134 , ^ BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [Nementis 



legs piceous-fulvous with their coxae, trochanters and base of tibiae 

 fiavidous ; hind legs black or piceous, with only extreme apices of coxae 

 and trochanters paler. Wings not ample ; areolet sessile and triangular. 

 Length, 6 mm. 



In its slender body and petiolar structure it approaches X. Inmsfiiga, 

 though difi'ering in its areolet and dull metathorax. From our indigenous 

 species, this is known by the black hind legs and mainly red abdomen. 



Mr. E. G. Bayford of Barnslcy was so good as to send me early in 

 October, 19 12, a female of this south European species, which extends 

 to Asia Minor and even Japan (tliough it certainly is none of the speci- 

 mens recorded from the latter by Francis Walker in Cist. Ent. 1874, 

 pp. 301-310, the types of all which 1 have examined), with these notes: — 

 "I am not aware what its host is, but should say it will be Tenebrioides 

 maurilam'cus, Tcnehrio molitor or Ephestia Ktilhniella, as it was found in a 

 flour mill near here — in the middle room only, where the more advanced 

 processes of milling take place. In this room it was not uncommon, 

 while in the upper and lower rooms I did not see a single specimen, 

 although access to them from the outside was much easier. This seemed 

 to me to dispose of the possibility of their having come from the outside." 

 Doubtless this parasite has been introduced into Britain along with the 

 above extremely injurious Crambite : its propagation should be encour- 

 aged by every means. I find Mr. Donisthorpe also took two females 

 during August, 19 10, at Southsea in Hants. 



This is the species erroneously recorded by Theobald upon my own 

 misidentification, Olcsicampa fulvivcntris (Report Wye Agric. College, 

 19 1 2). It has been described as new by Peter Cameron (Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. N.S. Wales, 19 12, p. 187), with the remark "Common in flour mills 

 in Victoria and New South Wales. Parasitic on the introduced flour 

 moth, Ephcstix KuhnicUa. This parasite has been recently found in a 

 number of flour mills in New South Wales (Sydney, Wellington, etc.), 

 where they infest the larvae of the Mediterranean Flour moth. It is also 

 known in England, and the King Flour Mills of EUerman Point proposed 

 to introduce them into Australia before it was discovered that they were 

 well known in this country." 1 have seen the Sandwich Islands type of 

 Ashmead's name in the British Museum and find it in all ways synonymous. 



PHOBOCAMPA, Thomson. 

 Thorns. O.E. xi.;i887, 1120. 



Head short and constricted both apically and behind the eyes ; man- 

 dibles, peristomium and lateral clypeal foveae small ; cheeks short. An- 

 tennae elongate with the scape usually pale beneath, the flagellum sub- 

 pilose and apically attenuate. Thorax gibbous, with a white callosity 

 before the radices ; mesopleurae very finely alutaceous and mesosternum 

 transverse; metathorax short, with fine carinae; areola transverse and 

 often apically incomplete; petiolar area extending beyond the centre. 

 Abdomen stout with the basal segment both stout and deplanate ; post- 

 petiole only half length of the petiole, usually quadrate or transverse, 

 with the lateral scrobes narrow and sulci small ; second segment very 

 rarely longer than broad with thyridii large and its apical margin, with 

 sometimes the third segment, usually pale; ventral plica stramineous and 



