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not content to allow the present species to remain in Hemiteks, and in 

 this view I fully concur. Both sexes appear closely related with the 

 American Hemiteles thyridopterygis, Riley. 



Mr. Alfred Beaumont records a single British specimen of this species, 

 under the name Chirotka maailipennis (E. M. M. 1894, p. 40; now in 

 coll. Chitty), which he captured at Chobham on the 29th July, 1893 (this 

 genus, however, has the thorax e.xareolated and the areolet sub-pentagonal). 

 He says Marshall has taken it in southern France ; it occurs throughout 

 Europe and north Africa, but is not recorded as bred. In June, 1899, Chap- 

 man gave me two females of this species bred respectively from Continental 

 Cokophora conspicuella and Psyche tenella, var. zermattensis. Early the 

 following May he sent two females, which had been bred together with 

 two males of my variety, from Locarno, and the next month seven females 

 and two typical males from the same locality, all bred from /'. zermatknsis ; 

 later, I received a typical male and female bred, together with a female 

 Hemikks areator, Panz., from Fsychidi also from Locarno. 'Hiat the 

 above-described male variety is anything more than a hyperparasitic mimic 

 I am by no means convinced ; the capital, thoracic and pedal structure is 

 nearly identical with that of the type, but the apically compressed and 

 basally aciculate abdomen, and the conformation of the wings is much 

 like that of certain Ophionids ; the emergence of an anally compressed 

 female would, of course, have settled the question. 



2. fulveolatus, Grav. 



Pezomachiis fulveolattis,Gx. I. E. ii. 871,9. Cataly tits fulveolatus, Forst. Wiegm. 

 Arch. 1851, p. 63, c5 9 . Hemiteles fulveolatus. Thorns. O. E. x. 999. Var. Pezomachus 

 Maiigeri, Gr. I. E. ii. 872 ; Catalytus Mangeri, Forst. Wiegm. Arch. 1851, p. 65,9. 

 Aptesis Foersteri, Bri.lg. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 146, 9 ; </■ Hl^- dt- 1883, p. 161. 

 (?) Catalytus longipennis, Forst. Wiegm. Arch. 1851, p. 64. 



$ 9 . Head black, finely alutaceous, normally pubescent and obsoletely 

 punctate ; mandibles and clypeus fulvous, with the latter apically piceous 

 and the palpi flavous ; epistoma prominent, especially above. Antennae 

 slender and shortly, in $ erectly, pubescent, becoming infuscate apically, 

 with all the joints longer than broad ; basal flagellar joint longer than 

 the second, the fifth longer than broad. Thorax with lateral costae but 

 neither areae nor apophyses ; black, with the pro- and meso-thorax red ; 

 latter longer than the metathorax and less strongly shagreened ; transverse 

 costa wanting centrally, though traceable at the sides. Scutellum distinct 

 and red. Abdomen normally pubescent and obsoletely punctate, black, 

 with segments two to four and apex of the first red ; basal segment sculp- 

 tured as metathorax and more strongly than the remainder, basally narrow 

 with distinct spiracles beyond the centre and thence sub-explanate to the 

 apex ; fifth to seventh apically narrowly red ; terebra about as long as the 

 basal segment, with the sheaths apically piceous. Legs red ; hind femora 

 apically, and the last tarsal joint, infuscate. Wings of 9 reaching nearly 

 to apex of thorax, of $ slightly IcMiger, darkish brown tliough lighter in 

 (?, with white fasciae extending from the first cubital to the hind margin ; 

 neuration complete ; stigma entire and basally while. Length, 2-4 mm. 



The form ionf;ipennis appears to difTer only in having a dot between the 

 first and second cubital nervures, where is the fascia in fulveolatus. Cat. 



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