198 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. lAngitia 



in the distinctly white hind tibiae with the apices and subbasal mark 

 black ; in the stramineous stigma, somewhat strongly constricted vertex 

 and small size of but 4mm. 



This species has been found in Silesia, Sweden, France, Holland, 

 etc., and has been bred by Mocsary from Caradrina knla. In Britain 

 it seems to be rare and we must not put too much faith upon its records 

 from Gracilaria phasianipemiella (Entom. 1881, p. 140), Coleophora albi- 

 farsella {lib. cit. 1883, p. 66) or upon that from C. gryphipenndla {lib. cit. 

 1884, p. 70); Bridgman says he took it at Norwich and adds as hosts 

 Coleophora lincolella and Swammerdamia oxyacaiithella in 1894, I only 

 possess a dozen examples, of which the males were found at Wicken 

 in Cambridgeshire and Louth in Lincolnshire during June, and the 

 females on reeds in salt marshes about Southwold, at Rishangles and 

 Tuddenham Fen in Suffolk, during August and September ; both sexes 

 occurred to me on Clare Island off the west Mayo coast of Ireland 

 during July, igio. Rev. C. D. Ash bred two males on 22nd August, 

 1900, from Eupithecia indigo la at Selby in Yorkshire ; Luff and Tutt 

 both raised others in June from Liiijia lapiddla, the former in Guernsey. 



27. virginalis, Grav. 



Campoplex virginalis, Gr. I.E. iii. 472, ? . Liiiiiicria virginalis, Bridg. 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 150; Bridg. -Fitch, Entom. 1885, p. 106, ?. Angitia 

 virginalis. Thorns. O.E. xi. 1160, 3 ?. 



Black with the legs red-marked, the hind tibiae whitish with a band 

 before their base and their apices black. Head posteriorly constricted; 

 scape piceous beneath ; metanotal areola transverse, with costulae want- 

 ing ; postpetiole subquadrate, second segment a third longer than broad, 

 the third hardly longer than broad ; seventh segment entire ; terebra as 

 long as postpetiole. Length, nearly 5 mm. 



It agrees with A. libialis in its short terebra, pale ventral plica and 

 slender though attenuate flagellum, but it is distinct in its shorter terebra, 

 entire seventh segment and quadrate postpetiole with distinctly prom- 

 inent spiracles; it is very similar to A. fc ins Ira lis ihow^h much smaller 

 and known by the apically truncate clypeus, flagellar structure, basally 

 dull metathorax.and irregular areolet. 



By no means an uncommon species with us, though somewhat doubt- 

 fully distinct from the next, and said by Schm. to be uncommon on 

 the Continent, where it is recorded from Germany, Sweden, and Van 

 Burgst has taken it in August at The Hague. Bridgman introduced 

 it as British {loc. cit.) on a specimen, which he there associated with 

 A. gracilis (separated at Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 427), found in the 

 vicinity of Norwich. I have examples captured by Saunders at Deal 

 in May, 1872, by Beaumont at Blackheath in September and Tuck at 

 Aldeburgh in the middle of the same month. My own specimens come 

 from all over Suffolk, on birch, Angelica, Heraclcum and other umbelliferous 

 flowers, usually in macshes; from Wicken in Cambs and Oxshott in Sur- 

 rey ; between 5th May when the first male is abroad, and ist October, 

 when I swept the last female off reeds in Covehithe Broad ; once I 

 shook a female out of a Boletus fungus at Ipswich as late in the year 

 as gth November, 1895, but this seems exceptional. 



