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proclaim : " See what I have unearthed from its most beneficial forgotten- 

 ness ! " If a character be needed, the external setae of the hind tibiae is 

 much better, because occurring in both sexes. 



Lissonota caligata was introduced as British by Bridgman (Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. 1881, p. 167) on the strength of a female bred by Bignell, presuma- 

 bly in Devonshire, from Antidea hadiata and is recorded during the same 

 year by Dr. Capron (Entom. 1881, p. 88) from the neighbourhood of 

 Shere, in Surrey. I do not, however, believe that either the one or the 

 other could distinguish between this species and C. cakeolata, since 

 I find both species gummed on a single card and labelled L. lep togas term 

 Capron's collection where are the only two females and one male 1 have 

 seen. It is not a common species in August and September in Sweden, 

 Prussia, Belgium and central Europe generally ; the above somewhat 

 doubtful host is the only one at present noticed. 



2. calceolata, Gnw. 



PhytodictKS calceolatus, Gr. I.E. ii. 937, ? . Cryptopiiupla calceolata, 

 Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1863, p. 294, ? ; Schm. Opusc. Ichn. 1249, i ? . 

 Lissonota Icptogaster, Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1860, n. 10, p. 55, cf ; Thorns. 

 O.E. xiii. 1417, '(? ? . 



A little shining, alutaceously punctate and black. Head with the 

 clypeus of 9 ferrugineous and of ^ , together with part of the mouth and 

 the facial orbits, flavidous. Antennae subfiliform throughout and 

 hardly attenuate apically with the apex obtuse, of 9 longer than half the 

 body, of S nearly as long as the body. Thorax gibbous, black ; of S 

 with a subhamate mark on either side before the radices, and a small 

 line below them flavidous ; metathorax not rugose, with circular spiracles, 

 Scutellum black and, in (5 , with the sides more or less broadly flavous. 

 Abdomen subpetiolate, a little longer than the head and thorax and 

 slightly narrower than the latter, oblong-subclavate ; basal segment of 

 (J narrow, of 9 gradually dilated towards the apex and twice longer than 

 broad ; second and third segments of J not broader than long ; terebra 

 hardly longer than the basal segment, with the spicula red. Legs slender, 

 red and somewhat elongate ; hind tarsi and tibiae black, with the latter 

 red or ferrugineous towards the base. Wings normal and only slightly 

 clouded ; stigma, radius and the 9 tegulae infuscate-piceous, radix and 

 J tegulae stramineous ; areolet subsessile and irregularly triangular ; 

 jiervellus intercepting far below the centre. Length, 8 — 10 mm. 



Thomson first pointed out the synonymy of Gravenhorst's and Holm- 

 gren's species, and also called attention to the similarity of them to 

 Lissonota [Cryptopimpla) caligata in colour and the peculiarly short tere- 

 bra ; he remarks, however, that in the present species the ])i'tiole is more 

 Strongly curved transversely, the vertex more angularly emarginate, the 



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