216 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [Anilasta 



p. 114); and doubtfully from Eiipilhccia nr/angu/aia by Bignell (Entom. 

 1881, p. 140); but the latter occurrence is ignored by Bridgnian in 1894 

 and not mentioned in Bignell's 1898 Devon list. More recently the 

 species had been several times met with by Schm. in Thuringia.'" 



15. placida, Desv. 



Cainpoplex placidiis, Desv. Cat. 1856, 97, c? ? . Linincria vulgaris, Tschek, 

 Verb. z.-b. Ges. 1871, p. 61 ; Bridg. -Fitch, Eiitom. 1885, p. 106, j ? ; Brisch. 

 Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1880, p. 150, ? . Anilasfns vulgaris, Schm. Opusc. Icbn. 

 1815, J ? . 



Black with the abdomen immaculate and, in 9 > subfusiform ; second 

 segment and the laterally somewhat rounded postpetiole longer than 

 broad, terebra little shorter than basal segment ; legs fulvidous with all 

 coxae and base of hind trochanters black ; hind tibiae only apically, and 

 their tarsi except basally, piceous. Length, 6-7 mm. 



Schm. synonymises Limneria carhonaria, Brisch. $ [iiec Ratz.), with 

 L. vulgaris ; but Brischke knew Ratzeburg's species as well as anyone, 

 and also describes the 9 of Tschek's insect in the same paper. 



Austria, Prussia and France. Tschek's species was introduced as new 

 to our fauna by Bridgman (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 161) on the strength 

 of a female taken, probably at Bickleigh, by Bignell who subsequently 

 bred it from Gonepfcryx riiamni (Entom. 1883, p. 66), on 4th July in 

 Devon, and states in 1898 that " more than one-half of the larvae of this 

 butterfly are destroyed by this parasite," adding (E.M.M. 1896, p. 212) 

 from one of these parasitic cocoons " Hemiteles areaior emerged on 

 July 23rd. I have several times bred H. areator, but could not say for 

 certain that it was a hyperparasite in any of the cases" [cf. Ichn. Brit. ii. 

 133). I have the species in Capron's Surrey collection. 



16. Brischkei, Bridg. 



Lintneria Brischkei , Bridg. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 153 ; Bridg. -Fitch, Entom. 

 1885, p. 106, $ . Anilasfns Brischkei, Schm. Opusc. Ichn. 1816, ? . 



Black with the abdomen immaculate, and both petiole and postpetiole 

 slender and elongate ; legs fulvous with coxae and base of hind trochan- 

 ters black, trochanters with apices of anterior coxae flavous ; hind tarsi 

 except basally, and usually both extremities of their tibiae, subinfuscate ; 

 (J valvulae as long as 9 terebra and hardly shorter than postpetiole. 

 Length, 6 mm. ^ 9 • 



Remarkable for the slender and elongate basal segment and legs. 



" Limneria Brischkei is a new species, bred last year. The parasitic 

 larva came out of a small larva (about one-third grown) of Noctua triajigu- 

 btm, which was obtained during the first week in March at Penzance. 

 After leaving its victim it formed a long, dirty white, rough cocoon, with- 

 out zones ; the empty skin of the Noctua larva remained attaclied to its 

 side; the imago appeared on the 5th April" (Bignell, Entom. 1883, 

 p. 69). Bridgman considered it a common species in Norfolk and I have 



+ Limneria Prussica, Brischke (1880, transposed to the present genus by Schmiedekiiecht, closely 

 allied to Anilasta coxalis) has been simply indicated as British with a note of interrogation by 

 Bridg. -Fitcli (KIntom. 1S85, p. 106) and requires confirmation. It ditters from the above species in its 

 black hind coxae and from the two next in its basally pure white hind tibiae. 



