160 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [Nepiera 



'J'abic (if Species. 



(2). I. Arcolet re.y^ular, intercepted cen- 

 trally ; hind tibiae black before 

 base .1. CONCINNA, //(■>//// ^7'. 



(i). 2. Areolet oblique, intercepted beyond 



centre ; hind tibiae stramineous 2. clypeata, Brisch. 



1. concinna, Holnxii^r. 



Limncria concinna, Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1858, p. 84 ; Bridy. -Fitch, Entom. 

 1885, p. 207, (? ? . Ncpicra concinna. Thorns. O.E. xi. 1137, ,} ? . 



A small black and densely pubescent species with the te^ulac, radices, 

 radical callosities, mouth and trochanters except base of hind ones, with 

 centre and extreme base of hind tibiae, stramineous ; legs and apical 

 margin of all the segments apically pale, the hind coxae, basal joint of 

 their trochanters with extreme base and apex of their femora black. 

 Length, 4f-6^ mm. 



Holmgren truly considered this species distinct from all his other 

 Limncn'cc in its pedal and abdominal colouration. The only Scots 

 example 1 have seen is remarkable for having only the apices of the 

 second, third and sixth segments pale, with the frenal carinae bright 

 flavous ; this female was captured by Elliott on 27th July, 1907, at 

 Braemar. 



It was considered by no means rare by its author in southern Sweden 

 during July, and Thomson thought it distributed throughout north and 

 central Europe, though Schm. says it is rare in Thuringia; Gaulle records 

 it from France and I'osquinet found it in Belgium in July. With us it is 

 abundant, though hitherto little known and not recognised till 1882, when 

 Bridgman (Trans. Ent. Soc. p. 150) records it from about Norwich in 

 August and Plymouth in the middle of July. In 1884, W. H. B. Fletcher 

 bred it (Entom. xvii, p. 70) from Gdechia noiaiella at Worthing in Sussex ; 

 and in 1904 it was raised from Continental Pterophonis microdactyhis by 

 Chapman. I have about forty examples, captured by Marshall at Bishops 

 Teignton, Yerbury at Barmouth towards the end of June, Butler near 

 Guildford, Tuck at Benacre Broad in August, many at Shere by Capron, 

 several at Felden by Piffard — who was so fortunate as to take one pair in 

 copula — and on 24th June, 19 10, a male emerged from its subcylindrical 

 and unicolorous grey-brown cocoon of 5 x 2 mm., covered with loose 

 strands, which Clutten had sent me from some Delamere Forest Lepidop- 

 teron ; the right antenna of this specimen is normal, but the left aborted 

 with only scape and basal flagellar joint entire and a tiny prominence ex- 

 tending from the latter. To me it has occurred most commonly during 

 the first half of May and of September, though I have taken it in June, 

 July and August, at Gosfield in Essex, Ringstead and Burnham Thorpe in 

 Norfolk, Hastings in Sussex, Lyndhurst in the New Forest, Ryde in the 

 Isle of Wight ; it seems to have no predilection for the coast, but has 

 occurred in Suffolk on fennel flowers at Alderton, and reeds at Easton 

 Broad and Southwold in salt-marshes ; it is hardly rarer inland on flowers 

 of Angelica syhestris, spruce in the spring and in hedges at Claydon 

 bridge, Tuddenham Fen, Bramford and Elvedon. 



