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nifida, Foiirc. ; A. angusfiur, Kii-b. ; A. fucala, Siii. ; A. iiigricej/s, Kirb. ; A. 

 chn/so.iceies, Kivh. ; A. proxima, Kirh. ; A. dorsafa, Kirh. Ci/Usa leporiiia, VaMZ. 

 Nomada sexfasciata, Panz. ; N. jacobaa, Panz. Epeolus productus. Thorns. 

 Melecta annata, Panz. Cuetioxys quadridentata, Linn. ; C. rufescens, Lep. Me- 

 gachile maritima, Kirb.; M.circumcincta,Lc\>.; 31. liffnlseca, Kirh. Anthidium 

 manicatum, Linn. Stelis aterrima, Panz. Chelostoma florisomne, Linn. ; C. cam- 

 panularnm, Kirh. Osmia pit icornia, Sm. Eucera lotifficornis, Linn. Anthophora 

 retusa, Linn. ; A. furcata, Va,nz. All the species of Psithyrus. All the species 

 o( JBomhus, excepting B. Smithianm, Jonellus, lapponicus, soroensis, and pomorum. 



Copflock Rectory, Ipswich : 



January 8th, 1901. 



PESCRTPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF CRUNCECIA (TRICHOPTERA) 



FROM AUSTRIA. 



BY KENNETK J. MORTON, F.E.S. 



The section of the Srricosfovmtido' to which this genus belonc^rg 

 contains insects of highly specialized type, and the sexual dimorphism 

 is usually marlvcd by strilving secondary characters. Mr. McLachlan, 

 in his Mon. Rev. (p. 271) says: "The structure of the insects is 

 especially liable to excessive modification, and generic limitation will 

 possibly be found extremely vague unless a minute generic sub-divi- 

 sion be eft'ected." As a matter of fact, at the time Mr. McLachlan 

 wrote, each of the three European (in the restricted geographical 

 sense) genera was Ivnown with certainty to contain but one species, 

 and although Lepidosioma now stands with two species within its 

 bounds, this is rather the result of toleration than conviction, as the 

 two seem to be little more than forms of one species. 



It was accordingly very interesting to find amongst some Triclioii- 

 tera sent to me by Dr. Peter Kempny, of Gutenstein, Lower Austria, 

 in 1898, two examples of what appeared to me to be a distinct new 

 species of Gruncecia. The material, although in fairly good condition, 

 I considered inadequate, and I urged Dr. Kempny to find more. In 

 this, I am glad to say, he has been successful, and I now without 

 hesitation proceed to describe the insect as 



Ceuncecia Kempnyi, «. sp. 

 Blackish, paler beneath. Antennoj nearly uniformly fuscous, traces of anniila- 

 tion being as a rule scarcely perceptible ; basal joint with long dark brownish 

 hairs. Head clothed with dai-k brownish hairs; warts brown, apparently arranged 

 as in C. irrorata. Warts of the pronotum usually paler. Maxillary palpi of tlie 

 $ not examined (they are either broken off or closely appressed in the examples 



