Campoplex\ BRITISH ICHNEUMONS 87 



petiolate, emitting recurrent nervure just beyond its centre ; basal abscissa 

 of hind wing radius slightly longer than the recurrent; nervellus not 

 geniculate. Length, 8 nun. $ only. 



Distinct in its total lack of nietatlioracic areae and entire!)- black hind 

 legs. 



Described from a single male in Hridgman's collection, taken on 6th 

 June, i888, at f^astbourne in Sussex (Hridg. A'f. <r//.). A male, captured 

 by Ernest A. Elliott at Shoeburyness in Essex on i8th June, 1902, agrees 

 with the description in every way excepting in its possession of basal 

 metanotal carinae, though no areae. 



25. erythrogaster, Forst. 



Campoplcx erythrogaster, Forst. Verb. z.-b. Ges. 1868, p. 836; Holmgr. Bih. 

 Sv. Ak. Handl. 1872, p. 56; Tboms. O.E. xi. 1078, <{ ? . C. indcfcssits et 

 C. afftxus, Forst. I.e., p. 799, <? 



A somewhat small black species with the abdomen except basal ly, and 

 anterior legs partly, rufescent. Head transverse and a little narrowed 

 posteriorly; mandibles rufescent before their apices, palpi piceous; 

 cheeks short; frontal fovea broad, smooth and strongly nitidulous. 

 Thorax with propleurae strongly transrugose beneath ; mesopleurae 

 closely and finely punctate, with interstices alutaceous and speculum 

 somewhat nitidulous; metathorax not deplanate, with its central impres- 

 sion somewhat deep and extending nearly to base. Scutellum a little 

 convex and laterally margined only to its centre. Abdomen brick-red, 

 with the first and the second segment except its apex black; ^ with the 

 sixth and seventh nigrescent above; basal segment with linear lateral 

 foveae and very narrow postpetiole; third laterally black lined; terebra 

 short and reflexed. Legs black with the anterior or front tibiae and 

 tarsi, and their femora except apices of intermediate, red ; S "ith anterior 

 femora more broadly red and their tibiae flavcscent ; calcaria pale and 

 elongate ; acetabulae bilobed. Wings with tegulae black and stigma 

 fulvidous ; areolet shortly petiolate, emitting llie rLCunent iu'r\urr Irom 

 its centre. Length, 8-9 mm. 



Thomson distinguishes this species and C. (77ur.u/.s\ Forst. {Tsc/ieki, 

 Holmgr.) from C. f'aliga/or, Forst. {dubiosiis, Forst.), to which Hridgman 

 considered his own C. incomplctiis most closely related, by the mcsoslernal 

 epicnemia being distinctlv inconsj)icuous with the acetabulae ele\ated 

 behind the front coxae. The outer nerxure of the areolet is pi-euliarly 

 incurved below . 



Sweden, Ai\- and Slollbcrg (llolnigr.), bred from f.ohopliora polycommata 

 by Krieehbaumi-r ( riidins. O.K. 1090), very rare at HeverK)o in IJelgium 

 during August (l\is(|.). Very common in Norfolk (Bridgman), bnnl in 

 south Devon on z+tli K\)n\ from HyUrnia nipicapi\iria by Ihgnell (Entom. 

 1885, p. 20). This is a common species with us, though I have seen none 

 bred; Ca|)ron had a full series from Shere, Piflard took it at Felden,Tuck 

 in June, 1900, at Tostock on Clhiciophylltim Icmiilum llowers, iiloomfield 

 at (Juestling, Miss Chawner in \\\v. New Forest, and Marshall at Corn- 

 wcjrthy in Devon. Elliott swept it from hedge -bottoms in W'icken village, 

 Cambs, lune, 1902; and it has occurred to me at Loutli in Lincolnshire, 

 Winlerlon in Norfolk; and both Tuddenham Fen and llir rnutlry Woods 

 in Suffolk during the same month and end of May, among \<>ung ha/.i'ls 

 and whitttliorn, sometimes by sweeping at dusk. 



