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(Marshall), Herts (Piflfard), Hereford (Yerbury), Taunton and 1 kith (Char- 

 bonnier), Kilniore in Ireland (Beaumont), Surrey (Butler and Capron), 

 Kent (de la (jarde), Hampshire (Adams), (iifthock . near (Glasgow (Dal- 

 olish) and St. Kilda (Waterston). It has occurred to me in the Isle of 

 Wight, the New Forest, at Salisbury, Groveley in Wilts, in Kssex, Cam- 

 bridgeshire, Suffolk, Norfolk and Lincoln; the males are first on the wing 

 on 23rd April, the females not before the middle of May ; tliey are hardly 

 ever attracted to flowers, though 1 believe I have taken them on Aiigt/inj 

 and Alexanders; as a rule one finds them by casually sweeping rough 

 herbage, reeds, marram grass, etc., often at dusk, and once 1 took a female 

 in the pitch dark in this way ; it was attracted to light at ,Monk Soham 

 in the middle of August, 1907, but I do not find it upon Ikjusi; windows, 

 as others have stated ; it becomes rarer in August and is liardly I'ver suen 

 in September, the 19th of which month is my latest date of capture. 



21. chrysosticta, Ginel. 



Icliiicimion clirysostictiis, Gme\. S.N. 1790,2721. Cdiiipoplcx clirysos/ictiis, 

 Gr. I.E. iii. 522, s $ , excl. varr.; Ratz. Ichn. d. Forst. i. 96, ii. S3, iii. 8(i, rf V . 

 Liinneria chrysosticta, Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. I85S, p. 60, J ? . Angifin 

 chrysostictti, Thorns. O.E. xi. 1157, c? ? . 



Black with the femora and tibiae red, the hind or posterior tibiae apic- 

 allv and before their white base black and centrally broadly stramineous ; 

 antennal scape pale beneath. Length, about 5 mm. 



'J'oo closely allied to the last to need a detailed description, and agree- 

 ing with it in the above particulars; therefrom it is at once known by its 

 immaculate fulvous hind femora, subinfuscate alar stigma, distinctly short 

 cheeks, in the slightly emarginate apex of the sixth 9 segment, and often 

 laterally rufescent third or second and third segments. The eyes in life, 

 always beautiful objects in the Ichneumonidae, are particularly brilliant 

 in this species, metallic bronze-green — "oculis vita viridi-nitentibus," as 

 Gravenhorst says ; also I have noticed that the sixth and seventh 9 seg- 

 ments are white spotted, though no trace of this is found in dried spixi- 

 mcns. 



This species is said to be as widely distributed, though decidedly less 

 common, than the last one on the Continent, where records of its breed- 

 ing are not rare. In pretty well every case, however, no reliance can be 

 placed on those before 1887 when the specific characters were first 

 definitely understood ; and I think most of at least the ffypononuula records 

 X(iWx Ko A. majalis. Raised from Papilio ur/uin- {Grdv.); by Ratzeburg 

 from 'J'iiica cogiia/ilhi, T. paihUa i\.x\<\ T. iiialiiul/a, from Toiirix irsimina, 

 Tinai syn'iigiHa, a species of Psvc/w and on 20th April from Xinui/us galls 

 on wild rose ; Gaulle adds another Tenthredinid host-genus, Lop/ivnis ; 

 and Dours says (Cat. Hym. France, 1874, p. 62) " des galles du Saule 

 Mansault contenant le Xenialus s<i//'a's." (iiraud gives Argynslia nilidilla 

 and adds it is "parasite des fourreaux de la Talai porta picliuello dans 

 environs de Paris" (Ann. Soc. Fr. 1877, p. 403). 



In Britain we have but three references to this species : bred from 

 YponomciUa padcUa (Kntom. 1884, p. 67); captured at Karlham in July 

 (Bridgman); and bred in south Devon from Hypononutila ci'onvmcllus o\\ 

 i4lh July and from //. />r/^/(7///,f on i6th July (Bignell). I have seen it 



