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irregular hole a little to the side of one apex. I have frequently taken it 

 during May and June by sweeping at Winterton in Norfolk, Bentley 

 Woods, Brandon Staunch, Palmers Heatli, etc., in Suffolk. 



33. exareolata, Ratz. 



Caiiipoplcx cxiircohtfus, Ratz. Ichn. d. Forst. iii. 89, ? . Linincria cxcxrcoluta, 

 Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1858, p. 96; Brisch, Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1880, p. 172; 

 Bridg. -Fitch, Entora. 1885, p. 104, <? 9 . Angitia exareolata, Thorns. O.E. xi. 

 1163, <? ? . 



Head posteriorly little constricted, with palpi and mandibles flavidous. 

 Antennae longer than half body, with the scape of $ sometimes obso- 

 letely pale, of ^ stramineous with usually only lateral black lines and 

 flagellum rufescent below. Thorax gibbulous, hardly narrower than 

 head; areola subtransverse, with obsolete costulae. Abdomen subfusi- 

 form and sliglitly compressed apically; postpetiole very little longer than 

 broad and double breadth of petiole; second segment of 9 not, and of J 

 slightlv, longer than broad; terebra stout and a third tlie abdominal 

 length. Legs clear red, with coxae except the testaceous apices of the 

 anterior black; trochanters llavidous, with hind ones basally black ; hind 

 tibiae immaculate, their tarsi only apically infuscate; calcaria elongate, 

 hind claws pectinate to their centre. Stigma and tegulac both bright 

 flavous, former rarely infuscate; areolet wanting. Length, 5-7 mm. 



Very like A. Fitchi but at once known by the exserted terebra, more 

 nitidulous abdomen, fulvous anterior legs, etc. 



Common in northern and central pAirope; not infrecjut'nt throughout 

 Sweden in May, July and August ; France, Belgium, etc.; originally bred 

 in Germany on 19th July, 1850, from a pupa of Earias chlorana by 

 Brischke, who describes the cocoon as langlich rund, weiss and subse- 

 quently raised it from galls of the Cynipid Tiigoiiaspis mcf^apfcra ; (jaulle 

 also records it from Cacoccia rosaua. In Britain it has l)een bred from 

 Coccyx usfflmaculana (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 430) and Lithocolhtis uhni- 

 foliella (Entom. 18S4, p. 67). It is recorded from the Lands End district 

 (Marquand), Earlham near Norwich and bred from Eupit/uxia assimihi/a 

 ^.l^.d E. ptilchclla/a (Bridgman), and in south Devon I'ajussa cardtii (Big- 

 nell). I have specimens from I^otusfleming (Marshall), a full series from 

 Shere (Capron), Felden (Piffard); captured in Kew Gardens on 23rd 

 September, and bred in July from Gchchia Mouffetclla at Nctley Heath in 

 Surrey (Sich) ; and bred, with the Braconids Microi^ashr tibialis and Asco- 

 gaster nifipcs, from Aberdeenshire I'Atihromia Jlamnuana (Rev. C. I). Ash). 

 It is by no means common on the wing and I have only thrice captured 

 it in June and August at Barnby Broad, in Southwold and by beating 

 old oaks at Brandon, just before dusk. It is said (Proc. S. Lond. Ent. 

 Soc. 1896, p. 85) to have been raised in both sexes from larvae of CUo- 

 coris viminalis, Fab. 



34. reticulata, Br id a. 



Liinneria reticulata, Bridg. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 430, J ? . 



A form of both sexes of the last species was foimd by Bridgman to some- 

 times bear no punctures upon the mesoiiotum and mesopleurae, and this 

 was considered by him to constitute a new species untler the above nauae. 



