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B. .t^aS/7«>.— Suffolk, common (Tuck and C. M.) ; Herts, common (Piffard) ; 



Surrey (Saunders) ; ^ $ S and 2 ? $ bred from Hastula ht/erana at Taormina, 



in Sicily, May, 1905 (Chapman). 

 B. erraticus. — Herts (Piffard) ; Irvine, in Ayrshire, in mid-July (A. Adie Dalglish). 

 B. triangularis. — One female at South Leverton, in Lincoln, May, 1896 (Rev. A. 



Thorn ley). 

 B. mediator. — Surrey (Saunders) ; Herts (Piffard) ; Hunts (Thornley) ; Scotland 



(Dalglish) ; 3 9 ? and 1 S bred from a single cocoon of Sesia hemhecijormis 



at Skipwith, in Yorks, in June, 1899, one or two more failed to emerge (Rev, 



C. D. Ash) ; I have a $ from Beaumont's collection, bred from the same host 



by R. Adkin. 

 B.ftiscicoxis. — A pair in the marshes at Brandon, Suffolk, June, 1903 (B. Tomlin). 

 B. guttiger. — I swept a single female from long grass at Nacton, Suffolk, late in 



May, 1900. W. Evans took it at Arniston, near Edinburgh, in May, 1898. 

 B. satanas. — Surrey, several (Capron) ; one swept at Monk Park Wood, Suffolk, 



May, 1901 (C. M.). 

 B. fraudator. — Herts (Piffard) ; Epsom in June, and Monks' Soham in Suffolk, 



in July (CM.). 

 B. epitriptus. — Swept in Wicken Fen in June, and in my paddock at Monks' 



Soham in July (C. M.). 

 B. prastermissus. — Herts (Piffard) ; Oulton Broad, in Suffolk, in August, on reeds 



(C. M.). 

 B. discoideus. — Herts (Piffard) ; Brandon and Claydon, in Suffolk, on flowers of 



Angelica sylvestris (C. M.). 

 B. regularis. — Suri'ey, in July (Saunders) ; Herts (Piffard) ; Foxhall and Bram- 



ford, in May and August, on flowers of -Spir^a ulmaria (C. M.). 

 B. terehella. — Bristol, in May (H. J. Charbonnier) ; Surrey (Saunders) ; Herts 



(Piffard). 

 B. variator. — New Forest (Miss Chawner) ; Bristol (Charbonnier) ; Herts (Piffard) ; 



Bury St. Edmunds (Tuck) ; Surrey (Saunders) ; Eastbourne abundant on 



flowers of Senecio jacohxa in August, Claydon and Henstead in Suffolk, on 



those of Angelica (C. M.) ; one $ bred from the seeding heads of Cistiis, in 



which w larvae of MesopMeps corsicellus (Chapman). 

 B. osculator.— ^rting, in Sussex (Beaumont) ; Herts (Piffard) ; Burwell Fen on 



flowers of l ^gus oxyacantha, Lavenham in Suffolk on those of Chsero- 



phyllum, Bent. .-y Woods on sallow and birch ; in May and early June (C. M.) ; 



2 <? (? and 2 ? ? bred from Coleophora solitariella, in June, 1901 (A. Sich), 

 B. obscurator.— One female swept from wood-herbage at Wherstead, in Suffolk, 



May 10th, 1900. 

 B. anthracinus.— Revts (Piffard) ; Bentley Woods, swept herbage, in May (C. M.). 

 B. atrator. — One female taken at Felden, in Herts (Piffard). 

 B. abcissor. — I swept a single female of this new British species at Horning Fen, 



in Norfolk, on June 15th, 1901. It may easily be distinguished from B. colpo- 



phorus, to which it is most closely related, by its broadly infuscate palpi, 



