242 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. \_Anomalon 



apical ly subdcntate in the centre. Antennae hardly longer than half 

 body, black \vith scape usually flavous beneath. Thorax densely punctate 

 and pubescent, with apically distinct notauli ; metathorax coarsely rugose. 

 Scutellum black and convex. Abdomen red with the second segment 

 discally, and the anus broadly, black. Legs slender, the anterior fulvous ; 

 coxae and hind legs black, with apices of their femora, tibial apices and 

 their tarsi flavous ; hind tarsi subincrassate in both sexes. Wings flav- 

 escent, w ith stignui fulvous ; parallel nervure emitted from about centre 

 of brachial cell. Length, 16-20 mm. 



A common species throughout all Europe in May, June and September. 

 First bred, upon several occasions in May by Ratzeburg and Graff from 

 Diloba cacruleoaphala, and later by Brischke from Calocampa velusta pupae, 

 in Germany; JNIocsary is said to have bred it in Hungary from C.exoleta\ 

 Giraud tells us Ferris raised it in France from Orthosia gracilis, and Gaulle 

 records it ihGwca irom. Agrofis ripae \ to which Bridg.-Fitch add Agrolis 

 segc/um and a species of Eiipithecia. It is not a generally common insect 

 with us and I have captured but a single pair, which were sucking the 

 stylopods ot Aiigilica sjlvesiris at Claydon bridge — an oft-worked spot — 

 in Suffolk on i8th September, 1898. I have seen it from Moseley near 

 Birmingham, where Bradley took it on i ith June, 1899 ; and it is recorded 

 from Sparham by Norgate and Brundall in Norfolk (Bridgman) ; Bick- 

 leigh on 9th July (Bignell) ; Lands End (Marquand) ; and a specimen 

 bred by Adkin from Hclioihis dipsacea was exhibited at Meeting of S. 

 Lond. Ent. Soc. on 14th Dec. 1893. I have it from Chiswick (Sich), 

 Shere (Capron), Felden in 1899, etc. (Piffard), Retford district (Pegler) ; 

 Kilmore in Ireland in middle of August, 1898 (Beaumont) and Loo 

 Bridge at the end of August, 1908 (Andrews). 



3, procerum, Grav. 



Anomalon procertim, Gr. I.E. iii. 651; Holragr. Ofv. 1857, p. 172; Sv. Ak. 

 Handl. 1858, p. 21 ; Thorns. O.E. xvi. 1763 ; Schm. Opusc. Ichn. p. 1477, ? . 



Head slightly constricted posteriorly, black with palpi, mandibles 

 except their apices, clypeus and face flavous ; vertical dots and external 

 orbits rufescent ; frons deplanate, rugose, with a simple central carina. 

 Antennae hardly longer than half body, dull red with their apices infus- 

 cate, the second and third joints discally piceous and the two basal 

 flavous beneath. Thorax almost narrower than head, closely and some- 

 what coarsely punctate, black with sutures and metathoracic apex rufes- 

 cent. Scutellum black, and distinctly carinate laterally. Abdomen red 

 with the second segment discally, and anus from the fifth, nigrescent. 

 Legs slender and red, coxae basally infuscate, anterior tarsi and tibiae 

 flavous; hind tarsi subincrassate and apically black, with their metatarsal 

 base rufescent. Wings piceous-flavescent, with stigma and tegulae ru- 

 fescent ; nervellus subcentrally intercepted. Length, 18-20 mm. J 

 hitherto unknown. 



A single German J in Mus. Brit., ex coll. Ruthe, agrees perfectly with 

 the above description, excepting in its immaculate vertex and black hind 

 coxae ; the temples are broadly red, and both legs and abdomen distinctly 

 paler than usual. The second recurrent nervure is very nearly continuous 

 with the submarginal, thus allying the species with Erigorgus and Anoma- 

 lon latro. 



