180 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [Crj'plopmpla. 



flagellum is much less attenuate towards the apex, with the joints broader 

 than long and nc^t nodose, the petiolar area rises higher on the metano- 

 tum and is more curved basally, the mandibles are less stout, and the 

 coxae and trochanters are pale ; the ^ has the mouth and clypeus, facial 

 orbits to a little above the level of the scrobes, humeral marks and 

 callosities, and the scutellar vittae all pale ; the metathorax is less rugose 

 and the areola is more definitely outlined. This species has nothing to 

 do with Lissoiio/a diTersor, as suggested by Bridgman (Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 1882, p. 163). 



This is probably a common, but overlooked species both here and on 

 the Continent. The males are introduced as British in Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 1886, p. 368, but, as I have remarked under C. caligata, the females appear 

 to have been hardly differentiated hitherto with us. Bridgman says the 

 males are rather plentiful in the autumn around Norwich and Strumpshaw, 

 in Norfolk ; there are three females in Capron's collection, presumably 

 from Shere in Surrey ; Brunetti has given me five males, which he took 

 in plenty, and one female, all found at Hunstanton, Norfolk, between 24th 

 September and ist October, 1900 ; and I took a single male flying 

 about and settling upon a bramble leaf at Foxhall, in Suffolk, on 17th 

 September, 1903. 



3. brachycentra, Grav. 



Lissonota brachycentra, Gr. I.E. iii. 50, ? ; Bridg. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, 

 p. 369, s ? [nee Brisch.). Cryptopimpla brachycentra, Schm. Opusc. Ichn. 

 1248, s ? . 



Head punctate with the interstices finely reticulate, broader than the 

 thorax and not strongly constricted behind the eyes ; clypeus and palpi 

 fuho-ferrugineous, and paler in ^ , with the mandibles concolourous and 

 apically black ; inner orbits narrowly, and in 9 more shortly, flavous. 

 Antennae subfiliform and pubescent, longer than the body, dull ferrugin- 

 eous towards their apices and beneath. Thorax gibbous, pubescent and 

 in 9 immaculate, punctate with the interstices finely reticulate ; ^ with 

 a small spot in front on either side of the mesonotum and the callosities 

 flavous ; petiolar area not basally carinate ; spiracles circular. Scutellum 

 subdeplanate, subquadrate and gradually a little contracted towards the 

 apex, rendering it a little more broad than in the allied species. Abdo- 

 men rufescent-piceous or black, very finel) and transversely aciculate 

 with obsolete punctures ; all the segments distinctly but narrowly testa- 

 ceous apically ; basal segment of 9 twice longer than apically broad, 

 basally nearly as broad as at apex, with the disc hardly impressed and the 

 base not laterally explanate ; second and third segments a little longer 

 than broad ; terebra about as long as the basal segment. Legs pale red 

 and not elongate ; hind tarsi and tibiae infuscate with the base of the 



