Ash'phrommus] 



BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 



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above scrobes, face equally black or with whitish inarkin^^s but with the 

 orbits not determinately pale; ^ face always pale. Thorax with the 

 lateral metanotal costae often basally wanting. Abdomen discally shortly 

 pubescent, with the postpetiole laterally margined in both sexes. W'inj^s 

 with the lower basal nervure often postfurcal, the parallel nervure nearly 

 always emitted from centre of brachial cell, which has the lower apical 

 angle acute ; nervellus always or nearly always more or less distinctly 

 intercepted. 



Tabic of Species. 

 Vi'rtex narrow ; ocelli contiguous with 



eyes; unicolorous testaceous 

 Vertex normal ; ocelli remote from 



eyes ; body broadly black. 

 Seutellum with an apical tubercle or 



granule ; face of 9 black. 

 Pleurae neither punctate nor red ; 

 vertex stouter ; terebra shorter . . 

 5. Pleurae punctate and partly red; ver- 

 tex less stout ; terebra longer 

 Seutellum smooth, with no apical 



granule ; face of ^ often pale. 

 Lower mandibular tooth distinc'tly the 



longer 

 Lower mandibular tooth not longer 



than the upper. 

 Bod}' very stout ; face of $ blatrk. 



Lower basal nervure elongately post- 

 furcal ; abdomtm, exei'pt basally, 

 pale . 



Basal nervure subconlinuous ; abdo- 

 men nearly entirely black 



Body more slender ; face of both sexes 

 flavidous. 



Lower basal nervure not continuous, 

 strongly postfurcal 



Basal nervure subcontinuous through 

 the median. 



Nervellus of hind wing weaklv but 

 distinctly intercepted 



Nervellus of the hind wing not at all 

 intercepted. 

 (19.) 18. Seutellum black; hind tibiae not 



nigrescent . 

 (iS). 19. Seutellum red ; apices of hind tibiae 

 broadly nigrescent 



1. A l,.\K I us, Grav. 



2. nORSALIS, Holnig. 



3. (iKAXIGF.K, TlloniS. 



4. .MANDIlllLARIS, TIloiUS. 



5. sTRK.xrus, Ho////j4r. 



6. scfTELLATrs, Grav. 



7. IIAMl'LUS, ThoDIS. 



8. I'urrs, lirisch. 



•|i':\i-ic()Rxis, 'J'linnix. 

 '/ hoiiis. 



10. I'l.AC.l \ 11 



1. alarius, Grav. 



Mesoclioriis ahiriits, (ir. I.E. ii. 977, ,/ . .U. s^iiids, Kricch. Knt. Nachr. xxiii, 

 p. 332, ? . M. [Plcsioplitliahiuis) alarius, Briscli. Sclir. Nat. Ges. Danz. 18S0, 

 p. 183, (? 9 . Ciila/)hus alarius, Brauns, Arcli. Nat. Meckl. 1889, p. 78; P. alarius, 

 Schm. Opusc. Iclm. 1940, .i ? . 



A shining and entirely testaceous species with oid)- the occllar region 

 and mandibular apices black; anus of ^ subinfuscate. Head small and 

 very strongly constricted posteriorly with the face uneven and strongly 

 punctate, dull and triangularly prominent centrally with an impression 

 above the clypeus. Antennal scrobes deeply impressed. Thorax witli 



