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Very rare on tlie Continent and thouj,dit by Oravenhorst, who knew but 

 two females — from Berlin and Volhynia — to possibly be no more than a 

 variety o{ A. xanthopiis. Hohngren, however, considered it distinct, and 

 detailed two females, taken by Boheman in Sweden ; Thomson simply 

 terms it rare in central Sweden ; and Schm. has never taken it, though 

 Brischke savs the female occurs in Prussia. In his " Fauna and Flora of 

 Norfolk, part xiii., Ichneumons" (Trans. Norfolk Nat. Soc. 1S94, p. 618), 

 Bridgman has included this species with a query as having been doubt- 

 fully captured by E. A. Atmore at Kings Lynn in that county, which is 

 (Uir only claim to the species as British. 



4. biguttatum, Grav. 



Anoiualon biguffattiiii, Gr. I.E. iii.642. ? ; Ratz. Ichn. d. Forst. i. 88 ; Wesm. 

 Bui. Ac. Brux. 1849, p. 125 ; Holmgr. Ofv. 1857, p. 170; Sv. Ak. Handl. 1858, 

 p. 19; Kawall, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1858, p. 68 ; Voll. Pinac. pi. xliii, fig. 1 ; Schm. 

 Zeits. Hym.-Dip. 1901. p. 1 ; Opusc. Ichn. p. 1477, j ? . Var. ? , Brisch. Schr. 

 Nat. Ges. Danz. 1880, p. 136. Aphanisfes biguttatiis. Thorns. O.E. xvi. 1760, ? . 



Head somewhat constricted behind the eyes and black with the palpi, 

 mandibles except apically, cheeks, clypeus, face and vertical dots flavous; 



frons deplanate and rugose, with a simple central c-arina. -Vntennae 

 three-quarters length of body, fulvous with the basal joints discally black. 

 Thora.x a little narrower than head, punctate and feebly nitidulous, with 



