48 HYMEKOPTERA ACULEATA. 



segmeut, less so on the following ones, basal segment, the 

 second laterally at the base, and the apices of the others 

 testaceous, apical valve simple ; legs testaceous. 



L. c? 6-10 mm., ? 5-7 mm. 



Not uncommon in sandy localities, $ often on wild carrot. 

 Woking; Chatham; Weybridge; Hastings; Heme Bay; 

 Littlehaunpton ; Lowestoft. Charlton ; Hampstead ; Coombe 

 Wood; Hawley Green, Hants; Sundown Bay; Luccombe 

 Chine; Southend; Deal; Wakefield ; (SwiV/t). Glanvilles 

 Wootton ; L ul worth ; Charmouth ; Parley Heath; (Dale). 

 Banks of Lynher; Cornwall; common; (Marshall). Bourne- 

 mouth; [W. F. White). Exminster; [Bignell). Morthoe, 

 Devon; (Swale). Christow, Devon; (Farfltt). Wotton-under- 

 Edge ; ( F. i?. Perlcins). Shiere ; (Gapron). Colchester; {Har- 

 wood). Oxford ; (R. C. L. Perkins). Shirley ; [Rothney). 



METHOCA, Latr. 



^ much larger than the ? , winged, $ apterous ; ^ elon- 

 gate, black and shining, wings with three submarginal 

 cells, the basal one very elongated with an indication of 

 a divisional nerve on its lower margin, apex of the eighth 

 ventral segment produced into an upturned spine ; ? black 

 and red with distinct constrictions between the thoracic 

 segments. There is only one European species of this genus, 

 which is very rare, especially in the S sex, which used to 

 be known under the name of Teiigyra Saniviiali. Nothing 

 is known of its habits. 



M. ichneumonides, Latr. — ,^ black, elongate, shining, 

 clothed with short whitish hairs, head strongly punctured, 

 clypeus with an elevated central tooth, basal joint of 

 antennae very thick, the remainder thin, gradually tapering 

 to the apex; thorax strongly punctured, pronotum arcuately 

 emarginate posteriorly, mesothorax with two lateral longi- 

 tudinal impressions, wings nearly hyaline, scutellum trian- 

 gularly raised in the centre, propodeum rounded, rugose; 

 abdomen elongate, very shining, finely and remotely punc- 



