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[vo\\\ J/rlnriiiti pnii^ymuiiin'ti {VAifiwW), Lands J'"ir1 (.Maniuand). Further 

 hosts have been brought forward as Ptnlliiua gdi/iiiinvia (Kntom. iSSi, 

 p. 140), Spi/onofa itri:^li'(/aihj, Gchchia ohsoLii'Ua, G. hippophaciUa, Lavtnia 

 fulvcscens {I.e. 1883, j). 66), L. (pilobicl/a [I.e. 1884, p. 70), and Phvcis nim- 

 bella (Bridgman), with more or less accuracy. Probably iiiw of the above 

 hosts are correct, for I find I possess less than a score of the present 

 species: from Shore (Capron), Bugbrook in Northants (Marshall), (Juest- 

 ling in 1876 (Bloomfield); a male was bred from Cmphasia ( ? Sciaphila) 

 7'iri^niinm/iti during 1899 i" Somerset (Chapman) ; two females from larvae 

 oi 3liiiiacscop/vlits/nscus {p/erodac/vlus) in November, 1905 (Bacot); and a 

 pair from Torlrix palhana at Middleton Dale near Worksop on 25th July, 

 1905, by Ladv Robinson {jicc Alderson), who remarked that the larvae 

 leave the host before pupating ; the male cocoon of this pair is nearly 

 cylindrical, 7 mm. in length and i^mm. centrally broad, it is dull, semi- 

 transparent and extremely pale flavous, with a narrow and very definite 

 central whitish girdle ; one end shows brown exuviae and the imago, in 

 emerging, entirely removes the other in an irregular manner. The imago 

 has occurred to me only in Suffolk: at the end of July on Howers of 

 Spiraea in Bentley Woods, in early August by sweeping at Burgh Castle, 

 in the middle of fuly on Hcraelcum flowers at Henley and in the middle 

 of September at Wangford, near Southwold. Stanley Kemp bred a male 

 from Hyponomeiita cognatella at Notting Hill, London, in 1902. 



17. claripennis, TIiodih. 



Aiigifia claripennis. Thorns. Opusc. Ent. xi. 1161, ,i ? . 



A black species witli the femora entirely fulvous and tibiae testaceous; 

 the hind tibiae centrallv testaceous-stramineous and but slightly infuscate 

 at both extremities ; ^ scape somewhat pale beneath ; 9 terebra only 

 just extended beyond the anus. Length, 5-6J-mm. 



Thomson says it differs from A. nifipcs in having the apices (jf the 

 anterior coxae and whole of their trochanters citrinous, the wings hyaline 

 and the metathoracic sculpture less rugose. Prof. Sigismund I^rauns 

 named several examples of this species for me in 1898 and 1 entirely 

 concur in his determination, though the terebra is but slightly exserted 

 and not, as Thomson leaves one to suppose, nearlv half the abdominal 

 length. 



This is almost our unly species of the present genus which has not 

 already been recorded from Britain, and is one of those referred to as 

 new by me (E.]\L]\L 1899, p. 209). Hitherto it has only been known 

 from Bastad in Sweden, ]k>lgium in July and August, and France. It is, 

 however, not very unconmion with us, especially in marshy places on the 

 tables of ^;/^(7/(r(?, where I took a series about Lowestoft, at Holbon 

 Marsh, Barnby Broad and Henstead Marsh in August, 1898, and again 

 in 1900 and 1906; elsewhere it has turned up singly at Barton Mills, 

 Icklingham and lirandon in west Suffolk; and Tuck has found it at 

 Aldeburgh. It is doubtless widely distributed for Butler has given me 

 examples from Dorking in Surrey and Elliott from North Berwick, taken 

 in July, 1908. 



