Lissotiota.] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 195 



impression before the apex and its apical angles bright castaneous ; 

 second and third bright castaneous with a black fascia; fourth laterally 

 concolorous ; terebra a little longer than the abdomen with the spicula 

 badious. Legs somewhat slender and entirely red. Wings normal, 

 hyaline ; stigma and radius nigrescent ; radix and tegulae whitish 

 stramineous; areolet irregular and subpetiolate. Length, 7 mm. 



Thomson says of his L. carinifrons (O.E. 1425) "This species agrees 

 entirely with Gravenhorst's L. quadrinotata, but the tibiae have a basal 

 white ring, which character he reserves for L. leucogona, which may be a 

 variety with unspotted scutellum and mesonotum." With our present 

 better knowledge of the former, this appears to me improbable. 



No one has been able to find this " species " since Gravenhorst took 

 his unique female near Gottingam ; Schmiedeknecht suggests that it may 

 be synonymous with Glypta haesitator, but I consider this extremely im- 

 probable. In the present genus, it would appear more closely allied in 

 general colouration to L. dn'trsor. 



Marshall burdened our Catalogue with this name in 1870. 



8. linearis, Grav. 



Lissonota linearis Gr. I. E. iii. 105 ; Brisch. Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1880, p. 119, 

 ? ; Schm. Zool. Jahr. 1900, p. 388, <? ? . L. bcllator, var., Tasch. Zeits. Ges Nat. 

 1863, p. 284, ?. L.bicincta, Szepl. Term. Fiiz. 1900, p. 3(), ?. Laiupronota 

 scmirufa, Desv. Cat. 81, ? . Var. Bridg. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 162, 9 . 



Black. Head narrowed behind the eyes ; ^ with the mouth, clypeus, 

 face laterally and vertical dots, stramineous. Antennae subfiliform, a 

 little longer than half the body ; scape of ^ stramineous beneath. Thorax 

 gibbulous, cylindrical; of ^ with callosity before the radix and some- 

 times mesonotal marks stramineous ; metathorax with a shallow longitu- 

 dinal impression distinctly outlining the areola. Scutellum black. Abdo- 

 men narrow, linear, cylindrical, narrower and a little longer than the head 

 and thorax, of $ with all the incisures distinctly stramineous ; two basal 

 segments of $ black with their apices red or fulvous, the first of ^ more 

 than twice longer than broad ; third and fourth of 9 entirely or apically 

 rufescent and the following black ; three basal segments fmely rugose 

 with the remainder becoming more glabrous towards the anus ; second 

 and third longer than broad, fifth of ^ quadrate ; terebra longer than the 

 abdomen, black with spicula red. Legs slender, red or fulvous with the 

 trochanters infuscate and the hind tarsi, often also part of their coxae, 

 fuscescent ; J with the anterior coxae and trochanters flavescent with 

 black markings and the hind coxae, except at apex, black. Wings sub- 

 hyaline and iridescent ; stigma piceous or stramineous, radius infiscate, 



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