244 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [Anomalon 



short and sparse pubescence ; black with callosity below radices and 

 marks above hind coxae flavous or red ; metathorax coarsely rugose. 

 Scutellum convex, not laterally carinate and always (with usually the post- 

 scutellum) bright flavous. Abdomen red with second segment discallv, 

 and anus from fifth segment, black. Legs red, with the anterior partly 

 and all the tarsi flavous ; hind tibial apices, whole of their coxae, and in 

 9 base of the anterior, black ; hind tarsi subincrassate. Wings distinctly 

 flavescent, with stigma and tegulae fulvidous ; nervellus subcentrally in- 

 tercepted. Length, 15-20 mm. 



This species forms a connecting link between the present restricted 

 genus and Aphanistes, in which Thomson placed it, since, though lacking 

 frontal horn, the mesonotum is apically depressed. 



It is ever3where rare ; ( jravenhorst first took several females near 

 Frankfort flying round Pinus sylvestris at the beginning of October ; 

 Ratzeburg, who knew both sexes, calls it a Schmarotzer der Kiefernspin- 

 ners, bred from Fidonia piniaria by Boie ; Wesmael found three Belgian 

 specimens, but it was not rediscovered there by Tosquinet. Holmgren, 

 who gives an excellent description of this species, in 1855 thought it verv 

 rare in Sweden, whence he also knew but three examples, of which he took 

 a male in August and refers to a female with black postscutellum (not 

 scutellum, sec Schm.) ; Thomson found a female in flast Gothland ; 

 Brischke discovered both sexes in Prussia " aus Puppen von /<:?;/r>//.y />////- 

 perda erzogen," one female with red-and-yellow marked metathorax and 

 red hind coxae ; and Dours adds that it has been raised in France from 

 Bi>niliyx pinf, which host is given by Kirchner, both probably copied from 

 Rondani. It has not hitherto been recorded from Britain, but the late ]\Ir. 

 Albert Pifl'ard has kindly given me a beautiful pair, which he had correctly 

 named and captured at Felden, near Boxmoor in Hertfordshire, about 

 1885. 



5. ruficorne, Grav. 



Anoiualon ruficorne, Gr. I.E. iii. 655; Boie, Kroy. Tids. 1840, p. 323; Holmgr. 

 Sv. Ak. Handl. 1858, p. 18; Bridg. -Fitch, Entom. 1884, p. 223 ; DT. Wien. Ent. 

 Zeit. 1890, p. 140, <J ? . A. Weswaeli, Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1854, p. 25; lib. 

 cit. 1858, p. 18; Voll. Pinac. pi. iii, fig. 4, i ? . Aphanistes rnficornis et Wes- 

 mael i, Thorns. O.E. xvi. 1762, <j ? . 



Head slightly constricted posteriorly, densely punctate, with short 

 pubescence ; black with the face, apices of cheeks and vertical dots 

 flavous; vertex deeply emarginate. Antennae nearly as long as body, 

 entirely rufescent flavous ; (J scape flavous beneath. Thorax black and 

 a little narrower than head ; mesonotum clo.sely punctate ; metathorax 

 reticulate-rugose and longitudinally impressed, with apex sometimes 

 rufescent. Scutellum flatly and sublongitudinally impressed apically. 

 Abdomen red with postpetiole partly, second segment discally and anus 

 from the fifth or sixth segment black. Legs red with anterior partly 

 flavidous; hind coxae basally or entirely and their tibial apices black, 

 their tarsi flavous with metatarsal base red. Wings flavescent, with 

 stigma and tegulae rufescent. Length, 15-20 mm. 



By no means common in central and northern Europe; bred from 

 Callimorpha dominida (Giraud), Demas coryli (Boie), Gastropacha pinipeida 

 (Schm.), Spfiinx pinasiri (Rriscli. Schr. Nat. Ges. Uanz. 1880, p. 135); 

 andCiaulIe says also from Gosiiin/rhhe potaloria and Hilophila prasinana. 

 This species was first described from a female and a couple of males sent 



