190 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS [Lissonota. 



bears a white longitudinal spot. Its markings much resemble those of 

 L. parallcla, but the terebra is only slightly longer than the body, the 

 thorax more compressed, segments two and three castaneous, somewhat 

 dull, shorter and suffused, with the apex of the first stramineous or 

 fulvous. 



L. lineata was erroneously synonymised in Marshall's Catalogue with 

 L. hellator and we have no specific records of it till Bridgman [Joe, cit.) 

 recorded six females and four males bred in England from Cravibus 

 contaminellus. I captured nine specimens of both sexes by sweeping 

 flowers of Statice limonuim and marram grass in the salt-marshes by the 

 sea shore, where Crambus gentculeus was abundant, at Holme in Norfolk, 

 on 19th of August, 1906 ; I possess one male taken by Dalglish at Irvine 

 INIoor, on the Ayrshire coast, on 12th August, 1899, and several of both 

 sexes in Capron's collection but, like all his specimens, with no locality 

 though he has recorded them (Entom. 1880, p. 88) as bred during the 

 summer of 1879, by Mr. Buckler, of Emsworth, from C. contaviinellus. It 

 is sparsely distributed throughout central and southern Europe ; and 

 Tosquinet records specimens of eleven millimetres from Ostend in 

 August. Both sexes on marram grass by the sea at Lowestoft. 



3. insignita, Gvav. 



Lissonota insignita, Gr. I.E.iii.84; Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1863, p. 282, 3; 

 Schm. Zool. Jahr. 1900, p. 363, c? ¥ . L. verberans, Gr. I.E.iii. 93 ; Holragr. Sv. 

 Ak. Handl. 1860, n. 10, p. 51 ; Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 18G3, p. 285, ¥ ; Thorns. 

 O.E. viii. 764 et xiii. 1420, <? ¥ . 



Cylindrical, narrow, punctate, black and a little shining. Head nar- 

 rowed behind the eyes ; all in ^ , frontal and external in $ , orbits nar- 

 rowly and centre of mandibles flavous ; labrum and apex of clypeus pale ; 

 frons somewhat concave. Antennae slender and in 9 hardly attenuate 

 apically, nearly as long as the body, slender, subsetaceous and sometimes 

 dull ferrugineous beneath. Thorax with margin of pronotum and 

 propleurae whitish in both sexes; ^ also with two longitudinal and 

 sometimes centrally interrupted mesonotal vittae, anteriorly coalescing 

 with elongate preradical lines, flavous ; but with mesopleurae immaculate; 

 metathorax evenly scabriculous with no trace of areola, but petiolar area 

 basally strong ; spiracles small and circular. Scutellum flavous with its 

 centre more or less broadly black ; postscutellum immaculate. Abdomen 

 black ; basal segment of 9 punctate, distinctly curved and somewhat 

 longer than the hind coxae ; three basal segments punctate and longer 

 than broad ; second and third except sometimes obsolete lateral dots, 

 fourth of S entirely and of 9 more or less broadly basally, castaneous ; 



(J with fifth except apically, and sometimes base of sixth, concolorous ; 



^ valvulae exserted, black, glabrous and as long as the seventh segment ; 



