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metapleurae distinctly and not finely punctate with short and dense 

 griseous pilosity ; notauli anteriorly distinct ; spiracles circular. Scutellum 

 black. Abdomen black, more parallel-sided than in P. brevicornis and 

 less conspicuously tuberculate ; basal segment of 9 not longer than 

 apically broad, coarsely punctate, smoother centrally with the carinae 

 almost wanting ; (abdomen 5, terebra 4^ mm.). Legs clear fulvous with 

 the front coxae and apices of all the onychii alone black ; hind tibiae and 

 tarsi of $ dull testaceous, with the apex and a cloud before the base of 

 the former indeterminately infuscate, and the basal joint of the latter 

 broadly white ; apical hind tarsal joint less than four times the length of 

 the penultimate and longer than the third ; claws of 9 broadly and 

 obtusely lobate at base, ^^'ings not at all clouded ; stigma infuscate w-ith 

 the base clear stramineous; areolet somewhat large ; nervellus intercepting 

 exactly in the centre. Length, 9 mm. 



Bridgman {loc. cif.) says the size and shape are extremely like those of 

 P. bnvicvrnis, but that the thorax is " entirely free from sculpture," the 

 abdomen a little more strongly punctate and the colour of the legs is 

 distinct. In his .MS. table of the genus he differentiates them by the 

 stigmal colour, places the present species next P. sagax, from which it 

 differs in its coxal colouration, and points out many characters for both 

 sexes, which ha\e enabled me, with the aid of Swedish examples, to draw 

 up the above description. 



This species has never before been adequately described and the Conti- 

 nental authors consider the nervellus to be intercepted below the centre 

 and the J unbekannt, though Bridgman distinctly says in describing it 

 that both sexes were bred by Mr. \V. H. B. Fletcher from Ephippiphora 

 scutulana. I have seen but two British examples of this species, which is 

 only recorded from Earlham and Brundall, near Norwich ; Donisthorpe 

 took a 9 at Rossbeigh, in Co. Kerry in June, 1902, and Adams another 

 at Lyndhurst early in July. But A. Roman has been so good as to send 

 me both sexes, bred from two red-brown, stout and somewhat smooth 

 cocoons of disproportionate size, spun upon each other and presumably 

 of their own construction, whence the insects had emerged through a 

 jagged, irregular hole near the extremity. The cocoons were found in 

 dry stems oi Anthriscus sylvestris at Upsala, where they emerged on 28th 

 April and ist Mav. This is the first time P. situilis has been noticed on 

 the Continent. 



8. robusta, sp.n. 



Head innnaculate black, clypeus apically emarginate. Antennae a little 

 longer than half the body (body 11, antennae 6, mm.). Thorax entirely 

 black with no pale callosity before the radix ; metanotum with the lateral 

 areae wanting, centrally always flatly bicarinate, and basally distinctly 

 and sparsely punctate on either side ; spiracles circular. Scutellum black. 

 Abdomen stout and fusiform, distinctly punctate and tuberculate, less 

 than double length of head and thorax (former 7, latter 4, mm.) ; terebra 

 a little longer than half the abdomen (abdomen 7, terebra 4, mm. \ Legs 

 pure sanguineous red with only the front coxae, all the basally lobate 

 claws, and sometimes the extreme apices of the hind tarsal joints, black ; 

 tibiae always innnaculate ; apical hind tarsal joint not at all explanate, 

 thrice length of the penultimate and distinctly longer than the third ; hind 

 coxae subglabrous. Wings always somewhat deeply flavescent ; .stigma 



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