Lmonoia.] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 213 



together with the apices of hind tibiae, subinfuscate ; $ with the anterior 

 coxae and trochanters flavidous and the latter sometimes infuscate above. 

 Wings subhyaline ; stigma pale piceous ; radix and tegulae stramineous ; 

 areolet sessile, subsessile or shortly petiolate and rarely wanting, emitting 

 the recurrent nervure between its centre and apex ; nervellus intercepting 

 below the centre. Length, 7 mm. 



I find that the areolet of this species is rarely entirely wanting, which 

 renders it liable to be mistaken for a Lajjiprotiota, until the carinae of the 

 areola be noted; F'orster, with his morbid craving for genera, placed these 

 specimens with no areolet in his Asphi-agis. Holmgren mentions a ^ var. 

 with the scutellum entirely black and a 9 . which he thought Gravenhorst 

 had probablv mixed with his L. laiemlis, with the sternum red. Bridg- 

 man's L. rufomfdia has been erroneously synonymized with this species 

 on the Continent. L. variabilis is distinct in its narrow and somewhat 

 dull black body, slender legs and antennae, pale vertical dots, more or 

 less infuscate hind trochanters, elongate central segments, and in having 

 the scutellum usually and the pleurae rarely red in the 9 • 



This species is sparsely distributed throughout northern and central 

 Europe and is not uncommon in Scandinavia. L. hortorum is recorded by 

 Giraud (Ann. Soc. France, 1877, p. 408) from Retinia nsiiiana and by 

 Marshall (Ent. Ann. 1874, p. 125) from Ephestia artemisiella, Steph. The 

 present species has been bred from Eudorea angiistea and at Kings Lynn, 

 in Norfolk, by Atmore from Pctifhijia picana, Frol. (Bridgman) and by 

 South from Hydraecia nictitans (Buckler) ; captured at Bovisand, in Devon- 

 shire, in the middle of August (Bignell) ; Lands End district (Marquand) ; 

 Shere in Surrey, several (Capron) ; Felden in Herts. (Piffard) ; Abinger 

 Hammer, near Dorking (Butler) ; New Forest (Miss Chawner). As in 

 Belgium, it occurs with us in August and I have not found it later than 

 the 5th September ; I took females on flowers of Heracleum sphondylium 

 in the Bentley Woods near Ipswich in 1899, on buckthorn and flowers of 

 Angelica sylvestris in the New Forest at Lyndhurst and Matley Bog in 1901 

 and on the latter at Foxhall in September, 1902. It is by no means a 

 common species with us, at least in the open country. 



2L rufomedia, Bridg. 



Lissonota rufomedia, Bridg. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 371, ? . 



Finely reticulate, black. Head punctate, transverse and obliquely nar- 

 rowed behind the eyes ; face transverse and a little broader than the 

 frons ; palpi, clypeus, vertical dots and part of the mandibles of 9 rufes- 

 cent, of (J flavous as well as the facial orbits. Antennae of 9 as long 

 as, of (J a little longer than, the body. Thorax of 9 with a mark before 

 the radix, and the propleurae laterally, rufescent ; of ^ with marks on 

 the mesopleurae, before and beneath the radix, flavous ; mesonotum and 



