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BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 



[ Campoplex 



trochanters partly flavous ; intermediate femora of $ only i)artly black 

 beneath. Wings flavescent with the tegulat^ and stigma rufescent. 

 Length, 15-20 mm. 



At once known by the strongly but not closely punctate mesopleurae 

 which bear a tew distinct curved striae before the speculum, the third 

 segment with no lateral black line, the hind tibiae unicolorous flavous 

 throughout, palpi nigrescent and tarsal claws distinctly pectinate to their 

 apices. 



Sweden (Fab.), where it is not unfrequent in shady woods (Holmgr.) ; 

 Holland (Burgst) ; common in Belgium (Tosq.), and France ((jaulle), 

 and throughout north and central Europe (Thoms.). It has been bred 

 abroad from PJialcra biiccphaloides and Simyra nervosa by Mocsary, from 



CucuUia argenka and C. sp., by Brischke ; and at home from Pygaera 

 hiicephala by Bridg. and Norgate (Entom. 1881, p. 140), Notodonia ziczac 

 on 24th April in Devon by Bignell and by De Geer, Biston hiiiarhi, 

 Ainphydasis prodromaria, and on 4th August from P. huaphala (I.e. 1H1S3, 

 p. 65), from Noiodonta anne/lifia (I.e. 1884, p. 67) and by Desvignes from 

 Ariarta myrtilli. Lastingham in Yorks (Marshall), Lands End (Marquand), 

 Norfolk (Bridg.), common at Glanvilles Wootton in Dorset (Dale), 

 Gamlingay in Cambs (Vict. Hist.). I possess a long series of this species, 

 which is by no means uncommon with us ; the majority are from the 

 collection of the late J. A. Clarke, who bred it from Folkestone pupae of 

 Eurymctie dolohmria on 17th Aug., 1907; Hugh Main bred several from 

 Pygaera bucephala at Woodford in Essex during July, 19 10, and some 



