126 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [ Phthorimus 


which is laterally produced upwards to the orbits; cheeks much shorter 
than basal width of the stout and laterally margined mandibles. Antennae 
short, not reaching beyond apex of thorax; black with the pedicellus 
pale above ; flagellum with about 19 joints, ferrugineous beneath with 
the apices of the joints subnodulose and infuscate ; apical joint conical 
and obtuse. Thorax strongly nitidulous, immaculate; mesonotum 
anteriorly subconvex, evenly and finely punctate, with distinct notauli; 
mesopleurae sparsely and evenly punctate, basally impressed in the centre ; 
metathorax very strongly and evenly punctate with the petiolar area sub- 
obsolete and the spiracles circular; areola glabrous, parallel-sided and 
twice longer than broad, with lateral costae distinct but costulae wanting ; 
metapleurae sparsely pilose. Scutellum black, hardly convex, nitidulous 
and obsoletely punctate ; postscutellum very small. Abdomen longer 
than head and thorax, immaculate, very strongly and evenly punctate 
throughout, with only the apiccs of the segments glabrous and _ broadest 
at the apex of the first; second segment with distinct thyridil; terebra ex- 
serted and as long as the abdomen, with spicula flavous and strongly 
acuminate apically, valvulae black and very strongly setiferous-pilose 
throughout. Legs clear red with all the coxae and basal joint of tro- 
chanters black, with all the apical tarsal joints infuscate ; hind metatarsi, 
flavescent and four times longer than their concolorous calcaria; tarsi 
not longer than the tibiae, of which the hind pair is very slightly in- 
tumescent before the flavescent base. Wings hyaline with the stigma 
luteous, tegulae and base of the costa pale flavous; areolet sessile, twice 
broader than longer; nervellus opposite and intercepted distinctly below 
the centre. Length, 6 mm. 
I repeat my detailed description of this female on account of the 
anomality of the elongate terebra, which lends the species much the 
appearance of an Ophionid. From the preceding, with which I consider 
it entirely cogeneric, it differs in the posteriorly broader head, distinct 
notauli, structure of the metathorax, abdominal puncturation and very 
much broader areolet. 
The type, which is in my collection, is the only individual I had seen 
and was captured by the Rev. I’. D. Morice at Longcross on 17th June, 
1904. The Rey. W. I. Johnson took a second female at Poyntzpass, in 
Co. Armagh, on 30th July, 1909, and has been so good as to present 
it to me. 
TRICHOMASTIX, Vollenhoven. 
Voll. Tijds. v. Ent. 1878, 160; (?) Bioblapsis, Forst. Verh. pr. Rheinl. 1868, 162. 
Head transverse; frons subexcavate, epistoma centrally prominent ; 
clypeus large, discreted. deplanate and apically subemarginate ; mandibles 
attenuate apically with the upper tooth bifid. Antennae somewhat stout, 
filiform, pilose, 19-jointed with the three basal joints somewhat slender ; 
of 9 hardly longer than the head and thorax, of gd more elongate and 
apically subattenuate. ‘Thorax short and gibbulous; metathorax short, 
rugose and obliquely bicarinate with the areola entire and transverse ; 
spiracles large, circular and conspicuously pale. Scutellum shining and 
convex, with its lateral margins conspicuously pale and its basal fovea 
transcostate. Abdomen sessile and basally striolate, of 9 strongly com- 
pressed from the third segment; terebra shortly exserted. Legs a little 
stout, not black-marked, with base of tibiae and tarsi white, Areolet 
