290 IM^ITISII ICHNEUMONS. [Paniscus 



1. tarsatus, Bn'scli. 



Piniisciis tarsutiis, Brisch. Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1880, p. 138 ; Bridg. -Fitch, 

 PZntom. 1885, p. 13, ^ 9 . P. [Panibatiis) ttirsatiis, Kok. Horae Soc. Ent. Ross. 

 1S99, pp. 130, 137. 



A very slender, testaceous species. Head small, pusteriorly constricted 

 and slightly narrower than eyes ; palpi, mandibles exce})t their black 

 apices, clypeus, face and external orbits fiavous. Antennae slender, as 

 long as body, with the third and fourth joints of ecjual length. Thorax 

 with a subradical mark, and usually the lateral sutures, Ikivous ; mesono- 

 tum w ith one or three vittae often inluscale and the notauli so strong as 

 to render the surface trilobed ; ^ with mesopleurae usually flavous and 

 mesosternum sometimes infuscate ; metalhorax with circular spiracles and 

 no carinae. Basal segment sublinear, hardly explanate apically; terebra 

 piceous and exserted, as long as basal segment. Legs slender ; hind 

 tarsi whitish, with base of metatarsi testaceous; J with anterior coxae 

 and trochanters pale. Tegulae Havous ; stigma flavous or piceous-red ; 

 areolet sessile or petiolate, sometimes subobsolete. Length, 8-() (or-i i, 

 Brisch.) mm. 



Known by its flavous-marked thorax and head, verv slender tt)rm, ex- 

 serted terebra and usually pale stigma, in the cohjur of which last almost 

 solely it differs from the next species. 



Taken singly in northern Europe; and apparently connnon in Prussia, 

 where its author bred it from Dnpana fakiila and iingitictiLi, EupHlncia 

 absynthiaia, cxiguata, lariciaia, siiccaitaiiriata and casligala ; he describes 

 the cocoon (well figured at Entom. 1884, pi. ii, fig. 7) as ehjngate, elliptic, 

 black or brown with a narrow central pale girdle. It was introduced as 

 British by Bridgman (1881, Trans. Ent. Soc. p. 157 et Entom. p. 139) on 

 the strength of both sexes bred at Plymouth from JEupithccia ahbnviala in 

 1880 by Bignell, who subsequently (Entom. 1883, p. 65) raised it in Devon 

 during iMa)- from E. casligala, absynthiaia — also bred thence by Atmoie in 

 Norfolk — and virgauirala, as well as (Devon List) E.larciala on ist July; 

 W. Fletcher added (Entom. 1884, p. 70) E. vulgala to its hosts, Warren 

 {I.e. 1885, p. 15) confirmed E. exiguala, and Bridgman tells us (Norf. 

 iVans.) that Atmore produced it from E. cxiensaria at Kings Lynn. 



Bridgman, who took it at Norwich, thought it not uncommon with us ; 

 but I have captured only a single example, on oak in a wood near 

 Brandon during the- evening of 5th June, 1903; though I have material 

 from Shere (Capron), Felden (Piffard), a pale female which Slater took at 

 light at Withycombe near Taunton on 29th September, 1908, and a male 

 bred by Mrs. Holmes at Torcross in 1907, from a larva— probably Eupi- 

 Ihecia absynlhiata — feeding on Arleviisia Absinlhium ; Col. Nurse bred a 

 female from larvae of E. coiisignala on 5th August, 19 12, in west Suffolk 

 and Atmore lias sent me a female bred from Collix sparsala on 2nd ALi), 

 1905. 



2. nigricarpus, Thorns. 



Parabatiis nigricarpiis, Thorns. O.E. xii. 1 196, ?; Brauns, Arch. Nat. Meckl. 

 1889, p. 80; Kok. Horae Soc. Ent. Ross. 1899, p. l;:}5; Schm. Opusc. Ichn. 

 p. 1849, cf ? . 



A small and delicate pale testaceous species, with head, thorax and 

 abdomen more or less broadly infuscate. \'ertex narrow and pak; citrin- 

 ous, or in J infuscate ; ocellar region often nigrescent. INIesonotum with 



