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Both sexes of this species, which is indicated from England alone by 

 Thomson, were annually swept from Callufia erica in the middle of June, 

 by Bridgman, at Mousehold, near Norwich (I'rans. Norf. Soc. v, p. 63). 

 It is by no means rare with us, though hitherto much mixed with the last 

 species ; Dr. Capron has found it at Shere in Surrey and Mr. Piffard early 

 in June at Felden in Herts ; I swept a female on the banks of the Gip- 

 ping at Ipswich in the middle of June, 1895, and took another (with the 

 whole of the second and third, as well as base of the fourth, segments 

 red) on the flowers of Sinyrnium olusatnnn at Dunwich in Suffolk early in 

 July, I goo. It has also occured to me at Shalfleet, in the Isle of Wight, 

 at the end of June, 1907. 



12. vulnerator, Gvav. 



Glypta vulnerator, Gr. I.E. iii. 11 ; Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1860, n. 10, p. 42 ; 

 Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1863, p. 276 ; Thorns. O.E. xiii. 1350, <? ? . 



A stout, curved and somewhat shining species. Head with a strongly 

 prominent tubercle in the centre of the face, but no horn ; cheeks not 

 elongate, nor genal costa sinuate ; labrum generally ferrugineous ; palpi 

 mfuscate, though sometimes stramineous ; clypeus apically rufescent with 

 long and dense grey pilosity throughout ; mandibles basally smooth. 

 Antennae filiform and apically attenuate, half as long again as the body, 

 infuscate and sometimes ferrugineous beneath ; scape always black. 

 Thorax innnaculate ; pleurae and metathorax strongly punctate, the 

 latter with five complete upper areae and the petiolar area elongate. 

 Abdomen elongate-ovate, black with the three basal segments rosy-cas- 

 taneous apically or in triangular patches ; basal segment short and broad, 

 laterally narrowed before the dentately prominent spiracles, with two 

 distinct discal carinae ; the second to the fourth transverse, coarsely 

 alutaceo-punctate ; terebra as long as the body. Legs somewhat stout, 

 fulvous with the coxae and trochanters black ; hind tarsi, which some- 

 times have their joints only very narrowly white basally, and the apex and 

 before the white base of their tibiae, nigrescent. Wings normal and 

 slightly clouded ; stigma and radix stramineous, tegulae ferrugineous or 

 piceous. Length, 7 — 8 mm. 



Ciravenhorst says this species is very like G. mensu7-aior ; and that it 

 differs from G. teres in its size and stouter abdomen. From G. haesi/afor 

 it is primarily distinguished by the more narrowly white-banded tarsi and 

 longer terebra. 



It occurs on umbelliferous flowers in Julv and Bridgman records it as 

 bred by Atmore at Kings Lynn in Norfolk from Catoptria scopoliatia. It 

 has also been bred in France from Cochylis hilarana by M. Ferris 

 ((iiraud) ; and in Britain by P^lisha, though somewhat doubtfully, from 

 Semasia riifilhina (Entom. 1884, p. 68). It was captured at Norwich by 

 Bridgman ; and I have .seen a male taken at Polton, near Edinburgh, in 

 the middle of June by Evans. 



13. similis, Bridg. 



Glypta similis, Bridg. Trans. Ent. Soc. 188G, p. 367. cf ? ; c/. Trans. Norf. 

 Soc. V. p. 70. 



Head broader than long constricted behind the eyes, with the sides 

 somewhat rounded ; clypeus flavous, with long and dense pubescence ; 

 frons mutic and coarsely punctate, with grey hairs ; face finely punctate 



with long, scattered grey pilosity and promim-nt epistoma. Antennae of 



