Lissom/a.] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 193 



I possess the specimen recorded by Bridgman and by Rev. E. N. Bloom- 

 field (E. M. M. 1881, p. 258), which the latter took in a sand-pit at 

 Guestling, near Hasting, in September ; as well as another taken by the 

 latter in the same locality in 1876 and named L. beUafor by the former. 

 It is probably not very common, though doubtless often passed over and 

 mixed among the abundant L. hclhifor, with which it occurs. Mr. Bankes has 

 given mc three specimens, which he caught at Corfe Castle in Dorset on 

 2qth June, 1896, and loth Julv, 1901 ; Mr. Tuck has found it at Bur}- and 

 Tostock, in Suffolk, in July; and I have taken it on 20th July, 1906, on my 

 bedroom window in INIonks' Soham House in the same county and in my 

 father's greenhouse at Ryde, in the Isle of Wight, on nth August, 1902. 

 From the position of these captures, one might regard it as probably a 

 garden insect. 



5. Fletcheri, Bridg. 



Lissonota Fletclieri, Bridg. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 163; Schm. Zool. Jahr. 

 1900, p. 380; Opusc. Ichn. 1315, i ?. (?) L. py$^»iaea, Strobl. Mit. nat. Ver. 

 Steier. 1901, p. 26, ^ . 



Black, densely and finely punctate with the interstices reticulate. Head 

 transverse, slightly narrowed behind the eyes ; cheeks subbuccate and 

 densely pubescent ; face transverse and apically clothed with fine and 

 dense white pubescence. Antennae of ^ rather shorter than the bod}', 

 of 9 rather longer than half the body ; basal flagellar joint a little longer 

 than the second and about thrice longer than broad. Thorax and 

 scutellum immaculate. Abdomen black with segments two to four 

 entirely, apex of the first and base of the fifth, red ; basal segment about 

 as long as the hind coxae, gradually explanate apically throughout, apex 

 double breadth of base and distinctly though finely aciculate ; second 

 segment quadrate, remainder transverse ; second and third not at all 

 nitidulous ; terebra as long as the abdomen. Legs red, with all the 

 coxae and trochanters entirely black. Wings with the siigma infuscate, 

 radix flavous ; nen'ellus intercepting at the lower fourth ; areolet small and 

 elongately petiolate. Length, 6^ mm. 



This species, for which I at first mistook /.. nitida, appears to be ren- 

 dered distinct, in the Bellalor-^xo\x\), by its immaculate head and coxae, 

 densely pubescent cheeks and apex of face and petiolate areolet. 



It was described from specimens bred by i\Ir. J. E. Fletcher, of 

 Worcester, from Gekchia hntiginosella. Strobl's doubtfully synonymous 

 male is from Styria in Austria. 



