16 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. {Proclitus 



This female is the only one with the terebra distinctly longer than 

 abdomen ; Haliday terms it as long as the body. 



Recorded on the Continent only from Helsingborg in southern Sweden 

 and Aix in Prussia. Haliday described it from Ireland. 



4. paganus, Hal. 



Clcpticus paganus, Hal. Ann. Nat. Hist. 1839, p. 116, ? . Proclitus longi- 

 tcii'sis, Thorns. O.E. xii. 1306. 



A black species with the underside of the scape, the centre of the 

 abdomen and the legs pale, and of 9 anus compressed. Abdomen of 9 

 ovate with apex of second segment alone ochraceous, of ($ parallel-sided 

 with centre pale ; basal segment scabriculous and centrally sulcate ; tere- 

 bra half length of abdomen; legs stramineous. Length about 3 mm. 



This species is recognised by having the head hardly constricted post- 

 eriorly, the genal sulcus somewhat long, the face deplanate and parallel- 

 sided, the clypeus transverse and apically subtruncate; antennae not very 

 long, filiform, with discreted joints; central mesonotal sulcus wanting; 

 anus compressed, basal segment linear with its discal sulcus distinct, the 

 second subquadrate with its thyridii not oblique, nor terebra elongate. I 

 have synonymiscd P. hmgiiarsis, rather than P. clypcaris, with the present 

 species, on account of its larger size and immaculate hind coxae. 



Thomson describes his species, of uncertain sex, from northern Ger- 

 many; Haliday captured his female at Eyrecourt, Co. Galway, in Ireland, 

 during September. I have a Surrey male in Capron's collection. 



EUSTERINX, Forster. 



Forst. Verb. pr. Rheinl. 1868, p. 172, (?) ; Forst. I.e. 1871, p. 107; Thorns. 

 O.E. xii. 1293. 



Head small with vertex rather broad and discreted from occiput by an 

 acute costa; eyes not pilose; face slightly convex, and parallel-sided; 

 clypeus discreted and convex; cheeks somewhat short; both face and 

 frons immaculate." Antennae stout and 17- to 22-jointed, with short and 

 recumbent pubescence, of 9 apically incrassate ; basal flagellar joint 

 longer than second, and the sixth of $ usually slightly emarginate ex- 

 ternally. Thorax with deeply impressed notauli, sometimes extending to 

 mesonotal disc and there subcoalescent; metathoracic areae distinct with 

 costulae usually entire. Scutellum convex and only basally margined. 

 Abdomen petiolate; basal segment sublinear and dull, with spiracles 

 beyond its centre and postpetiole a little broader than petiole ; thyridii of 

 second segment distinct ; terebra always exserted, but hardly longer than 

 basal segment, with valvulae somewhat stout and distinctly pubescent. 

 Legs with the calcaria short, the claws and pulvilli small, and femora 

 usually incrassate. Stigma not very broad; areolet with outer nervure 

 always wanting, the areolar nervure distinct, and parallel emitted from 

 centre of brachial cell; nervellus not geniculate. 



The areolet in this genus is externally obsolete, just as in the Cryptid 

 genus Hemitdcs ; and all the known species are quite small. 



