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than the space between the discdidal and second recurrent nervures, in 

 the trans-strigose and centrally excavate metathorax, black scutelhiin and 

 more broadly black hind femora. Leni^th, 9 20-22 (J iS) mm. 



It was described from a couple of males from Breslau and a couple of 

 females from a sunny place in Silesia; Szepligeti has recently redis- 

 covered it in Hungary. My females agree exactl\' with the former's 

 description and certainly belong to the present genus ; one has the basal 

 two-thirds of the hind tibiae clear fiavous with disc of basal segment 

 partly black, as he alternately describes them. 



My two indigenous females were both bred : out- on the 20th July, 

 iqoo, from an unspecified Noctuid pupa at Lincoln by Mr.]. F. Musham 

 and the second from an Arronyr/a mi-ncac, G., chrysalis, of which it has 

 in emerging bitten off the whole capital extremitv in a rough manner, by 

 Mr. H. f. Charbonnier in April, 1890, at Bristol. Giraud tells us (Ann. 

 Soc. Fr." 1877, p. +05) that Ferris raised this parasite from CucuUia scro- 

 phitlariae in Corsica. 



HETEROPELMA, Wc^mad. 



Wesm. Bui. Ac. Brux. 1840, p. 120. 



Head slightlv constricted posteriorly, closely punctate and rather 

 densely pilose. Antennae shorter than body, pale with their base black. 

 I'horax closely punctate and somewhat densely pubescent; notauli dis- 

 tinct and discally strong; speculum shining and finely punctata ; meta- 

 thorax reticulate-rugose, with no areae, its produced apex discally ex- 

 cavate. Scutellum' deplanate, with its centre longitudinally excavate. 

 Basal segment basally rellexed, and extreme apex subexplanate ; terebra 

 as long as breadth of anus; with spicula compressed before its apex. 

 Legs slender, with the hind ones elongate and in $ their two basal tarsal 

 joints spatuliform ; hind metatarsi of both sexes at least thrice longer 

 than second joint, and the penultimate suborbicular ; claws geniculate 

 and not pectinate. \\'ings with first recurrent nervure emitted from 

 median at centre of disco-cubital (H^II; second recurrent i-mitted beyond 

 submarginal ; lower basal distincllv postfurcal ; nrrxrllus postlurcal and 

 nitercepted at its upper third. 



At once known by the position of the first recurrent nervure and elon- 

 gate metatarsi ; very {(^\\ species are known and the following alone 

 occurs in Europe. 



1. calcator, ll't'.s/;/. 



Anomalon xanthopus, Gr. I.E. iii. fiV2, excl. d (iicc Schr.). Hctcrot>clina 

 calcator, Wesm. Bui. Ac. Brux. 1S49, p. 120; Kirchner, Lotos, KS5(S, p. 'IM, pi. xi. ; 

 HolmKr. Sv. Ak. Hand!. 18.SS, p. 15 , Bridg.-Fitcli, Entom 1SS4, p. 187 : Thorns. 

 O.E. xvi. 1758. d t . 



A black species with the face and mouth fiavous, antennae mainly 

 fcrrugineous, abdomen clear red with anus from base of sixth segment 

 and a discal vilta on the second black ; legs except basally concolorous, 

 u illi the anterior paler and apices of hind tibiae, sometimes al.so of their 

 femora, black; wings distmctl\llavescent with stigma clear fuKous and 

 nervures darker. Length, 1+-17 (or -20 abroad) nnn. 



This is said to be one of the commonest species of Anonialides on the 

 Continent and to be distributed throughout Europe, whert^ it has been 



