132 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. {Nemeritis 



as British since 1870 and our only common species of the present genus, 

 occurring about Pinus sy/veslns in May and June, August and September. 

 Bignell has captured it at Bickleigh in July and reared it in South Devon 

 in the middle of May from fir cones containing Coccyx slrobi/ella ; and this 

 appears to be its usual host, for Bankes has given me a female bred at 

 Merton in Norfolk from the same moth on May 14th, 1896, and took it 

 flying at Corfe Castle in Dorset on 29th May ; Durrani has given me a 

 series of both sexes with subcubical head bred from this host by Barrett 

 and I found a female of the same form on 27th June, 1908, at a boring 

 oi Aiiobiiwi domcsficum in the old timber of a garden hut at Monk Soham, 

 where the normal form is very common on house windows, doubtless 

 flown in from the garden fir-trees ; Tuck found it in Finborough Park 

 and at Tostock during 1900, also in Suffolk. Charbonnier took it at 

 Acton near Bristol, Saunders at Greenings, both in June, and de la Garde 

 captured the male at Devonport during May, 1895. 



3. rufipes, Bridg. 



Nemeritis rufipes, Bridg. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1883, p. 166, ? . 



A black species with the terebra fully two-thirds the abdominal length, 

 and all the legs entirely red ; areolet oblique and elongately petiolate. 

 Length, 6^—7^ mm. 



This species, which does not appear to be yet known outside England 

 and still has no male assigned to it, is remarkable for the lack of black- 

 markings on the hind coxae ; in conformation and structure it almost 

 exactly resembles N. cremastoides — not N. jnacrocenira, as stated by its 

 author — but the strong areolet and pedal colour are very distinct. 



The type was found by Dr. Edward Capron about Shere in Surrey; the 

 original female is in Bridgman's collection in the Norwich Castle Museum 

 and five co-types are in my own collection from the same source. 



4. sordida, Grav. 



Campoplex sordidus, Gr. I.E. iii. 466, ? . Limneria sordida, Bridg. -Fitch, 

 Entora. 1885, p. 107, ? . Nemeritis sordida , Thorns. O.E. xi. 1118. 



Black M-ith the anterior legs red, their trochanters and front coxae apic- 

 ally nearly citrinous ; hind legs also red with the coxae, base of trochan- 

 ters and sometimes a mark near their femoral apex black, their tibiae 

 dull red and bifuscous with a basal white band ; vertex somewhat broad 

 and posteriorly hardly constricted ; and the terebra nearly as long as 

 abdomen. Length, 7 mm. 



I know but one Surrey female of this species, which Schm. considers 

 rare on the Continent; Gravenhorst described Silesian females. It is now- 

 well authenticated as British ; first given as indigenous, under the genus 

 Ca7)ipoph'X, by Desvignes in 1856; recorded (Entom. 1884, p. 70) from 

 English Lycaena alsus by Bridgman ; and captured on 2nd August by 

 Bignell at Cattedown Quarry in Devon. During November, 19 12, Mr. 

 W. Falconer was good enough to send me another female of this species 

 found "under a stone on the moors near Huddersfield at 1000 feet, about 

 to attack a spider, Centromeria concitma, or its cocoon," which latter was 

 also forwarded. 



