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I found it rather difficult to select a lectotype that agreed with all points of Thomson's 

 description ; on the whole the female standing tenth in the series fits best and I 

 designate it LECTOTYPE. It is a female hortensis. 



Britain, Sweden. In Britain this species seems to be most common in open 

 habitats (rough pastures, downland, etc.). 



Biology. A female bred in England from Agromyza genistae Hendel (G. C. D. 

 Griffiths), seems to be hortensis. Imagines appear in the field June-August. 



Note. Miscogaster lucens Delucchi (1953a : 215, 9), which was described from 

 material (number of specimens not stated) taken probably in Sweden, appears to be 

 very near hortensis Walker ; I have specimens of the latter from Scotland which 

 much resemble lucens in the shape of the gastral petiole, which is said to be character- 

 istic of lucens. However, I have not seen the type of lucens (in' Naturhistorisches 

 Museum, Vienna) and in view of the difficulty of distinguishing the females of some 

 Miscogaster species, I hesitate to synonymize it with hortensis. 



Miscogaster maculata Walker 



Miscogaster maculata Walker, 1833 : 459, $ 9. 



Miscogaster fuscipennis Walker, 1833 : 459, $ 9, syn. n. 



Miscogaster notata Walker, 1833 : 459, <$, syn. n. 



? Miscogaster maculipes Walker, 1833 : 460, 9. 



Miscogaster Methymna Walker, 1848 : in, 171, (J?, syn. n. 



Miscogaster elegans Delucchi, 1955 : 58-59, [ex parte, nee Walker, 1833]. 



Miscogaster maculata Walker ; Boucek, 19650 : 7. 



Type material. Miscogaster maculata Walker. Syntypes, 7 specimens. LECTO- 

 TYPE, a female bearing a rectangular label " 1047 ". 



Miscogaster fuscipennis Walker. Syntypes, 1 $, 2 <J. LECTOTYPE, the female, 

 bearing a Waterhouse label, also one in C. Ferriere's handwriting " Type CF ". 



Miscogaster notata Walker. Syntypes, 5 specimens. LECTOTYPE, the first, a 

 male bearing a Waterhouse label. 



Miscogaster maculipes Walker. The series of 5 specimens under this name are all 

 males, whereas only the female was described. It seems likely that maculipes was 

 the same as maculata, because there are three females of maculata (probably Walker 

 specimens) in the old Hope-Westwood collection, labelled as maculipes by Walker 

 himself. 



Miscogaster methymna Walker. Syntypes, 1 $, 2 <$. LECTOTYPE, the female, 

 bearing a Waterhouse label. 



Britain, Sweden ; no doubt widely distributed in Europe. In the British Isles 

 maculata is a very common species which occurs in a variety of habitats, both in 

 woods and on open ground. Specimens tend to fall into two rather distinct colour- 

 forms : one having the body greenish and the legs relatively paler, the other having 

 the body bronze and the legs very dark. At one time I thought that two species 

 might be involved, but the two forms may be taken together and intermediates 

 occur. 



