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fulvous ; hind tibiae broadly dull rrd in their centre, and subintuinescent 

 internally before their base ; claws not lonj^^er than pulvilli. Wings hya- 

 line with the stigma and tegulae black, the former often internally rufes- 

 cent ; arcolet distinctly petiolate. not broader than long, emitting the 

 broadlv fenestrate recurrent nervure from its centre ; external angle of 

 discoidal cell subacute below; ncrvellus intercepted at its lower third. 

 Length, 10-12 mm. 



This species is to be recognised by its more finely punctate and later- 

 ally half-margined scutellum, by the entirely or mainly red fifth segment, 

 bv the apicallv slightly impressed frons, the vaguely and sometimes hardly 

 impressed metathorax and dull mesopleurae. Besides this there is tlie 

 beautiful character of the juxtascrobal tubercle, which aT)pears, however, 

 to aj)pertain to the female only, for both Thomson and I have failed to 

 ascertain the true male of this species, though doubtless its characters are 

 comprised in the above description of authors, amplified from my own 

 females. 



Since writing the above I have seen a male, captured in Suflfolk at the 

 end of April by Col. Nurse, which certainly does bear juxtascrobal 

 tubercles, though they are much smaller and less conspicuous than those 

 of the female. 



Very little that is reliable can be recorded concerning this species, and 

 the extent of its distribution is hardly known. Ray and Berkenhout, 

 Fabricius and Gravenhorst all reccjrd it from Britain ; but it is certainly 

 far less prevalent both here and abroad than was formerly thought. 

 Acomb Wood in 1881 (Wilson, Trans. Yorks. Nat. Union, 1882, p. 105), 

 common at Glanvilles Wootton (Dale), Isle of Man (Walk. Entom. 1872, 

 p. 432). "It is impossible to say what has not been included under 

 C.pugillafor" as Fitch remarks (Entom. 1885, p. 18), but as a matter of 

 scientific fact this species as now restricted is by no means common with 

 us ; I have a few females found by Marshall at Nantes in France, by 

 Bloomfield at Guestling 1876, by Dalglish at Loss near Glasgow early in 

 June, iQoo, and a female by Bouskell at Glenbeigh in Co. Kerry during 

 June, 1902; but the majority are from the New Forest where Miss 

 Chawner and Mr. Adams find it not rarely in June and July about Lynd- 

 hurst; I swept one in Knight \\'ood there in the middle of June, 1907, and 

 W. Ellis has also given it me from the Forest. Tuck took a single male 

 of but 9 mm. at Tostock in Sufiblk. 



C. pugillator \?> reputed to have been raised from the following hosts, 

 none of which I believe to be at all reliable. Cirrhoidai ambustn and 

 Phalcra Imapha/oides by Mocsary; Apoiia cralaegi by Reissig (Ratz. Ichn. 

 d. Forst. i. 98 et iii. 88); Zvgaciia ? filipindulae by De Geer, larvae of 

 Z. rhadamanlhiis, as well as Selidvsana lacniolaria and Hollas qtunana, by 

 Giraud (Ann. Soc. Fr. 1877, p. 404) ; from Odoutopcra bidtiilala, Antklca 

 rubidala, Nolodotita dic/aeoides, Hccatera dysodca and CucuUia sp. b)' 

 Brischke (Schr. Nat, Danz. 1880, p. 139; i89i,p. 65; 1892, p. 44); from 

 G7iophos ohsciiraia, C/uimaioliia hniiuala, Hcliothis margiinifa and H.dipsiuca, 

 and Halias qtiijcana by Drewson and Boie (Wiegm. Arch. 1839, p. 40, ^/ 

 Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1855, p. 104); from Gouophonx derasa by Kothlieb, and 

 from Phihaloccra qiiercana by (iravenhorst. In Britain it is recorded by 

 Bignell from Amphydasis hiiiilaria, and on 6th April from TiJeniocampa 

 popid'li (Entom. 1883, p. 05), Corycia Inncrala, Cymatophora n'dttts, 

 Etipilhccia abbnviaUi on 4th May and A', absynthiata on i ith July (I.e. 1885, 

 p. 19); Fitch has confirmed Linnivus' breeding of it from Xotodonta ziczac 



