308 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. \Asfiphrommus 



the notauli apically somewhat broad and deepl}' impressed ; mesonotum 

 finely and sparsely punctate, feebly nitidiilous ; metathorax shining and 

 siibglabrous with spiracles elongate and all the costae strong ; areola sub- 

 triangular and apically strongly carinate, basally acuminate and confluent 

 with basal area. Abdomen nitidulous and narrower than thorax, very 

 finely and difilusc^ly substriate ; l:)asal segment not sulcate ; lercbra as long 

 as the third segment, with valvulae very broad and apically .subconstrictcd. 

 Legs not short, claws .strongly and elongately pectinate to apex. Wings 

 hyaline with areolet rectangular, distinctly petiolate and apically oblicjuely 

 truncate ; nervellus a little antefurcal and strongly intercepted distinctly 

 below its centre. Length, 10-15 '^'^^^^ 



This distinct species, which has the colour and onvchial pectination of 

 Pam'scus, is scattered through central Europe, occurring rareh' nearly 

 every year in Thuringia. It was originally found on umbelliferae near 

 Cottingen in July, subsequently by Kriechbaumer in the Tyrol, and 

 Rrischke bred one in Prussia from a cocoon of Campoplex mixtiis through 

 the larva of Ca/ocala nupia. It is very rarely found in Britain and there 

 are no records, though Desvignes says it was in the British Museum in 

 1856. I possess three examples; the female was found at Ketton near 

 Stamford in Rutland on 14th May, iqoq, by Rollason; a male taken at 

 Lyndhurst in the New Forest during June, iqoy, by Adams ; and there is 

 another in Capron's collection from Shere in Surrev. 



2. dorsalis, HoJnigr. 



Mcsoc/;on/,s Jor.^Yr//.s, Hnlmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl, 1SS8, p. 117, cT ?; Brisch. Schr. 

 Nat. Ges. Danz. 1880, p. ISO, ? . ill. scntclhrtiis, Brisch. /.c. p. 179, J 9 (ncc 

 Grav.). M. liirsutiis, Bridg. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1883, p. 168, d ? . Asfiplironniiiis 

 dorsalis, Thorns. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1885, p 328, c? ? . 



A Stout, black species with the head anteriorly and the legs pale, hind 

 tibiae and tarsi infuscate. Head very slightly and evenl}- constricted 

 behind the eyes ; vertex somewhat broad, stout and broadly emarginate ; 

 cheeks buccate and hardly shorter than base of the stout, short and 

 apically hardly constricted mandibles, which have equal teeth ; 9 with 

 ]jalpi, mandibles except apically, clypeus and apices of cheeks flavidous, 

 head of J anteriorly entirely pale. Antennae black or piceous, basally 

 paler beneath. Thorax short and coarctate, often with the disc and 

 sternum pale red; the frequently concolorous pleurae subglabrous ; pro- 

 thorax of J fiavescent ; petiolar a little longer than its lateral areae, near- 

 ly transverse ; areola broad, apically complete and emitting the often 

 obsolete costulae before its centre. Scutellum partly or entirely red, and 

 apically granulate. Abdomen hardly longer than head and thorax with 

 apical margin of second segment whitish flavous ; ventral anal segments 

 centrally pale ; petiole narrow and the two following segments of 9 some- 

 what transverse, of ^ subquadrate. Legs, except apices of the hind ones, 

 stramineous with the anterior of ^ basally paler ; hind tarsi incrassate, 

 their claws stout and extending be30nd the pulvilli, closely and elongately 

 pectinate nearly to centre, and subrectangularlv deflexed. Wings nearly 

 hyaline, with areolet somewhat large ; tegulae of ^ whitish ; stigma infus- 

 cate or dull testaceous, not broad, emitting the apically straight radius 

 nearly from its centre; lower basal nervure postfurcal, parallel nervure 

 emitted from centre of brachial cell, lower angle of discoidal cell apically 

 acute ; nervellus intercepted obviously below its centre. Length, 8- 10 mm. 



