Lissonota.'] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 191 



terebra as long as the body or nearly double length of abdomen, with 

 spicula castancous. Legs slender, red ; coxae and trochanters black 

 with the anterior in $ pale-marked ; intermediate femora of 9 some- 

 times basally infuscate ; hind legs somewhat elongate with the 9 coxae 

 and trochanters black ; hind femora infuscate, beneath and generally 

 apically rufescent, sometimes also mainly red above, but in 9 occasion- 

 ally totally black. Wings of $ hyaline, of 9 a little clouded and some- 

 what narrow ; stigma and radius infuscate with base of former pale ; 

 radix and tegulae whitish, with the latter in 9 black ; areolet petiolate 

 and nearly regular ; nervellus intercepting far below the centre. Length, 

 q — II mm. 



The (J of this species is very like L. parallela in shape and sculpture, 

 but the puncturation is denser, rendering it duller, and the colouration 

 is less bright. Gravenhorst himself thought hisZ. insignita was probably 

 the (J of L. verberatis ; he adds that the latter is similar to 6". bicornis, but 

 with the frons mutic. The $ differs from that of L. lifteafa in having the 

 postscutellum and centre of face, as well as the mesopleurae, entirely 

 black ; it is longer and more slender throughout with the central seg- 

 ments immaculate red, the hind femora darker, and the legs and antennae 

 more elongate. 



It is said to be an uncommon species in northern Europe ; and in Bel- 

 gium the female occurs in July and August. There are only three records 

 of its capture in Britain ; Bignell says he took Z. insignita at Plym 

 Bridge, in Devonshire, on 24th of August and Bridgman also records the 

 male from Eaton, near Norwich, adding that it has been bred in Britain 

 from Ch'odohia angus talis by Fletcher ; L. verherans is said in the Victoria 

 History of Sussex to have been found at Camber, near Hastings. I have 

 been so fortunate as to capture two males by sweeping bracken in a 

 marshy place at Butts Lawn, near Lyndhurst, in the New Forest, on 17th 

 August, 1901 ; these are the only speciniens of that sex 1 have seen. The 

 female is not quite so rare ; Capron took it at Shere, in Surrey ; Tuck at 

 Aldeburgh, in Suffolk, in the middle of September, 1899 ; Tomlin found it 

 on flowers of Angelica sylvestris on the 23rd of the same month, at Fox- 

 hall, near Ipswich ; and I swept another at Brandon, in the same county, 

 on 27th September, 1907. 



4. leucogona, Grav. 



Lissonota Icuco^ouu, Gr. I.E. iii. 100, ? ; Bridg. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, 

 p. 167. 



A small black species with the legs and centre of abdomen red, and 

 the tibiae basally white. Head obiicjucly narrowed behind the eyes, 

 black, finely and closely i)unclate, dull ; vertex innnaculate, not very 

 narrow and slightly canaliculate between the ocelli ; frons deplanate ; 



