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(iravenhorst by Hope from Nctle\-; subseciiKMitl}' I can only find that 

 Bignell has captured it in the Hickleigh Woods in Devon on 21st June. 

 It seems very rare with us, and perhaps western, for I possess but two 

 females, taken at Lynton in Devon by Stanley Edwards in 1890 and at 

 Dulverton in Somerset in July, 1892, by Philip de la CJarde. 



6. xanthopus, Grav. 



Ichneuiiioi xaiifliopiis, Schr. En. 1781, 370, j ? ; OpJiion xanthopus. Fab. 



Piez. 133 (?). Aiioiiialoii xantliopiis, Gr. I.E. iii. 652; Boie, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 



1855, p. 106; Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1858, p. 17 ; Voll. Pinac. pi. iii, fig. 8; 



Bridg. -Fitch, Entom 1884, p. 223, <? ? . A. g/isceiis, Hartig, Jahresb. 1837, 



p. 260. A. ai-matuni, Wesm. Bull. Ac. Brux. 1849, p. 122 ; Kirch. Lotos, 1856, 



p. 234, cT ? . Aphanistcs aniuitiis. Thorns. O.E. xvi. 1761 ; Schm. Opusc. Ichn. 

 p. 1473. 



Head black with clypeus, face, apices of cheeks and vertical dots, 

 flavous. Antennae but little longer than half body, basally black above 

 with the black scape Havous beneath. Thorax black, with sutures and 

 hietathoracic apex sometimes red. Scutellum convex and not laterally 

 carinate, black. Abdomen red, often discally infuscate, with second 

 segment discally and the anus black ; terebra fulvous and half length of 

 basal segment. Legs red with anterior coxae and trochanters, front 

 tarsi and outer side of their tibiae flavidous; hind coxae mainly or entirely 

 and their tibial apices nigrescent, tarsi flavous with metatarsal base 

 rufescent. Wings hyaline, w ith nervellus intercej)ted far below its centre. 

 Length, 10-19 nim. 



Schm. gives the flagellum except basally as lighter or darker red, 

 Thomson gives it as black above, mine are nearly entirely black ; the 

 former tells us the length is 15 mm., Thomson as only 10-12 mm., mine 

 are constantly 19 mm. 



It seems to be a somewhat rare species in northern and central Kurope, 

 but there is no lack of records, wherever Ichneumons have been studied; 

 it has been bred from Pajiolis pinipiida (Brischke and Ratz. Ichn. d. 

 Forst. i. 89), from Gcomelra piniaria and on 4th December from Halias 

 quercana [l.c.'vix. 79); Eugoiiia quircaria and Acronvcia cuspis (Mocsary), 

 GucuUia lychnitis (Giraud), Ai:;iv/is ripac and iMisdia ((iaulle). Hope is 

 said to have taken a form of the female at Netley in Shropshire, but this 

 is almost certainly not referable to the present species ; Curtis (]i.E. 

 fol. 736) found it in Darenth Wood during June; Bignell captured it on 

 29th ^lav in Bickleigh Woods, on ist [une at Ivybridge and on i ith .May 

 he bred it from a pupa of Pitiis dap>lii}ice from either the south of France 

 (Devon. Assoc.) or from I^aklar in Turkey (Fnlom. 1S80, p. t)8); J^ridg- 

 man says Atmore raised it at King's Lynn from Traclua piiiipin/a and 1 

 have a female bred by I^arrett from the .same host; l^airstow records it 

 from Yorkshire, Sicli took it at Chiswick about 1883 and Adams has 

 given me a fine male, captun-d in his Lvndhurst gardiMi at tiie beginning 

 of June, 1907. 



