LOPHYRUS PALLIPES. 83 



had been about the woods for many years the larvae 

 had never been seen in the locality before. 



Parasites : Diptera : Masicera gilva, Htg. ; M. 

 gyrophaga, Rondani ; Tachina bimaculata, Htg. ; 

 Hymenoptera : Limneria argentata, Fab. ; L. carini- 

 frons, Hlmgr. ; Mesoleptus evanescens, Rtz. ; Paniscus 

 oblong o-punctat us, Htg. ; Phygadvuonpteronosum, Htg. ; 

 Pimpla angens, Gr. ; Tryphon adspersus, Htg. ; T. 

 eques, Htg. ; T. lophyrorum, Htg. ; T. marginatorius, 

 Fab. 



Probably common ; but, except for Hartlepool, I 

 have no definite locality. 



Continental distribution : Sweden, Holland, Ger- 

 many, Russia, France. 



6. LOPHYRUS PALLIPES. 

 Vol. II, PL VI, fig. 2, 3 . 



Hyloioma pallipes, Fall., Acta, 1808, 41. 



Lophyrus elongatulus, Klug, Berl. Mag., vi, 55, 5 ; Fall., Mon., 



15, 4; Htg., Blattw., 169, 14. 

 pallipes, Dbm., Prod., 97, 33 ; Thoms., Hym. Sc., i, 



165, 12; Andre, Species, i, 62, 72; 



Cat., 9,* 15 ; Cam., Fauna, 48, 5. 



Black, shining, smooth, head closely punctured ; scutellum with a 

 few scattered punctures ; mesonotum with smaller and fewer punc- 

 tures; tegulae, pronotum, pleurae, apex, sides, and ventral surface of 

 abdomen and legs, pale testaceous. Wings hyaline, nervures, costa, 

 and stigma, pale testaceous. Antennae 18-jointed. Claws simple. 



The <$ has the thorax entirely black save occasionally a thin line on 

 the pronotum, the belly is dirty testaceous, the legs pale yellowish, 

 black at the base. 



Length 3 lines. 



According to the description of Continental writers 

 pallipes is variable in the coloration of the thorax, 

 especially in the relative quantities of black and testa- 

 ceous on it. 



The larva is unknown. 



Rare. Braemar (Sharp), Rannoch. 



Continental distribution : Sweden, Germany, France. 



