14 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [ Colpotrochia 

areae entire but with the discal obsolete and petiolar incomplete, though 
laterally indicated. Scutellum black, subdeplanate and sparsely punctate. 
Abdomen a little longer than head and thorax; basal segment narrow, 
convex, punctulate and basally sulcate, with spiracles slightly before its 
centre ; second longer than broad and the anus pilose. Legs with the 
coxae, trochanters and femora black; front femora beneath and the inter- 
mediate apically, the tibiae except extreme base and apex of hind ones, 
bright flavous ; tarsi fulvous, with their claws strongly curved. Wings 
subhyaline, with no areolet; stigma nigrescent, tegulae concolorous 
with margin pale; radial nervure curved at base and apex. Length, 
Ir mm. 
De oo 

It is wide spread on the Continent through Italy and Germany (Grav.), 
France (Fonsc.), Holland (Voll.) ; it has been bred from Leucania turca 
in Austria (Giraud, Ann. Soc. Fr. 1877, p. 408); and in southern Sweden, 
where he regarded it as of very rare occurrence from the middle of July 
to the middle of August, Holmgren noticed its predilection for shady 
situations. In Britain Stephens thought it “very rare, and variable ; 
found in June near London ”’ ; it is recorded from Lands End (Marquand) ; 
a single specimen at Bickleigh in Devon in the middle of September 
(Bignell); and “common” in Norfolk (Bridgman). I fancy Bridgman 
has exaggerated its frequency, however, since I have seen but three 
females from the Forth district of Scotland, two of which were captured 
at Aberfoyle on 27th July, and the other on 13th of the same month at 
Forest Mill (Evans, Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist. 1902, p. 57); and I possess but 
single specimens from Norwich (ex coll. Beaumont) and Shere in Surrey 
(ex coll. Capron). Dr. Leach took it in the West of England. 
