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broad as petiole; terebra a fourth of the abdominal length, nearly as long 

 as petiole. Legs slender and pale fulvous, with coxae and most of hind 

 trochanters black; hind femora basally nigrescent above; tibiae apically 

 and before their base nigrescent, hind ones centrally white. Areolet 

 irregular and petiolate, minute or apically obsolete. Length, hardly 

 3 mm. 



This species differs from all our others of the genus in its small size of 

 not more than three millimetres, in the whole hind trochantercUi and 

 centre of tibiae being white ; in the somewhat broad and not or hardly 

 constricted vertex, the antennae nearly as long as the body with flagellum 

 filiform, pilose and very slender, in the short terebra and by no means 

 elongate second segment. In all these characters it agrees with Diodes, 

 though distinct in its oblique and always more or less complete areolet, 

 the stout and red hind femora, and in having all the trochanters and the 

 anterior coxae whitish. 



Gravenhorst knew a single female from Sickershausen ; it has also been 

 found in Belgium, Sweden and France. As British it was included in 

 Desvignes 1856 Catalogue, but seems to have been rarely met with, for 

 none of our local lists contain it, and the only two records I can find are 

 its emergence from Laverna conturhatella and Z. epilobiella (Entom. 1881, 

 p. 140), and L. fidvescens {lib. cit. 1883, p. 66), both of which certainly 

 refer to Brischke's species, and this, I am nearly sure, is referable to Pcc- 

 tinella latutigula, with no connection to Gravenhorst's insect. Conse- 

 quently, I am glad to be able to confirm A. nana as British on the strength 

 of half-a-dozen examples in my collection, taken at Greenings in Surrey 

 by Wilson Saunders in June, 1871, at Yelverton in Devon by Bignell on 

 1 8th July, and in Beaufort Park near Hastings by myself on i8th July, 

 1909; on 1 8th May, 1900, Prout bred a pair from British Fumea intermc- 

 dii'l/a, and on 22nd June, 1899, Chapman sent me a male reared from 

 Continental Psrche opaa/la. 



8. Elishae, Bridg. 



LiiiDicria Elishae, Bridg. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 426, (^ ? . Aiigitici Elishae, 

 Thorns. O.E. xi. 1165. Diodes Elishae, Schm. Opusc. Ich. 1645, J ? . 



A small black species with the black hind legs dull white-marked, 

 areolet wanting and terebra but slightly longer than postpetiole. Head 

 very little constricted posteriorly, with face parallel-sided ; mandibles 

 flavidous. Antennae nearly as long as body. Metathorax elongate, with 

 areola pentagonal and longer than broad ; costulae obsolete or wanting. 

 Abdomen immaculate black with terebra very short, though exserted; 

 petiole unusually short, pt)spetiole longer than broad and laterally rounded; 

 second segment hardly a third longer than broad, and the third sub- 

 quadrate. Legs fulvous with coxae, and intermediate or anterior femora 

 mainly, black; their trochanters pale; hind legs piceous or black with 

 trochanters, centre of tibiae and the tarsal base, whitish ; calcaria short. 

 Stigma infuscate, areolet wanting. Length, 2^-4^ mm. 



This and the next four species are known from all other Angiliae by 

 their entirely lacking areolet and black hind femora ; and they share with 

 A. nana alone, in Britain: — vertex not or hardly constricted, antennae 

 nearly as long as body with llagellum very slender, filiform and pilose, the 



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