Proclitus] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 15 



The synonymy here adopted, giving priority to Haliday's name, is so 

 obvious from his hicid generic and specific descriptions that one can only 

 suppose its previous neglect to be owing to the somewhat general nature 

 of the Ann. Nat. Hist. As I have already noted, this synonymy was anti- 

 cipated by Marshall in MS. {cf. Ichn. Brit. iii. 14, footnote). That he 

 knew little of the genus, however, is evident from the fact that the typical 

 and unique specimen of Bdssus rcmotus, now in the J^ritisli Museum, is no 

 more than a stout and well-developed female of the present species, cap- 

 tured on 30th July at \'adso, in Lapland. 



Hitherto we have a very slender claim to Forster's species as British, 

 resting entirely upon Bridgman's queried record (Trans. Ent. Soc. 188b, 

 P- 355) of a single female, taken at the end of September at Earlham, 

 near Norwich ; Thomson considered it not rare throughout northern and 

 central Europe; it is recorded from France, Sweden and Germany. 

 Haliday found it in shady places in Ireland, and I have swept the female 

 in a marshy spot at Claydon Bridge in Sufiblk so late in the year as 

 7th October. 



2. socius, Hal. 



Clcpticus socius, Hal. Ann. Nat. Hist. 1839, p. 116, 9 . Proclitus inquictus, 

 Forst. Verb. pr. Rheinl. 1871, p. 114, ? ; Thorns. O.K. xii, 1308, cf ? . P. albi- 

 dipes, Forst. lib. cit. p. 117; Brisch. Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1880, p. 202, d . 



Head somewhat constricted posteriorly; face with no impressed lines, 

 centrally elevated ; cheeks short and in ^ obsolete ; clypeus convex. 

 Antennae stout, in 9 ^^'ith seventeen and in J with eighteen joints ; 

 basal flagellar joint little longer than second. Abdomen ovate, with 

 basal segment nitidulous and substriate; apex of second segment and 

 whole of third, except infuscate lateral marks, ochraceous; terebra fully 

 two-thirds length of abdomen. Legs somewhat stout and stramineous 

 with hind ones hardly dark-marked; base of front tibiae slightly curved; 

 apical joint of hind tarsi almost longer than second. Wings witli stigma 

 piceous. and emitting radial nervure beyond its centre; nervellus oblique 

 and hardly geniculate. Length, 3-3^^ mm. 



Only known from Prussia and southern Sweden. Haliday described it 

 from Ireland and I have swept the female from neltk's at Wlurstead, 

 near Ipswich, so late in the year as 29th October ; Piflard took the same- 

 sex at Felden, and there is a long series comprising both in Capron's 

 Surrey collection. 



3. comes, Hal. 



Clepticiis comes, Hal. Ann. Nat. Hist. 1839, p. 116, ? . Proclitus iiiucrurus, 

 Forst. Verb. pr. Rheinl. 1871, p'. 116; Thorns. O.E. xii. 1307. ? . 



Head not very strongly constricted posteriorly. Antennae 22-jointed and 

 basally stramineous. Abdomen ovate with apex of second segment and 

 whole of the third, except infuscate lateral marks, ochraceous; basal seg- 

 ment nitidulous and substriate, broad, somewhat short and distinctly 

 sulcate, with spiracles almost beyond its centre ; thyridii of second 

 segment oblique ; terebra distinctly longer than whole abdomen. Legs 

 stramineous. Length about 4 mm. J unknown. 



