138 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. {^PJwhocampa 



gave me a female from Tarrington in Hereford, taken on 13th July, 1902, 

 and it has twice occurred to me in the New Forest, on 4th August at 

 Lyndhurst and on 5th July, 1907, one emerged from its dull dark grey 

 cocoon of exactly 5X3 mm. with both ends entirely, and a large-spotted 

 band before both, black which I swept from herbage in Holidayhill 

 Inclosure on the i8th of the previous month. Saunders took it at Reigate 

 in July, 1872. 



4. obscurella, Holiiigr. 



Limneria obscurella, Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1858, p. 75 ; Bridg. -Fitch, 

 Entom. 1885, p. 107, i ? . Phobocaiiipa obscitrclia, Thorns. O.E. xi. 1123, ? . 



Black with the anterior femora and tibiae red; hind legs with the 

 tibiae pale testaceous and a little nigrescent at both extremities, the 

 coxae and hind femora black ; anterior coxae apically pale, and trochan- 

 ters stramineous flavous with the hind ones basally black ; scape entirely 

 black or only pale-spotted beneath ; abdomen somewhat shining with the 

 second segment rarely subcastaneous apically, and the postpetiole dis- 

 tinctly a little longer than broad. Length, 4^-5 J mm. 



At once known from our other species by the darker scape, subimmac- 

 ulate black abdomen and longer postpetiole. 



It is said to occur very rarely in north and central Europe ; Holmgren 

 records a very few of both sexes in Sweden during early July, but Thom- 

 son thought the female "sallsynt." With us it was first found by Francis 

 Walker in the Isle of Man in 1869 (Entom. 1872, p. 432); it has been 

 bred from Orgyia antiqiia and Hemithea thymiaria by Bignell (Fitch, 

 Entom. 1 88 1, p. 140). I have taken but a single pair, of which the male 

 occwxxQ.di ow Angelica sylvcstris 'Aowiix?, at Foxhall near Ipswich on 23rd 

 September, 1899, and the female was swept at Winterton on the Norfolk 

 coast on nth June, 1901, from a hedge-bottom at dusk. 



SPUDASTICA, Thomson. 



Tl;oms. t).li. xi 1887, 1123. 



Head grey-pilose with the vertex hardly narrowed behind the large and 

 internally distinctly a little emarginate eyes; cheeks short, mandibles 

 and peristomium large. Antennae hardly longer than half body, of 9 

 shorter with the apical joints strongly discreted, of ^ centrally sub- 

 incrassate. Thorax gibbulous and densely gre3'-pubescent; metathorax 

 scabrous, short and declived throughout with no trace of carinae. Abdo- 

 men immaculate black; petiole elongate and nearly straight, with small 

 lateral sulci; pospetiole but little explanate, convex and a little longer 

 than broad; terebra as long as basal segment. Legs somewhat stout and 

 not elongate. Wings with stigma large and subtriangular; areolet broad, 

 sessile and obliquely triangular, emitting recurrent nervure distinctly 

 beyond its centre; nervellus and lower basal nervure very strongly oblique, 

 the former geniculate only just above its lower extremity. 



The single species is instantly known by the subvertical metathorax 

 with no areae, short antennae, elongate petiole and remarkably oblique 

 lower basal nervure. Bridgman points out some analogy between this 

 genus and Casimifia in the lacking metanotal carinae and somewhat 

 emarginate eyes, but the latter character is here much less pronounced 

 and the terebra exserti-d. 



