igG BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 



The ($ differs from that of / sarcitorius in having the fourth flagellar 

 joint hardly longer than broad, the temples pilose, the cheeks a little 

 longer, hind tibiae not broadly black, and above all in the fourth ventral 

 segment nearly entirely black, not plicate and the hypopygium in the 

 centre apically sub-spinate. 



Stephens seems to have known the female of this species well, but 

 says he had only seen four examples ; it was recorded from England by 

 Fabricius and is capitally figured by l)Oth Curtis and Stephens. It is 

 recorded from the London district, and Marshall, in whose collection is a 

 specimen from Aberdeen, took it at Lastingham, in Yorks. ; a female has 

 also been bred in the Huddersfield district, and Mr. Bignell has an 

 example captured, at Dulwich, on 6th September. It is rather widely 

 distributed on the Continent, where it is found in woods, gardens and 

 meadows, and has been bred from Polyphoenis sericata and Agrotis 

 linogrisea. 



14. cerinthius, Grav. 



Ichneumon cerinthius, Gr. Mem. Ac. Sc. Torin, 1820, p. 303 ; I. E. i. 284 ; Ste. 111. 

 M. vii. 161, 9. Amblyteles cerinthius. Marsh. E.M.M. 1878, p. 278; Bridg.-Fitch, 

 Enlom. 1881, p. 78, (5 ? ; Berth. Ann. Soc. Fr. 1895, p. 638, ?. 



5 . Head somewhat small and hardly narrowed behind the eyes, 

 black; cheeks somewhat broad; mouth parts ferrugineous ; clypeus hardly 

 discreted from, and a little more sparsely punctate than, the face, apically 

 truncate with the lateral angles rufescent ; frons and occiput somewhat 

 coarsely punctate ; frontal orbits clear red. Antennae filiform, apically 

 attenuate, black ; seventh to twelfth flagellar joints clear stramineous 

 throughout, fifth to seventh infuscate. Thorax black, somewhat closely 

 punctate and dull ; a line beneath the radix indistinctly flavous ; meta- 

 notum scabriculously punctate, costae sub-obsolete ; areola longer than 

 broad, apically emarginate ; apophyses strongly obtuse. Scutellum finely 

 punctate, nitidulous; apically truncate and, except at its base, stramineous; 

 pcst-scutellum also apically flavous. Abdomen broader than thorax, sub- 

 ovate, apically obtuse, black ; basal half of second, and dots at basal lateral 

 angles and another in centre of third, segment bright flavous ; seventh 

 obsoletely rufescent ; post-petiole only basally bicarinate, distinctly acicu- 

 late with the apex centrally glabrous ; second and third segments finely 

 and closely punctate, former with gastrocaeli of normal size and depth, 

 thyridii transverse ; the intervening space flat, finely aciculate and slightly 

 broader than centre of post-petiole ; fourth and following segments nitidu 

 lous and sub-glabrous ; ventral segments two, three and the obsolete fold 

 on fourth rufescent, the hypopygium setigerous and apically rounded ; 

 terebra ferrugineous, not exserted. Legs normal, black ; all the tarsi, their 

 onyches, and the apices of the anterior femora, clear red ; tibiae rufescent, 

 centrally flavidous, the hind pair apically piceous. Wings distinctly nar- 

 row, somewhat flavescent ; tegulae and radix piceous ; stigma clear red ; 

 areolet pentagonal, broad above. Length, 12^ mm. 



The above description of the ? , which has not previously been ade- 

 quately diagnosed, is drawn from a single example, captured by Mr. 

 Bignell, at Bickleigh, near Plymouth, and differs from that of Gravenhorst 

 in the entire flagellar band, the not altogether wanting apophyses, the 

 scutellum not entirely white, and the gastrocaeli not unusually small ; the 



