188 BRITISH 1CHN!:L'M()NS. (,/;/-///« 



Apparently little known on the Continent; Gravenhorst had but a 

 sini^de Silesian female; Giraud records it (Ann. Soc. Fr. 1H77, p. 403) as 

 bred from both jSIamcstra ohmcca di\\(\ Ncmalus Vallisniiri ( Ponlania proxi- 

 mo) in France; and it has been observed in Sweden and Thuringia. With 

 us it is distinctly uncommon ; Bridgman says Atmore has bred it at Kings 

 Lynn in Norfolk from Dcpnssaiia assimihlla and it was contained in 

 Desvighes' collection in 1856. I have males captured in the Bentley 

 W(jods in the middle of July and at Stoke by Clare in Suffolk in the 

 middle of June; others were bred by Chapman on 6th Way, 1901, from 

 J/irsia viiiculfHa at Pegli, and by G. W. Mason on 7th August, 1904, 

 from Plntilla pomctcJlo at Barton on H umber; Capron took a female at 

 Shere and I beat another from birch bushes on 17th ^lay, iqoi, at Assing- 

 ton Thicks in Suffolk. 



16. rufipes, Grav. 



Canipoph'x (liffornu's, Gr. I.E. iii. 458 (part.). C. rufipes, Gr. lib. cit. 461, $ , 

 cxcl. var. C. fiiinipciniis, Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1854, p. 12, (J ? . Porizon 

 crucator, Zett. I.L 394; Liiuncria cnicnfor, Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 185S, 

 p. 58; Bri.sch. Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1880, p. 149; Bridg. -Fitch, Entom. 1885, 

 p. 106, <? ? . L. nifiipcs, Bridg. -F'itch, I.e. p. 107; Aiigitia nifipcs, Thorns. O.E. 

 xi. 1161, (J ? . 



A dull black species, with the head very little constricted posteriorly; 

 palpi and centre of mandibles flavidous. Antennae somewhat longer 

 than head and thorax, with the scape not pale beneath. Thorax stout, 

 with mesopleurae subnitidulous ; metatliorax apicallv rugosely punctate ; 

 areola transverse, with costulae fine but distinct. Abdomen compressed; 

 ba.sal segment as long as hind coxae and trochanters, with postpetiole 

 convex and laterally not rounded ; second segment longer than broad, 

 with its apical margin not unusually rufescent ; ventral plica infuscate ; 

 sixth segment of 9 emarginate ; terebra fully half length of abdomen. 

 Legs red with coxae, base of trochanters and the hind trochanterelli 

 black; hind tibiae not or hardly infuscate-marked ; calcaria whitish, 

 their tarsi apically infuscate. Wings often somewhat distinctly infumate, 

 with stigma flavescent ; radial nervure basally curved near the stigma ; 

 areolet oblique, emitting recurrent nervure beyond its centre. Length, 

 6-7 mm. 



This is the typical species of a small group having : — The vertex not 

 or but little constricted ; the scape nearly always black ; abdomen black 

 and double length of terebra, with the seventh $ segment usually ex- 

 cised ; areolet oblique, emitting recurrent beyond its centre ; with a 

 medium length of 5-6 mm. From the rest of this group, the present 

 species is known by its nitidulous mesopleurae, apically rugosely punctate 

 metathorax, with transverse areola and distinct costulae, its black scape 

 and hind trochanterellus. It has much the facies of Omorga. 



Common, probably throughout the palaearctic region ; it is recorded 

 from Silesia in August, bred in Prussia by Brischke from Nothris I'crbasci'lla 

 and lar\ae of C/adins alblpcs (padi) ; France, Belgium in May and June, 

 Holland in April, I>apland and not infrequent throughout Sweden. 

 Rondani is said to also ha\e raised it from Tortrix lacvigana, Hlib. and 

 Culcop1ii>ra vibicicUa ; Gaulle adds Cacoccia and Conch yl is as host-genera. 

 Li Britain it has been instanced from Brundall near Norwich (Bridgman), 

 bred in Devon on 21st April from Eupilhccia casligata and on 30th June 



