Holocremna] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 219 



2. clandestina, Holiiigr. 



Canipoplcx rctectiis, Htg. Jahresb. 1838, p. 272; Ratz. Ichn. d. Forst, i. 94, 

 ? (?). Limncria clandcstiiui, ilolm^'r. Sv. Ak. Haiull. 1S58, p. 90; Bridg. -Fitch, 

 Entom. 1885, pp. 108, 205, cf ? . Holocrciiinci cliuulcstina, Thoms. U.K. xi. 

 1178, ci ? . 



Head hardly constricted behind the eyes with cheeks soniewliat short 

 and convex, their costa stront(ly inflexed; palpi and mandibles (lavous, 

 the latter short and stout, but little longer than broad and basally rellexetl 

 below, with the teeth not acute. Antennal scape pale beneath. Thorax 

 dull and grey pubescent; niesopleurae alutaceously {)unctate with specu- 

 lum dull ; areola semicircular and apical ly incomplete, with the costulae 

 subobsolete. Abdomen with apical margin of second segment usually 

 and of third rarely red, sides of the third generally concolorous ; the fol- 

 lowing segments usually rufescent below; postpetiole laterally subparallel- 

 sided ; ventral plica infuscate. Legs rufescent with anterior coxae and 

 all trochanters flavidous ; hind coxae and basal joint of their trochanters 

 black ; hind tibiae rufescent with apex, and usually before the white base, 

 infuscate ; hind tarsi piceous. Wings with tegulae pale, stigma piceous 

 and apex of discoidal cell acute below. Length, 7-8 mm. 



Known by the capital characters, the nearly parallel-sided })ostpetiole 

 and immaculate red hind femora. 



Roth found a few specimens at Ilstorp in Sweden in the middle of July 

 and it is recorded from Lapland by Thomson, who thought Hartig's 

 insect, bred from Lophyrus pinim Germany, probably synonymous. liut 

 our records of this species, introduced with no locality by ISridgman 

 (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 150), are all from Lepidopterous hosts and 

 should, consequently, be regarded with suspicion: — Bignell bred it from 

 Lomaspilis marginata (Entom. 1881, p. 140) and Adkin a female and two 

 males from Rannoch larvae oi Eupiihccia helvcticaria (Proc. S. Lond. Ent. 

 Soc. i8q6, p. 80). Dalla Torre — doubtless in error for //. pubiscens — 

 says Fletcher raised it from Croesus varus. I possess half-a-dozen exani- 

 plesfrom Shere in Capron's collection and others from Felden in Piftard's, 

 Bentley Woods and JVIarlesford, Suffolk, on Herackum flowers in August 

 and July. 



3. erythropyga, Holnigr. 



Limncria erythropyga, Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1858, p. 91 ; Brisch. Schr. 

 Nat. Ges. Danz. 1880, p. 16(S ; Bridg. -Fitch, Entom. 1885, pp. 108,205, i ?. 

 Holocremna erythropyga, Thoms. (J.E. xi. 1181, ? . 



Black with the palpi, mandibles, undersidi' of scape and callosities 

 before radices, flavidous; mandibles short and stout. 'Phorax with nieso- 

 pleurae somewhat nitidulous and diifusely j)unctate ; areola pentagonal, 

 somewhat narrow and apically incomplete, with weak but distinct co.s- 

 tulae. Abdomen with the incisures of second segment often, the third 

 usually laterally and the following below, rufescent; postpetiole trans- 

 verse and but little convex, witli sides nearly straight ; ventral j)lica 

 infuscate ; terebra not extending beyond anus. Legs red, with the 

 anterior basally flavidous; hind coxae and basal joint of their trochanters 

 black, their femora sometimes apically with apex and before base of 

 their tibiae nigrescent, extreme base of hind tibiae with those of ba.sal 



