140 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. {Clistopyga. 



Netley in Shropshire. Capron records it from Shere, in Surrey, in 1878 

 (Entom. 1879, p. 15), there are several females in his collection; and 

 Fitch says that six males and one female emerged from galls of Cynips 

 Kollari z.l Maldon in P^ssex (/.r. p. ii6<'/ 1880, p. 258). It is recorded 

 from Bickleigh and Maker, in Devon, in August by Bignell ; from Nor- 

 wich by Bridgman ; and from the Lands ?^nd district by Maquand. I 

 have seen females taken by Evans at Aberdour, near Edinburgh, in early 

 September ; at Lincoln by Wusham ; at Felden in Herts, by Piffard ; at 

 St. Issey in Cornwall by Davies ; Ripple, near Dover in August by Sladen ; 

 and several from carrot flowers at Bury St. P^dmunds and Tostock, in 

 Suffolk, by Tuck in September, 1902. I have seen the female sitting on 

 a white-painted post by the road at Lymington, Hampshire, on 15th 

 August, 1901 ; both sexes were abundant on the flowers of Angdica 

 sylvestris in Barnby Broad, Suffolk, in August, 1898; and I have also 

 taken them towards the end of the same month in Tuddenham Fen. 



2. rufator, Holmgr. 



Clistopyga rufator, Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1854, p. 95 ; lib. cit. 1860, n. 10, 

 p. 35, cT ? ; Brisch. Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1880, p. 115; Voll. Pinac. pi. xiii, 

 fig. 7, ? . 



Black and somewhat shining. Head with the palpi, and often the 

 vertical orbits, white. Antennae dark red beneath. Thorax sometimes 

 partly red. Abdomen red with at most the basal segment basally or 

 nearly entirely black. Legs red with the front coxae and anterior tro- 

 chanters substramineous ; hind tibiae wholly or partly, and the apices of 

 their tarsal joints, infuscate. Wings very distinctly clouded, and the 

 tegulae white and stigma infuscate. Length, 4 — 6 mm. 



This species is too similar to the preceding to need a detailed descrip- 

 tion, therefrom it differs in the colour of the abdomen and legs ; the 

 lateral abdominal tubercles are more distinct and the terebra is a little 

 shorter. 



Holmgren found this species sparingly in marshy situations in Sweden, 

 during the first half of August. Bridgman took the only known British 

 specimen in the Norfolk Broads : " I took a female of this splendid insect 

 at Brundall, June 3rd, 1881 " (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 162 tV Trans. 

 Norf. Soc. 1893, p. 630). 



LYCORINA, Holmgren. 



Holmgr. Ofv. 1859, p. 120 ; Sv, Ak. Handl. 1860, n. 10, p. 43. 



Body short and stout. Head transverse and somewhat short, wdth the 

 clypeus smooth and apically truncate, epistoma discreted by two im- 

 pressed facial lines ; frons mutic and carinate between the scrobes. 

 Antennae filiform, stout and not apically attenuate ; scape externally 

 excised. Thorax very stout and anteriorly impressed on either side ; 

 metathorax short, with the petiolar and upper areae complete ; spiracles 

 minute and circular. Scutellum elevated and subquadrate, with the apex 

 truncate. Abdomen oblong-ovate ; basal segment not longer than broad ; 

 the second to fourth with a transverse line before the apex and two 

 oblique and basally confluent impressions, enclosing a convex triangle ; 

 apical ventral segment of 9 reaching apex of abdomen and covering base 

 of the terebra, which is a little shorter than the abdomen. Legs normal 



