Oksicampa] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 167 



subequally long inaiulibular teeth, the strongly complete five metanotal 

 areae and darker legs. 



Originally found in marshy places in northern Sweden and southern 

 Lapland from June to August, and apparently not detected elsewhere till 

 it was incorporated as British in Bridg. -Fitch's table of Limncria (FOntom. 

 1S85, p. 206), and recorded both by the former from Earlham near Nor- 

 wich in June in 1894. and by Bignell in June from Bickleigh in Devon 

 in 1898. The only British mention I find of L. cottsobrina, which was 

 thought probably a form of the present species by its author and may be 

 here so. treated since no one has reviewed it, is by Bridgman (Trans. 

 Norf. Soc. 1894, p. 620), who took it at Eaton near Norwich in July, and 

 considered it to be a good species. 



7. nigroplica, Tlionis. 



OlcsicaiiiJHT ni;^rnpliciT, Thorns. O.E. xi. 1143, (^ ? . 



Black with the abdomen centrally, its postpetiole and most of the legs 

 rufescent; hind trochanterellus, femoral apices, tarsi and tibiae black, 

 the centre of the last ferrugineous and base of metatarsi whitish ; ventral 

 plica basally infuscate; head not posteriorly dilated; lateral petiolar sulci 

 distinct. Length, 8-9 mm. 



A large species and similar to O. fulvivenlris, but with the ventral plica 

 nigrescent and the petiolar sulci distinct. The broadly black apices of 

 both hind femora and tibiae are conspicuous. 



North and central Germany, Belgium in August, and France. Not 

 previously noted in J^ritain ; I have both sexes in Capron's collection 

 from Shere in Surrey, a female taken at Greenings in the same county 

 during fune, 1871, by Wilson Saunders, and myself swept the male near 

 Ipswich in 1894. 



8. simplex, Thonis. 



Ulrsicciiii/ni .s/;;//>/c.v, Thorns. OTi. xi. 1147, ^ ? . 



A black species, with ihc abdomen centrally somewhat narrowlv ri-d- 

 banded ; anterior legs Ihuous with their base stramineous, the hinil ones 

 black with trochanterellus, tibiae and tarsi testaceous and apical Iv broadly 

 black ; postpetiole and second segment evidently longer than broad ; hind 

 trochanterellus simple. Length, 7-8 mm. 



Known by the vertex being a little narrowed in both sexes, the meta- 

 thorax not rugose but with well delineated carinae, the areola ai)ically 

 constricted, the discoidal cell apically acute and hind trt>chantc-rt'llus 

 simple. 



Sweden, France, Bc'Igium in June and July, and frequent in Thuringia. 

 15y no means unconumm with us from 20th lAIay to 20th lune, thouj^h not 

 hitherto noticed liiif. Adams has sent me examples from l.vndhurst in 

 the New Forest, .Marshall from Cornworthy in Devon, and Tuck from 

 Tostock and Bungay in Suffolk, in which county 1 have taken it on the 

 banks of (he Aide at l'"ariihain and in the marshes about Brandon, usually 

 in carU hnic 



