194 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [Lissonota. 



6. vicina, Holmgr. 



Lissonota vicina, Holmgr. Sv, Ak. Handl. 1860, n. 10, p. 57, ? ; Thorns. O.E. 

 xiii. 1423, <? ? . Var. (?), Brisch. Schr, Nat. Ges. Danz. 1880, p. 122, <J ? . 



Alutaceously punctate and somewhat shining, black. Head moderately 

 large, broader than thorax, finely and somewhat roughly punctate, dull, 

 strongly narrowed behind the eyes with mouth and clypeus fulvescent ; 

 face apically explanate ; 9 mandibles pale, $ piceous. Antennae stout, 

 a little shorter than the body and subattenuate towards their apices ; 

 basal ly dull red beneath. I'horax immaculate, narrower than the head, 

 finely and somewhat rugosely punctate, dull ; mesopleurae also dull and 

 alutaceously punctate ; metathorax finely scabriculous with the areola 

 more or less distinct. Scutellum black. Abdomen oblong-ovate; basal 

 segment somewhat broad, gradually a little narrowed basally, roughly 

 striate, hardly longer than the hind coxae and apically rufescent ; second 

 and third segments infuscate ferrugineous, broadly in former and nar- 

 rowly in latter paler apically, transverse and finely rugulose ; terebra 

 straight and nearly as long as the abdomen. Legs normal, red ; coxae 

 and trochanters of ^ black. Wings slightly but distinctly clouded and 

 somewhat small ; stigma pale infuscate, radix and tegulae stramineous ; 

 areolet irregular, sessile, with its external nervure in 9 obsolete or want- 

 ing, nervellus nearly antefurcal. Length, 4—5 mm. 



Holmgren says this species is similar to L. scg/jicntator, diff'ering in the 

 broader and not scabriculous basal segment, and the head which is 

 broader than the thorax ; Thomson thought it possibly synonymous with 

 L. linearis, Gra\'. Very like L. obsolcta, but with the central segments 

 transverse. 



It is said by Schmiedeknecht to be sparsely distributed in northern and 

 central Europe. It is recorded by Bridgman from Earlham, near Norwich 

 (Trans. Norf. Soc. i8q3, p. 631) with no note respecting its novelty as 

 British. 



7. quadrinotata, Gvav. 



Lissonota quadrinotata, Gr. I.E. iii. 58; Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1863, 

 p. 282. ? . 



Head with the mouth fulvo-stramineous and base of the mandibles 

 black. Antennae porrect and a little shorter than the body. Thorax 

 gibbulous and cylindrical with two triangular white marks on the anterior 

 margin of the mesonotum. Scutellum with two short white lines. 

 Abdomen cylindrical, as long and broad as the head and thorax ; the two 

 basal incisures deeply impressed ; basal segment with a deep transverse 



