94 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [ Homocidus 

Thomson described this species from Sweden and France in 1899, since 
which time I am only aware of my own record of a single female, 
described above, captured by Dr. Capron at Shere in Surrey some years ago, 
and this still remains the only known british example of that sex, though 
Mr. Philip de la Garde has given me a male, captured by him at Devon- 
port during May, 1895. 
6. punctiventris, Thoms. 
Homoporus punctiventris, Thoms. O. E. xiv. 1500; Morl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 
1905, p. 426, 2. 
A black species with the femora and tibiae red, the anterior coxae 
flavous-white, their base together with the hind coxae and trochanters 
black, the mouth pale and the epistoma whitish testaceous ; the abdomen 
very densely punctate and strongly compressed. Length, 4—5 mm. 
This female is similar to 7. cawdafus in its immaculate mesonotum and 
scutellum, elongate abdomen and red femora and tibiae, but differs in the 
head constricted behind the eyes, frons finely punctulate, epistoma flavous- 
white, clypeus black and deplanate and apically subemarginate, mandibles 
pale, antennae longer, notauli wanting, metathorax shining, finely and not 
rugosely punctate with the petiolar area well determinate and the costulae 
indicated ; abdomen with segments two to seven equally densely punc- 
tate and pubescent; anterior coxae, except basally, and trochanters 
flavous-white, and the hind tarsi hardly infuscate. 
I brought this species forward as British (/.c.) on the strength of two 
females taken at Felden, near Boxmoor, in Herts, by Mr. Albert Piffard, 
and at Cornworthy, near Totnes, in Devon, by Rev. T. A. Marshall, both 
of which are in my collection. It was originally described from an 
example captured at Strandmollen, in Denmark, by Drewsen. 
7. biguttatus, Grav. 
Bassus biguttatus, Gr. I. E. iii. 332; Brisch. Schr. Ges. Konig. 1871, p. 104; 
Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1878, p.112, ¢; Voll. Pinac. pl. i, fig. 8, ¢; Holmgr. Sv. 
Ak. Handl. 1855, p. 358, ¢ ¢@. Homoporus biguttatus, Thoms. O. E. xiv. 1500; 
Morl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1905, p.432, ¢ @. Var. Bassus rufipes, Gr.I, E. iil. 337 ; 
Holmer. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1855, p. 360, ¢. Var. B. deflanatus, Gr. 1. E. iii. 340; 
Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1855, p. 362, excl. ¢; B. confusws, Woldst. Bidr, Kaenn. 
Finl. 1873, p. 84, ¢. 
Head strongly contracted posteriorly, with vertex subangularly emar- 
ginate centrally and frons broadly excavate ; epistoma large and subcon- 
vex, cheeks broader than base of mandibles; clypeus apically broadly 
rounded; frortal orbits of 2 immaculate black, ¢@ with face and cheeks 
stramineous. Antennae extending beyond apex of thorax, and apically 
subattenuate ; flagellum of ¢ pale beneath. ‘Vhorax alutaceously punc- 
tate, with no notauli; @ with mesosternum apically, and broadly above 
intermediate coxae, stramineous ; metathorax densely and finely, but not 
rugosely, punctate with no areae. Scutellum apically white on either 
side. Abdomen not double length of thorax, apically obtuse; first seg- 
ment short with often obsolete basal carinae, the second transverse and 
finely alutaceo-punctate, sometimes obliquely striolate between the 
thyridii; third of ¢ basally at the sides, and the following fasciated with, 
white ; third and following gradually more finely alutaceous. Legs red 
