54 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
base of coxee, extreme base and apex of hind tibie and hind tarsi 
brownish; mesothorax punctured; metathorax punctured, and 
arez distinct; supero-medial area almost semicircular; Ist and 
2nd segments of the abdomen strongly and distinctly longitudinally 
striated ; Ist segment slender, gradually tapering, with a slight 
depression in the centre, and tubercles scarcely projecting ; 
transverse anal nervure divided much below the middle; aculeus 
about one-fourth the length of the abdomen. Female. Length, 
5 mill. 
I have met with several specimens of T'ryphon ephippium, 
Holmgren. ‘This species is readily distinguished by its smooth 
and shining metathorax, and is unrecorded by Mr. Marshall. 
Mr. Fitch sent me, for examination, an Ophion with a yellow 
scutellum, which he thought different from O. obscurum. I was 
doubtful, but on its being sent to Dr. Kriechbaumer he identified 
it as certainly his Ophion minutus (described Ent. Nach., v. 105). 
It is, therefore, a species new to the British list ; the specimen, a 
female, was captured by and received from Mr. Bignell. The 
neuration in Vollenhoven’s figure (‘ Pinacographia,’ pl. 39, fig. 1), is 
not correct. 
Amongst my Polyblasti I detected three specimens of Holm- 
gren’s Monoblastus levigatus. ‘This genus is divided from 
Polyblastus by not having the clypeus separated from the face ‘by 
an impressed line. 
The pretty little Perilissus pictilis, Holm., figured in ‘ Pina- 
cographia, I have taken in this neighbourhood; also a small 
species which I cannot find in either Gravenhorst or Holmgren, 
and have, therefore, added the description :— 
Black; abdomen from the lst segment, legs, and antenne 
beneath reddish ochre colour; apex of abdomen and 2nd segment 
sometimes clouded; cox, apex of hind tibiz and tarsi brown; 
wings blackish brown and very dark; abdomen and face densely 
clothed with pale fulvous pubescence; antenne about as long 
as the body; 1st segment subpetiolated; thorax smooth and 
shining; metathorax without area; areolet of wing oval and 
petiolated. Length about 5 mill. 
This species has the wings unusually dark, and for that reason 
I would propose the name of Perilissus fumatus for it, should it be 
a new species. 
Amongst some Ichneumons collected by Mr. Billups was a 
