Eiphoropsis'] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 143 



lollowing year it occurrrd rarely on bircli bushes in As.^inglon Thicks in 

 Suffolk durinj,^ the middle of INIay, and I have subse(]uently taken it by 

 sweeping at Tuddenhani Fen, Market Rasen in Lines., and in a sandy 

 field at Brandon about 20th of June; there are a couple of Surrey females 

 in Capron's collection. A form, which I can regard as nothing but one 

 of this species was sent me by Dr. Chapman, who liad reared it from 

 Pkrophonis microdactyhis, on 13th March, 1904; it had emerged from its 

 own semi-transparent and very pale orange-coloured cocoon, within that 

 of its host in a stick ; and diffiTs from llie tvpical form of this species (and 

 all others at present placed ni this genus) in having the hind femora, 

 tibiae and tarsi entirely ilear fulvous, with the joints of the last hardly 

 subinfuscate at their apices. 



3. affinis, Parfitt. 

 Limneria affinis, Parf. Ent. Mo. Mag. .xviii. 1882, p. 252, j ? . 



A black species, with short whitish pilosity. Head transverse and 

 densely punctate, buccate posteriorly, with mandibles and palpi stramin- 

 eous, and apices of former ferrugineous. Antennae three-fourths as long 

 as the body, black with the scape testaceous or fiavous beneath. Thorax 

 black and shagreened; metathorax coarsely punctate, with six areae 

 divided by smooth and elevated costae. Abdomen elongate-clavate and 

 subcompressed, with the segmental margins broadly dark testaceous, 

 becoming apically evanescent; basal two-thirds of the first segment dis- 

 cally glabrous and nitidulous, its apex densely but superficially punctate, 

 petiole parallel-sided, postpetiole abruptly explanate; second segment 

 twice as long as broad, and about two-thirds longer than third segment; 

 venter fiavous ; terebra testaceous, reflexed and i nmi., or a fifth of the 

 body, in length. Legs fulvous with the anterior onyches ferrugineous, 

 their coxae and trochanters stramineous; hind coxae and trochanters 

 black or, as are often their fulvous femora, discally black-marked; apical 

 half of hind tarsi, with apices and base of their stramineous-white tibiae, 

 black. Wings with tegulae stramineous ; stigma dull white, or occasion- 

 ally pale testaceous; areolet shortly petiolate, or occasionally sessile. 

 Length, 5 mm. 



" This insect in general appearance and colouring might, at first sight, 

 be taken for a small specimen of (Jravenhorst's CanipopUx I'uiunnsis; 

 according to this author's arrangement, it would come in his second 

 section, but naturally it would seem to be nearly allied to C. luntiLHsis, 

 on which account 1 have named it <ijjin/s." [loc. a'/.) 



Parfitt possessed four examples; two swept from vetches in a field near 

 Exeter during June, iS8i,and two "bred from a hedge at Lydford, on the 

 border of Dartmoor." No one has since noticed it (not excepting Bridg.- 

 Fitch in their 1885 revision of the genus), and 1 can reconcile it to none 

 of my own specimens of the broad genus Limmria. 



