Lissofiohi.] BRITISH iCHN^UMOlSIS. 1^9 



rounded and flavous. Antennae filiform and shorter than the body. 

 Thorax immaculate, punctate with the interstices finely aciculate ; notauli 

 wanting ; mesopk-urae nitidulous, finely and somewhat closely punctate ; 

 metathorax transversely rugose and slightly impressed in the centre, later- 

 ally punctate, with the petiolar area basally entire. Scutellum black. 

 Abdomen nitidulous ; basal segment longer than the hind coxae, apically 

 aciculate, transversely impressed and red ; second and third segments 

 longer than broad, obsoletely reticulate, not punctate and entirely red ; 

 fourth red with a narrow black fascia before its apex ; terebra as long as 

 the body. Legs normal, red ; all the coxae and the hind trochanters 

 black, the former apically rufescent ; hind tibiae darker than the femora ; 

 centre of the hind tarsi ferrugineous ; and their claws basally subpectinate. 

 Wings with stigma infuscate and somewhat paler basally; radix and tegulae 

 flavous; areolet petiolate and about as long as broad; nervellus intercept- 

 ing at the lower third. Length, 7 mm. 



Bridgman says this species is most closely allied to Z. FhlcJnii, from 

 which it differs in the length of the terebra, distinctly nitidulous second and 

 third segments, and the partly red hind coxae. Its relationship to L. iiilida 

 is evidently very close, though I have not seen the present species ; there- 

 from it appears to differ, besides its general alutaceousness, in nothing 

 but its longer third segment and terebra, and in the petiolate areolet, for 

 I have shown the coxal colouration of the former to be variable. 



The only known specimen is a female sent by W. H. B. Fletcher, w^ho 

 probably took it in Sussex, to Bridgman, in whose collection in the Nor- 

 wich Castle Museum it probably still is. 



12. bellator, Gvav. 



Ichneumon coraciniis, Gmel. S.N. i. 2704 (?). Lissonota bellator, Gr. I.E. 

 iii. 10(; (part.) ; Zett. I.L. 384 (part. ); Schaff. F.G. cxvii. 12; Holmgr. Sv. Ak. 

 Handl. 1854. p. 93 ; lib. cit. 1800, n. 10, p. 50; Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 18(J3, 

 p. 284 ; Thorns. O.E. 7()5 et xiii. 1421, i ? . Var. L. arvicola, Gr. I.E. iii. 49, i ; 

 Katz. Ichn. d. Forst. ii. 98, ? . Var. L. lapponica, Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1800, 

 n. 10, p. 51, ? . 



A slender black species, finely pubescent and a little shining, with the 

 legs and centre of abdomen red. Head closely and finely punctate, 

 somewhat dull with short piceous pilosity ; frons narrower than the cen- 

 trally protuberant face; temples abruptly narrowed behind the eyes; palpi, 

 mandibles, clypeus, and a mark at the vertical orbits flavous, ^ also with 

 the cheeks, face and usually the frontal orbits pale flavous. Antennae 

 slender, filiform and about as long as the body; of 9 immaculate or 

 with the extreme apices of the basal flagellar joints rufescent, of J 

 with the scape flavous beneath. Thorax closely finely and evenly punc- 

 tate, somewhat dull ; of 9 immaculate ; ol J with marks on the pro- 



