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This and the two following species differ from the remainder uf the 

 genus in having the vertex less constricted posteriorly, the lower margin 

 of the mandibles basally reflexed, the antennae stout and short, not or 

 hardly extending beyond the thorax, with the scape entirely black ; the 

 areolet small and petiolate, the ventral plica nigrescent or dark red and 

 the femora entirely clear red. 



I should have suspected this species to have been erroneously given as 

 British by our older authors were it not that Bignell says of it (Trans. 

 Devon. Assoc. 1898, p. 492) "Captured at Bickleigh, 20 August." On 

 the Continent it is everywhere rare ; Gravenhorst knew it from Silesia 

 and Hanover, but it is doubtful if the species recorded thence by Ratze- 

 burg (Ichn. d. Forst. i. 98) under this name from Bomhyx Afonacha be 

 synonymous ; it was found by Boheman very rarely in Sweden and by 

 Thomson, who records it from Switzerland, on Oland Isle ; and Gaulle 

 gives it as French. 



3. notata, Grav. 



Cmiipoplcx notaftis, Gr. I.E. iii. 570, cT ?, excl. var. 1. Liiiincrid notata, 

 Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1858, p. 78; Brisch. Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1880, p. 164; 

 Bridg. -Fitch, Entom. 1885, p. 206-7 ; Kreich. Progr. Gymn. Pola, 1894, p. 19. 

 Anilasta notata. Thorns. O.E. xi. 1169, i ? . 



]>lack witli the abdomen broadly dark red in the centre, the femora 

 and tibiae red, and the hind tibiae centrally but little paler and usually 

 subinfuscate at apex and before base ; terebra not longer than half basal 

 segment; stigma pale and fenestra large. Length, 6-7 mm. 



Like the last species in its black mouth with only palpi pale, the uhite 

 tegulae, subcompressed cheeks and slightly elevated genal costa, but 

 distinct in the red hind tibiae of both sexes and distinctly shorter terebra. 



Austria, Italy, Germany and France, Belgium in July and not common in 

 Sweden at the end of the same month, where Holmgren once took a pair 

 in cop.; Brischke says he bred it from a Prussian Nocluid j)upa, and (jiraud 

 (Ann. Soc. Fr. 1877, p. 404) raised it from CucuUia 7'crbasci and Eriopus 

 pieridis. With us, the form with immaculate red tibiae was found by 

 Hope about Netley in Shropshire ; it is given, with a query respecting the 

 identity, from the Isle of Man (Fntom. 1872, p. 432) ; Bridgman found it 

 at Harford Bridges, Norwich, in July, and Bignell says he bred it from 

 Gnophos obscurata in Devon on 9th June. I am not quite satisfied with 

 the last record, unless forced, for it has rarely occurred before the end of 

 that month, when I twice met with it in 1907 at Ventnor and at 450 feet 

 on Arreton Down in the Isle of Wight, as well as at Rockland Broad in 

 Norfolk; in both July and August, Adams has captured the female in 

 Lyndhurst ; in August I have swej)t it in JMatley Bog and Lyndhurst, and 

 at Dodington in Kent, while towards its close Butler took it at Abinger 

 Hammer in Surrey, where Capron secured a full series. Were it not for 

 Bridgman's record above, and a female from Tuddenham Fen, I should 

 ccjnsidcr it confined to south of the Thames, and a female, labelled " Ips- 

 wich, 1894," to be wrongly localised. At Ashford in Kent ."\lr. H. Wood 

 bred a female li)perparasilically, through a Tachinid fiy, from Lycania 

 (i;^(siis during July, 1908 ; it sjjun no cocoon at all of its own, but emerged 

 through an irn-gular hole near one extremity of the dipleron's puijarium. 

 I also ha\e a female bred by Barrett from Anarta vijriilli. 



