78 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. {^Campoplex 



dull with griseous pubescence; clyj)cus apically sli^litly eniarginate ; 

 cheeks very short. Basal flagellar joints not at all discreted. Thorax 

 dull and griseous-pubcscent, with propleurae striate below ; metathorax 

 broad and deeply impressed longitudinally in the centre. Abdomen with 

 only a narrow castaneous girdle, usually comprising apex of second and 

 base of third segments, the latter is occasionally nearly entirely con- 

 colorous or black with only its base rosy ; lateral foveae of basal segment 

 deeply impressed, glymmae small ; postpetiole laterally somewhat 

 rounded. Legs black with the femora and tibiae red, excepting more or 

 less of the hind femora basally ; hind tibiae of V flavous and distinctly 

 spinose ; claws hardly extending beyond pulvilli. Length, 10-12 mm. 



It is similar to C. pugillatorhnt a little stouter, with the head and thorax 

 hirsute, clypeus slightly emarginate, the metathoracic excavation broad 

 and deep, abdomen less broadly red, and the $ tibiae obviously spinu- 

 lose. It was known as British to the older authors, but I had until 191 2 

 seen nothing like it, unless indeed C. fcmorator be synonymous, which I 

 am far from believing to be improbable. 



Silesia, Hanover, Berlin, Sikershausen, Parma, and on a wall at 

 Gottingen on 24th May (Grav.) ; very rare in Sweden (Holmgr.) ; France 

 ((jaulle) ; Belgium in May, June, July and October (Tosq.). The cocoon 

 is said by Brischke to be " elliptisch, dickwandig, braun." Practically 

 nothing has been known of this species in Britain hitherto, but now I am 

 able to confirm its occurrence with us since Mr. G. T. Lyle has kindly 

 given me a female from the New Forest, where he dug up its cocoon at 

 the base of an oak tree. 



13. pugillator, Linn. 



Ichneumon pugillator, Linn. S.N. 1758, 565 ; Berkenhout, Outlin. Nat. Hist. 

 Gt. Brit. 1769, 165; De Geer, Abh. Gesch. Insect. 1778, pi. vi. fig. 11 et Vi. 

 I. occisor, Schr. Beitr. Naturg. 1776, p. 90 ; En. Austr. 362. /. coiiiprcsstis. 

 Sulz. Abgek. Gesch. Ins. 1776, pi. xxvi. fig. 15; Schr. F.B. 268. /. suhfalcalus, 

 Gmel. S.N. 1790, 2701. /. nidiilator, Thunb. Mem. Peters. Acad. 1822, p, H20 ; 

 /. latrator, Thun. Bull. I.e. 1822, p. 269. Ophion pugillator. Fab. E.S. Suppl. 

 1798, 238; Piez. 136 ; Dumeril, Mem. Paris Acad. Sc. 1860, p. 895. O. latrator, 

 Fab. Piez. 135. O. nidulator, Panz. Krit. Revis. 1806, 89 ; F. G. 1809, 100. 

 Campoplex pugillator, Gr. I.E. iii. 606; Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1858, p. 34 ; 

 Forst. Verb. z.-b. Ges. 1868, p. 816 ; Thorns. O.E. xi. 1066,?. C. arcolator, 

 Holmgr. I.e. 1854, p. 8, j . 



A black species with the centre of abdomen broadly, and legs partly, 

 red ; fifth segment entirely or mainly red, and frons tuberculate. Head 

 alutaceous, finely punctate, dull and not explanate behind eyes ; frons 

 slightlv impressed above scrobes, finely carinate centrally, with a small 

 but conspicuous elevated tubercle on either side of scrobes in the ocular 

 eniargination. Antennae immaculate black, extending to near centre of 

 abdomen, and apically attenuate; basal flagellar joints not at all discreted. 

 Thorax alutaceous, finely punctate and dull; mesopleurae not shining; 

 metathorax but slightly impressed and neither stro'ngly nor regularly 

 trans-striate centrally ; the divergent sides of basal area alone carinate. 

 Scutellum finely punctate, dull and laterally margined to centre. Abdomen 

 black with segments two to five dark red, only the second basally and 

 rarely apex of fifth black ; lateral sulci of basal segment deeply impressed 

 before the spiracles; terebra reflexed and very shortly exserted. Legs 

 black with the anterior tibiae, front femora and apices of the intermediate. 



