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burnh, Qucensferry, and Polton near PMinburgh (Evans). It is not com- 

 monly bred ; I have seen two females, one of which emerged from the 

 chrysalis of Opombia diliitata from near Reigate in the spring of 1899, the 

 larva of which Prideaux had found during the preceding October ; the 

 second emerged on ist May, 1899, from the chrysalis of some Geometer, 

 which had been dug at the base of an oak at High Wycombe, Bucks., by 

 Peachell ; both emerged from the capital extremity of the pupae, which 

 was entirely excised, very nearly in the centre and within the pupae were 

 somewhat regularly spun round with a thin layer of whitish strands. 



It is recorded as bred by Linnaeus from Phalaena turmulla ; by 

 Scharfenberg from Bombyx piiii ; from which Ratzeburg also raised it, 

 together with Tortrix Buoliana ; and by Kirchner from Cosmia diffinis. 

 Common in Norfolk, and bred from Tortrix costana and Eupaecilia 

 aiiibiguana (Bridgman); bred in July from Rhodophaea consocidla and in the 

 middle of October from Xylopoda fabriciana, in Devon (Bignell) ; Netley, 

 in Shropshire ((irav.) ; Lastingham, in Yorks (Marshall) ; Holgate, near 

 York (Bairstow) ; Lands End (.Alarquand) ; Armagh, in Ireland (fohnson) ; 

 bred from Tenthrcdo instabilis, Kl. (Ent. Ann. 1874, p. 125) ; abundant 

 among fir trees at Glanvilles Wootton (Dale) ; and bred by Bower from 

 Hemerophila ahruptaria (Buckler). 



31. maculator, Fab. 



Iclincuiiioit niacitlator. Fab. S. E. 337. /. scanictis, Vill. Linn. Ent. iii. 190. 

 Crxptus iiiucuhitor. Fab. Piez. 87. Piinpla scanica, Gr. I. E. iii. 204 ; Zett. I. L. 

 375; Ratz. Ichn. d. Forst. i. 116etii. 93; Hohngr. Sv. Ak Handl. 1850, n. 10, 

 p. 21 ; Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1863, pp. 57 et 264 ; Brisch. Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 

 1880. p. Ill, excl. varr. ; Thorns. O. E. 748 et 1408, j ? ; Voll. Pinac. pi. ix, 

 fig. 6, ? . P. tricolor, Ratz. Ichn. d. Forst. iii. 100. P. maculator, Kriech. Ent. 

 Nachr. 1887, p. 116; Schm. Zool. Jahrb. 1888, p. 489. (?) Ichneumon placsseus, 

 Fourc. E. P. 417. 



A dull black species with elongate thoracic pilosity and tricoloured 

 tibiae. Head immaculate, short, transverse and a little narrowed behind 

 the eyes ; face distinctly pilose and, especially centrally, closely punctate ; 

 frons deplanate, closely punctate and not centrally canaliculate ; vertex 

 narrow and laterally pubescent ; palpi white or stramineous. Antennae 

 filiform and somewhat incrassate towards the apices, nearly as long as the 

 body, ferrugineous or testaceous with the joints apically darker, beneath 

 paler with the discally black scape flavous. Thorax gibbulous with long 

 recumbent flavo-griseous pilosity, obscuring puncturation, and a pale cal- 

 losity before the radix ; mesonotum closely and subconfluentlv punctate, 

 with very obsolete notauli ; the })leurae strongly nitidulous between the 

 fine punctures ; metathorax centrally glabrous throughout with the areola 

 basally subcostate and parallel-sided, apically explanate and convergent 

 with the petiolar area ; spiracles small and quite circular. Sculellum 

 black, subdeplanate, obsoletely punctate throughout with griseous pilosity. 

 Abdomen evenly and somewhat strongly punctate ; of J hardly deplanate, 

 double length of head and thorax, hardly narrower than the latter and 

 cylindrical with the incisures subtestaceous ; of 9 subdeplanate, fully as 

 long as the head and thorax and subcylindrical ; apices of the segments 

 elevated, shining, red or castaneous with the lateral margins always red ; 

 basal segment laterally margined, apically testaceous in the centre, with 

 the base excavate and carinate to the centre ; terebra half or one-third the 



