Asiiphrommus] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 309 



The female is usually the darker sex, with the scutellum but sparsely 

 red-marked and face black. 



It is a rare species, though widely distributed, throughout north and 

 central luirope. Bignell records it from Bickleigh in Devon in the 

 middle of August {cf. Tr. Y.wV. Soc. 1886, p. 353) ; the type of Bridgman's 

 name was taken about Sherc in Suncv by Dr. C'apron, but is not now (at 

 least so-labi'lk'd) in his eolk'ition, wIrtc 1 possess two co-typical males 

 and oiu' frniale iVom that nrighbourhood. 



3. graniger, Tlioins. 



Astipliroiininis i^ranii^cr, Thoms. Ann. Soc luit. Fr. 1885, p. S28, i ?. 



A black sj')ecies with tlavidous-stramineous legs, the lu-ad narrow 

 behind eyes, and both scutellum and pleurae j)unctate and in part rosy. 

 Length, 8-9 mm. 



The only species of this genus resembling .1. dorsalis in its apical 

 scutellar granule and flavidous-margined second segment ; but with the 

 body less coarctate, the cheeks not buccate, mandibles apically constricted, 

 vertex less stout, the thorax darker with pleurae obviously punctate and 

 lateral costae of metanotum not basally obsolete, terebra longer, hind 

 tarsi more slender with the less stout claws evenly curved. 



At present only known from Sweden and France ('riionison) ; and 

 Holland, where it occurs in INIay and July (van Burgst). In lirilain, it 

 was first bred in Devonshire from Adnrxas grossu/aiia/a through Exorisla 

 vulgaris (Bignell; (/. Tr. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 354). The only example I 

 possess was captured at Bickleigh Vale in the same county on 16th June, 

 1897, by Beaumont. 



4. mandibularis, Thoms. 

 AsfipIiroviDiiis iiiaiiiiihidaris, Thoms. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1885, p.330, t? 9 . 



A black s{)ecies with a discal abdominal plaga, and the legs, flavidous 

 testaceous; mandibles with the lower tooth the longer. lli'ad partly 

 pale, as broad as thorax and evenly rounded behind the eyes ; vi-rtex not 

 very narrow, face subtransverse and somewhat strongly punctate; clypeus 

 transversely impressed before its apex, with deep lateral foveae ; cheeks 

 neither elongate nor compressed ; mandibles somewhat long and stout, 

 slightly curved, with lower tooth the longer. Antennae nearly as long as 

 body, setaceous and i)ale pilose ; testaceous and becoming darker above 

 towards their base. 'J'horax elongate and densely pubescent, black and 

 sometimes with a di.scal central mark and the sternum castaneous ; petio- 

 lar area short, areola narrow and emitting costulae far before its centre ; 

 lateral costae not basally obsolete. Scutellum sometimes castaneous. 

 Abdomen elongate, densely pilose and black with a ci-ntral l)Iaga on disc 

 of second and third segments, with the ventral i)lica, stramineous. Legs 

 not very stout, flavidous-stramineous with the hind coxae sometimes ex- 

 ternally dark basally ; api'x of tibiae subdilated or rellexed ; metatarsus 

 apically spinulose, claws longer than pulvilli and ba.sally hardly pectinate. 

 Wings hyaline, with lower basal nervure elongately postfurcal ; parallel 

 nervure emitted from centre of the apically acute brachial cell ; nervellus 

 subobliciue and intercepted far below its centre. Length, 7-9 mm. 



