236 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS [Meniscus. 



This species is rare in central P^urope, occurring on umbelliferous 

 flowers from July to September. Giraud, doubtless incorrectly, records 

 Lissotiola impressa, Gr., from Bomhyx (jiurcus (Ann. Soc. Fr. 1877, p. 408). 

 This species is certainly very rare with us and it is my new M. siilca/or, 

 with pale (J orbits and terebra only as long as the body, which has been 

 hitherto known in Britain by this name and to which the following re- 

 cords refer : Bickleigh and JMarsh Mills, Devon, in August and Septem- 

 ber ; common in Norfolk ; and occurring in Essex. I do not find that 

 it has hitherto been bred but early in July, 1905, Cockayne sent me a ^ 

 raised from an unknown Irish Lepidopteron ; on i8th July, 1901, I 

 received a female from Haggart, bred at Galashiels from Sfsia scoliiformis 

 and with it was its cocoon, which is wine colour and quite transparent, 

 very smooth, shining and apparently not constructed with the double cen- 

 tral fold, usual with these insects, since the centre is neither constricted 

 nor of a difi'erent colour nor texture, it is 13 mm. in length and about 4 

 broad in the centre, the emergence hole is very irregular but hardly 

 reaches the apex ; on loth July, 1907, Reid raised another female from a larva 

 of the same host taken at Rannoch, in Perthshire. Dours (Cat. 66) cer- 

 tainly erroneously gives this species as " parasite de la larve de la Carpo- 

 capsa amplana vivant sur les glands." 



7. murinus, Grav. 



Lissonota luiirina, Gr. I.E. iii. 99; Schaff. F. G. cxvi. 23; Holmgr. Sv. Ak. 

 Hand!. 1854, p. 92, ? . Exetastes albitarsus, Gr. I.E. iii. 430, <i ? . Tryphon 

 albitarsorius, Zett. I.L. 385, c? ¥ . Meniscus iiitirinus, Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 

 1860,11.10, p. 62 ; Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1863, p. 289 ; Schm. Opusc. Ichn. 

 1272, cT ? . M. variipes, Szepl. Term. Fuz. 1900, p. 36, ? . 



Head black and punctate with grey pilosity ; face and base of mandi- 

 bles finely granlate ; clypeus castaneous and smooth with a few scattered 

 punctures and the apex rounded ; second and third joints of maxillary 

 palpi castaneous ; mandibles apically glabrous with two short teeth of 

 equal length. Antennae filiform and shorter than the body ; black with 

 the flagellum rufescent beneath. Thorax pilose and immaculate ; meso- 

 and meta-notum dull and scabriculous, latter with spiracles almost circu- 

 lar and basal carina of petiolar area centrally produced, indicating apex of 

 an obsolete areola. Scutellum pilose and black with its basal impression 

 smooth, glabrous and shining. Abdomen a little longer but hardly 

 narrower than head and thorax, of (J subcylindrical and of 9 fusiform, 

 red with the basal segment except sometimes its extreme apex black and 

 the anus very rarely slightly infuscate ; basal segment nearly twice longer 

 than broad, canaliculate, a little narrowed basally, glabrous and shining 

 with the spiracles small and a little before the centre, extreme basal 

 angles subdeplanalc and explanate ; remainder finely and transversely 



