Sagariiis] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 95 



'I'his differs from the preceding in liavin<; the hind tibiae black at both 

 base and apex, antennae less stout with tlie basal flagellar joints hardly 

 discreted ititer se, the mesopleurae subalutaceous ; abdominal ventral 

 plica less infuscate, the mandibles centrally or in ^ nearly entirely 

 stramineous, with the ^ hind femora apically black. 



Uncommon in central and northern Europe ; Sweden early in June 

 (Holmj-ren); Prussia (Brischke) ; France (Gaulle); and Belgium in 

 August and September (Tosquinet). It was found by Bridgman (Trans. 

 Norf. Soc. i8q4, p. 619) at Earlham near Norwich in July. 



3. declinator, Grav. 



Campoplcx declinator, Gr. I.E. iii. 589, ? ; Holmgr. Ofv. 1854, p. 17, i . Pori- 

 zoii mediator, Zett. I.L. i. 395, s ? . Sagaritis declinator, Holmgr. Sv. Ak. 

 Handl. IS5S, p. 43; Brisch. Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1880, p. 146; Thorns. O.E. xi. 

 1092, (? ? . 



Black with apices of central segments, and their sides more broadly, 

 castaneous-red ; anterior legs fulvous, with their base and the hind ones 

 black ; hind tibiae red with apex and before the base black ; vertex not 

 narrow. Length, 6-7 mm. 



A large species with the vertex stout, not narrow; metathoracic costulae 

 wanting, radius emitted from centre of the flavous stigma, external angle 

 of discoidal cell strongly acute below ; terebra fully as long as half the 

 abdomen, which has the second segment short, and the third and fourth 

 sometimes nearly entirely red. 



Not a rare species in northern Europe, and conspicuous on account of 

 its large size ; Gottingen, Silesia, etc., in mid-September ; Lapland ; fre- 

 quent in Sweden ; Neustadt ; and France. It has long been known as 

 British and has been bred in south Devon by Bignell on 25th March ; 

 and again (Entom, 1883, p. bb) by him from Litnacodes asellus. The 

 cocoon is described by Bridg-Fitch {I.e. 1885, p. 102) as of 3} x if lines, 

 cylindrical and unicolorous brown. I have two males in Dr. Capron's 

 Surrey collection. 



4. femoralis, Grav. 



Ca)iipoplcx fciuoralis, Gr. I.E. iii. 592, ? . Liiinieria femoralis, Bridg. -Fitch, 

 Entom. 1885, p. 207, i ? . Sagaritis laticollis, Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1S58, 

 p. 46; Brisch. Schr. Danz. 1892, p. 45; Bridg. -Fitch. Entom. 1885, p. 101, <f ? . 

 S. femoralis, Thorns. O.E. xi. 1092, rf- ? . 



Black with the legs a little flavous and white varied, the abdomen red- 

 cinctured and nearly double length of terebra. Length, 5 mm. 



The body is very narrow, the hind legs black with base and centre of 

 their tibiae broadly white and internally black, the front femora arc basally 

 red and the intermediate more broadly black ; metathoracic costulae 

 obsolete or wanting, though areola complete ; the vertex is broad and 

 hardly at all constricted behind the eyes, and the longer terebra dis- 

 tinguishes it from S. annulala. 



Not infrequent in southern Lapland, etc., in July and August, Belgium, 

 Silesia, Prussia and Austria ; bred by Kreichbaumer from Plusia gavnna 

 (Thoms. O.E. 1092). It was introduced by Bridg.- Fitch on the strengtli 

 of examples captured by Marshall at Bishops Teignton and Abergavenny; 



