166 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. \01esicampa 



apical radial abscissa is evidently longer than the basal and but sli<^htly 

 curved, the discoidal cell is apically subacute below, and the hind tibiae 

 are more broadly, with apices of their femora distinctly, black. 



Recorded from Aix, Belt^ium in July and France. It has not hitherto 

 been noted in Britain but 1 possess it in Capron's Surrey collection, and 

 expect it to occur not rarely here. 



5. longipes, Mull. 



Ichiiciiiiioii loiigipcs, Miill. Prodr. 1776, 159. /. cancscens, Gmel. S.N. 1790, 

 2703. Cdiiipoplcx longipes, Gr. I.E. iii. 549, <? ? . C. argcnfatus, Ratz. Ichn. 

 d. Forst. i. 96 ; ii. 83 ; iii. 87 (ncc Grav.). Liiuneria longipes, Holmgr. Ofv. 

 1858, p. 326; Sv. Ak. Handl. 1858, p. 85, ^ ? . Olcsicanipa longipes, Thorns. 

 O.E. xi. 1142, d ? . 



Black with the abdomen, except both extremities, and most of the legs 

 red; trochanterellus citrinous; ventral plica basally infuscate; postpetiole 

 broadly red ; head not posteriorly dilated ; lateral petiolar sulci distinct. 

 Length, 6-7 mm. 



Known by the slightly constricted temples, pale anteradical callosities, 

 somewhat distinct metanotal areae, narrow radial and apically acute dis- 

 coidal cell, the immaculate red tibiae and femora, and flavous anterior 

 coxae. 



It occurs very commonly in central Europe on umbelliferae in August, 

 not infrequently in marshy places throughout Sweden, and in France ; 

 Ratzeburg records his species from Lophyrns pmi, rufus, pallidus and 

 si/n ill's; and Brischke bred it (1880, p. 165) from Nanaius perspicillaris. 

 In Britain it is also very common ; Norwich and Kings Lynn in July 

 (Bridg.), Plvm Bridge on 21st September (Bignell), Greenings in July 

 (Saunders), Taunton in August (Charbonnier), Tostock and Burv St. 

 Edmunds in July (Tuck), New Poorest in July (Adams), several at Skene 

 in Scotland in August (Elliott). I have found it on flowers of Foenicitlum 

 vulgari'^X Ringstead in Norfolk in August, at Chippenham Fen in Cambs. 

 in June, in Tuddenham Fen and on Clare Island oft" the west coast of 

 Ireland, where Rev. \V. F. Johnson takes the species in Armagh. 



6. pagana, Holmgr. 



Liinucriii pagana, Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1858, p. 86, c? ?. Olcsicanipa 

 pagana. Thorns. O.E. xi. 1142, ? . Var. L. consohrina, Holmgr. lib.cit. p. 87, 



(f ? . 



Black with the abdomen broadly in the centre, and most of the legs, 

 red; trochanterellus also red; ventral plica basally infuscate; postpetiole 

 broadly red; head not posteriorly dilated ; lateral petiolar sulci distinct. 

 Length, 5-6 ram. 



Very like O. hmgipcs but much smaller with the mandibular teeth less 

 stout, the fifth segment black and the second but little longer than broad, 

 flagelkun black becoming rufescent towards its apex, the anteradical 

 callosities not white and the head a little narrower behind the eyes, says 

 Thomson who seems to have reconstructed rather than recognised this 

 sj)ecies; Holmgren considered it very similar to the last species, a/ siiif 

 dubio diversa, especially in the cinereous and not white pubescence, the 



