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coxae and trochanters, stramineous; legs rufescent with the hind tarsi, 
and sometimes their tibiae and coxae, nigrescent. ‘Thorax distinctly 
narrower than the very broad head; areola sulciform and deeply im- 
pressed. Basal segment discally sulcate with the distinct petiole centrally 
broadly constricted; anus of @ distinctly compressed, with terebra 
straight and nearly as long as the basal segment. Hind tibiae basally 
constricted ; nervellus opposite, hardly geniculate and intercepted at its 
lower fourth. Length, 44—54 mm. 
Very distinct from the last in its black scutellum, smaller size, longer 
head with subquadrate vertex, much less profuse pale markings and 
peculiarly elongate terebra which, combined with its Lepidopterous host, 
allies it somewhat with Oedematfopsis. 
It is only known to occur in Sweden in September (Holmgren) and in 
Prussia, where it has been found upon hawthorn at the end of May, 1874 
(Brischke). As British it was introduced by Bridgman (Trans. Ent. Soc. 
1884, p. 433) and bred by Fletcher of Worthing from the Tortricid Pue- 
disca solandriana ; and from the same host by Bignell, who found it in 
Devon at Horrabridge and Radford in the middle of May, as well as at 

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Plym Bridge early in August. Bridgman subsequently took a variety on 
ling at Mousehold Heath near Norwich, with immaculate prothorax and 
prominent petiolar spiracles. It is not uncommon and I possess examples 
swept by Newbery at Ivybridge in Devon in August, 1905; by Wilson 
Saunders at Greenings in Surrey in June, 1871; both sexes by Capron at 
Shere ; and a male by Piffard at Felden in Herts. On 13th September, 
1910, I beat a female from a sallow bush in the marshes at Walberswick 
on the Suffolk coast; and Stenton took it at Wimbledon towards the end 
of the preceding May. 
