212 M. W. R. de V. GRAHAM 



Type material. Miscogaster fuscipes Walker. Syntypes, 3 specimens. LECTO- 

 TYPE, the first specimen, a male bearing a Waterhouse label. 



Lamprotatus rubrius Walker. A male and a female stand under this name, but no 

 female was described. LECTOTYPE, the male, bearing a green-bordered type 

 label, also a Waterhouse label. 



Lamprotatus babilus Walker. Syntypes. 2 specimens. LECTOTYPE, the 

 second specimen, bearing a Waterhouse label, also one in C. Ferriere's handwriting 

 "TypeCF.". 



Stictomischus sericeus Thomson. One female and two males stand under this 

 name, but Thomson did not mention the male. LECTOTYPE, the female specimen ; 

 this lacks the head and fore wings but may be the same as fuscipes (Walker). 



Note. Chrysolampus punctulatus Forster was transferred to Gitognathus and 

 regarded as a valid species by Delucchi (1955 : 68, 71 — 72). Delucchi also cited 

 Lamprotatus babilus Walker as a synonym of punctulatus. I have not seen the 

 types of punctulatus, which are in Forster's collection in Vienna, but from Delucchi's 

 redescription of the species (1955 : 71-72) it seems likely to be a synonym of fuscipes 

 (Walker). The differences which Delucchi mentions in his key to Gitognathus 

 species (1955 : 68) as existing between punctulatus Forster and sericeus Thomson 

 appear to be based on variable and therefore unreliable characters. Thus in a series 

 which I believe to represent only a single species [fuscipes (Walker)] the last segment 

 of the antennal funicle varies from slightly transverse to slightly longer than broad ; 

 the median carina of the propodeum may be complete and sharp, incomplete, or 

 partly replaced by a furrow ; whilst the oblique carina of the postspiracular sclerite 

 (prepectus of Delucchi) may be distinct, weak, or virtually absent. 



Britain, Sweden ; uncommon. 



Biology. Unknown. Often (1942 : 227) recorded Stictomischus sericeus Thomson 

 as a parasite of Agromyza rufipes Mg. on Echium vulgare, but his determination of the 

 parasite was probably wrong. Imagines appear June-August. 



Gitognathus laevis (Delucchi) 



Stictomischus laevis Delucchi, 1953a : 213, $. 

 Gitognathus laevis Delucchi, 1955 : 69, $. 



Type material. Holotype $, Hungary, Koszegi, 22. v. 1944 (Erdos), in Hungarian 

 Natural History Museum, Budapest ; it is labelled " Koszegi h 1944. v. 22 dr. 

 Erdos " ; " ret ";"<£"; " 14." ; and " Stictomischus laevis n. V. Delucchi det.". 



Britain, Hungary. New records : — England : Oxfordshire, Bald Hill, near 

 Lewknor, 2 $, 4 <$, 18.vii.1957 {Graham) ; see other records under biology below. 



Biology. One female reared 17.ix.1954, from Phytomyza solidaginis Hend. on 

 Solidago virgaurea L. collected at Eynsford, Kent ; one female reared 28.x. 1954, 

 from the same host and plant collected at Westerham, Kent (G. C. D. Griffiths ; 

 material in BM(NH). The records cited suggest that two broods occur in the 

 season. 



