278 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 



entirely or partly black. Stigma piceous, radix stramineous, tegulae 



fuscous. Length, 5 mm. 



The above appears to be all that is known of this $ , to which the 

 present position was assigned by Wesmael, together with the description 

 of the metatiiorax : I am certainly inclined to doubt its individuality. 



Lastingham in Yorks. (Marshall). Bignell records it from Kickleigh, 

 in Devon, in the middle of September. On the Continent, where it has a 

 restricted distribution, it is said to have been bred from Cossus ligniperda 

 and from a species of Noiodonta. 



COLPOGNATHUS, Wesmael 



Wesm. Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux. 1844, pp. 165 et 174. 



Head buccate, not narrowed posteriorly ; cheeks and temples broad ; 

 clypeus transverse, entire and not convex ; apically truncate and very 

 broadly rounded, distinctly discreted from the face ; ? with lower margin 

 of the stout mandibles sinuate, their teeth sub-equal. Flagellum filiform, 

 of $ not basally attenuate ; scape sub-cylindrical. Post-scutellum not im- 

 pressed. Abdomen with second segment not basally impressed, though 

 sometimes striolate in cj ; of ? apically obtuse, with terebra retracted and 

 concealed. Coxae in the British species mutic. 



Tabic of Species. 



(4). I. Gastrocaeli wanting ; anterior coxae black. 

 (3). 2. Antennae of $ tricoloured ; second segment of 



(? entire i. CELERATOR, Cn/v. 



(2). 3. Antennae of $ bicoloured ; second segment 



of (^ basally striate 2. T>\v\sv?>, T/ioms. 



(i). 4. Gastrocaeli indicated ; anterior coxae fulvidous 3. JUCUNDUS, Wesm. 



I. celerator, Grav. 



Ichneiiinon celerator, Gr. Mem. Ac. Sc. Torin. 1820, p. 353 ; I. E. i. 566 ; Ste. 111. 

 M. vii. 2CO, 9. Colpogiiathtis celerator, Wesm. Nouv. Alem. Ac. Biux. 1844, p. 174; 

 S. V. Voll. Schets. I pi. iii. f. 13 ; llolmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1854, p. 44; Ichn. Suec. 

 iii. 370; Thorns. O. E. xv. 1636 ; Berth. Ann. Soc Fr. 1S96, p. 337, 6 ?. Phygadeuon 

 piocerus, Gr. I. E. ii. 722 ; Sle. 111. Al. vii. 302, i (part.)- Icluieiu/ioii feiiiorator, Sle. 

 111. M. vii. 200, ? . 



Head black, strongly punctate, transversely sub-quadrate viewed from in 

 front ; cheeks half shorter than bases of mandibles ; epistoma protuberant ; 

 clypeus shining, sparsely punctate ; mandibles strongly sinuate below ; 

 palpi apically pale. Antennae of $ slender, black ; of ? short, stout and 

 tricoloured. Thorax punctate and shining, black ; notauli obsolete ; meta- 

 notal areae complete ; areola hardly longer than broad, sub-hexagonal, 

 apically sub-truncate ; petiolar area a little concave, not or hardly dis- 

 creted, broad above. Abdomen of $ elongate and sub-cylindrical, of ? 

 sub-fusiform ; black with apex of first, whole of second to fourth segments 

 and usually part of fifth, clear red ; post- petiole glabrous, or in S sub- 

 aciculate, second segment of latter not basally striolate. Legs red, with 

 coxae, trochanters, apices narrowly of hind femora and tibiae, and tarsi, 

 black. Stigma fuscous, radix white, tegulae black. Length, 7-10 mm. 



