174 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 



7. funereus, Fourc. 



IchuetiiHonfuitefetis, Fourc. E. P. ii. 406 ; (Jr. I. E. i. 205 ; Ste. III. M. vii. 148 ; excl. 

 $. I. peri/eitais, Gr. I. E. i. 227 ; Stc. 111. >r. vii. 152, excl. ?. Ainblyteles funereus, 

 Wesm. Nouv. Mem. Ac. Ikux. 1844, p. 136; Vm\. Ac. IJru.x. 1854, p. 131; Holmgr. 

 Ichn. Suec. ii. 270; Berth. Ann. Soc. Fr. 1S95, p. 591, i ?. Cratuhiieiiiiio)i funereus. 

 Thorns. O. E. xix. 2087, (5 9. 



A black species with white markings. Head pilose, cheeks and temples 

 a little dilated ; $ with facial orbits and sometimes two dots on the clypeus 

 white, rarely entirely black. Antennae somewhat slender, setaceous, black; 

 of ? white-banded, of c? with flagellar joints sub-dentate. Thorax black, 

 $ with lines before and beneath radix white ; areola quadrate or slightly 

 transverse, hardly emarginate posteriorly; costulae sub-obsolete; apophyses 

 tuberculiform. Scutellum white. Abdomen alutaceous, black ; the central 

 segments rarely obscurely castaneous or badious ; post-petiole aciculate, 

 bicarinate, apical angles rounded ; gastrocaeli large and deep, intervening 

 space about as broad as centre of post-petiole, coarsely striolate ; no 

 ventral segment plicate. Legs normal, black ; anterior legs of $ with 

 tibiae and tarsi partly ferrugineous, of $ with femora internally and tibiae 

 and tarsi white ; hind tibiae of $ variable, but usually with a white mark 

 towards the base, of $ broadly basally white-banded ; coxae immaculate. 

 Wings somewhat clouded ; stigma fulvous or piceous ; tegulae of $, white, 

 sometimes black-margined. Length, 11-15 mm. 



This species occurs on bushes, in June, and on the flowers of garden 

 carrot, in September ; it appears to be widely distributed but not very 

 common on the Continent ; the female hibernates among moss. Stephens 

 says it was taken rarely, at Darenth Wood, in July ; it is also recorded 

 from Alphington and Bickleigh, in Devon, early in July ; Essex ; and a 

 single male from Eaton, near Norwich. Mr. Beaumont has a specimen 

 in his collection from Bury St. Edmunds ; but it has not yet been bred, 

 though Mr. Bignell possesses a male, received from Ireland, which was 

 " captured hawking over Sesia apiformis" 



8. fossorius, Grav. 



Ichneumon fossorius, Gr. Mem, Ac. Sc. Torin, 1S20, p. 2IO, excll. synon. et cJ ; I. 

 E. i. 164, excll. (? et var. 3, ?; Ste. 111. M. vii. 139 (part.). Ainhlyleles fossorius, 

 Wesm. Bui. Ac. Brux. 1848, p. 301, 9 ; lib. cit. 1854, p. 125, excll. varr. part. ; Holmgr. 

 Ichn. Suec. ii. 262, excl. synon. ; Thorns. Ann. Soc. Fr. 1888, p. 120 ; Berth, lib. cit. 

 1895, p. 587, excl. var. I, d 9 . Var. I. pallipes, Cir. I. E. i. 233, excl. 9 ; /. ferileucus, 

 var. I, (jr. lib. cit. 228, 9. Var. A. flavator, Tisch. Stett, Zeit. 18S1, i. 



Head black, cheeks and temples moderately dilated ; facial orbits some- 

 times white. Antennae somewhat stout, setaceous, black ; of ? attenuate 

 towards apex, white-banded with the third and fourth flagellar joints sub- 

 quadrate ; of $ sometimes rufescent beneath, joints sub-dentate. Thorax 

 black, often with a white line below radix; areola transverse or sub-quadrate, 

 rectangular ; apophyses wanting ; spiracles short. Scutellum white, some- 

 what convex. Abdomen entirely black; post-petiole aciculate; gastrocaeli 

 and thyridii large, deep and rugose, with the intervening space aciculate ; 

 $ with the fourth ventral segment not plicate and the hypopygium apically 

 rounded. Legs black ; femora red, more rarely black, the hind pair some- 

 what long ; posterior tibiae basally stramineous. Wings a little clouded 

 with the stigma red or piceous. Length, 12-17 '''^''''^- 



