Sagarins'] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 97 



femora and tibiae are red with both exlreniities of the hind tibiae black, 

 and the tcrebra nearly half length of abdomen. The male antennae arc 

 much longer and more slender than those of S. Holmgnni. 



Frequent in Scandinavian woods and fields (Ilolmgr.), but Thomson 

 considered it vdw and bred it "from a white-grey, irr(>gularly black- 

 banded buttertiy pupa"; Austria (Tschek); France (Gaulle); and \^v\- 

 gium during July and August (Tosquinet). Hred from its c\lindrical, 

 hard, dull white cocoon, which has two zones consisting of black spots 

 and the extremities strewn over with similar dots and spots, out of Orgyia 

 aiitiqua in Prussia, together with a variety from larvae of Eitptihccia sobri- 

 nata and E. campantilac, by Brischke. This species is added to our fauna, 

 without locality, bv Bridg. -Fitch (Fntom. 1SH5, p. 102); possibly on the 

 strength of several examples of both sexes, found by Caj)ron at Shere in 

 Surrev, though hitherto unnamed ; Chapman gave me a male, bred from 

 its unicolorous dull white cocoon, out of Giioplios I'arus^ohi, at Cara, 

 Naples, during 1905; and on 12th Jiuie, 1908, 1 took anotluT at Tudden- 

 ham villa«:e in Suffolk. 



6. Holmgreni, Tschek. 



Sagaritis Holmgreni, Tschek, Verb. z.-b.Ges. 1871, p. 50; Schm. Opusc. Ichn. 

 no. 12, J ? . S. fasciata, Bridg. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1887, p. 3fi6, cf ? . S. inacrouni, 

 Thorns. O.E. xu 1093, j ? . 



Head hardly constricted posteriorly; face white-pubescent; palpi and 

 most of mandibles fiavous. Antennae a little longer than half body. 

 Thorax with mesonotum dull and densely alutaceous; metanotal areae 

 usually indistinct, with areola about as broad as long. Abdomen with 

 the second segment apically, the third and fourth almost entirely red 

 with a basal discal nigrescent mark ; remainder in 9 laterally rufescent ; 

 second segment longer than broad, the third .subquadrate ; terebra hardly 

 shorter than half abdomen. Legs fulvous with the front trochanters and 

 apical joint of hind ones fiavous ; hind tibiae internally rufescent, basally 

 white, apically and before the base nigrescent, externally centrally whitish 

 in 9 and rufescent in ^ . Wings with the tegulae fiavous, stigma dull 

 flavidous ; areolet emitting recurrent nervure from, or slightly before, its 

 centre ; nervellus obsoletely geniculate. Length, 5-7 mm. 



Hardly shorter though narrower than S. declinator, w ith the abdomen 

 subcylindrical, the second segment longer than broad and apically, with 

 the third and fourth except a subcircular discal mark, and the three fol- 

 lowing laterally, testaceous-red; the hind tibiae are internally red and 

 externally nigrescent, with a basal band and the central third white ; 

 apical joint of hind trochanters stramineous and radius emitted far 

 beyond centre of stigma. Bridgman adds that it difiers from S. macidipcs 

 in the length of the third segment and terebra, which is unusually elon- 

 gate ; he considered his species, with which Thomson's is certainly 

 s}nonymous, to difier from S. Holmgreni in the pedal colouration and 

 broader head. 



Sweden, central and southern Furopc; Austria, France and very com- 

 mon in Thuringia. The type of both sexes of his new species were taken 

 by Bridgman (/.<.) togetlier at Horning Ferry in Norfolk, during [une, 

 1882; and he also records (Norf. Soc. Trans. 1894, p. 019) '' niacroara. 

 Thorn.", doubtfully from Eaton near Norwich in August. Apparently 



