156 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 



48. stigmatorius, Zett. 



IcJuieuiitoii deceplor, var. 4, Gr. I. E. i 336, ? . /. ereiiiitaloiiiis, Zett. I. L. 364, 

 S. I. stigiiiatoriHs, Zett. I. L. 364, ? ; Holmgr. Ichn. Suec. i. 116 ; Berth. Ann. Soc. 

 Fr. 1894, jj. 5S1, i 9 ; cf. Thonis. O. E. xviii. 1942. (?) /. pahiematm, Tisch. Stett. 

 Zeit. 1879, 9 , Var. /. igiiolnlis, Wesm. Biil. Ac. Brux. 1855, p. 375, 9 . Var. /. dolostts, 

 Wesm. lib. cit. p. 404, 9 . ' 



Head a little narrowed behind the eyes, coarsely punctate ; clypeus 

 somewhat depressed centrally and slightly emarginate apically ; entirely 

 black, with cribrary organs only in part pale. Antennae normally attenu- 

 ate, rather stout ; first flagellar joint twice longer than broad, eighth sub- 

 quadrate ; rufescent basally, white-banded ; of $ entirely black. Thorax 

 coarsely punctate, immaculate ; areola a little broader than long. Scu- 

 tellum convex, black or more often apically or even entirely rosy. 

 Abdomen only partly black, with apex of segment one, whole of two and 

 three, and in $ rarely of four, red ; ? with six and seven white-marked 

 and somewhat retracted ; post-petiole aciculately scabriculous, laterally 

 sub-rugose with the angles obtuse ; gastrocaeli transverse, somewhat deep, 

 sub-linear, intervening space slightly narrower than centre of post-petiole. 

 Legs somewhat slender, black ; with tibiae, tarsi and apices of femora red, 

 hind ones usually apically black. Wings very slightly clouded ; tegulae 

 rufescent or piceous, stigma fuscous in (J, fulvous in $ ; areolet wide 

 above. Length, 7-12 mm. 



Thomson gives the following observations, which may or may not apply 

 to the present species : — 5 vertex of head narrow ; the apically truncate 

 clypeus and cheeks very closely punctate ; antennae thin ; sides of pro- 

 notum not striolate ; meso-pleurae very densely punctate ; metathoracic 

 spiracles not small ; post-petiole closely striolate centrally ; thyridii rather 

 deep and nearly transverse: $ ( = varr. 3 et 4, Holmgr.) with joints six 

 to fourteen of flagellum with elevated carinae ; face and clypeus rarely 

 entirely, generally partly, flavous ; segments two and three flavidous-red ; 

 front femora sometimes entirely, intermediate broadly at apex, red ; hind 

 tarsi pale red, apically fuscous. Berthoumieu's var. pallidus is an extreme 

 form of the $ with palpi, mandibles, clypeus, face and scape beneath, flavous. 



The variety of this species with the scutellum wholly, and third segment 

 apically, black is ^Vesmae^s I. igiiobilis ; and that with scutellum and 

 tibiae wholly red is his /. dolosiis. Bridgman records it from Britain, 

 taken at Kingussie, in coll. Cameron {cf. Trans. Ent. Soc. i88r, p. 144). 

 In Sweden it is not rare, in August and September, in grassy places and 

 among undergrowth in woods, where the female hibernates in moss. Un- 

 doubtedly a northern species, extending from Lapland to Hungary and 

 Germany. 



49. vulneratorius, Zett. 



Ichneumon vulneratorius, Zett. I. L. 364 ; Thorns. O. E. xviii. 1943, 9 ; Holmgr. 

 Ichn. Suec. i. 119 ; Berth. Ann. Soc. Fr. 1894, p. 581, c? 9 . /. rubedinis, Desv. Cat. 

 29, 9; cf. Mori. E. M. M. 1902, p. 123. /. Dahlbomi, Wesm. Bui. Ac. Brux. 1857, 

 p. 38o> ? • 



Head narrowed posteriorly, impressed behind the ocelli, cheeks apically 

 smooth, clypeus distinctly discreted by a transverse fossa ; black, with the 

 cribrary organs partly, and in $ very often the frontal orbits and a badious 

 facial mark beneath the antennae, red. Antennae black ; in 5 sub-filiform, 

 white-banded, only slightly attenuate apically and centrally thickened, 



