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23. cerophaga, Grav. 



Campopiex cerophagus, Gr I.E. iii 470. ^ ? , excl. var.; cf. Goureau, Ann. 

 Soc. Fr. 1868, Bull. p. xvi. Linincria iiiajalis. Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1858, 

 p. 60, ? . L. cerophaga, Bridg. -Fitch, Entom. 1885, p. 106. Aiigitia cerophaga, 

 Thorns. O.E. xi. 1158, S ? . 



A black species with the palpi and centre of mandibles flavidoiis. An- 

 tennae entirely black, with scape immaculate. Metathorax basal ly dull, 

 with costulae wanting. Abdomen immaculate black, with terebra not 

 quite half its length. Anterior legs testaceous with coxae mainly black, 

 and trochanters stramineous ; hind coxae and trochanters black, with 

 apices of latter tlavous ; hind femora nifescent, their tibiae whitish with 

 apices and marks before base nigrescent; tarsi piceous, basally pale. 

 Stigma piceous flavous and tegulae stramineous ; apical radial abscissa 

 distinctly longer than basal ; lower angle of discoidal cell apically acute ; 

 areolet not regularly triangular, emitting recurrent nervure but shortly 

 before its apex. Length, 5 mm. 



This species is very similar to A. ftntslralis, but the face is si:)mewhat 

 narrower, the metathorax is not basally nitidulous, the costulae are want- 

 ing, the cheeks and terebra are shorter, and the scape is black. From 

 the last three species it differs in having the areolet irregular and emitting 

 the recurrent far bevond its centre, the outer radial abscissa obviously the 

 longer, and the discoidal cell acute below ; in all these characters and 

 the very pale, black-banded hind tibiae it agrees with the four next 

 species, though distinct from them all in the slender, subfiliform flagel- 

 lum and from most of them in the excised seventh 9 segment. 



It was thought bv Thomson to be a prevalent species; it is found on 

 flowers in the middle of July in Germany, during July and August in 

 Belgium, in July in Holland and, in France, Gaulle says it is known to 

 attack Lanntia bilinaila, one of our commonest British moths. It was 

 also reared by Giraud in 1877 from Eupithtcia oxcvtdrala, probably in 

 Austria; though Goureau's record from the Tenthredinid host Emphylus 

 mtlanopygus {lib. cil.) doubtless refers to some species of Holocrcmna. 

 Bridgman entirely failed to find this species in Norfolk and I have had 

 the same experience in Suffolk, and possess but few specimens. These 

 were captured in Denny Wood in the New Forest in June, in Marvell 

 Copse near Newport in the Isle of Wight and at Louth in Lines, about 

 the same time ; at Carlisle (Tomlin), Lvndhurst (Adams), Cornworthy 

 (Marshall), Greenings in May (Saunders), and Devonport (de la Garde). 

 Bignell also twice found it in Devon at Bickleigh in June and Crabtree 

 in early September. It has been recorded as bred from Gracillaria stigma- 

 tdla (Entom. 1881, p. i+o); Bankes has given me a male bred in s(Uith 

 Dorset on 6th July, 1898, from Epischnni Banksiilla, Rdsm. and a couple 

 of females in the Isle of Purbeck on 5th Julv, i8q6, from Dtprtssaria 

 atomella, Hb. It is doubtless recorded in error (Proc. S. Lond. Ent. Soc. 

 1896, p. 81) from Laverna epilobiella, Schr. 



24. cylindrica, Briscli. 



Litnncria cylindrica, Brisch. Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. ISSO, p. 159, if; cf. 

 Bridg. -Fitch, Entom. 1885, p. 106. Angitia tcnuipcs. Thorns. O.E. xi. 1158. ? . 



A slender dull black species, ,with the head hardly constricted pos- 

 teriorly ; palpi and manibles flavous. Anteiuiae about half length oi 



