Phthorimus | BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 125 

cheeks, underside of scape, two broad hamate lines on front of mesono- 
tum, a sutural line encircling the breast, and the anterior coxae, flavous. 
Flagellum of ¢ ferrugineous beneath. Abdomen scabriculous to base of 
second segment in 9 and third in @, thence glabrous and strongly 
nitidulous. Legs clear fulvous with only the hind tarsi infuscate and some- 
times all the 9 coxae black; areolet obliquely quadrangular and hardly 
broader than high. Length, 74— (protruded) 9} mm. 
Instantly known from the following species by its hardly exserted 
terebra. 

Abdomen. 
laleml view 
This species appears almost confined to Britain and is certainly very 
rare with us. Desvignes tells us nothing of localities in either of his 
descriptions ; the only record is by Marshall (Entom. 1872—3) who says 
Francis Walker took it in the Isle of Man; and I possess but two females, 
one of which was captured by the late Alfred Beaumont at Catford on 
11th June, 1892, and has the lateral margins of the scutellum centrally 
flavous. ‘The only individual I have captured was flying along, about a 
foot from the ground, upon a chalky hillside, just above Boxmoor 
Station in Herts, while I was staying with Mr. Albert Piffard, on gth 
August, 1903. Stenton found a female at Herne Hill at the end of June, 
1g10. Nothing is at present known respecting its habits. 
2. anomalus, Morl. 
Phthorimus anomalus, Morl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1905, pp. 420 et 430, ¢. 
Head not narrowed posteriorly, entirely black and subglabrous with the 
strongly pilose maxillary palpi apically white; vertex posteriorly entire ; 
frons nitidulous, shortly pilose, sparsely and obsoletely punctulate, cen- 
trally subcarinate with the scrobes large and glabrous; face strongly 
nitidulous ; epistoma somewhat convex and distinctly discreted from the 
short, broad, apically strongly emarginate clypeus by a straight fossa 
