BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. I59 



1895, p. 573, 6 ?• lihiicitiuou cxiilans, Gr. I. E. i. 522, i. I. ischioxauthits, Gr. lib. 

 cit. 330; Wesm. Mem. couron. Ac. Belg. 1S59, p. 39, i. E.xepliaiies subuiidits, Tisch. 

 Stett. Zeit. 1881, ?. 



Contour slender in both sexes. Head narrowed behind eyes, black ; 

 face slightly prominent longitudinally in the centre, terminating in an 

 obtuse tooth between the scapes ; clypeus hardly discreted, truncate, of 

 5 glabrous with deep isolated punctures and a small apical fovea in the 

 centre, of $ closely sculptured ; ? with frontal orbits red, $ with man- 

 dibles except their apices, palpi, clypeus and face, white. Antennae 

 slender, setaceous, of ? white-banded, of $ with scape white, and fla- 

 gellum more or less rufescent, beneath. Thorax finely punctate, some- 

 what shining, black ; $ with tegulae, adjacent linear callosities, and 

 pronotum, white ; metanotum with but three areae of which the areola 

 is longer than broad in ? , or sub-quadrate in $, finely scabrous with the 

 costae fine. Scutellum flat in 9 > sub-convex in $ ; punctate, white. 

 Abdomen closely punctate, black; of $ apically compressed laterally, 

 of c^ linear, equilateral ; segments two, three and often base of fourth, 

 red, in $ rarely dorsally black-marked and always quadrate ; sixth, 

 seventh, and rarely also fifth, apically white in ? only ; post-petiole 

 finely and densely aciculate, of $ narrow ; gastrocaeli very small, hardly 

 discernible ; $ with two to four ventral segments plicate ; $ valvulae 

 laterally sinuate. Legs slender pale red ; coxae, trochanters, hind femora, 

 tarsi and apices of their tibiae, black ; coxae closely punctate, simple. 

 Wings hyaline, stigma flavous. Length, 10-12 mm. 



The female is probably not uncommon in tufts of grass, in the winter, 

 though I have seen but one English male ; Luff has, however, sent them 

 to me from Guernsey and Alderney. Stephens tells us it is not un- 

 common near London, in June ; Bignell took it at Whitsand Bay and 

 Egloskerry, in Cornwall, in July, at Bickleigh, on 6th May, and Hope 

 found it at Netley ; Beaumont has taken it at Boxhill, in the middle of 

 March, as well as at Plymouth and Headley Lane ; Rev. F. D. Morice, at 

 Effingham, in Surrey, early in June, and in Kent ; Davies, in Cornwall ; 

 Richardson, at Bloxworth, in July ; and Sladen a male at Kingsdown, also 

 in July. It has been bred from Miami arcuosa diwA Tapinostola elymi ; 

 and is widely distributed on the Continent. 



2. occupator, Grav. 



Fihncninon occupator, Gr. I. E. i. 425; Ste. 111. M. vii. 183, ij. Exephanes occu- 

 pator, Wesm. Nouv. M($m. Ac. Brux. 1844, p. 17 ; Biil. Ac. Briix. 1848, p. 141 ; Mem. 

 couron. Ac. Belg. 1S59. p. 47 ; Holmgr. Ichn. Suec. i. 8 ; Ent. Tidskr. 1880. p. 23 ; 

 Berlh. Ann. Soc. Fr. 1895, p. 575 ; Thorns. O. E. xviii. 1S97. 6 9 . Ichneniiton ex- 

 tensorius, var. 5, Gr. I. E. i. 270,?. /. veiiiistus, Tisch. Stett. Zeit. i8Si,c5. Var. 

 /. containinattts, Gr. I. E. i. 391, {,. 



Head black, punctate, narrowed behind eyes ; vertex obliquely de- 

 pressed, broadly but not deeply emarginate ; clypeus apically truncate ; 

 $ with frontal orbits usually rufescent, $ with [)alpi piceous, mandil)les 

 and labrum often, as well as the facial orbits flavous. Antennae slender, 

 setaceous, black ; of ? white-banded, of $ ferrugineous throughout 

 beneath. Thorax coarsely punctate, entirely black ; metanotal areae 

 complete, areola (juadrate ; spiracles linear. Scutellum flavous ; of ? flat, 

 of ^ slightly convex and often basally black. Abdomen of 9 fusiform 



