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It is common in central Europe, but becomes rare towards the north ; 

 Gravenhorst saw both sexes from Nctley in Shropshire. This is one of 

 the latest species in Britain, where it is never seen before the 6th August, 

 on which date I have taken it in the New Forest, though in Suffolk it is 

 not found till the 24th ; till the middle of October it is common every- 

 where and may still be met with as late as the 9th November, when I found 

 a female beneath a cut sod of grass in 1895 {cf. E.M.M. igoo, p. 42). It 

 is frequently swept from herbage and reeds, but most of my century and a 

 quarter were taken on flowers of angelica, fennel and wild carrot ; one 

 female flew in to artificial light on 23rd August, 1906. I know of no 

 Scotch records, though it is common enough in Sweden. One male and 

 two females have been bred by Adkin (Proc. S. Lond. Soc. 1896, p. 82) 

 from larvae oi Sesia scoliiformis, Bork., and by South (Buckler's Lar\ae ) 

 from Triphaena fimbria, near London ; but it must feed, having regard to 

 its great frequency, on much commoner hosts ; Brischke has raised it in 

 Prussia from Hadena suffurunctila ( Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1880, p. 120). 

 New Forest, Lyndhurst, Dover, Deal, Dorking, Shere, Woking (E. Saun- 

 ders), Greenings, Felden, Hastings, Hollington, Devonshire, Sutton in 

 Surrey, Cardiff, Bewdley, Bristol, Ely, Essex, Cadney in Lines., South 

 Leverton in Notts., Hunstanton, York, Carlisle, Ballaugh in Isle of Man 

 (Dr. Cassal), Poyntzpass and Acton Glebe in Armagh (Johnston), Hart- 

 ing and Kilmore (Beaumont). In Norfolk, I have found it at Bumham 

 Thorpe, Hunstanton, Ringstead and ^Metton near Cromer; and in Suffolk 

 at Sproughton, Foxhall, Henham, Ousden, Depden, Claydon, Covehithe, 

 Halesworth, Wattisham, Eye, Kenton, INIonks' Soham, Ipswich, Bramford, 

 and Alderton ; Tuck has taken it at Finboro' Park, Benacre, Tostock, 

 Bungay, Aldeburgh, Southwold ; Bedwell at Oulton Broad ; Tomlin at 

 the Bentley Woods and P^Uiott at Tuddenham Fen in the same county. 

 It was among the last insects ever taken by my friend, the late Mr. A. J. 

 Chitty, at his house (Huntingfield) at Flasling, near Faversham, in Kent. 



17. femorata, Holmgr. 



Lissonota femorata, Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1860, n. 10, p. 55, ? . 



9 . A nitidulous, alutaceously punctate, black species. Head trans- 

 verse and somewhat short, not at all buccate and distinctly narrowed 

 behind the eyes ; frons alutaceously punctate and somewhat impressed, a 

 little narrower than the centrally prominent face ; palpi and apex of 

 clypeus fernigineous. Antennae filiform and not apically attenuate, about 

 as long as the body. Thorax distinctly stout, dull, a little longer than 

 high and coarsely alutaceo-punctate ; metathorax subscabriculous with 

 the areola obsolete. Scutellum black. Abdomen subfusiform, black w ith 

 the apices of the three basal segments castaneous ; basal segment nearly 



