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apical emargination ; it is very like A. caualicuJatum, Holmgr., but willi 

 pale vertical dots, rugose niesonotuni and the parallel nervure emitted 

 much higher. The above description is drawn from the type specimen. 



The typical specimens were "bred by Mr. \V. \\.V>. Fletcher from 

 Chrysocoris ftshi/iilla taken in the New Forest." 1 have seen no other 

 Anomalid so small, and it is quite unknown in the palaearctic fauna 

 abroad. It superficially dilTers little from my dark /'. tnccator from the 

 same locality. 



8. flaveolatum, Grav. 



Ichneumon aiiricapilliis, Gmel. S.N. 1790. 2699 (?). Ophion flavcolatiini. Gr. 

 Ubers. Zool. Syst. 1807, p. 268. Anonialon flavcolatuni , Gr. I.E. iii. 664; Boie, 

 Wiegm. Arch. 1835, p. 44, i ? ; Audouin, Hist. Ins. Nuis. 1842, 181, pi. xvi, fig. 4 ; 

 Ratz. Ichn. d. Forst. i. 90; ii.79; iii. 79; Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1858, p. 25; Ruthe, 

 Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1859, p. 378; Brisch. Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1880. p. 137; Bridg.- 

 Fitch, Entom. 1884, p. 224, i 9 . Agrypon JJavcolatiini, Forst. Verh. pr. Rheinl. 

 1860, p. 152 ; Thorns. O.E. xvi. 1771 ; Schm.' Opusc. Ichn. p. 1513, s ? . 



Head intumescent and distinctly explanate behind the eyes, with vertex 

 deeply emarginate, frons rugose and .somewhat even with the central 

 carina obsolete, face white-pubescent, cheeks broad and clypeus distinctly 

 dentate apically; black with mandibles except apically, cheeks, face and 

 vertical dots flavous; temples usually mainly fulvous. Antennae but little 

 longer than half body ; rufescent, at least beneath, with underside of scape 

 flavous and basal flagellar joints black. Thorax black with pleural 

 sutures and metathoracic apex usually rufescent; mesonotum finely 

 punctate, nitidulous, with ai)ically distinct notauli ; pleurae shining and 

 centrally very sparsely punctate; metathorax rugose. Scutellum deplanate 

 and not laterally carinate. Abdomen red with the second segment, some- 

 times also the third to fifth, discally piceous ; anus mainly black from the 

 sixth. Legs slender and red with front coxae and part of the black hind 

 trochanters, or in (^ mainly flavous ; hind legs with the trochanteral 

 joints of equal length and the tarsi, especially in J, distinctly explanate; 

 hind tibiae apically infuscate, their tarsi flavous with most of metatarsus 

 red. Wings distinctly flavescent, with stigma and tegulae fulvidous. 

 Length, g-ii (abroad -14) mm. 



The thorax is very rarely discally and laterally rufescent. 



One of the commonest of all Anomalides throughout the whole of 

 Europe, from May to August, in woods and less frequently meadows. It 

 was first incorrectly recorded by Boie (/.r.) from pupae of A\>ctua Balis. 

 Bred from Tortn'x hcpamna (Ratz. ii) and by Brischke from Karias 

 chloiana on 6th May, 18+9 {J.c. iii); from pupae of A', prasinaua, Hvbcniia 

 dt'foliaria and Ktipilhccia ailamta (Brischke); from 77n\ilira bafis — iitc 

 Boie, Icsle Ratz. — and Hyponomatia cogiKitilhi ((liraud); and Acrolujsis 

 cousocicUn (Dours). It doubtless abounds in every oak wood from Lands 

 F^nd and Dover to Sufl'olk during the last half of May, since 1 believe it 

 to be the parasite par cxalhiicc of the ubiquitous Winter Moth ; but further 

 north it would appear to be extremi'ly rare, and we have no reliable 

 records beyond Cheshire. Hope found co-types at Xetley ; Curtis men- 

 tions its occurrence in the middle of June in Yorkshire and during August 

 in the Lsle of Arran. Lands F'nd (Marquand), HotustU'ining (Marshall), 

 Shaugh Ikidge in Mav and Bickleigh in August (Bignell) ; Xew Forest at 

 Lyndliurst (Adams), flying about white poplar in .Matley Bog at 1 1 a.m. 

 in middle f)f June (Morley) and bred thence in .March (Image) ; Hastings 



