36 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [ Lxvochus 


2. pallidipes, Holmer. 
Triclistus pallipes, Holmgr. Ofv. 1873, p. 59, ¢; Thoms. Deut. Ent. Zeit. 1887, 
Pa2esy oe; 
An elongate black species with the legs entirely flavescent, the 
metathoracic spiracles small and areolet subsessile. Length, 4—5 mm. 
Very like the last species but longer and narrower with the abdomen 
nearly entirely glabrous, the basal segment double the length of its 
apical breadth, the second suboblong-quadrate, the legs entirely pale, the 
areolet more sessile and its outer nervure nearly straight. Probably little 
more than a form of the preceding. 
Hardly rarer than 2. podagricus, but much mixed with it. I have seen 
it from Achill Sound, Co. Mayo (Johnson), possess it from Botusfleming 
in Cornwall (Marshall), Shere in Surrey (Capron), and have taken it with 
the above in the Bentley Woods and with /. dativenfris at Sandown in the 
Isle of Wight, as well as upon flowers of Angelica sylvestris at Tuddenham 
in Suffolk. It has not been recorded from Britain before; and Brischke 
has bred it (Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1878, p. 107) from larvae of Hupithecta 
irisignaria in Prussia. 
3. nitidifrons, Thoms. 
Triclistus nitifrons. Thoms. Deut. Ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 204, 3 ¢. 
A small black species with the legs entirely flavescent, the face shining 
and very finely punctate, and the areolet elongately petiolate. Length, 
3344 mm. 
A small form of the two preceding, differing in its more shining and 
less closely punctate face, small and strongly petiolate oblique areolet, 
and the more exactly filiform antennae. 
It was described from France and Sweden; and Bridgman recorded it 
from Mousehold (in August, 1877, upon Thomson’s authority, cf ‘Trans. 
Ent. Soc. 1887, p. 374) and Bawsey Heaths in Norfolk. I have several in 
Dr. Capron’s Surrey collection, and swept it in the middle of June, 1907, 
at Matley Bog, in the New Forest. Halbert took a female in the Isle of 
Achill on the coast of Co. Mayo, Ireland, in June, 1909. 
4. curvator, Fab. 
Ichneumon curvator, Fab. E. S. ii.177; Gr. Nov. Act. Ac. Cur. 1818, p. 285. 
Cryptus curvator, Fab. Piez. 88. Exochus curvator, Gr.1. E. ii. 335; Steph. 
Illus. M. vii. 265, 9; Brisch. Schr. Ges. K6n. 1871, p.101, ¢ ¢. E. fulvipes, 
Cress. Ent. Soc. Phil. 1864, p.285; Prov. Nat. Canad. 1880, p.5, ¢ ¢. Triclistus 
curvator, Holmgr. Ofv. 1873, p.58; Davis, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 1897, 
Py 213550 9. 
A shining black species. Head black, with the palpi pale testaceous 
and the frons distinctly carinate before the ocelli. Antennae with 
flagellum rufescent beneath towards the base. Metanotal costulae want- 
ing. Legs entirely red, or with the coxae alone partly black, or with all 
or only part of the hind femora also black. Wings with stigma 
nigrescent, radix and tegulae stramineous or the latter sometimes infus- 
cate; radial nervure emitted from centre of stigma; arcolet entire, 
Length, 5—6 mm. 
