BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. I79 



Torksey on Trent, all in June ; Walker records it from the Isle of Man ; 

 Tuck has found it late in September, in Finborough Park, in Suffolk ; Luff 

 in Alderney ; Hamm at Wellington College, in Berks., in August, and 

 Shotover, near Oxford ; Sladen at St. Margaret's Bay, in July ; Essex ; and 

 the males have occurred to me upon several occasions, always early in 

 August, at Foxhall and Bramford, near Ipswich, on flowers. On the Con- 

 tinent, where it is common upon umbelliferae and Euphorbiae, in June, 

 and upon shrubs, in August, it is widely distributed and extends to 

 Algeria. It is said to have been bred from Nonagria sparganii and 

 Hadena adnsta. 



15. haereticus, M'esin. 



Ichneunioi iiielaiiogaster, var. I, Gr. I. E. i. 210, ?. Ainhlytelcs haereticus, Wesm. 

 Bui. Ac. Biux. 1854, p. 120; lib. cit. 1857. p. 401, 9 ; Kriech. Ann K. K. nat. Ilofnius, 

 1888, i ; Berth. Ann. Soc. Yx. 1895, p. 596, i 9 • 



Head slightly narrower than thorax ; ? with cheeks broad, face and 

 clypeus coarsely punctate, the former produced dentately between the 

 scapes, internal orbits sometimes pale ; $ with facial orbits white. An- 

 tennae somewhat slender, setaceous, apically attenuate ; of ? white-banded 

 with the ninth flagellar joint quadrate. Thorax somewhat shining, black 

 with a callosity beneath, and in cJ a line before, the radix usually white or 

 flavidous ; areola rectangular, slightly broader than long, apically truncate; 

 costulae and apophyses wanting ; coxal area entire ; spiracles linear. Scu- 

 tellum stramineous, hardly convex, sparsely punctate. Abdomen sub- 

 obtuse, of $ broad-elliptical, dull black ; segments two and three very 

 finely and closely punctate, sometimes badious ; remainder immaculate, 

 smooth and nitidulous ; post-petiole aciculate ; gastrocaeli deep, rugose, 

 somewhat large, and as broad as the aciculate intervening space ; fourth 

 ventral segment not plicate. Legs normal, black ; of 5 with anterior 

 femora and tibiae internally stramineous, of $ with the anterior and often 

 the base of the posterior tibiae ferrugineous. Wings somewhat flavescent, 

 stigma fulvous ; radix and tegulae black, of $ flavous-marked. Length, 

 14-16 mm. 



The female very strongly resembles that of Amhiyteles indocilis in 

 general outline and colour, but the anus is immaculate and, in the example 

 in my collection, the sculpture of the thorax and base of the abdomen is 

 much stronger. 



This species is found in central Europe and has not before been re- 

 corded from Britain ; it preys upon Vanessa ur/icae and Agrotis comes. 

 Miss Chawner has kindly given me a female wliich she captured recently 

 in the New Forest. 



16. flavocinctus, Desv. 



Ichneumon flavocinctus, Desv. Cat. 22. i . Amhiyteles flavocinctus, Bridg. Trans. 

 Ent Soc. 1881. p. 144 ; Berth. Ann. Soc. Fr. 1895, P- 653, i. (?) A. al/tomarginatus, 

 Kriech. Ent. Nachr. 1878; Bcilh. Ann. Soc. Kr. 1895, p. 622, i. 



A finely punctate, yellow and black species. Head black, rounded be- 

 hind the eyes ; internal orbits and a broad, sinuate, often incomplete line 

 on the sub-truncate clypeus, the palpi and labrum, flavous ; mandibles 

 bidentate. Antennae somewhat stout, apically attenuate, internally some- 

 what strongly serrate especially towards the base, about half length of the 



