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that he strongly suspects this species to be synonymous with the following, 



but the points indicated below will at once serve to distinguish between 

 them. 



Mr. J. E. Fletcher, and Mr. Bignell, in Devon, bred this species from 

 Eupithecia pulchellata, Ste. The above would appear to be the only 

 continental record. 



13. eupitheciae, Brisch. 



Ichneumon eupitheciae, Brisch. Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1878, no. 6, p. 45, i 9. 

 Phaeogenes eupitheciae. Berth. Ann. Soc. Fr. 1896, p 380 ; cf. Bui. Soc. Fr. 1899, 

 p. 136. 



Very closely allied to the last-described species. Head transverse, 

 black ; mandibles, frontal orbits and vertical lunulae white ; c^ has the 

 mouth, clypeus and facial orbits also white ; clypeus apically broadly 

 rounded, and the face protuberant. Antennae black, scape of $ white 

 beneath. Thorax black, lines at radix white; spiracles nearly circular; 

 areola transverse. Scutellum and post-scutellum white. Abdomen black ; 

 segments two to four or five and apical margin of the following, red ; post- 

 petiole longitudinally sculptured; gastrocaeli transverse, nearly convergent 

 centrally, not deep. Legs red ; coxae black, the front ones white-marked 

 in $. Wings hyaline; stigma piceous ; areolet pentagonal. Length, 

 6|-7 mm. 



This species may at once be known from B.puIcheUatus by the structure 

 of the metathoracic spiracles, which are only just longer than broad ; they 

 are, however, much larger and face upwards, not backwards as in the 

 genus Phaeogenes ; its contour and conformation, moreover, proclaim it a 

 true Oxypygini, to which Berthoumieu (Bui. Soc. Fr.) subsequently wished 

 to reclaim it. In other particulars it differs from the last species in the 

 broadly rounded clypeus, slightly transverse scutellum, in the space be- 

 tween the gastrocaeli being narrower than centre of post-petiole, the 

 iminaculate prothorax and intermediate coxae, and in the anterior legs not 

 being marked with flavous. 



I have only seen one British specimen, which differed slightly from the 

 above S in having the face entirely flavous, and the first segment, except 

 its base, red. The sternauli are distinct ; the post-petiole has two or three 

 central longitudinal striae, which can hardly be termed aciculation, and it 

 is certainly not centrally rugulose. Berthoumieu is in error in recording 

 it hence, since it has hitherto been here unknown. This male was bred 

 from the pupa of Eupithecia helveticata, Boisd., in the Pentland Hills, in 

 September, 1897, by Mr. W. Evans ; the parasite in emerging had entirely 

 removed the capital extremity of the chrysalis, which itself measures but 

 7 mm., in a jagged, irregular manner. Brischke bred it from pupae of 

 what he calls E. digitaliata ( — 1 pulchellata), in Prussia. 



14. albicinctus, G^-av. 



Ichneumon albicinctus, Gr. I. E. i. 509 ; Ste. 111. M. vii. 193 ; Wesni. Nouv. Mem. 

 Ac. Brux. 1844, p. loi ; Ratz. Ichn. d. Forsl. iii. 171; Ruthe, Stelt. Zeit. 1859, p. 362; 

 Holmgr. Ichn. Suec. i. 203 ; Thorns. Ann. Soc. Fr. iSSS, p. in ; Berth. ///'. cit. 1895, 

 p. 562, (5 9. /. /a«/«^, Tisch. Stelt. Zeit. 1863, i. Barichncumon a/l>icinctus, Thorns. 

 O. E. xviii. 1 96 1, (J 9 . 



A small red and black species, with white tibial band. Head black, 



