^02 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [Ltssonoia. 



ments red with two black dots of variable size and sometimes con- 

 fluent ; basal segment more than twice, and the second a little, longer 

 than broad ; third and fourth quadrate. Legs rufescent ; coxae and tro- 

 chanters flavous with the hind ones black marked ; hind tarsi infuscate. 

 Wings hyaline or subhyaline ; radius and stigma piceous or testaceous ; 

 radix and tegulae flavous ; areolet sessile and irregular, sometimes pen- 

 tagonal ; radial nervure apically inflexed. Length, about 9 mm. 



Holmgren compares it with Z. lineata and says the antennae are shorter 

 and areolet sessile ; and Schmiedeknecht, who annually takes a few speci- 

 mens in Thuringia, remarks that it is very like L. bellator, though con- 

 siderably stouter. No one has yet succeeded in capturing the 9 • 



That it has any right to a position in the British list is doubtful, since 

 such must rest solely upon Desvignes' record of it, as distinct from L. 

 bellator, in his 1856 Catalogue; in 1863 Taschenberg considered it a mere 

 variety of the latter and was followed in this view by Marshall in both his 

 British Catalogues : I certainly have no extraordinarily stout males among 

 my two hundred specimens of L. bellator and no one has recently men- 

 tioned it as specifically indigenous. 



14. variipes, Desi'. 



Lampronota varipes, Desv. Cat. (1856), 81, S . Lissonota cotiiniixta, Holmgr. 

 Sv. Ak. Handl. 1860, n. 10, p. 50 ; Thomson, O.E. viii. 7<36 et xiii. 1421 ; Schm. 

 Opusc. Ichn. 1298, cJ ? . L. opaciila, Szepl. Term. Fiiz. 1900, p. 34, i . 

 L. alpina, Strobl. Mit. nat. Ver. Steier. 1901, p. 24, i . 



Black, punctate, finely pubescent and a little shining. Head narrowed 

 behind the eyes, anteriorly subtriangular ; the deplanate frons and face of 

 equal breadth throughout ; $ with mouth partly ferrugineous and vertical 

 orbits often flavous-marked ; $ with mouth, cheeks, internal orbits and 

 rarely the face, flavous. Antennae filiform, rather longer in 9 than half 

 body, not apically attenuate with the apical joints not discreted ; scape 

 deeply excised and in ^ flavous beneath. Thorax narrower than the 

 head, longer than high, punctate and somewhat shining ; of 9 immacu- 

 late, of (5 with flavous markings ; metathorax scabriculous with only the 

 petiolar area basally entire ; spiracles small and circular. Scutellum 

 immaculate. Abdomen not petiolate, a little longer than the head and 

 thorax, nearly parallel-sided, alutaceous and a little shining ; black with 

 the centre more or less broadly red ; basal segment scabriculous and 

 dull throughout, curved, somewhat shorter than the hind coxae and tro- 

 chanters, not canaliculate, slightly impressed transversely before the 

 apex and gradually a little contracted basally ; second segment 

 scabriculous and dull, subquadrate in 9 or longer than broad in (J, which 

 has the ventral plica flavous ; terebra reflexed and nearly as long as the 

 body. Legs slender, red with the trochanters, and in (J hind coxae 



