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Grav., has been said by Bridgman {cf. Trans. Norf. Nat. Soc, v, p. 624), to be 

 nothing but Meniscus murintm, Grav., which certainly does not belong to the 

 present genus. 



E. ciNCTiPES. — The synonymy of this species, hitherto known as E. osculatoriun 

 in Britain, should stand : — Ichneumon atrator, Forst., Nov. Spp. Ins., 84, ? ; (/. 

 Gr., I. E., iii, 903 ( ? ). Geer, Mem., ii, 819, pi. xxix, ff., 1 1 et (cocoon) 10, <? ? ; 

 I. cinctipes, Retz., Ins., 1^8, $ ; Evetades vinctipes, Thorns., O. E., sxiii, 2414. 

 Ichneumon osculatorins Fab., M. I., i, 261 ; Enetasfes oscidaioritis, Gr., I. E., iii, 

 413, i . Ichneumon clavator, Fab., E. S., ii, 151 ; Ophion clnrator, Fab., Piez., 

 134 ; Exetastes cJarator, Gr., I. E., iii, 405, $ . Ophion tarsator, Fab., Piez., 134, 

 $ ; Tryfhon tarsator, Zett., I. L., 386 ; Exetastes tarsator, Holnigr., Sv. Ak. 

 Handl., 1858, No. 8. p. 150, S ? • 



E. GUTTATOBius, (J ? . — A comuion British species, first noticed in 1856 j 

 occurs on flowers in July and August ; parasitic upon Caradina al sines, &c. Cheddar, 

 Alderney, Hastings, Dover, Felden, Ipswich, Bury St. Edmunds, Stowmarket, New 

 Forest. The J is well figured by Van Vollenhoven. 



E. GEACILICOBNIS, i^ . — This female, introduced upon Desvignes' authority in 

 1856. must be regarded with some doubt as British ; it has been found in Russia 

 but not in Sweden. It is a stout species, with the callosities beneath the radix, but 

 not the pronotuni (as is usually the case in E. quttatorius), white ; the apices, and 

 not the whole, of the hind tibife are black. 



E. FACIALIS, S ■ — I know nothing of this species beyond the description by 

 Desvignes, which leaves much to be desired. Mr. Hamm, of the Oxford Museum, 

 has recently sent me three examples of a (? Exetastes for determination which may 

 possibly belong to this species, though differing somewhat widely in the absence 

 of any central facial line, in their piceous stigma and stramineous tegulae, in their 

 red abdomen, which has only the basal segment black, and in the colour of the hind- 

 legs, of which the femora are red with a black basal mark, the basal two-thirds of 

 the first tarsal joint and the tibiae (except at extreme base) black, and the remainder 

 of the tarsi (except the onyches), white. One specimen has the scutellum nearly 

 entirely, the second binotated with, white ; in the third it is black. 



E. FEMOKATOK, ? . — I know nothing of this species beyond the descriptions by 

 Desvignes, Holmgren, Thomson, and the figure by Van Vollenhoven. Both sexes 

 were originally indicated, but the female alone appears to have been recognised 

 upon the Continent ; Brischke records it from Neustadt. 



F. NIGRIPKS, (J ? .^This species was introduced as British in Marshall's 1870 

 Catalogus ; it has been bred from Hadena oleracea {cf. Entoni., 1884, p. 68), from 

 Arctia lubrici/jeda and from Noctuu abrotani (Ralzeburg). 



E. MAURUS, $ .^Comparing Desvignes' description of this with that of the 

 last species, the only distinction which is apparent is the abdominal coloration. 

 True, the former says " first pair of tibiae and the apical half of femora fuscous," 

 but he continues "second pair darker, also apexoHhe femora" ; from which it would 

 appear that the word apical should read basal. Desvignes' descriptions are loose 

 and often misleading. 



E. FORNICATOK, <? ^ .—Introduced as British by Desvignes in 1856 ; I have 



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