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showing- that the capital extremity had been withdrawn tn luasse. This 

 larva, the only one in the bag, unfortunately died ; and many young 

 spiders emerged from the bag on May 13th. It was not till I examined 

 the above bag from Islr. Pickard-Cambridge that I was able to guess what 

 my lar\a had been ; and the connection is, of course even now unsatisfac- 

 tory, though extremely probably correct. 



This species is probably common enough if sought in its peculiar 

 pabulum, but is rarer towards southern pAirope. I have only once met 

 with the imago myself, while beating Taxiis baccata in the Bentley pine 

 woods in the middle of April ; but it is evidently widely distributed, since 

 it is recorded from Huddersfield (Bairstow) ; as bred in May from old 

 bramble stem in Devon and taken at Bickleigh in July (Bignell) ; from 

 Karlham, in Norfolk (Bridgman) ; Essex (Harwood) ; Pevensey and 

 Hastings (Vict. Hist.) ; from Swaffham Bulbeck and Wicken Fen, in 

 Cambs.' (Vict. Hist.) ; Malvern, in August (Beaumont) ; Tangton Her- 

 ring, in September (Richardson) ; Gelt, near Carlisle, in June (Day) ; 

 Kings Lynn (Atmore) ; Lynton, at the end of October, 1899 (P^lliott) ; 

 New Forest (Miss Chawner) ; Felden, in Herts (Piffard) ; Tostock, early 

 in September (Tuck) ; Shere (Capron) ; Treswell Wood, Notts., early in 

 September (Thornley) ; Poyntzpass, in Armagh, among spiders' nests on 

 furze-bushes, in April (Johnson, P^M.M. 1907, p. 160) ; Brockenhurst in 

 May (Cross). 



38. ornata, Gvav. 



Pimpla ornata, Gr. I.E. iii. 158; Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1863, p. 265, ? ; 

 Thorns. O.E. viii, 752 et xiii, 1412 ; Brisch. Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1880, p 113; 

 Schm. Zoo!. Jahrb. 1888, p. 499, (f ? . P. sciiiivaria, Kriech. An. Soc. Esp. 1894, 

 p. 247, ? . 



Head somewhat distinctlv narrowed behind the eyes, black with the 

 palpi, clvpeus and usually the internal and vertical orbits, red or stramin- 

 eous ; of S \\ith the whole face also flavous. Antennae infuscate, ferru- 

 gineous or red beneath, with the scape sometimes entirely nigrescent. 

 Thorax subpilose and not very shining ; mesonotum and most of the 

 mesopleurae red or castaneous, the latter sometimes obsoletely and the 

 former at others, especially in J, only discally pale; a line below, and an 

 elongate one before, the radix flavous; metathorax coarsely punctate, 

 areola subconcave with its apical costae wanting and the lateral ones 

 weak. Scutellum and postscutellum flavous ; disc of the former in 9 

 more or less broadly red. Abdomen closely and somewhat coarsely punc- 

 tate, with large glabrous lateral tubercles and the segmental apices ele- 

 vated and nitidulous; of 9 with the segments broader than long, basal 

 of J elongate and the third quadrate ; basal segment punctate through- 

 out, with tin; a])ical angles distinctly reflexed ; terebra fully half length of 

 tlie abdomen, with spicula badious. Legs red ; the posterior with their 

 tibiae and tarsal joints subinfuscate, basallv testaceous with the tibiae 

 broadly concolourous centrally; claws of 9 basallv lobate. Wings hardly 

 clcjiided, stigma and radius black, radix and tegulae stramineous ; areolet 

 irregular, subsessile and often externally obsolete ; nervellus intercej)ting 

 slightly above the centre. Length, 6 — 8 mm. 



The 9 is evidently a very variable insect as regards colour: (iraven- 

 horst gives a variety with the orbits only narrowlv flavous, which he says 

 is closely allied to his /-". angrtis {ovivora, I3oh.), and in my 9 9 the frons 



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