1894.] 255 



For the addition o£ this species to our list we are indebted to 

 Mr. Alfred Beaumont, who captured a few specimens amongst Sedum 

 at Colwyn Bay in August, 1890, and has kindly given me the examples 

 from which I have drawn up the above description. 



St. Ann's, Woking, Surrey : 

 October, 1894. 



TWO NEW BEITISH BIPTERA. 

 BY F. C. ADAMS, F.E.S. 



On the 20th of July last, whilst collecting in the New Forest, 

 near Lyndhurst, I took a single specimen of Mallota eristaloides, Lw. 

 I did not know at the time what a prize I had found, but thought it 

 was an Eristalis or Criorrhina. The insect, however, was new to me, 

 so I kept a good look out for more, but without success, the weather 

 being unfavourable for Diptera during the few remaining days of my 

 stay. T recently took the specimen, with various other Diptera, to 

 the Natural History Museum for identification, and it at once attracted 

 the attention of Mr. Austen, who kindly named it for me. 



About the middle of May I also took in the same district a 

 Pipunculid, about which Mr. Austen was doubtful at first, but has 

 since identified as Nephrocerus Jlavicornis, Zett. 



Both insects are new to the British List of Diptera, and I have 

 presented them to the National Collection. 



68, St. Ermins Mansions, Westminster, 



and Fern Cottage, Lyndhurst : 

 October, 1894 



TWO NEW SPECIES OF ICSNEUMONIB^ FROM DEYONSHIRE. 

 BY G. C. BIGNELL, F.E.S. 



PiMPLA BeIDGMANI, %. Sp. 

 Head black ; under-side of scape of antennae and palpi stramineous ; antennae, 

 upper-side of thorax and abdomen fuscous, mesothorax darkest ; under-side, in- 

 cluding coxas, legs and scutellum, ochraceous ; scutellum and adjacent part of 

 mesothorax forming an oblong square patch ; hind tibiae light fuscous, with a ring 

 near the base, and apex, dark. Antennae 25-3ointed ; length, 3| mm. ; aculeus, 1 mm. 

 Length of body, 5 mm. (excluding aculeus) ; expansion of wings, 9 mm. 



A parasite on a spider, Drassus lapidicolens, Walck. 



Peaon absinxhii, n. sp. 



$ — black ; mouth and greater part of the abdomen, and terminal joints of tarsi, 

 testaceous ; antcnnto, 3rd joint wholly, and 4th all but the extreme apex, pectus. 



