Mi'sochoms] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 323 



as Cimbex, Clad ins difformis, Microplitis fumipennis, Eupithecia pimpinellata, 

 species of Hyponomcuia, C/a-'illaria, Xeurotoma, Larcntia, and from 

 Mcttonis piikhricornis (IMarsli. l^rit. Bracon. ii. 115) cannot all be reliable. 

 Its range is said to extend througiiout Europe ; it is frequent all over 

 Sweden and occurs in both Holland and Belgium during July and August. 

 Our own recorded hosts of this hyperparasite are hardly more homo- 

 geneous than the above. It was found by Walker in the Isle of Man 

 (Entom. 1872, p. 432) ; both sexes bred from larvae of Cidaria sagittata 

 (Proc. S. Lond. Soc. 1896, p. 80) ; taken by Wilson near York in the act 

 of ovipositing in a larva of Nematiis ribcsii in 1880 (Yorks. Nat. 1881, 

 p. 153; tcsle Bridg.) ; a common species in Norfolk (Bridg.) ; bred by 

 W. Fletcher from Lycaena alsits (Entom. 1884., p. 71); bred in Devon on 

 7th September from Micropliiis through Xylopoda Fahriciana (Entom. 

 1883, p. 67) ; the var. gracilentiis was reared (j.c. 1881, p. 141) on 13th 

 |ulv from Limncria I'lils^an's through Goncpteryx rhamni by Bignell (Devon 

 List). 



This is not an uncommon species in Britain, though I have rarely met 

 with it personally; I possess examples from Botusfleming in Cornwall, 

 Corn worthy (Marshall) and Lydford in September, 1891 (de la Garde) in 

 Devon ; the New Forest (Adams); Giffnock at the end of Alay, Crookston 

 and Cjourock in June, 1S99 (Dalglish) ; two males with dark and pale 

 stigma were bred together at Rannoch on 7th July, 1905, from Oporahia 

 diliitata (Cockayne) ; and another was raised on 8th October, 1900, from 

 — doubtless some Rhogas in — the indurated skin of some Geometrid larva 

 found attached to a leaf "on grass near the Falls of the Shin, Inveran, 

 Sutherlandshire " (Col. Yerbury), whence it had emerged through a large 

 orifice below the anus. In Suffolk I have taken this species by sweeping 

 at Brandon staunch in June, Henstead marsh in September, Foxhall in 

 May, on a house window in Ipswich in July, and Flatten has there bred it 

 on the 7th of the same month from Hypononuiita padflla. Lyle has bred 

 it hyperparasitically from Cheimatobia briimala through Phohocampa crassi- 

 nscula, in the New Forest. 



11. fuscicornis, Brisch. 



Mesoclionis fuscicornis, Brisch. Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1880, p. 185, <J ? ; 

 Schm. Opusc. Ichn. 1981. 



Head little constricted posteriorly with palpi, mandibles except apically, 

 genal apices and the clypeus flavous ; head of 9 black with the orbits 

 narrowly rufescent, of (J red with the face ilavous and both frons and 

 occiput black. Antennae as long as body, j)iceous with the two basal 

 joints red. Thorax black, with the (J prothorax and part of mesopleurae 

 red; mesonotum apically elevated; metathorax rounded, with complete 

 upper areae. Abdomen black, with apex of second and base of third 

 segments testaceous; second segment as long as apicallv broad ; terebra 

 somewhat slender and shorter than basal segment. Legs testaceous, 

 with base and apex of hind tibiae nigrescent; hind coxae of 9 entirely 

 black and of (5 only infuscate-dotted above. Stigma infuscate and in (j 

 slightly paler; tegulae whitish; radius apically distinctly rt-llcxed, areolct 

 emitting recurrent nervurc almost from its centre. Length, 3-4 mm. 



It was described from Prussia, but Schm. has not met with it in 

 Thuringia; and all subsequent mention of the species seems to be from 

 Britain. " 1 have bred both sexes of a Misoc horns from the cocoons of a 



