234 BRITISH ICHNFA'MONS. \Trichomma 



clorana, and Gaulle in France from Acmhasis consocieUa and Lymajifria 

 dispar. Dr, Chapman has given me females just emerged on 22nd June, 

 189Q, from Acrohasis {Rhodophaea) porphvrea and M. fenestrata \ and 

 examples from Peronea hastiana were exhibited by Adkin at a Meeting of 

 S. Lond. Soc. Oct. gth, 1890. Hartley Durrant has given me fourteen 

 examples, of which only three are maler,, bred by Barrett from Tortrix 

 decntana all with pale scutellum, together with a female from Torlrix sp. 

 and another from Psyche viUoscUa. Tosquinet found this species from 

 June to August in Belgium, but it seems to be confined to the former 

 month with us ; Hope took the male at Netley, and it has been bred at 

 King's Lynn by Atmore and by Elisha from Phlocodes tetraqiictana ; Capron 

 found it at Shere, W. Saunders at (jreenings in June, 1871, Bignell at 

 Bickleigh early in June, and Bloomfield at Guestling in i88g. I swept 

 two females from rank herbage in Surlingham Marsh in the Norfolk 

 Broads on loth June, 1901 ; took another flying about white poplar at 

 Matley Bog in the New Forest on 19th in 1907, and anuth(>r at the same 

 place three days earlier at the leaves of i\lvrica gale at 1 1 a.m. in the sun- 

 shine; there seems some connection between this species and Sweet (iale, 

 since Lord Walsingham (Entom. 1883, p. 05) bred it from a Torlrix pupa, 

 from the same plant. 



2. fulvidens, Wesm. 



Trichomma fulvidens, Wesm. Bui. Ac. Brux. 1849, p. 138 ; Voll. Pinac. pi. 

 xliii, fig. 8; Bridg. -Fitch, Entom. 1884, p. 227 ; Schm. Opusc. Ichn. p. 1469, <? ? . 

 T. bitubcrcttlatiini, Schra. Zeits. Hym.-Dip. 1902, p. 36S, J . 



Head black with clypeus and mandibular mark testaceous ; frons and 

 vertex coarsely and irregularly rugose ; face laterally flavous, somewhat 

 coarsely and closely punctate ; clypeus strongly produced and centrally 

 dentate apically ; vertical dots and part of inner orbits flavous. Antennae 

 somewhat stout and nearly as long as body, black with the scape flavous 

 beneath. Thorax black with a mark before and line beneath radices 

 rufescent ; mesopleurae closely and coarsely punctate. Scutellum rufes- 

 cent, stronglv convex, basally smooth and shining, deeply impressed 

 sulcate and bicarinate in the centre. Abdomen red with base of first 

 segment, disc of second, and most of anus, black. Legs and coxae red, 

 anterior tibiae flavous ; hind coxae, femora and tibiae apically black, with 

 base of the last and the basally nigrescent tarsi flavous. Wings slightly 

 infumate, with stigma testaceous; parallel nervure emitted but slightly 

 above centre of brachial cell; nervellus postfurcal and emitting a weak 

 nervure distinctly above its centre. Length, 15-20 mm. 



One of the rarest Anomalides, with a curiously restricted range. It was 

 first described in both sexes by Wesmael, " Hab. in Belgio," where 

 Tosquinet gives it as of rare occurrence at Die.st, Boitsfort, Ervox and 

 Carlsbourg ; Gaulle records it from France; and Schm. says it is found 

 in Saxony and Thuringia, most often flying round blackberry bushes, from 

 the end of Marcli to that of May. A pair from Ruthe's collection is in 

 Mus. Brit., the female from a Torlrix pupa. It must be regarded as only 

 doubtfully British, since with us it is represented by a single female in 

 Desvignes' collection, as recorded in his Cat. (1856, 104), still preser\ed 

 in the British Museum. 



