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cocoon with a rough central grey girdle, attached to a leaf by a cord 

 composed of several whitish strands, 7 mm. in length ; a similar cocoon, 

 though smaller, was swept in the Bentley Woods near Ipswich on 21st 

 June, 1901, but failed to emerge, in spite of a fully developed and soft, 

 dead male, which 1 took from it during the following December. The 

 only wild captures 1 have met with are Bridgman's in iH()4 from Brundall 

 near Norwich, a female 1 swept at Ranworth Broad on 15th June, igoi, 

 and another at Barton Mills on 12th June, 1900. In 1903 Hamm sent 

 me a couple of Pimplac, with the note that they had certainly emerged 

 from the accompanying cocoons of the present species at Basingstoke. 

 Elliott swept a cocoon in a wood on nth June, 1912, ni'ar Market Rasen 

 in Lines.; this I kept under observation in my study all the summer; and 

 the imago did not emerge till early the following April, confirming 

 Bignell's remarks. 



ECPHOROPSIS, Ashmcad. 



Ashm. Canad. Entom. 1900, p. 368 ; Ecphora. Thorns. O.E. 1887, 1124 {nee 

 Conr. 1843). 



Head hardly constricted behind the internally entire eyes; apex of 

 clypeus smooth and centrally slightly produced, its base not discreted ; 

 mandibles somewhat large, with acute teeth ; cheeks little buccate, with 

 their costa subinflexed. Antennae with the scape nearly always black 

 and flagellar joints discreted. Thorax not strongly convex; metathoracic 

 areae nearly all complete. Abdomen subfusiform, with the central seg- 

 ments rufescent-margined; petiole deplanate, with small lateral sulci; 

 postpetiole hardly more than half the length of petiole, basally well dis- 

 creted with subprominent spiracles and no lateral scrobes but a linear 

 postspiracular impression; terebra exserted, one-third length of abdomen. 

 Legs somewhat slender with the calcaria more or less inequal and not 

 elongate; tarsal claws elongate and submutic. Wings with tcgulae white; 

 areolet small and petiolate, emitting the vertical recurrent nervure before 

 its centre; radial cell s(jmewhat broad and not elongate, with apical 

 abscissa apically straight and hardly longer than the basal; nervellus 

 oblique and subgeniculale. 



The species are soniewhat stout and not strongly compressed insects 

 with the abdomen subnitidulous and centrally red-fasciated, a little allied 

 to Sagaritis in having the clypeus slightly produced though by no means 

 dentate, and the recurrent emitted before centre of areolet. Parfitt's 

 species has not before been placed but, according to his own account, it 

 should belong to the present genus. 



Table of Species. 



Larger and stouter; hind tibiae 



broadly tiavidous .. .. 1. VlEWKXsis, Grav. 



Smalk-r and slenderer; liiiid tibiae 



rutoscent or whitish. 



Scape entirely black; liind tibiae 



dull rufeseent .2. ku.scipe.s, Holmgr. 

 Scape tlavous beneath; hind tibiae 



centrally white . 3. AFKlNl.s, Par/. 



