Agrypon'] IJRITISH KHNKUMONS. 25}) 



nigrescent liinJ lei^s and in lia\ ing llic ncrM'llu.^ quite straiglil, noi at all 

 geniculate. Length, lo-iimm. V unknown. 



Both this and the last are quite certainly nothing but weakly developed 

 forms of I.abrorhvchus feviiicornis. 



The two males described by Bridgman were bred from mixed Lepi- 

 dopterous larvae found by Fletcher fei-ding on sloe in Abb(jts Wood near 

 Polegate in Sussex. I captured a single male on 2gth May, 1902, in the 

 Bentley Woods, Suffolk, along with tlie last species. 



5. interruptum, Desv. 



Anomaloii iiitcrniptiiiii, Desv. Cat. 1856, 106; Bridg. -Fitch, Entom. 18e!4 

 p. 224, J . 



Head with the face alone flavous. Antennae half length of body, fer- 

 rugineous above and castaneous beneath, with the scape basally black- 

 ringed. Thorax with the sternum fiavous before the front coxae and 

 between the intermediate. Abdomen somewhat broad and black, with 

 the three apically rufescent basal segments subcylindrical ; terebra shortly 

 exserted. Legs fulvous, with the anterior coxae and trochanters flavous ; 

 hind legs castaneous, with trochanters and their tibial apices black. 

 Wings somewhat short with the costa, stigma and tegulae fulvous. 

 Length, 14 mm. 



It is said to be a male, though allowed an aculeus by its author; and 

 is placed among Agrypon by Bridg. -Fitch, who do not seem to know it, 

 though they ascribe it the length quoted above. I have not examined 

 the type "in Mr, Desvignes' Collection." •■• 



6. canaliculatum, Holmgr. 



Anomalon cciiuilicnhitimi , Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1858, p. 23, cT v (ncc Kal/.). 



Head with the face, clypeus, palpi, mandibles except ajjicallv, and 

 apices of cheeks, but not the vertex flavous; temples not broad, frons 

 rugose and face apically constricted. Antennae a little longer than half 

 body. Thorax immaculate, with notauli distinct and nie.sonotum sub- 

 nitidulous ; scutellum deplanate, apically subexcavate and laterally strongly 

 elevated, especially beyond its centre. Abdomen red with its disc, except 

 basal segment, black. Legs red, with the tarsi and J front legs flavous, 

 hind tibiae apically black, as are the (^ hind coxae and trochanters; hind 

 tarsi subincrassaie. Wings with jjarallel nervure emitted from centre of 



* Very little seems to be remembered by the present generation of Thomas Desvignes, and his 

 work in general has been largely supplemented. He was a great friend of the Rev. T. A. Marshall 

 and, also, of I-red. Smith ; he frequently worked at tlje British Museum, the Natural History depart- 

 ment of which was then at Hloonisbury, thouKli I think he was never officially connected with it. His 

 Catalogue of the llritish Ichneuiuouidae in the British Museum (ills a broa<l gap between the lists of 

 Stephens and Marshall, though I fear (as was in those days inevitable) many of his dcieruiinations 

 were inaccurate and that we have not yet shaken off all tiie species he erroneously considered to be 

 British, especially among tlie larger Iciineumoninae. He was an original M.li.S. (1S33) and must 

 consequently have been of advanced age when he died at Woodford in Kssex on nth May, 1S68. 

 The President remarked in his Address before the Entomological Society in January, 1869, tliat he 

 was "one of what may be termed the old school of British liiitomologists and was chiefly known for 

 his great knowledge of the British Ichneuiiionidae." His Catalogue evidently brought him notoriety, 

 if not celebrity, for we read of a meeting of the Entomological Society in the old Bedford Square 

 days (Ent. Weekly Intelligencer, 5th July, 1856) " Who is that gentleman sitting with his back to the 

 window who might pass for the eifigy at a tobacconist's shop, he is so continually taking snufl ? " 

 "Oh! that is Mr. Desvignes, so deep in the literature of the Ichneumonidae : they say lie has so 

 much snuff in his insect drawers that it drives away all the mites." 



