Catalogue of British Ichneumonidce. 423 



either Hysipetes ruberata or Grapholitha campoliliana 

 from Stornoway. 



This species appears to me to belong to Section A. a a. 

 of Omorga, Thorn. (' Opuscula entomologica,' p. 1128), 

 and differs from the only one there described in the red 

 margin of 2nd segment ; the length of the aculeus is not 

 given by Thomson. 



Limneria (Omorga, Thorn.) suhmarginata, n. s. 



Niger, pedibus rufis, basi nigris, aculeo abdominis dimidio longi- 

 tudine. 



Subopaque ; head transverse, behind the eyes sides almost 

 straight ; antennee about two-thirds the length of the body, slightly 

 attenuated at the apex, rather stout; face quadrate; teeth of 

 mandibles subequal. Thorax opaque ; metanotum scarcely shining, 

 rather smooth ; costae very distinct ; supero-medial area penta- 

 gonal ; sides parallel, rather longer than broad, not closed behind ; 

 lateral arese subdivided ; postero-medial scarcely concave, obsoletely 

 transversely rugose; mesopleura somewhat shining, speculum 

 smooth and shining, very finely punctate. Abdomen of the female 

 about as wide as the thorax, narrower in the male, the first two or 

 three segments subopaque, with apical margins shining ; remainder 

 shining, especially so at the apical margins ; first segment almost 

 straight, post-petiole longer than wide, and longer than the petiole ; 

 2nd segment of the female a little longer than wide, of the male 

 one.third longer than wide ; the 3rd and remaining segments of 

 the female transverse, the 3rd of the male subquadrate; remainder 

 transverse. Aculeus half the length of the abdomen, slightly 

 curved. Legs tolerably slender. Wings with an areolet, petio- 

 lated ; posterior-inferior angle of discoidal cell hardly rectangular ; 

 transverse anal nervure feebly geniculated ; emitting nervure 

 obsolete. 



Black ; palpi brownish red. Legs red, coxae black ; trochanters 

 black, apex narrowly pale ; extreme base of all the femora black ; 

 hind tibiae, apex, and before the base fuscous, paler in the female 

 than in the male ; tarsi fuscous, base pale, only slightly so in the 

 hind pair. Apical margin of posterior segments of the abdomen 

 obscurely piceous, ventral fold yellow. Tegulaj black ; stigma 

 fusco-testaceous ; base of wings stramineous. Male and female. 

 Length, 5*5 mm. 



This comes very near to L. f annus, if it is not a var. 

 of that species ; but Mr. Fletcher has bred three females 



