BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 257 



Bridgman took this species at Norwich and Earlham, in August and 

 September ; the only example I have seen was kindly given to me by 

 Mr. Bignell, who took it at Bickleigh, in Devon, in the middle of June. 

 M. Pic tells us it occurs in France, from June to August ; it is also found 

 in Belgium. 



20. bellicornis, JVesni. 



Phaeogeiies bellicorms, Wesm. Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux. 1S44, p. 186 ; Thorns. O. E. 

 XV. 1655 ; Berth. Ann. Soc. Fr. 1896, p. 374, i 'i ; cf. Brisch. Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 

 1878, n. 6, p. 56, 9 . 



Head black, somewhat obliquely narrowed posteriorly ; frons shining, 

 very finely and sub-obsoletely punctulate ; ? with palpi and apices of 

 mandibles and clypeus red. Antennae black ; of 9 filiform with the 

 central joints white, and the six basal ones clear red. Thorax black. 

 Abdomen in both sexes, with segments two to four, and apices of the 

 remaining three, red, though sometimes discally infuscate in c^'; post- 

 petiole sparingly punctate. Legs red ; ? with hind femora internally 

 infuscate, hind coxae mainly black and bearing a short dentiform cristula ; 

 (? with anterior coxae stramineous-marked, the hind tibiae apically and 

 sometimes the base of the anterior femora fuscous ; the $ also bears an 

 elevated, though hardly discernible, tubercle before the apex of its hind 

 coxae. Radix and usually tegulae white, the latter sometimes, like the 

 stigma, fulvous. Length, 5-6 mm. 



Thomson says the $ has the facial orbits or also the clypeus pale 

 flavous, though Wesmael expressly states, " caput .... nigra." 



The ? is rendered distinct by the clear red basal half and central white 

 band of the flagellum, the hind coxal sub -elevated apical cristula, and 

 subtilely punctate frons ; the $ by its frons, which is not quite smooth as 

 in the Continental P. a/noeniis, Wesm., short flagellum, which is fuscous 

 above and testaceous beneath, as well as by its sub-transverse central 

 segments. 



Piffard has given me a female from Felden, in Herts. ; Marquand records 

 it from the Land's End district ; and Bridgman took a pale-legged form at 

 Brundall and Earlham near Norwich, in May and September. The 

 species ranges on the Continent from France to Russia, whence it is 

 recorded by Woldstedt. 



21. nanus, JVesfu. 



Phacogenes nanus, Wesm. Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux, 1S44, P- 19°; Berth. Ann. Soc. 

 Fr. 1896, p. 377, ? ; Thorns. O. E. xv. 1655, 6 9 . 



Head black; palpi pale; ? with clypeus and mandibles red; $ with 

 clypeus and sometimes a facial dot or line flavidous ; frons extremely 

 finely and obsoletely punctate. Antennae black ; of $ ferrugineous to- 

 wards the base, at least beneath ; of $ elongate. Thorax sub-cylindrical ; 

 callosity before the radix sub-rufous ; petiolar area broad, but not deeply 

 impressed. Abdomen obsoletely punctate, black with the second and 

 third segments, except centrally, and the apical margin of the fourth, red ; 

 post-petiole convex, glabrous. Legs black ; anterior coxae, the apices of 

 their trochanters and femora, and all the tibiae and tarsi, red ; hind coxae 

 of $ with a small, oblique, elevated line beneath. Tegulae and radix 

 pale ; stigma piceous. Length, 5 mm. 



