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all yellow palpi also from Epineuronia popularis. I have seen spec- 

 imens from P. chrysitis and P. sp., the specimens from chrysitis 

 emerged on ^^/g. Nielsen has (Vidensk. Medd. fra Dansk naturh. 

 Foren. 70, 1918, 1) treated its biology; he bred it from P. iota and 

 gamma; one to six parasites may develop in each host; the host 

 larva perishes and the pupation takes place in the skin of the host; 

 the puparia lie, at all events when there are more than one, more or 

 less transversely in the skin; the pupa has the anterior and posterior 

 larval spiracles very protruding. More than. one brood in the year. 

 Geographical distribution: — Europe; towards the north to 

 middle Sweden, and in Finland. 



2. V. hilaris Villen. 



1912. Villen. Bull. du Mus. d'Hist. Nat. 510 (Hypovoria). — 1924. Stein, 

 Arch. f. Naturgesch. 90, 6, 122 {Hypovoria). 



Male. Frons much broader than the eye; cheeks rather broad; 

 jowls more than half as broad as the height of the eye. Orbits and 

 face whitish pruinose ; frontal stripe brown, seen from in front whitish 

 pruinose. Three orbital bri^tles. Frontal bristles few, stretching to 

 insertion of arista, the iippermost directed oiitwards. Vibrissæ very 

 slightly ascending. Orbits with black hairs, cheeks and jowls bare, 

 the former only with a few hairs above, but without bristle. Occiput 

 grey, with whitish hairs below, bare above. Antennæ black, basal 

 joints red; third' joint more than twice as long as second; arista short, 

 thickened in basal two thirds, second joint elongated. Proboscis 

 rather slender. Palpi yellow, a little dark just at apex. Thorax black, 

 bluish grey pruinose, with four black stripes, the median abbreviated 

 bellind, the lateral interrupted at the suture. Thorax black-haired ; 

 scutellum with a pair of præapical and some discai bristles. Ptero- 

 pleura with a strong bristle above. Abdomen black, a Httle shining, 

 the three last segments greyish pruinose except behind, shifting 

 with dark according to view; abdomen is black-haired, with marginal 

 bristles, none on second segment, on third a pair and on fourth a 

 row; fifth with two rows. Legs black, bristles somewhat strong; 

 claws and pulvilli somewhat elongated. Wings a little brownish 

 tinged, especially at anterior margin; veins blackish brown; first 

 posterior cell medium long petiolate, ending considerably before 

 apex of wing; discai angle a little obtuse, with a long and strong 

 veinlet; subcostal vein bare; cubital vein with bristles beyond medial 

 cross- vein. Squamulæ yellowish. H alteres blackish. 



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