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at plate viii., with details, look more like G. lilillator tluin tlie present 

 species, having the areolet very large and the notauli conspicuous. The 

 larva figured has a distinct, corniforni projection on either side of the head, 

 which is foveate between them ; the spiracles distinct and the lateral lobes 

 sub-obsolete ; it has thirteen segments, and the cocoon figured shows the 

 larva skin pushed to one end and the parasite's chrysalis irregularly occupy- 

 ing the remainder, the imagines having emerged through two lateral holes. 



This is a common IJritish species, and has several times been bred from 

 the above host, whence Iiignell raised eleven males and only one female, 

 and twelve males alone from B. trifolii ; it also [ireys upon B. ruin 

 (Buckler), Macroglossa ste/Iatari/i/i, Centra vinu/a, and Cimbcx lucorum, L. 

 (Marshall), Euchelia jacobaeae (Enlom. 1881, p. 139), Zygaena filipendiilae. 

 Psyche unicolor and P. viciella (Brischke) ; and in addition it is said to 

 have been bred from Lasiocampa pini, Dicranura bifida, D. erminea, 

 Plusia moneta. Psyche aira, Chalicodoma Juuraria, Hylotoma rosaruiii, 

 and Eristalis sepitlchralis (Entom. 1S83, p. 36). Hope sent the female to 

 Gravenhorst from Netley ; Stephens says it was abundant about London, 

 in June and July, as well as in Shropshire ; it has been found to be 

 common in Norfolk, at St. Issey in Cornwall, Land's End, (luestling and 

 Hastings, Essex ; and Bairstow took it in Grimescar Wood near Hudders- 

 field, and bred it from some Geometer. I possess both sexes taken by 

 Miss Chawner at Lyndhurst, and bred together by Routledge near Carlisle ; 

 and have swept the male, which Wilson Saunders took at Greenings, in 

 ^^'icken Fen, in June. 



The variety brevipennis is rarer than the type form. Luff has found it 

 in Guernsey, and I possess another taken by Bloomfield at Guestling, 

 in 1891. 



4. fumipennis, Grav. 



Cryptus futnipennis, Gr. I. E. ii. 601, excl. var. 2 ; Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1S65, 

 p. 103, i 9 . Var. C. migrator, var 9, Gr. I. E. ii. 598 ; C. fiiniipeimis, Tschek, Verb, 

 z. -b. Ges. 1870, p. 133, S. Spilocryptits fuiiiipeiiiiis. Thorns. O. E. v. 503 et xxi. 

 2366, (5 ? . 



Head black, cheeks buccate ; of c^ strongly and straightly narrowed 

 posteriorly, with palpi, a mandibular mark, clypeus, internal orJMts and 

 sometimes a bifid facial mark, white. Antennae of $ with scape beneath, 

 of 9 with central flagellar joints, white. Mesonotum nitidulous and not 

 very closely punctate ; peliolar area obsolete ; spiracles small and sub- 

 circular. Scutellum (excepting in var.) black. Abdomen black, with 

 second, third, apex of first and, at least in $ which is broadest at apex of 

 second segment, base of fourth, red ; seventh dorsally white ; post-petiole 

 of 9 sub-transverse, of $ elongate, only slightly explanate and convex, 

 glabrous with apical angles obtuse, its apex red with the extreme margin 

 white ; terebra rather shorter than abdomen. Legs black ; anterior with 

 femora, tibiae and tarsi red ; of c? with tibiae basally, and coxae and tro- 

 chanters beneath, white ; hind ones with femora, except at apices, red in 

 9, black with extreme base white in (^ , tibiae basally white-banded and, 

 in $ , marks beneath the trochanters, the calcaria and central tarsal joints 

 also white. Wings centrally a little clouded; radix and, in f^ , tegulae 

 white, latter in ^ black ; aref)kt parallel -sided ; nervellus intercepted 

 obviously below centre. Length, 9-10 mm. 



