238 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [ Catoglyplus 
A wide-spread species on umbelliferous flowers throughout northern 
Europe in June and July, the form monfanus extending as far south as 
Austria. Brischke bred foveolator from cocoons of Tenthredo punctulata 
(Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1878, p. 68) and from larvae of Zenthredo scalars 
in Prussia (/7b. ct. 1871, p. 67); a female fuscicornis, of which he thought 
montanus probably a variety, emerged from those of 7. punctulata (id.). 
Of these three forms, foveola/or has not before been noticed in Britain, but 
I have taken undoubted females on bracken at Matley Bog and Wilverley 
in the New Forest in both June and July, 1907 and 1909. ‘The typical 
form is commoner with us, though local and occurring only in woods; I 
have seen it in Donovan’s and Desvignes’ collections ; Shere in Surrey 
(Capron, Entom. 1880, p. 87), Felden in Herts in June, 1900 (Piffard), 
Guestling in Sussex in 1879 (Bloomfield), Dover, Devonshire and near 
London (Stephens), Kings Lynn in Norfolk (Bridgman), Govilon in south 
Wales (Marshall), and Plym Bridge, Devon, early in August (Bignell) ; I 
have found it at Knightwood, Wilverley and Denny Wood in the New 
Forest in 1907 on bracken with the above form, by sweeping at Ran- 
worth in Norfolk in rgor, and at Brandon in Suffolk, always in the middle 
of June. The form montanus (= ? Waltont with only @ orbits pale) 
seems rare and I possess the three males upon which Capron synonymises 
it (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1887, p. 370) with C. fuscicornis, together with a male 
from Tuddenham in the middle of June; Marshall took it at Govilon 
and Cornworthy, and there are three males with variable face but no 
areolet in Mus. Brit. ex coll. Desvignes, who relied upon this feature 
solely to distinguish it. Curtis says of his male “‘ This insect is remark- 
able for its curious antennae, which resemble the vertebrae of some rep- 
tiles, and the areolet is [sometimes] exceedingly minute. Three 
specimens were taken by the river Nidd at Knaresborough in June, and 
also in the neighbourhood of Settle in Yorkshire”? ; Lulworth in Dorset 
(Dale, Lep. of Dorset, 77). A/esoleptus mirabilis is a very wonderful mon- 
strosity of the present species from Coombe Wood in June; Stephens 
says “ This extraordinary insect is singularly intermediate between the 
Ichneumonidae and Braconidae,’ on account of a spurious nervure, 
which in the left front wing is simply an elongate ramellus extending 
from the discoidal nervure four-fifths of the distance to base of the 
stigma, but in the right wing extends from a bifurcate base touching the 
stigma near its base hardly more than half way towards the evenly 
rounded discoidal nervure; the neuration is otherwise normal. 
EURYPROCTUS, Holmgren. 
Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1855, p. 109. 
Head transverse and not buccate, though often broad and never 
strongly constricted behind the entire and oblong-ovate eyes; vertex 
emarginate; clypeus hardly discreted, with a subobsolete basal fovea on 
either side and the apical margin not depressed; mandibular teeth of 
equal, or very nearly equal, length. Antennae filiform, slender, as long 
or nearly as long as the body, with flagellum sometimes red and often 
centrally white-banded. Thorax somewhat stout, usually subdeplanate 
and dull with close sculpture; metanotal areola usually, but costulae 
rarely, entire. Scutellum always black. Abdomen nitidulous and smooth, 
of g usually explanate apically; basal segment always distinctly petiolate 
