228 BRITISH ICHNFA'MONS. [Schiznloma 



in Elgin, Sept., 1892 (Chitty) and Valentia Island, oft' Ireland, in August, 

 I go I (E.M.Al. 1902, p. 55). But, though not hitherto bred thence, 

 Aplecta nchulosa appears to be its principal host and Delamere Forest in 

 Cheshire its headquarters with us, since all the following came thence 

 from that Noctuid: — I bred five examples towards the end of June and 

 at the beginning of July, 1909, each from a pupa taken by Mainsbridge 

 and received the preceding May; South kindly sent me a male on 27th 

 June, 1903, which had but just emerged; on 13th to iSth of the same 

 month Bankes bred several ; and in 1907 Hugh Main sent a beautiful 

 pair from these pupae, whose larvae were taken there on the ist of the 

 preceding April, with the remark that the "parasites emerge at the same 

 time as their hosts, always from the pupae." 



2. capitata, Desv. 



Anomalon capitatum, Desv. Cat. 104, g. A. ainictimi , Voll. Pinac. pi. iii, 

 figg. 5 — 5c, ? (ncc Fab.). Exochihivi capifafiiiii, Bridg. Trans. Ent. Soc. ISSt^, 

 p. 344, (? . Schizoloiiia bitccphahnu , Brauns, Arch. Nat. Meckl. 1898, p. 71, i . 

 S. capitatitiii , Schm. Opusc. Ichn. p. 1463, <? . 



At once known from the preceding, which the 9 so strongly resembles 

 as not to have been hitherto recognised, by the less acuminate front 

 wings with shorter and broader radial cell, submarginal nervure but half 

 length of space between second recurrent and disco-cubital nervure, 

 which latter is thence somewhat distinctly curved to its fenestra ; also 

 recognised by the metanotal carinae, which are not longitudinal but 

 radiate obliquely from the obsolete areola on either side; the ^ is very 

 distinct in its enormously buccate temples, much broader than eyes. 

 Length, ^ 21-23 mm. (Desv.) ; 9 25 mm. 



Bridgman was led into error regarding its genus by W, F. Kirby who, 

 on examining the types, still in Mus. Brit., erroneously told him there 

 was no frontal horn, and overlooked the clypeal reflection which is 

 strong. 



Desvignes' types are said by him to have come from Yorkshire ; and 

 we have no subsequent records. Brauns redescribed the male from Ger- 

 many in 1898 and Schmiedeknecht says all the males of this genus he 

 has taken in Thuringia belong here, adding that it has been reared from 

 Smerinihiis poptiU. "I have seen no English examples but the types in 

 Mus. Brit, and possess but a single pair, of which the new female was 

 taken at Cors-y-Gedol near Barmouth in Merioneth by W'illoughby Ellis 

 and the male in (juernsey during 1908 by W. A. Luft'. 



EXOCHILUM, Wesmad. 

 Wesm. Bui. Ac. Brux. 1849, p. 1109. 



Head closely punctate; labrum prominent, clypeus apically very broadly 

 rounded and not at all refiexed ; upper mandibular tooth the longer; 

 frontal horn obsolete. Antennae di.stinctly shorter than body and not 

 very slender. Mesonotum closely punctate. Terebra slightly longer 

 than breadth of anus. Hind calcaria slightly longer than their apical 

 tibial breadth, and their metatarsi about double length of second joint 

 which with the third are, in $ , somewhat explanate. 



