188 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [Lissomta. 



basal segments red or fulvous, apically or centrally or mainly black, and 

 the following black with the fifth sometimes basally red ; of ^ red with 

 the anus more or less broadly nigrescent ; basal segment a little longer 

 than the hind coxae, deplanate, not elevated and shining with the apical 

 margin punctate throughout : hypopygium deeply cleft apically ; terebra 

 black, distinctly longer than the body or fully double length of the abdo- 

 men, with spicula castaneous. Legs slender, red with the hind tarsi in- 

 fuscate ; $ with the coxae flavous-marked ; 9 with apices of trochanters 

 and usually also of the tibiae nigrescent, rarely with all the coxae more or 

 less concolorous. Wings of ^ ample and hyaline, of 9 normal and 

 somewhat clouded ; stigma and radius infuscate, former in ^ basally 

 whitish ; radix and tegulae pale flavous ; areolet irregular and petiolate, 

 of $ rarely subpetiolate ; external radial nervure basally curved. Length, 

 9 — II mm. 



Gravenhorst mentions two varieties : the first, a 9 with the thorax en- 

 tirely black discally and only the faintest vestige of lateral flavescence on 

 the scutellum ; the second, both sexes almost entirely red with the scutel- 

 lum flavous-lined, the head above and the thorax discally black; Holm- 

 gren had a 9 with the thorax mainly red ; and the var. perspicillator is 

 said to exactly agree with the typical form by Gravenhorst and to be inter- 

 mediate between it and L. cylind7-ator ; it differs from the present species 

 in having the abdomen basally black, the scutellum often entirely black 

 in the 9 or only white-dotted in the $ and in other minor differences of 

 colour. 



The transverse and somewhat elongate metathoracic spiracles do not 

 appear hitherto noted and relate this species with Syzeuctus. 



The 9 is similar to L. bellator, but very much larger with the terebra 

 longer and the scutellum laterally pale-marked. It is, perhaps, most 

 closely allied to L. lineata (with which I am inclined to suspect Holmgren 

 confused it), but maybe known by the much greater length of the terebra, 

 not flavescent $ basal segment and, in both sexes, by the nitidulous and 

 not confluently punctate abdomen. 



L. parallela is said to be not uncommon throughout Europe on umbelli- 

 ferous flowers in July and August and, in Sweden, to frequent sandy places 

 on the coast ; but no one appears to have yet bred it. It is recorded by 

 Bridgman from Earlham, near Norwich, and in the Victoria History from 

 Essex and Hastings. I have seen females taken atChristchurch in Hants, 

 by Bradley early in August; at Forres, near Elgin, in Scotland in Septem- 

 ber, 1892, by Chitty; at Luffness Links, near Edinburgh, by Evans in 

 September and both sexes at Kilmore in Ireland on nth — 13th August, 

 1898, by Beaumont. One of the females from this last collection is now 

 in my own and seems remarkable for the length of the terebra, which 



