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radius and 9 tegulae infuscate, ^ tegulae flavous ; arcolet irregularly 

 subsessile. Length, 8 — lo mm. 



The 9 somewhat resembles that of C errabutida, but the antennae and 

 legs, and especially the hind coxae are paler, the abdomen is more 

 rounded laterally ; and the transverse metathoracic carina, which is 

 wanting in the latter species, at once distinguishes it. 



This species is probably as common with us as it is upon the Continent, 

 but there is a great paucity of records. I have seen females taken by 

 Beaumont at Colwyn Bay, in Radnorshire, in August, 1890, and by myself 

 on herbage in the marshes at Eaton, near Norwich on qth June, 1901 ; 

 Bridgman also took males in the same neighbourhood at Earlham and at 

 Buckenham Ferry, in the Norfolk Broads. It has not yet been bred. 



5. anomala, Holmgr, 



Lissonata anomala, Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1800, n. 10, p. 52, ? . Cryto- 

 pimpla anomala, Schm. Zool. Jahr. 1900. p. 338, ? ; Brauns, Zeits. Hym. Dip. 

 1901, p. 159; Schm. Opusc. Ichn. 1250, i ? . 



Obsoletely punctate, black and very little shining. Head with the 

 palpi dull testaceous and basally nigrescent ; mandibles piceous ; clypeus 

 of 9 flavescent and basally black ; S also with the inner orbits and apex 

 of clypeus white. Antennae as long as the body and nigrescent through- 

 out. Thorax shagreened and dull ; and of 9 immaculate, of $ with 

 humeral marks and callosity before the radix white; notauli wanting; 

 metathorax with lateral costae entire ; petiolar area obsolete and laterally 

 striate, but with the basal costa curved and centrally distinct ; spiracles 

 circular and not very small. Scutellum black and somewhat convex. Ab- 

 domen a little longer than the head and thorax, finely reticulate and not 

 strongly nitidulous ; segments two to four, apex of the first, and in J 

 base of the fifth, red ; basal segment of 9 gradually explanate through- 

 out, twice longer than broad with the apex double breadth of base which 

 is not laterally explanate, laterally margined with spiracles a little before 

 the centre, and the disc convex with a central shallow fovea ; central seg- 

 ments of 9 quadrate ; terebra about as long as half the abdomen. Legs 

 unicolorous red throughout ; ^ with the hind trochanters infuscate. 

 Wings of 9 slightly clouded, of (J hyaline ; stigma and nervures testa- 

 ceous, radix and tegulae in both sexes white ; areolet sessile and regularly 

 triangular, emitting recurrent nervurc from its centre ; radial nerv^ure not 

 curved ; anal of lower wing subopposite and emitting the pellucid nervel- 

 lus from its lower third. Length, 7 — 9 mm. 



Holmgren says that the very short terebra together with the colour of 

 the legs and abdomen will distinguish this species, which in size and con- 

 formation is similar to his Lissonola crythrina, but the petiolar area is less 

 definite, etc. 



