250 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 



found it hibernating in tufts of Aim caespifosa, at Brede, near Hastings, in 

 March ; and upon umbelliferous flowers, at Ipswich, early in Seiitember. 

 On the Continent it occurs in Prussia and Sweden. 



\Ichiieuvion camhrensis, Desv., $. Head sub-cubical; face centrally 

 produced and evenly punctate ; cheeks and temples broad ; frons evenly 

 and confluently punctate ; clypeus distinctly discreted, sparsely punctate, 

 anterior margin slightly reflexed and broadly rounded throughout ; man- 

 dibles except their apices clear red, the upper tooth longer but not stouter 

 than the lower ; palpi flavous. Antennae setaceous, joints elongate 

 throughout. Mesonotum shining ; metanotum scabriculous, with com- 

 plete areae ; areola elongate, sub-hexagonal ; petiolar areae transversely 

 wrinkled ; spiracles quite circular. Scutellum flat, pilose, evenly punctate. 

 Abdomen cylindrical, finely punctate and shining ; black, with segments 

 one except sometimes its base, to four except its apex, red ; post-petiole 

 narrow, shining, extremely obsoletely aciculate, with carinae obsolete ; 

 gastrocaeli long ; thyridii transverse and somewhat deep, with the inter- 

 vening space a little depressed and aciculate. Legs red ; all the onychii, 

 and extreme apices of hind femora and tibiae, black ; coxae simple. 

 Wings very slightly clouded ; areolet somewhat broad pentagonal ; stigma 

 and tegulae piceous ; radix flavous. Length, 9 mm.] 



8. semivulpinus, Grav. 



Ichiieiii/ioi! sonhnilpintis, Gr. I. E. i. 565; Ste. 111. W. vii. 199,?. /. nuitabilis, 

 Gr. I. E. i. 599 (part.), i . Pliaeogeues friiiiariiis, Wesm. Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux. 1844, 

 p. 181, c5 ? . P. ieiiiiviilpimis, Wesm. Bui. Ac. Brux. 1848, p. 317 ; Ilolmgr. Sv. Ak. 

 Handl. 1854, p. 45 ; Ichn. Suec. iii. 427 ; Brisch. Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 187S, n. 6, 

 p. 53 ; Thorns. O. E. xv. 1643 ; Berth. Ann. Soc. Y\. 1896, p. 370, i 9 . 



Head strongly punctate, not narrowed behind the eyes, triangular from 

 in front ; cheeks strongly punctate, somewhat buccate, reflexed and dilated 

 below the base of the often rufescent mandibles ; clypeus sparsely punc- 

 tate, not or hardly discreted, and apically broadly rounded ; palpi apically 

 testaceous. Antennae black, with first and second flagellar joints equal ; 

 of $ filiform, with joints three to six red, ninth quadrate, ten to fifteen 

 white ; of $ ferrugineous beneath. Thorax entirely black, strongly punc- 

 tate ; epomiae distinct ; notauli wanting ; metanotal areae complete ; 

 areola hexagonal, apically sub-truncate. Abdomen black, with segments 

 two to five and apex of first entirely red ; post-petiole smooth and shining, 

 laterally sparsely punctate ; second segment with basal impression entire ; 

 terebra stout and a little exserted. Legs normal, black ; anterior femora 

 and tibiae, base of hind femora and middle of hind tibiae, red ; hind 

 coxae of ? with a long, stout spine. Stigma and tegulae nigrescent ; 

 radix white. Length, 7-9 mm. 



The anterior femora in both sexes are occasionally infuscate. 



This species, which is amongst the largest of the genus, may be known 

 by its apically dilated ear-like cheeks and the large ? coxal spine ; the 

 ^ differs from that of P. oplitlialmicus in the breadth of its head behind 

 the eyes. 



Found in June, near London and in Norfolk, not common (Stephens) ; 

 Lastingham, in Yorks. (Marshall) ; common about Brundall and Norwich 

 (Bridgman) ; Bickleigh, in middle of May, and Egloskerry, in Cornwall, 



