370 Mr. Bridgman's additions to T. A. Marshall's 



both sexes were bred by Mr. Harwood, of Colchester ; 

 host and locaHty uncertain. Mr. Bignell has also bred 

 a female from Anticlea badiata. 



Lissonota riifomedia, n. s. 



Niger, pedibus rufis, troclianteribus posticis nigris, tibiis posticis 

 fuscis ; capite thorace scutelloque flavo ^ , rufo ? , notato ; aculeo 

 abdominis longitudine. 



Finely reticulate ; head punctate ; face transverse, rather wider 

 than the forehead ; head transverse, oblique behind the eyes ; 

 antennas of female as long as the body, male a little longer. Meso- 

 notuni punctate ; mesopleura pixnctate, with a few punctures on 

 the upper part of the disc, which is subopaque ; metathorax longer 

 than wide, subrugosely punctate, the punctures larger and less 

 close than on the mesonotum, with a slight longitudinal depression. 

 Abdomen : 1st segment more than twice as long as wide, more 

 slender in the male than in the female, and proportionably longer, 

 longitudinally depressed in the female, not so in the male ; the 

 whole abdomen of the female with very fine somewhat transverse 

 striations ; apical segments shining and almost free from sculpture ; 

 2nd and 3rd segments distinctly longer than wide. Male : 1st 

 segment at the base transversely striated ; apical two-thirds mth 

 rather coarse somewhat scattered punctures ; remaining segments 

 subopaque, punctate ; apex of abdomen pubescent ; 2nd and 3rd 

 segments distinctly longer than wide ; 4th quadrate ; aculeus as 

 long as the abdomen. Legs slender. Wings with an areolet, 

 which varies from subpentagonal to a petiolated triangle ; outer 

 nervure sometimes very faint ; transverse anal nervure divided 

 below the middle one-third or one-fourth from the bottom. 



5 . Black ; palpi, jpart of mandibles, and clypeus reddish ; an 

 obscure pale spot on each side of the vertex, an obscure reddish 

 line on the side of the prothorax, and a spot in front of the wings ; 

 middle of the scutellum with a transverse red blotch, often absent ; 

 apex of first three segments thinly red. Legs red ; hind trochanters 

 blackish, front and middle ones more or less so ; hind tibife ftiscous, 

 slightly reddish in the middle ; hind tarsi fuscous. Tegulaj piceous ; 

 stigma fuscous. 



3' . Differs from the female in having the mouth, clypeus, facial 

 orbits, and a spot on each side of the vertex, marks on anterior 

 sutures of pleurie, a mark on shoulders, a line beneath the wings 

 and lateral marks on the scutellum, greater part of fi-ont and middle 

 coxae (these sometimes blackish at the base), front and middle 



