Anilasta\ BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 215 



12. clausa, Brisch. 



Limneria clausa, Brisch. Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1880, p. 154, ? ; l^ridg. Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 161, j . Anilastus clausus, Schm. Opusc. Ichn. 1809, ? . 



Black with the legs fulvous, only coxae and hind trochanters black, 

 hind tarsi piceous; anterior trochanters flavous and calcaria white; scape 

 beneath, radix and te^ulae flavescent; {)etic)lar area broad. Li'n<rih, 

 6 mm. 



This species differs from A. inqiiinata in the immaculate black abdo- 

 men, red hind femora and tibiae. 



Described from the nei<rhbourhood of Danzig and not hitherto found 

 elsewhere on the Continent. Bignell bred both sexes of this species on 

 2 2nd June in Devonshire from Hvhcniia de/oliaria, and Bridgman tells us 

 {/oc. (■/'/.) that the male differs only in having the hind tibiae dark red- 

 brown, paler in the middle. 



13. inquinata, Holnigr. 



Limneria inquinata, Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1858, p. 75; Bridg. -Fitch, Entom. 

 1885, p. 107, $; (?) Brisch. Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1880, p. 164, c? . Anilasta 

 inquinata, Thorns. O.E. xi. 1173, ? . 



Black with the legs fulvous and basally whitish, the hind ones black 

 with the trochanters whitish and tibiae centrally obscurely rufescent ; 

 antennal scape and pedicellus testaceous beneath ; petiolar area narrow. 

 Length, 6 mm. 



At once known by the black hind femora, r(>d abdominal incisuri's and 

 centrally hardly pale hind tibiae, and whitish ventral plica. Hrischke's 

 tentative male with red femora, red-marked hind coxae and centrallv 

 wliite hind tibiae, must surely be distinct. 



I possess three examples taken at Corn worthy by Rev. T. A. Marsliall, 

 one I swept at Lakenheatli in Suffolk from a hedge-bottom in the middle 

 of June, 1899, and another on flowers of Hcraclciim sphondyliuiii in thi' 

 middle of July at Oxshott in Surrey. Abroad it has been recorded rarely 

 in .Sweden, Germany and France ; but there are no records since its 

 introduction as liritisli in 1S70. 



14. coxalis, Brisch. 



Limneria coxalis, Brisch. Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1880, p. 151 ; i-Jridg. -Fitch, 

 Entom. 1885, p. 107, cf 9 . Anilastus coxalis, Scliin. Opusc. Ichn. 1814, << i . 



fiiack willi tlic al)di)men and scape inimarulale, c-allosit\ before ihe 

 tegiilae and the li-gs stramineous; only the hind tarsi, troclianters, with 

 base and apex of tibiae, nigrescent. Length, 7-S mm. 



Remarkabk- for its entirely jiale hind coxae, in which it agrees onlv 

 with A. coxa /or, Thoins., though diOering therefrom in its larger and 

 stouter structure, immaculate scape, rufescent anterior coxae, centrally 

 pure whiti- hind tibiae and longer terel)ra, which is no shorter than the 

 basal segment. 



It was originalU bred from yj^r/r/.v larvae at Danzig; ni'xl (hseovered 

 about C()l( liestir b\ llarwood; a male was bred from Lepidopterous 

 lar\ae, taken alioul l,\iiii in Norfolk bv Atmore ('iVans. l']nt. ."^oc. iSS(), 



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