120 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. {Ltmnerium 



monticolanum, Bridg. 



Limneria nionticolana, Bridg. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 159, j ?; Bridg. - 

 Fitch, Entom. 1885, p. 207. 



Head buccate and not posteriorly con.strictcd ; face narrower apically, 

 clypeus apically sinuate, cheeks nearly wanting, eyes internally entire; 

 mandibles flavidous, apically black. Antennae three-quarters as long as 

 body, black with the scape apically more or less broadly testaceous 

 beneath. Thorax elongate, black; metanotal areae complete, costulac 

 entire and areola elongate hexagonal. Abdomen black with apices of 

 second and third segments distinctly, and sides of the following three often 

 more or less, testaceous; postpetiole a third longer than broad, foveate 

 between spiracles; second segment of J a third longer than broad, of 9 

 subquadrate ; ^ with third segment longer than broad and fourth sub- 

 quadrate; terebra not exserted, venter pale. Legs deep fulvous with all 

 the trochanters pale fulvous and the hind ones basally piceous-marked; 

 anterior coxae basally piceous, hind ones entirely nigrescent; hind and 

 base of intermediate femora mainly piceous, their tibiae apically and 

 also sometimes basally infuscate. Wings with areolet subsessile, emit- 

 ting recurrent nervure immediately beyond its centre ; nervellus not or 

 not distinctly geniculate. Length, circa 5 mm. 



Differentiated from the rest of the broad genus Limneria by Bridg. - 

 Fitch on the characters : — Central segments red-margined, head much 

 broader posteriorly than against the eyes, extreme base of hind tibiae 

 dark, hind femora dark, abdomen broadly red, metathorax not concave. 

 The indefinitely described nervellus precludes exact classification to this 

 species, without an examination of the type. The colouring recalls that 

 of certain Phohocampae, though the head seems similar to Holocrcmna 

 incrassata, Holmgr. 



Mr. J. Sang bred a female, with a couple of males, during the summer 

 of 1880 from Elachista vumticola in Britain (Bridg., loc.cit.; repeated at 

 Entom. 1 88 1, p. 140). 



renominatum, n.n. 

 Limneria distincta, Bridg. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1887, p. 367, cT [nee Prov. 1882). 



A black species with only the mouth, tegulae and part of legs pale. 

 Head transverse, hardly constricted posteriorly and a little broader than 

 thorax ; face subquadrate and about as broad as frons ; palpi and mandi- 

 bles flavous. Antennae but slightly shorter than the body. Thorax 

 longer than high ; mesonotum reticulate with large, close and somewhat 

 shallow punctures; metathorax longitudinally deeply sulcate and concave 

 throughout, with areola longer than broad, apically incomplete and the 

 costulae subobsolete. Abdomen slender and elongate, more than a third 

 longer, though narrower, than head and thorax ; basal segment longer 

 than hind coxae and trochanters ; petiole slender, about as long as but 

 not half breadth of the longer than broad iuid subparallel-sided post- 

 petiole ; second segment a third longer than broad; third quadrate, and 

 the three following segments of equal length and a third broader than 

 long; sides and anus pubescent. Legs red with coxae and trochanters, 

 and a central streak on intermediate femora, black ; intermediate tibiae 

 apically infuscate; all the calcaria and base of the posterior tarsal joints 



