184 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [Cijptopimpla. 



It would appear to be very rare in Sweden and Germany, whence alone 

 it is recorded. Bridgman mentions (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 162) a 

 doubtful female from Wickham differing, he says, from the present species 

 only in having the central abdominal segments rather longer than broad, 

 the wings hyaline and their nervures black. I am, therefore, glad to be 

 able to confirm its right to inclusion in our list by recording a female, 

 kindly given me by Mr. William Evans, F.R.S.E., of Edinburgh, who 

 swept it from herbage near Currie, in Midlothian, on nth June, 1906 ; it 

 agrees in every way with Holmgren's description and differs from C. hlanda 

 in its longer and entirely black antennae, slightly longer terebra, white 

 tegulae, entirely red legs, basally black abdomen and larger wings. 



LISSONOTA, Gravenhorst. 

 Gr. I. E. Hi (1829), 30. 



Head transverse and neither buccate nor elongately pilose ; clypeus 

 discreted, somewhat convex and apically rounded. Antennae filiform or 

 apically subattenuate with the flagellum normal, its apical joints not monili- 

 form nor discreted. Thorax subcylindrical, longer than high ; mesonotum 

 often vittate ; metathorax punctate or scabriculous with areola incomplete 

 and often entirely wanting ; basal costa of petiolar area distinct and nearly 

 always strong ; spiracles small and circular. Scutellum normal, often 

 pale-marked. Abdomen narrow and deplanate, somewhat smooth, not 

 tuberculate nor obliquely incised, usually closely and finely punctate or 

 alutaceous ; segments not apically elevated ; the basal elongate, sessile, 

 rarely subquadrate ; hypopygium always covering base of terebra and 

 sometimes nearly reaching anus ; terebra slender and usually as long as, 

 or longer than, the abdomen. Legs somewhat slender with the tarsal 

 claws not pectinate, though sometimes subsetiferous basally. Wings with 

 a more or less distinct, and often petiolate, triangular areolet. 



The species falling herein are entirely homogeneous and at once known 

 from those of the surrounding genera by their elongate and narrow abdo- 

 men, mutic tarsal claws, circular metathoracic spiracles, evenly sculptured 

 and excostate metanotum, elongate terebra and the fairly constant shape 

 of the normally entire areolet. The genus is divisible into four sections, 

 the first two of which have among other somewhat occult characters the 

 body broadly red and the first the radial nervure curved at the apex of its 

 basal abscissa above the areolet, Avhere in the second it is straight ; the 

 fourth section is the most extensive and difficult to determine, since its 

 species are closely allied and for the most part uniform in colour though 

 not in outline, and I myself have nine specimens belonging to it still 

 unnamed ; the third section, at once known by its large size and elongate 

 tarsal claws, is very closely related to Meniscus both in structure and 

 economy, though at once distinguishable by its simple onyches. 



