Limihrium'\ BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 117 



This species is very distinct in its stout and elongate mandibles, which 

 are but slightly constricted apical ly, whereas in all our others they are 

 distinctly narrowed towards their apices and by no means elongate with 

 their lower margin basally subreflexed; in the distinct and quadrate basal 

 metanotal area; in the immaculate hind tibiae, which are red with a paler 

 basal band; and in the elongate and hardly pectinate claws. 



Gravenhorst received a couple of males from Etruria and Piedmont; 

 and no one had subsequently noticed the species till 1887, when Thomson 

 pronounced it to be not unconmion in northern and central Europe. It is 

 certainly rare with us ; I have two females agreeing with the later 

 description, which were bred on 21st and 24th September, 1907, from 

 dug pupae — probabl}-, but inicertainly, those of Cidaria psittacata — at 

 Withycombe near Taunton ; Barrett bred a female from " Tortrix " ; and 

 on 4th July, 1899, 1 took another flying with many of their owners about 

 the burrows of Colhtes Davicsana, Smith, in a sandy bank at the Bentley 

 Woods near Ipswich. 



deficiens, Grav. 



Campoplcx deficiens, Gr. I.E. iii. 474, ? ; Liiiineria deficiens, Bridg. -Fitch, 

 Entom. 1885, p. 104, ? . 



Head with the palpi piceous. Abdomen subcompressed, with terebra 

 hardly half its length and reflexed. Legs red, with all the coxae and 

 trochanters black ; posterior tarsi infuscate, with their base red. Wings 

 subhyaline, with stigma and radius infuscate-piceous, radix and tegulae 

 pale stramineous ; areolet wanting. Length, 9^ mm. 



The above is the entire description of Gravenhorst, who remarks that 

 this female is of the size and conformation of Liinncrium albidinu, though 

 stouter, with no areolet and the pedal colouration distinct. He knew 

 only a single Breslau female. 



No further mention was made of the species till 1881, when Fitch 

 records it, with a query, as having been bred by Clifton and Bignell from 

 Etipithccia pnlchellala (Entom. 1881, p. 140). This is explained bv Bridg- 

 man, in introducing it as British ( I'rans. Ent. Soc. i88i,p. i5i): "Mr. 

 Bignell has bred a Liiiiiniia from EiipHhnia pulclullald, which agrees 

 better with Gravenhorst's description of this insect than any other I can 

 find. It difi"ers only in ha\'ing the trochanters vellow, hind pair black at 

 the base. These insects often \arv in colouration ; and as Gravenhorst 

 described his species from a snigle insect this may be a variety of it. 

 Length, 2i lin." Bignell does not record it from south Devon in 1898 ; 

 though Marcjuand found it in Cornwall (Tr. Penz. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1883, 



P-3+3)- 



Bridg.-lMlch dillerenliate it from the rest of the broad genus Limmria 

 by the characters : — Abdomen, scape and coxae black ; hind tibiae and 

 femora entirely red; terebra fully half-length of abdomen, trochanters and 

 stigma black; length, gij-iomm. 



arvense, Grav. 



Cami)oplex arvcnsis, Gr. I.E. iii. 488, ,i ; Linmerict di-i'ensis, Bridg. -Fitch, 

 Entom! 188S, p. 106, cT . 



Head with the palpi, and usually centre of mandil)les, testaceous. 

 Thorax and the subcompressed abdomen immaculate black. Legs with 



