690 M. W. R. de V. GRAHAM 



Lampoterma viride (Thomson) 



Metastenus viridis Thomson, 1875 (1876a) : 206, $. 

 Lampoterma viride (Thomson) Graham, 1956& : 256. 



Type material. Syntypes, 6 $. LECTOTYPE labelled " Scor " [Scanor]. 



Britain, Sweden, Moldavian SSR ; local, in marshy places. 



Biology. Unknown. Imagines chiefly May- June (one record for August). 



STINOPLUS Thomson 



Etroxys sgen. Stinoplus Thomson, 1878 : 88, 107. Type-species : 5. militaris Thomson, by 

 designation of Ashmead, 1904 : 314. 



Stinoplus Thomson 

 Stinoplus Thomson 

 Stinoplus Thomson 

 Stinoplus Thomson 

 Stinoplus Thomson 



Ashmead, 1904 : 314, 315. 

 Schmiedeknecht, 1909 : 309, 310, 313. 

 Kurdjumov, 1913 : 8. 

 Nikol'skaya, 1952 : 230. 

 Peck et al., 1964 : 58. 



Key to European Species 

 (Females) 



Head and thorax bright green to blue, or even violet-tinged in places ; all 

 coxae, and gaster, entirely black with a metallic tint ; dorsellum distinctly 

 reticulate ; malar space half the length of an eye ; antennal scape reaching 

 only level with the lower edge of the median ocellus, its length slightly less 

 than the transverse diameter of an eye ; large species (up to 3-75 mm.). 



Fore wing, Text-fig. 564 ..... militaris Thomson (p. 692) 



Head and thorax green varied with bronze and golden, the sides of the thorax 

 at least partly purplish or coppery ; dorsellum smooth or virtually so ; 

 malar space usually distinctly less than half the length of an eye, if nearly 

 half then the antennal scape reaches level with the vertex; fore coxae 

 usually more or less fulvous ; gaster usually more or less reddish at base, at 

 least ventrally ; length at most 2-6 mm. ...... 2 



(1) Propodeum (Text-fig. 562) strongly transverse, short, medially one fifth to 



barely one quarter the length of the scutellum, and only about 1-5 times 

 as long as the dorsellum ; marginal vein of fore wing 1-85 to 1-95 times 

 as long as the stigmal vein, postmarginal vein slightly shorter than the 

 marginal. Length of scape slightly less than the transverse diameter of 

 an eye ; gaster lanceolate, 1-35 to i-6 times as long as head plus thorax 



lapsanae sp. n. (p. 692) 

 Propodeum less transverse, longer, medially nearly or quite one third the 

 length of the scutellum, and about twice the length of the dorsellum ; mar- 

 ginal vein of fore wing 1-65 to 1-7 times as long as the stigmal vein ; post- 

 marginal vein at most very slightly shorter than, sometimes as long as, the 

 marginal. Length of scape equal to or greater than the transverse diameter 

 of an eye ; gaster sometimes relatively shorter ..... 3 



(2) Length of antennal scape obviously greater than the transverse diameter of 



an eye ; malar space nearly half the length of an eye. 



Gaster distinctly longer than head plus thorax, red at base . . sp. indet. 



Length of antennal scape approximately equal to the transverse diameter of 



an eye ; malar space about two fifths length of eye or slightly more . . 4 



