Campopkx] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 83 



Simla in the middle of May and Kasauli aboLii liu' saim- liiuc, all ai an 

 altitude of between six and seven thousand feet ; but it is nut confined to 

 the north-west for it reaches Ceylon, whence Cameron described it as a 

 new species. It is not rare in damp meadows in central and southern 

 Lapland in July and August; France, Sweden and Denmark. It was 

 discovered to be British by Fletcher, who bred two females and five 

 males from Stornoway Melanippc hostata ; "the cocoons are palish brown, 

 sometimes ashy and uniform in tint" (Bridg. Tr. Knt. Soc. iS8q, p. 420). 

 iMuch less common than the following: Herts (Pitfard), Surrey (Capron), 

 Braemar on 24th July, 1907 (F^lliott); and twice bred by Clutten at Burn- 

 ley from Hypsipties iniplitvia/a and South{X)rt luipitlucia sp. — the cocoons 

 are elongate oval and dull brown. It has occurred to me at Dunwich in 

 Suffok on ist |une, 1905; hovering about a rose-bush in my iMonk Soham 

 garden on 30th May, 1909, and early in the following July at Brocken- 

 hurst in the New Forest. 



19. bucculentus, Holnigr. 



Campoplex bucculentus, Holragr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1858, p. 35; Forst. Verb. z.-b. 

 Ges. 1868, p. 871 ; Thorns. O.K. xi. 1073, 3 ^ . C. iiwlaiupiis, Forst. I.e. 783, i ? . 



Head broad and hardlv at all narrowed behind the eyes. Pronotum not 

 striate ; mesonotum somewhat nitidulous and not closely punctate; meta- 

 thorax and scutellum as in the last species. Abdomen with third and fourth, 

 with apex of second segment, red; the third with short lateral black lines; 

 basal segment with no lateral foveae ; terebra subelongate. Legs dead 

 black with only the front ones partly dull red; J coxae and trochanters 

 fiavous-lined above. Wings with the areolet subsessile, emitting recurrent 

 nervure slightly beyond its centre; stigma nigrescent. Length, 10-12 nun. 



Known by its broad vertex and somewhat broad cheeks, unstriolate 

 pronotum, sparsely but somewhat strongly {)unctate mesosternum, black 

 tegulae, subexcavate and not strigose metathorax with suboval and not 

 large spiracles, the abdominal colour, somewhat stout legs with their 

 claws longer than pulvilli and pectinate to apex ; but especially by the 

 entirely black posterior legs, of which the 9 rarely has the hind tibiae 

 badious. 



Both sexes were originall}' taken in Sweden between 13th and 

 25th July; Finland and Germany (Holmgren); France (Gaulle); rare 

 during August in Belgium (Tosq.); and bred from larvae of Lomaspilis 

 mari^ina/a a.\\d Odontopcra hidentata by Brischke (Sch. Nat. Danz. 1880, 

 p. 140); Colonel Nurse at Tuddenham on 6th July, 1910 and Mocsary 

 also raised it from Hcliotliis dipsacca and Bridg.- Fitch say from H. viar- 

 ghiala by Brischke; north and central Europe, and bred from C/iarichii 

 {Pyrrhia) Umbra (Thoms.). First noticed as British by Fletcher in the 

 middle of August at Deal (Tr. FInt. Soc. 1884, p. 420); Cromer in August 

 (Bridgman). It is by no means an uncommon species with us and I have 

 a long series, a do7.en of which contains both sexes and was bred by 

 Norgate in 1902 out of Helioihis /iioi-i^iiiata at Tuddenham in .Sullolk ; 

 their cocoons are dark ochreous, dull and very woc^Uy; Colonel Nurse 

 bred it from the same host in [uly, 19 12, as well as from Chtsuis sptir/i\i/ii 

 at Amj>ton in west .Suffolk on 23nl .May, 1910. Bankes raised a male 

 from a similar cocoon out of Delaniere Forest Odoutopera bidcntala in 



