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the following black, pubescent. Legs black and not slender; tibiae and 
tarsi fulvous. Wings very slightly infumate, with the stigma and nervures 
testaceous ; areolet irregularly triangular and petiolate, with the lower 
half of the external nervure pellucid; radial nervure apically curved ; 
nervellusintercepted nearly in its centre. Length, 6—8 mm. 
Schrank’s Austrian species was taken ‘in agris frumentariis”; I con- 
sider it extremely probably correctly here synonymised, though the 
relationship has not been noted since suggested by Haliday, and the 
author’s description is too short to admit of certainty in this respect. 
Haliday took his female in Ireland at Eyrecourt in Galway, in a grove 
of larches during September, before 1839; his MS. inthe Dublin Museum 
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indicates the species as common in Ireland. ‘The first reliable Continental 
notice is in 1854 from the central and southern districts of Sweden, 
where Holmgren found it not uncommonly in woods and fields, “ in 
Lepidopterorum larvis ova deponentes.” It is said by Thomson to extend 
throughout all Europe and by Gaulle to have been bred from species of 
Zygaena in France ; Forster, too, seems to have known it from Germany. 
With us, however, it is quite certainly scarce and occurs only in the 
north: I have seen four specimens in the National Collection found by 
Rey. T. A. Marshall, many years ago, at Glencoe; Mr. C. H. Mortimer 
kindly gave me the Q taken by him at Soay in the Island of Skye during 
September, 1909 (KE. M. M. 1910, p. 39); and Mr. Routledge has 
also presented me with a g captured by him at Tarn Lodge, ten miles 
from Carlisle, on July 16th, 1902, 
