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30. curvicauda, Holnigr. 



Linincria curvicauda, Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1858, p. 74 ; Brisch. Schr. Nat. 

 Ges. Danz. 1880, p. 164, <r ? ; c/. l-c. 1892, p. 45. Angitia curvicauda, Thorns. 

 O.E. xi. 11(S6, s ? . 



Black with the mouth pale, and scape pale-marked beneath. Meta- 

 thoracic costiilae somewhat distinct and areola apically incomplete. 

 Abdomen with second segment of 9 not, and of S hardly, longer than 

 broad ; terebra almost shorter than basal segment. Femora dull red, 

 gradually becoming more broadly black basally beneath ; anterior tro- 

 chanterelli citrinous ; tibiae dull testaceous with the hind ones subbasally 

 and more broadly apically black. Length, nearly 5 mm. 



It is said to differ from A. I'estigialis in its small mandibles and peris- 

 tomium, in the stouter conformation of both sexes, in the areola extend- 

 ing further towards the metathoracic base, in the distinctly black-marked 

 femora and hind tibiae, in the shorter, stouter and less strongly curled 

 terebra and not at all exserted S valvulae. 



It is rarer in Lapland than A. vcstigialis and Forster found it in Switzer- 

 land ; it is also recorded by Gaulle from France ; but our claims to it 

 appear to rest solely upon Kignell's Devon record that he bred it on nth 

 October from the pupa of A\iua Ins gall icola (Trans. Devon. Assoc. 1898, 

 p. 49 2). I have not seen it and suspect this record to apply to the last 

 species. Brischke says " Gehort wohl zu C. vcstigialis, Rtzbg. Cocon 

 eiliptish, diinnhautig, gliinzend, hellbraun mit hcllerer Mittelzone." 



31. rufata, Bridg. 



Limncria rufata, Bridg. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 429; Bridg. -Fitch, Entom. 

 1885, p. 206, rf ? . Angitia rufata. Thorns. O.E. xi. 1887, p. 1165, i ? . 



Black with the vertex narrow, especially behind the eyes, and palpi and 

 mandibles pale flavous. Metanotum with all its areae and costulae dis- 

 tinct and entire ; areola pentagonal and hardly longer than broad, apic- 

 ally subincomplete. Abdomen with apical margin of the not transverse 

 second segment, whole of third and the fourth to beyond its centre, clear 

 red ; pospetiole subparallel-sided, hardly a third longer than broad and 

 much shorter than the subbasally a little cxplanate petiole ; second seg- 

 ment very little longer than broad ; terebra about a third of the abdominal 

 length. Legs with the somewhat slender femora and not slender tibiae 

 red ; all the trochanters stramineous, with hind ones basally black on their 

 inner side ; the anterior coxae apically and extreme base of hind tibiae 

 flavous, the latter and their tarsal joints sometimes slightly infuscate 

 apically. Areolet usually petiolate with the outer nervure subpellucid 

 below, though never wanting, emitting recurrent nervure beyond its 

 centre. Length, 4-5 mm. 



The type, which I have examined at Norwich, agrees with A.vcsligia/is 

 in having the thorax somewhat slender, the second segment hardly 

 longer than broad with the seventh not excised, the hind tibiae not cen- 

 trally whitish, terebra longer than basal segment and the areolet oblique ; 

 but it differs in the mandibles and i)eristomium being distinctly small, the 

 abdomen centrally broadly red and the terebra not rcflcxed. Bridgman 

 thought it allied to Linincrium cogiialum, J>risch. (Schr. Nat. (ies. Danz. 



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