118 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. ILimneriuni 



coxae black, the front ones sometimes testaceous beneath ; trochanters 

 bhick, the anterior sometimes beneath or apicall}' fulvous or stramineous, 

 the front ones more rarely entirely stramineous ; femora fulvous or red, 

 the intermediate usually externally infuscate, the hind or posterior nigres- 

 cent or more usually red, or castaneous towards their apices ; tibiae 

 fulvous or testaceous-red, the hind ones apically black with a band before 

 their base usually more or less nigrescent, the intermediate rarely infus- 

 cate beneath; tarsi infuscate with the anterior basally or entirely 

 rufescent-fulvous. Wings more or less slightly clouded, with the stigma 

 dark testaceous, the radix and tegulae stramineous or the latter piceous ; 

 areolet subregularly triangular, petiolate or subpetiolate. Length, 5-6 mm. 

 S only. 



Gravenhorst says the size and coformation are similar to his C. dispar 

 {? Angitia annidicrus, Thoms.), but the abdomen a little shorter and 

 broader, with especially the basal two segments shorter and broader. 



Bridg. -Fitch, who mark it with a query as though possessing some- 

 thing that might be referred to it, diflferentiate it from the rest of the 

 broad genus Limneria by the characters : — Hind femora red, basally 

 black; abdomen black; front coxae apically pale below; hind tibiae 

 white, with apices and subbasal mark dark ; metathorax not concave ; 

 areolet entire. 



Gravenhorst here places examples from (jermany, Silesia and, perhaps. 

 Piedmont, one of which he tookon umbelliferous flowers on 22nd May. 

 Probably on the strength of the Piedmont example, Dours in 1874 and 

 Gaulle in iqo8, consider it to be French. Desvignes claims to have 

 possessed it in his collection in 1856 and it has, consequently, figured in 

 the subsequent British lists. 



Paniscus, Grav. 



Campoplex Paniscus, Gr. I.E. iii. 498, <J ? ; Curt. Farm Ins. 1860 ct 1883, 

 p. 87; Limneria Paniscus, Bridg. -Fitch, Entora. 1885, p. 107, i ? . 



Head with the palpi and mandibles stramineous. Antennae slender 

 and filiform, of (J a little shorter than body, of 9 a little longer than 

 half body. Thorax gibbulous and black. Abdomen subcompressed, a 

 little longer and narrower than head and thorax ; basal segment of $ as 

 in C. aii'ensis, of the $ much narrower and sublinear, with postpetiole 

 but slightly broader than petiole and double as long as broad ; terebra a 

 fourth of the abdomen in length. Legs normal ; coxae black, with the 

 front ones of 9 beneath entirely, of J apically, testaceous ; anterior 

 trochanters pale flavous with a basal infuscate mark above, the hind ones 

 black and apically pale flavous ; front femora of S stramineous-fulvous 

 and of 9 red, the intermediate of ^ stramineous and discally black, 

 of 9 red and discally darker with base and apex nigrescent, hind femora 

 black ; anterior tibiae stramineous with the intermediate of 9 nigrescent 

 below and dull stramineous apically black above, of S fulvidous-stramin- 

 eous and apically nigrescent ; hind tibiae of $ testaceous and apically 

 black, of 9 black and centrally subinfuscate ; tarsi of 9 black with only 

 base of the front ones pale, of $ infuscate with base of posterior ones 

 paler and of front ones broadly testaceous. Wings hyaline with stigma 

 piceous-stramineous, radix and tegulae pale stramineous ; of ^ normal 

 with areolet subpetiolate, of 9 shorter and narrower with areolet sessile. 

 Length, c? 6J, 9 6 mm. 



