174 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. \Peclenella 



1. latungula, Tlioms. 

 Angitia latmii^iilii. Thorns. Opusc. Ent. xi. 1887, p. 1165, <J ? . 



A shining, grey-pubescent, black species with the legs, except at both 

 extremities, red and wings subinfumate. Palpi, mandibles except apic- 

 ally, and centre of hind tibiae pale testaceous; stigma piceous, tegulae 

 and ventral plica stramineous ; legs red with all the coxae and onychii 

 and onyches entirely, with apices of hind tibiae, deep black ; hind tro- 

 chanters nigrescent, the anterior ones and extreme base of hind tibiae 

 flavous ; hind tarsi infuscate from apex of basal joint ; terebra nearly half 

 length of abdomen. Length, 4^-6^ mm. S 9- 



The hind tibiae are often rufescent, and sometimes infuscate, before 

 their pale base. 



It is a conspicuous species in its convex and unusually shining abdo- 

 men, subinfumate wings with strong nervures, the stout legs and a])ical 

 tarsal joint, of which the elongately pectinate claws will distinguish it from 

 all other Campoplegides, except perhaps the genus Sinophoriis, which has 

 hardly any metanotal costae. There is a certain extent of agreement 

 with Holmgren's description of his Tranoscma pcdclla, but here the radius 

 is apically curved, the front coxae, at least of 9 > are entirely black, the 

 antennae equally immaculate in both sexes and the second segment is 

 not transverse. In all its subgeneric characters it is said by its author, 

 who knew it only from France and England, to agree exactly with Angitia 

 ni/ata, though I fail to trace any affinity whatever. 



Var. dtleta, nov. I have taken a single 9 with no trace of alar areolet, 

 on bushes at the end of May in Bentley Woods ; and an equally deficient 

 (5* in marshes near Bawdsey in Suffolk at the same time of the year. 



Bridgman captured it in the Brundall marshes and says (Trans. Norf. 

 Soc. 1894, p. 621) that W. Fletcher had bred it from both Gelechia anlhyl- 

 Udella and Lavcrna epilohicUa. I have annually met with this species in 

 considerable numbers by sweeping the long and rank herbage on the 

 banks of the Lark River at Mildenhall, Barton Mills and Tuddenham 

 Fen in north-west Suifolk, always in very moist situations ; and have 

 taken it at Brandon in the same vicinity; from 12th June to 3rd July, 

 since 1899, It has also occurred to me singly at Henham near South- 

 wold in early September, by beating birch and sweeping reeds at Barnby 

 Broad in the middle of August, by the Nene at Peterborough and on the 

 banks of the Stour at Wimborne in Dorset in June. I fancy it must be 

 only locally common, for I have but single females taken at Kidbrook at 

 the end of July by Beaumont, Shere by Capron, Bugbrook in Northants 

 by Marshall and in Ireland by Rev. W, F. Johnson. On 29th August, 

 1907, I captured the males alone, in plenty flying round the leaves of 

 flowering Epilobhnn hirsiiiiim plants growing in a ditch at Monk Soham ; 

 the time was noon and the sun powerful ; none of them settled, and in 

 vain I searched for a possibly "assembling" female. Its attachment to 

 this plant is hoAvever confirmed by a male, which was bred by Fletcher 

 in Worcestershire on i8th July, 1876, from Lavtrna cpilobicUa, Schr. 

 Brischke has described (Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1880, p. 160) both sexes 

 of a Liinneria, bred by him from larvae of the synonymous Lavcrna ful- 

 vescc7ts. Haw., in Prussia on 8th August, 1878 ; he queries it as probably 

 representing L. nana, Grav., and his is very possibly the present species, 

 but it certainly is not Gravenhorst's, which had the hind femora basal ly 

 black and a length of but 3 mm.; its cocoon is described as "elliptisch, 



