110 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [Cu 



3. morionella, Hohngr. 



Casinaria morionella, Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1858, p. 48; Brisch. Schr. Nat. 

 Ges. Danz. 1880, p. 147; Thorns, O.E. xi. 1099, j ? . 



A black species with the mouth and tegulac white, legs rvd w ith coxae 

 and whole of hind trochanters black, their tibiae infuscate at both ex- 

 tremities. Length, 6 — 7 mm. 



Distinctly smaller than C. orbitalis with the lateral carinae of the areola 

 and petiolar areae continuous and confluent, antennae short and stout 

 with their apical joints transverse and scape often pale beneath, the 

 abdomen and apical radial abscissa longer, the nervellus nearly ante- 

 furcal, geniculate far below centre, and the hind tarsi white only at their 

 extreme base. 



Rare, but widely distributed (Thomson). Sparsely scattered through 

 northern Europe; Belgium in June, France, Sweden in July and early 

 August. Bred from larvae of Acida/ia /rilincaiia, Aniicha simiala and 

 Eiipithccia absynihiaia and by Mrs. Holmes at Sevenoaks on iith July; 

 the cocoon is elliptic and brown with a central flavidous zone (Brischke), 

 This species was introduced as British by Bridgman (Trans. Knt. Soc. 

 1889, p. 421) on the strength of two specimens bred by Fletcher from 

 EupHhecia fxpallida/a, taken in the Abbott's Wood in Sussex. It is rare 

 with us and apparently a southern species, since I have taken but a single 

 pair, at Lyndhurst and Matley Bog in the New Forest early in August, 

 1901 ; in Norton Wood in the Isle of Wight on 20th June, iqoy; and a 

 female in the middle of the latter month in the Bentley Woods near 

 Ipswich. Lyle has bred it from its cocoon, which he beat out of a furze 

 bush in the New Forest; and Colonel Nurse raised both sexes on 13th 

 May, 191 1, from Etipithccia dodoncata at Timworth in Suffolk. 



4. pallidipes, Brisch. 



Casinaria pallipcs, Brisch, Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1880, p. 148 ; Schm. Opusc. 

 Ichn. 1627, <? ? . 



A black species with the mouth and ^ tegulae white, legs black with 

 only the front femora fulvous, and hind tibiae obscurely testaceous at 

 base and centre. Length, 6-7 mm. 



Extremely like C. morionella but differing, besides its very much darker 

 legs and anterior trochanters, in having the nervellus not at all geniculate, 

 the 9 tegulae dead black, the areolet larger and abdomen broader. 

 Brischke says his description applies to both sexes, but in my females the 

 tegulae are not at all pale, and the scape is immaculate, nor are the 

 anterior coxae fulvous beneath, all of which details seem to apply to the 

 male. 



This species has not been met with on the Continent since first 

 described from Prussian specimens bred out of Ncmorca acstiTaria larvae ; 

 their cocoon is said to be elliptic and roundish, wrinkled and white, with 

 a broad and irregular subapical zone of black at either end. I Avas so 

 fortunate as to capture a couple of females of this rare species on loth 

 July, 1909, in a Lyndhurst garden in the New Forest. Taken at Poyntz- 

 pass in Armagh in early June by the Rev. W. F. Johnson. 



