distinct ; I suspect, however, that this 

 is a lapsus calami and should read " orbitis frontalibus pallidis." Found 

 commonly in woods and pastures on the Continent. Donisthorpe has 

 found it at Rossbeigh, Co. Kerry, in June {cf. "Irish Naturalist," 1903, 

 p. 68) ; I have taken it on Angelica flowers, ALatley Bog, on August 7th, 

 and Miss Chawner has also taken it in the New Forest. Bignell tells me 

 he has bred it from Agrotis hicernea. 



