Paniscus] r-RlTISH ICHNEUMONS. 299 



New Forest, several (.Aliss Chawiier), Lyndhurst in [une (Adams), Deal in 

 I\ray, 1872 (Edward Saunders), several at Felden in Herts (Piffard), Ips- 

 wich at lij^lit in November (Flatten), .Monks Soham at light at 8. 30 p.m. 

 at the end of August and in the Southwold salt-marshes on reeds about 

 tlie same time (Klorley), Barmouth towards the end of June (Yerbury) ; 

 and a ^ bred by Waterston, who notici'd that its larva had been external Iv 

 parasitic upon one of Acroiiyc/a psi, from its own cocoon which exacth- 

 resembles that of P. i^mrc/7/pis but with no paler girdle, on 2b!th June, 

 i8qq, at Edinburgh. A round dozen of the present species flew into light 

 at Rrockenhurst between 8 and 10.30 p.m. on the 20th May, 191 1 ; they 

 were all females, says Lyle. 



10. brachycerus, TJioius. 



Paniscus brachycerus, Thorns. O.E. xii. 1201 ; Brauns, Arch. Nat. Meckl.1889, 

 p. 83 ; Schm. Opusc. Ichn. p. ISCSl.ii' ?; cf. Kok. Horae See. Ent. Ross. 1899, 

 p. 128, nota. 



Extremely like the last species but very distinct in: A deep red species; 

 head posteriorly subparallel-sided but neither buccatt> nor at all narrower 

 than eyes; vertex slightly broader, with ocelli smaller and stronglv remote 

 from eyes. Antennae slightlv shorter than body in J, and but three- 

 quarters its length in 9 ; deep black with scape, and in 9 t'^*^' f'^'t' or six 

 basal flagellar joints, alone rufi'scent ; subfiliform, with apices of basal 

 flagellar joints distinctly nodulose. Metathoracic transcarina obsolete or 

 at most tuberculiform. Pctioli' stouter and not sulcate with its lateral 

 foveae, and in $ its disc at the base, distinctly black. Eegs a little 

 stouter. Stigma very conspicuous, of ^ nigrescent or deep piceous, of 

 9 red and not testaceous. Length, 8fr-i3 mm. 



1 had drawn up the above distinctions from P. dilaia/iis before noting 

 that they exactly agree with those set forth by I'homson for his P.bracliy- 

 ants; he also adds that the thorax is longer and the first segment longer 

 than the second, which is nearly twice longer than broad; from P.givci/i- 

 pes he distinguishes it by the black petiolar foveae, shorter second flagel- 

 lar joint and stouter legs, to which the darker red of the body and much 

 broader black of the flagellum may be added. 



" Funnen pa sandfalten i Skane och pa Oland " (Thoms.); France 

 (CJaulle). Unknown elsewhere and extremely local with us. On loth 

 June, 1900, three males occurred to me on the flower-heads of Chacro- 

 phyUian liinulum at Town Street near Hrandon ; on 9th June, 1903, I dis- 

 covered a female at the roots of Risala lulea, growing in sand, at the same 

 spot ; on 7th June, 19 10, 1 swept a second female at the Hrandon staunch, 

 half-a-mile away; and on 28lh May, 1901, a small female was netted, flv- 

 ing in the sunshine upon the high sandy plateau, at Foxhall. This is 

 doubtless the species recorded, with a (juery, as P. fiisiioniis, Hlgr. 

 (Entom. 1X84., p. 07), found by Raynor "piercing a larva of /./'//ics/ti^r 

 ///Vvv/a/u," DL. ■= f(nsi(ihi, Schilf., which is extremely local in Hritain and 

 one of the especial rarities of the breck sands of the Hrandon district. 

 There is a " Hritish " female in the National collection; and on ujth 

 May, 1909, Col. Nurse took three males at West Stow in .Suflolk, to which 

 county it is at present confined with us. 



