254 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [Agfypon 



bracliial cell ; iiervellus weakly iiitercepted far below its centre ; stigma 

 and tegulae flavidous. lA-ngth, 12-14111111. 



This species is now usually relegated to the genus Baptocampus, on 

 account of the slight interception of the nervellus, which, together with 

 the sulcata and laterally elevated scutelluni, will at once distinguish it 

 here. Its synonymy has become somewhat inyolved, but Holmgren's is 

 doubtless the species recorded as British by Marshall, though that with 

 pale vertical marks, bred by Brischke from Hylophila prasinana and so 

 small a host as Hypoiunneuta nmiymella, is probably B. pvrspicuus, Wesm., 

 since that given at Entom. 1880, p. 88 (now in my collection) from Shere 

 in Surrey by Capron certainly is. Possibly our other records of it from 

 Pcndisca rordidaiia (F^ntom. 1881, p. 139) and Steganoptyche rufimi/iana 

 (Entom. 1883, p. 65) should also go, with Ratzeburg's rearing from 

 Fidonia phu'aiia, under ihdLi species. I possess but three British exam- 

 ples from London (Clarke), Gomshall near Guildford in August, 1899 

 (E. A. Butler) and a male bred on 8th Alay, 1909, at Poole from a pupa 

 of Cidnria sp., from Berewood Forest in Dorset (W. P. Curtis). Col. 

 Nurse bred a couple of males in west Suffolk early in May, 19 11. 



7. minutum, Bridg. 



Anomalon miniituiii, Bridg. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 425, s ? . Tn'cliomiiia 

 iitiiiiitiiiii, Schm. Opusc. Ichn. p. 1469. 



Head very coarsely punctate, a litt'e broader than thorax and not at all 

 narrowed behind the entirely glabrous eyes, with the face, mouth, apices 

 of cheeks and the vertical dots flavous; frons distinctly carinate centrally; 

 face finely punctate throughout and nitidulous, centrally elevated, coarsely 

 and isolatedly punctate basally, constricted towards its apex; clypeus 

 obsoletely discreted and apically rounded; upper mandibular tooth but 

 slightly the longer. Antennae filiform and hardly two-thirds length of 

 body, with their underside rufescent. Thorax evenly and coarsely rugose 

 throughout with elongate but very obsolete notauli; metathorax dull and 

 evenly rugose, with no areae. Scutellum rugose, deplanate and black, 

 with sides elevated. Abdomen red, slender and elongate with all the 

 segments discally, and anus laterally, infuscate ; first and second segments 

 linear and of equal length, with the former somewhat longer than the red 

 terebra and its spiracles slightly protuberant ; remaining segments com- 

 pressed. Legs slender and red, with (J front coxae and trochanters 

 sometimes flavous; hind coxae black or red, with apices of their tarsi and 

 tibiae and usually part of their trochanters infuscate; hind tarsi slightly 

 incrassate, with their basal joint four times longer than broad. Wings 

 basally ffavidous, with stigma piceous ; first recurrent nervure emitted 

 from median before centre of cubital cell ; parallel nervure emitted far 

 abo\e centre of brachial cell ; second recurrent not continuous with sub- 

 marginal ; nervellus not intercepted. Length, 4i--6i- mm. 



Bridgman at first thought it a connecting link between Trichomma and 

 Anomalon, but he hiiuself (Entom. 1884, p. 224) places it in Agrypon, 

 though Schm. was doubtless justified, on the score of convenience, in re- 

 taining it in the former genus, which Krieger considered correct in 1904. 

 1 have been enabled to examine the type of this species in the Norwich 

 Castle Museum (March, 19 13) and find it a typical Agrypon with entirely 

 glabrous eyes, the scutellum deplanate and laterally elevated with no 



