266 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [ Zclytus 

il. 118) that he bred it from Mematus pini, NV. abietum, and NV. compressus 
in the Hartz Mountains. Consequently we possess but the two kinds 
originally placed here by Holmgren in 1855, both of which, bya careless 
misreading of Vollenhoven’s plate, Dalla ‘lorre makes congeneric with 
our Oedematopsis scabricula (cf. \chn. Brit. iii. 269). 
Table of Spectes. 
(2). 1. Scutellum and apices of all the ab- 
dominal segments flavous .. I. ORNATUS, Holmgr. 
(1). 2. Scutellum black; apices of only the 
anal segments flavous... .. 2. FONTINALIS, Holmgr. 
1. ornatus, Holmgr. 
Eclytus ornatus, Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1855, p. 127, ¢ ¢; Brisch. Schr. 
Nat. Ges. Danz. 1878, p. 76, ¢; Voll. Pinac. pl. xxxil, fige. 2 et 3, co o- 
Head tumidulous, buccate and not posteriorly constricted; pale flavous 
with a large black ocellar mark; frons finely punctulate, face a little 
prominent and laterally depressed ; clypeus arcuately impressed, hardly 
discreted, convex and apically subtruncate ; mandibles subequal in length. 
Antennae nearly as long as body, very slender, infuscate and paler 
beneath with scape flavidous. Thorax somewhat stout and black, with 
pronotum and whole sternum flavous; mesonotum convex and black 
with distinct notauli, two vittae and hamate lines before radix pale; 
pleurae closely punctulate, black and below flavous ; areola elongate and 
subparallel-sided, petiolar area minute, shining and semicircular. Scu- 
tellum flavous. Abdomen narrow and subclavate ; basal segment narrow, 
slightly dilated apically, with the petiole centrally arcuate and discally 
subsulcate; remainder of abdomen nitidulous with apical margin of seg- 
ments more or less broadly flavous; second with distinct gastrocoeli; 
venter flavous with hypopygium convex, apically rounded and reaching 
nearly to apex of terebra. Legs very slender and testaceous, with anterior 
coxae and trochanters paler; hind coxae, femora and tibiae black-lined, 
their tarsi infuscate and trochanters discally black-marked. Wings sub- 
ample, with stigma testaceous, and nervellus intercepted below its centre. 
Length, 5—6 mm. 
The ¢ rarely has the head and thorax mainly black, and both sexes 
may have the mesonotum and pleurae partly rufescent. 
At present only known from sylvan places in Sweden, Prussia and 
France. It must be very rare with us and | have seen nothing like it. It 
was once bred from Zortrix heparana on 28th May, by Bignell in south 
Devon (Entom. 1880, p. 68); and once taken by Bridgman at Earlham 
near Norwich, in September. Marshall probably knew no more than the 
example recorded by him (Entom. 1872-3, p. 432) in “ Ichneumonidae of 
the Isle of Man,” captured there by Francis Walker during 1869; it is 
not in the former’s collection. 
2. fontinalis, Holmgr. 
Eclytus fontinalis, Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1855, p.128; Brisch. Schr. Nat. 
Ges. Danz. 1892, p.38, ¢ ¢; lib. cit. 1878, p.76, ¢; Voll. Pinac. pl. xxxii, 
lip e 
A small black species with the mouth, clypeus, face, cheeks, pro- 
thoracic margin, apical margin of anal segments, venter and the anterior 
