Sz The Irish Xafuralist. :\Iny, 



HXJM ANAl ION OV PI.ATl'S. 



PLATE I. 



Fig. I. TetrapJiis pelhtcida : Frondiform protonema, x 50. 

 Fig. 2a. Orthotrichum Lyellii : Adventitious budding on leaves, x 80. 

 Fig. 2-6. Clasmatacolea cuneifolia. 2-4, Polymorphous stipules. 5, Leaf, 

 X 175. 6, Plant bearing female bracts, x 35. 

 Drawn from specimens collected on rocks at Lough Duff, 



Brandon, Co. Kerry. 



PLATE IL 



Flagiotheciitm elegans : i, branch showing adventitious ramuli, x 20. 

 2, ditto, X 50. 3, detached adventitious branch with young leaves, 

 X 200. 4, young leaf taken from near apex of - on No. 3, showing 

 cell structure, x 500. 5, normal leaf, x 75. 6, capsule, after 

 Wilson. 



LISSONOTA BASALIS BRISCHKE IN IRELAND. 



AN ADDITION TO THE BRITANNIC LIST. 

 BY REV. W. F. JOHNSON, M.A., F.E.S., M.R.I. A. 



In August, 1915, I took a pair of Lissonota in cop. in 

 one of my fields. At the time I supposed them to be 

 L. sulphtrifera Grav., and referred to them as such when 

 writing about them,^ although I made mention of certain 

 points of difference in the male from typical L. siilphurifera. 

 This note was seen by Mr. A. Roman, the eminent Swedish 

 hymenopterist, who most kindly wrote to me and suggested 

 that I had probably taken L. basalts Brischke. He asked 

 me to examine the tibiae of the male and see if they were 

 narrowly whitish at the base, for this character combined 

 with the dark head which I had already noted would point 

 to my insect being L. basal is. On examination I found 

 that this character was present, and consequently my 

 insect was L. basalts. 



Brischke originally described this species in 1864^ as 



^ Entomologisl's Monthly Magazine, vol. Hi., 1916, p. 18; Irish Natiiralisf, 

 vol. XXV., 191C, p. 17. 



^ Schriften Phys. Ohon. Ges. Konigsherg, v., 186.}, p. 192, 



