142 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. {^Ecphoropsis 



1. Viennensis, Grav. 



Canipoplcx Viennensis, Gr. I.E. iii. 478, i? ? . Porizon annulator, Zett. 

 I.L. i. 394, excl. cT . Li)uncria Viciinoisis, Holragr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1858, p. 57 ; 

 Bridg. -Fitch, Entom. 1885, p. 106. Ecphora Viennensis, Thorns. O.E. xi. 

 1124, cf ? . 



Black with the central abdominal segments usually apically castaneous- 

 margined, the legs partly pale with hind femora at most basally black; 

 hind tibiae centrally broadly, and at their extreme base, stramineous; 

 calcaria nearly equal in length ; palpi and mandibles pale. Length, 

 7-8 mm. 



In my females the centre of the black hind tibiae with their extreme 

 base, and base of the posterior tarsi, are pure white and, although 

 certainly co-specific, the areolet emits the recurrent before or beyond or 

 from its centre. 



Dahl sent Gravenhorst three Viennese specimens; Holmgren only knew 

 Zetterstedt's single Lapland female; Gaulle records it as French, and 

 Schm. considers it everywhere rare. Desvignes says in 1856 that Curtis 

 possessed British examples; Fitch records it (Entom. 1883, p. 66) as 

 doubtfully bred from Gracilana stigmatella; and Bignell tells us in i8g8 

 that he reared it on 21st June from a larva, probably that of Sericoris 

 lilionilis, found on Aiincria maritima in Devon. I have several females, 

 which 1 place here with some hesitancy because 1 cannot see the clypeal 

 production; two were captured in Mr. Adams Lyndhurst fly-trap in June 

 and July, a third was bred by J. A. Clark " from larvae of \Plodur\ inter- 

 punctt/la,'" and the last 1 found on the flowers oi Angelica syhrs/ris at the 

 end of August, 1905, at Barton Mills in Suffolk. Piffard took males at 

 Felden, Marshall has given me a female from Botusfleming in Cornwall 

 and Cross bred a male from Thcra jiinipcraia in 1903; a pair occurred to 

 me near Salisbury and others in the Isle of Wight during June. Rev. W. 

 F. Johnson has taken many specimens of a small form of this species on 

 Clare Island oft" the Mayo coast of Ireland. 



2. fuscipes, Holmgr. 



Campoplex fuscipes, Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1854, p. 16, i . Limneria 

 fuscipes, Holmgr. lib. cit. 1858, p. 66, 6 ? . EcpJiora fuscipes. Thorns. O.E. xi. 

 1124, 3 ?. 



A black species with the coxae, base of trochanters, base of all the 

 femora and the hind ones mainly at least above, concolorous; remainder 

 of legs somewhat dull red, with more or less of the second and third seg- 

 ments especially apically rather lighter red; calcaria nearly equal in 

 length ; palpi and mandibles pale. Length, 5-7 mm. 



Instantly known from the next in its broadly red abdomen and con- 

 colorous hind tibiae. 



Both sexes were first found rarely by Holmgren at Kullen in Sweden 

 during July; it has been taken in France and twice in Belgium, but still 

 seems very little known. Introduced as British at Proc. Nat. Hist. (Glas- 

 gow, vol. iv., part i, p. 108, but certainly rare with us. 1 first met with it 

 on 6th and i6th August, 1901, at Lyndhurst in the New Forest; the 



