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emitting obsolete costulae from its centre ; petiolar area elongate, with 

 its basal costa in 9 barclly and in J distinctly elevated. Abdomen cylin- 

 drical or sLibfusiform, as broad as the thorax and rather longer than it and 

 the head ; the three lasal segments castaneous and margined with, or the 

 second sometimes nearly entirely, red ; the fourth and fifth often apically 

 rufescent; first segment only a little longer than apically broad, basally 

 dilated and laterally sinuate before the subprominent spiracles, with some- 

 what elongate carinae ; terebra as long as the body. Legs not very slen- 

 der, red or fulvous ; front coxae very rar(>ly, anterior trochanters rarely 

 and the hind ones with their coxae generally, basally black ; front tro- 

 chanters generally and the intermediate sometimes pale flavous beneath ; 

 hind tibiae testaceous with the apices, a band before the whitish base and 

 the extreme apices of femora infuscate, their pectinate tarsi also infuscate 

 but with the base of the joints pale. Wings somewhat clouded ; stigma 

 broad and stramineous, or in ^ subpiceous ; tegulae testaceous ; discoidal 

 cell with its lower angle subacute. Length, 7 — 8|^ mm. 



It may be known by its broad and partly red abdomen, transverse seg- 

 ments and elongate- terebra; it is always larger and proportionately shorter 

 than G. hifoveolata. 



Gravenhorst mentions a variety with the four basal segments red with 

 only the disc of the third and fourth infuscate. Chitty took a 9 of 9 "im- at 

 Huntingfield, near Fa\ersham, in August, 1902, which had only the anus 

 infuscate. The var. hifoveolata differs in having the flagellum entirely red. 

 G. lugubrina appears to be distinguished from the largest example of 

 G. maiswator described by Gravenhorst in nothing but the often incon- 

 stant coxal coloration ; the former is said to have the coxae and base of 

 trochanters nigrescent, the antennae not apically attenuate, the metanotal 

 areae subcomplete, the second and third segments transverse and the 

 terebra about as long as the body. But, since Gravenhorst certainly 

 described more than one species under his G, niettsurator, Holmgren's 

 name must be adopted. Thomson {l.c.) considers them synonymous, but 

 Bridgman (Trans. Norf. Soc. v, p. 69) is by no means persuaded that this 

 is the case. Glypta lugiiorina (sic) is poorly figured in " Knowledge," v, 

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It is said to occur on the Continent upon Umhelliferae ; and both sexes 

 have been bred, according to Bridgman fl.c.J,ixom. Eupaedlia hybridcUaua 

 by Fletcher and Barrett and from a species of Catoptria b)' ^^^ H. B. Flet- 

 cher, of Worthing ; Van Vollenhaven says G. mcnsiirator was " got from 

 the resinous tumours inhabited by Relinia resinellay It is abroad rather 

 earlier than most species of this genus, and I have records from tlie end 

 of June to 29th August; to me it has always occurred singly at long inter- 

 vals ; but Piffard at Felden, Capron at Shere, and Bloomfield at Guestling 

 in 1879, all used to find it commonly. Thornlcy has taken it at Tress- 

 well Wood in Notts in July, Peacock at Cadney in Lines, Bridgman at 

 Horning Ferry in the Norfolk Broads, Donislhorpe at Deal, Sladcn at 

 Ripjjle near Dover, Routledge at Tarn Lodge, near Carlisle, Evans at 

 Longinddry in August and St. Davids in Fife in June, Butler at Hastings, 

 Richardson at Corfe Castle in August, Gordon on Hemlock in Wigton- 

 shire in July and Davies at .St. Issey and Padstow in Cornwall. In Suffolk 

 it has only occurred to me in Barnby Broad on the flowers of Angelica 

 sylvestris^ both sexes at Monks' Soham and at Kessingland cliffs on those 



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