312 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. {^Astiphrommiis 



and but slightly pectinate. Wings with stigma not broad, lower basal 

 nervure but slightly postfurcal, and parallel nervure eniilled from centre 

 of brachial cell. Length, 6 mm. 



Hitherto only known from Denmark ; but I possess a male found by 

 Capron at Shere. 



8. pictus, Br i sell. 



Mesochonts pictus, Brisch. Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1880, p. 186; Bridg. Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 353, j . Astiphroiiimiis incidcns, Thorns. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 

 1885, p. 331, S ¥ . 



A black species with scutellum and pectoral mark sanguineous, legs 

 pale flavidous red, apices of the anal segments somewhat broadly and 

 laterally interruptedly whitish, and the basal nervure continuous. Head 

 cubical with the cheeks somewhat broadly, palpi, clypeus, frontal orbits 

 and $ face whitish ; vertex broad and posteriorly emarginate; face apic- 

 ally explanate and mandibles broad. Antennae piceous, subsetaceous, 

 not slender, basally black. Thorax not coarctate ; pro- and meso-notum 

 rosy, with two slender vittae paler ; mesopleurae evenly punctate, sangui- 

 neous with a black mark below radices, a line below and callosity beneath 

 radices whitish ; metathoracic carinae complete. Scutellum red. Abdo- 

 men elongate and apically compressed, with dense pubescence ; basal 

 segment very closely punctate, postpetiole margined and sulcate, second 

 and third segments longer than broad ; the apical margin of second, and 

 apical marks on third to sixth with lateral lines, white ; terebra only half 

 length of first segment. Legs pale fulvous and not slender, with the 

 anterior basally stramineous ; an apical mark on hind coxae, their tibial 

 apices and slender tarsi nigrescent, with joints of ^ basally white ; claws 

 short and pectinate. Wings hyaline with basal nervure continuous through 

 median, parallel nervure emitted nearly from centre of brachial cell, dis- 

 coidal cell subrectangular below and nervellus hardly intercepted. Length, 

 6-8 mm. 



Brischke described it from Konigsberg ; Thomson only knew it from 

 England ; and Schm., who synonymises the names, has recently taken it 

 in Thuringia. It was introduced as British on the strength of examples 

 taken by Harwood near Colchester, by Bridgman (Trans. Ent. Soc. i886, 

 p. 353), who did not recognise an indigenous female of Thomson's species 

 — named by its author {I.e.) — as synonymous. 



9. tenuicornis, Tliotiis. 

 Astiphrouuinis fciiiiiconiis, Thorns. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1885, p. 332, c? ? . 



Slender and black with the legs, anus and a central abdominal plaga 

 stramineous; basal nervure continuous through the median, and basal 

 metanotal costae complete. Head with the vertex narrow ; antennae 

 elongate with the ilagellum slender and filiform. Thorax with the meta- 

 thoracic basal costae complete; sternum smooth, laterally stramineous, 

 centrally white and ferrugineous above. Scutellum black. Abdomen 

 with the apical margin of second segment more broadly centrally, and a 

 central vitta on third and fourth with whole of the following, flavidous 

 stramineous; terebra black. Legs stramineous with a black basal dot on 

 hind tibiae; the slender and subnmtic claws small and not extending 

 beyond pulvilli ; calcaria extending nearly to basal third of their meta- 

 tarsi. Wings with areolet somewhat broad, emitting recurrent nervure 



