Cremastus] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 59 



Several of both sexes in (Jermany ((iraveiiliorsl) ; Austria (Kirchncr) 

 and France (Gaulle). C. albipcnnis^ Holmgr., was recorded with some 

 hesitation from Coccyx strobilorum* by Fitch (Entom. 1883, p. 67); but 

 that we have any claim upon C. pungens is very doubtful, since Schm. 

 considers it to occur only in central Europe and no one seems to quite 

 know wliat Holmgren's species is nowadays. 



5. decoratus, Gnxv. 



Crciimstiis dcconifKS, Gr. I.E. iii. 734; Brisch. Sclir. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1880, 

 p. 178; Thorns. O.E. xiv. 1452, j ? (nee Holmgr.). 



Head constricted behind the eyes, of J flavcnis with tlic occllar region 

 to scrobes alone black, of 9 black with the mouth and orbits llavous and 

 face partly rufescent ; clypeus" apically rounded and cheeks not short. 

 Thora.x short and stout, scarcely longer than liigh ; with the pleurae 

 finely punctate ; in 9 the prothorax and except three red or nigrescent 

 discal vittae mesonotum flavous, in J with mctathorax also llavous- 

 marked ; notauli wanting ; areola punctate and not obsolete apically ; 

 petiolar area impressed and trans-costulate. Scutellum Havous. Abdo- 

 men slightly longer than head and thorax, black with segmental apices 

 red or in (5 often fiavous; petiole smooth with its lateral sulci indistmct ; 

 postpetiole longer than broad and half length of petiole ; terebra a little 

 longer than half abdomen. Legs fulvidous, with the coxae and trochan- 

 ters flavous and the hind ones basally black ; hind tarsi, with both 

 extremities of their tibiae piceous, and their femora usually black-marked 

 externally. Wings hyaline ; stigma j)iceous, tegulae llavidous, and the 

 discoidal cell as long as the brachial only. Length, 9-10 nmi. 



Distinctly larger and stouter than the next species, with which it miglit 

 be confused on account of the profuse pale colouration ; instantly known 

 from all our other kinds by the strongly and evenly trans-striate petiolar 

 area. 



Three specimens from southern I'^urope (Gravenhorst), Sweden and 

 Germany (Thomson), bred by Jinschke from larvae of A'ot/iris 7'erbascella 

 (Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1880, p. 178), France (C^auUe) bred from Evctria buoUana 

 and by (iiraud in 1877 from Grapholitha sovitlaiia. It was introduced as 

 British by Bridgman (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 430) on the strength of 

 specimens bred in August, 1887, by Fletcher from Depiessaria badiella at 



♦CAMPOPLEX FLAVIVENTRIS, Ratz. 

 Ichn. d. Forst. i. 98; ii. 84, J . Limneria flaviventris, Bridg. -Fitch. Entoin. 1885, p. 105, ? . 



"In place of the areolet, only a simple nervurc (I'orizon ? ). CampopUx jUiviventris ; 2A lines long. 

 ?. A species in many respects remarkable : (i) the nietathoracic areae entirely smooth and the 

 costae indistinct in places ; (2) only a simple nervurc in jjlacc of the areolet; (3) the sti^^ma is not 

 linear-lanceolate, but trian^'ular and rather lart;e ; (4) no external sijin of the terebra ; (5) abdomen 

 laterally compressed from ape.x ot first segment and the ventral surface oclire-yellow, such as 

 Gravenhorst does not mention in any section. Otherwise the colour agrees with C. aimtllatiis; 

 only that the liind femora, tibiae and tarsi are dark brown, with the riiiH on the hind tibiae less 

 distinct. One bred by Ilr. Saxcsen Irom Tortrtx Utrobilana and 1 obtained another from lir cones 

 full oil'. Strvbilana. 1 his species must be common in Harz." (Katz. supra.) "Areolet wanting. 

 Campopltx Jiavivcntris. Melathoracic areae not entirely smooth but distinctly tliough very linely and 

 densely rugose-punctate. Tliis species is certainly rare: H. Heier has again bred it from lortrix 

 Stiubilatia ; tliis specimen is a ? with the tertbra exserted g of the length of the body : it must have 

 been broken off in the former specimen " (Katz. in/ra). 



This insect is unknown on the Continent nowadays, as it was to Bridg. -Fitch ; it was supposed to be 

 liritish and to exist in the National Collection by Desvignes (Cat. 1856. 99). 



As a good species, the above rambling account of this "name" is not worth retaining in our 

 Fauna, especially upon Desvignes' authority. Little doubt, nevertlieless, can I think be enter- 

 tained, especially because of the broad stigma and dark legs, that it was merely a form of Crnnaslus 

 pungens. 



