252 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
and P. turionelle; the claws are also the same, that is simple ; 
the spiracles of the metathorax are oval, as in P. examinator. 
Holmgren says they are circular in P. turionelle, but in my 
specimens they are quite as oval as in P. examinator ; the cheeks 
are also long, as in the two other species. In P. turionelle the 
mesopleura is smooth and shining, as it is also in P. spuria; 
this latter, whilst having in the female the red hind coxe of 
P. turionelle, differs from it in having the antenne quite black, 
longer, and thinner at the apex; the face is more glabrous, with 
faint indications of puncture; in P. turionelle the face is 
distinctly punctured, the antenne red or red at the base. It also 
differs from P. turionelle and P. examinator in having the ring 
on the hind tibiz red and not white, as in the other two species, 
and it is much narrower. Thomson (‘ Opuscula Entomologica,’ 
p- 747) describes a species as P. strigipleuwrus, which he says 
differs from P. turionelle in having a red ring on hind tibiz 
instead of a white one, and the mesopleura striated ; although 
P. spuria has sometimes very faint indications of striations, 
it can hardly answer to ‘‘mesopleura striated’’; he makes no 
special mention of the black coxe of the male, and as he 
mentions the female specially (about length of aculeus, &c.), one 
may infer he had both male and female; I think therefore that 
his species is not the same as that now bred by Mr. Fletcher. 
P. spuria, Gr., Holmgr., is included in Mr. Marshall’s catalogue 
as a synonym of P. turionelle. 
Herr Brischke, in his list of Ichneumons of Hast and West 
Prussia, quotes a variety of P. examinator with red hind coxe : 
this may be a variety, or it may be a distinct species. Nearly 
all my specimens of P. turionelle unfortunately are plastered on 
to cards, so that I cannot examine them at present as closely as 
I could wish ; still, from such examination as I can make, I do 
not feel certain that there is not more than one species amongst 
them; one has much stouter legs than the others. From my 
recent experience it is evident that insects of this genus ought to 
be pinned, or, if too small, mounted on the apex of a trian- 
gular strip of card, so that the under sides can be easily seen. If 
they are pinned, a fairly long stout pin should be used, and not 
the short thin abomination at present almost universally used by 
British lepidopterists: I prefer Tayler’s No. 7, and set the insect 
half-way up the pin. 
