274 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 



broad and deeply impressed; metathorax not produced posteriorly; areae 

 complete, with strong carinae ; areola short, sub-reniform or sub-caudi- 

 form ; petiolar area elongate, deeply excavate ; apophyses more or less 

 strong. Post-scutellum with two sub-confluent foveae. Abdomen elon- 

 gate fusiform ; post-petiole a little dilated ; second segment with no basal 

 impressions, or the gastrocaeli barely traceable ; terebra shortly exserted, 

 hypopygium strongly retracted. Legs somewhat stout ; coxae mutic ; 

 calcaria long. Areolet complete ; nervellus antefurcal or opposite. 

 Thirteen kinds are recorded as occurring in the palaearctic region. 



Table of Species. 

 (lo). I. Anus of 9 sub-obtuse. 



(9). 2. Head anteriorly rounded ; mandibular 

 teeth sub-equal (DiCAKLOTUS, <?//(://.). 



(6). 3. Frons distinctly and sparsely punctate. 



(5). 4. Hind femora and tibiae mainly black... i. PUMILUS, 6"r<rt'. 



(4). 5. Hind femora and tibiae fulvous 2. C.\meroni, Z?;7V(i,'; 



(3). 6. Frons closely and sub-confluently 

 punctate. 



(8). 7. Petiolar area trans-striolate and dis- 



creted 3. rufilimbatus, 6^n^t''. 



(7). 8. Petiolar area not trans-striolate nor 



discreted 4. RUFICOXATUS, Grav. 



(2). 9. Head anteriorly triangular ; mandibu- 

 lar teeth unequal (Cinxaelotus, 

 Holniirr.) 5. parvulus, Grav. 



(i). 10. Anus acute 6. pusillator, 6^raz/. 



1. pumilus, Grav. 



Ichnetiiiion pumilus, Gr. I. E. i. 152 ; Ste. 111. M. vii. 13S, ? . Dicaelolus pumilus, 

 Wesm. Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux. 1S44, p. 175, 9 ; Bui. Ac. Brux. 1848, p. 315 ; lib. cit. 

 1849, p. 43, J ; S. V. Voll. Schets. I. pi. iii. f. 14 ; Holmgr. Ichn. Suec. iii. 361 ; 

 Thoiiis. O. E. XV. 1619 ; Berth Ann. Soc. Fr. 1896, p. 341, i 9. 



Head sub-rotund, viewed from in front ; frons shining, distinctly, but 

 finely and sparsely punctate ; vertex short but not narrow ; genal costa not 

 inflexed ; mandibles hardly narrowed apically ; mouth and palpi partly 

 pale, $ with clypeus entirely or laterally stramineous. Antennae dark, 

 with flagellum not attenuate, and mainly, at least beneath, ferrugineous ; 

 scape of $ stramineous below ; post-annellus of ? sub-quadrate. Thorax 

 black, or with a pale callosity below or before radix ; metanotal areae 

 complete ; areola sub-triangular, apically indentate ; petiolar area discreted, 

 centrally deeply concave and trans-striate. Abdomen black, incisures and 

 most of second segment, in $ also of three to five with whole of anus, 

 ferrugineous ; post-petiole roughly aciculate, sometimes strongly punctate 

 or apically glabrous ; second segment strongly punctate, with gastrocaeli 

 obsolete but traceable ; terebra very shortly exserted. Legs variable in 

 colour ; anterior coxae of $ and femora red or black, their tibiae and tarsi 

 red or stramineous ; anterior coxae and trochanters of $ stramineous ; 

 hind legs black, with base of femora and of tibiae red or fulvous, their tarsi 

 infuscate. Stigma somewhat large and piceous, radix and tegulae white, 

 the latter often rufescent. Length, 4-6 mm. 



Wesmael's var. 2 {rufoniger, Berth.) has the antennae entirely black, the 

 abdomen except its basal segment, and most of the legs, red. 



