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(3) 14. Notauli smooth and not entire. 



(16) 15. Notauli not entirely wanting, distinct in 



front ....... intactus, Hal. 



(15) 16. Notauli entirely wanting. 



(20) 17. Body testaceous, anus infuscate. 



(19) 18. Wings clouded ; basal segment linear . ajyicalis, Curt. 

 (18) 19. Wings hyaline ; basal segment distinctly 



dilated apically ..... ornatiis, Marsh. 



(17) 20. Body piceous or black. 



(22) 21. Antennae of female filiform, and longer 



than head and thorax .... parvulus, Ruthe. 



(21) 22. Antennae of female incrassate apically, and 



much shorter ..... fnlvipcs, Curt. 



E. picipes. — A common species from May 14th to June 12th 

 only. I have a single very small male, taken on the sand-hills 

 at Kilmore, in Ireland, on August 14th, 1898, by the late Alfred 

 Beaumont ; but I fancy this must belong to some distinct and 

 undescribed species. Females are the commoner sex, and may 

 frequently be beaten from bushes and swept from herbage in 

 woods ; but no host has yet been suggested for it. I have taken 

 it at Haven Street and Norton Woods, in the Isle of Wight, at 

 Gosfield, in Essex, and at Tuddenham Fen, Stanetead, and 

 Barnby Broad, in Suffolk, as well as in Matley Bog, in the New 

 Forest. 



E. pallidipes. — An abundant species from May 10th to July 

 3rd, and usually taken by sweeping low herbage ; it is said by 

 Curtis (B. E. fol. 476) to have been once bred in England from 

 the pupa of Orchesia, a common heteromerous beetle living in 

 Boleti. Piffard has found it at Felden, in Herts ; I have seen it 

 at Calbourne, in the Isle of Wight, Brockdish, in Norfolk, 

 Belstead, Stanstead, Barton Mills, Bentley, Brandon, Foxhall, 

 and Henstead, in Suffolk. Its variety, with the head mainly 

 red, is rarer, though not uncommon in marshes in the same 

 county at Tuddenham, Keydon, and Brandon from the middle of 

 June to July 2nd ; and Wilson Saunders took it at Greenings, 

 in Surrey, in June, 1871. The second variety, with the body 

 also mainly red, has not hitherto been noted in Britain ; but I 

 possess an example, captured recently at Felden, in Herts, by 

 Mr. Albert Piffard, F.E.S. 



E. intactus. — I have a single female, which I believe referable 



especial point, upon which his genus is founded, is the basally wanting radial 

 nervure, and this is described exactly as it was by Haliday in the case of his 

 E. (Leiojyhron) accinctus, male, in the old 'Entomological Magazine' of 

 1835, p. 465 : " Stigmate . . . areolam cubitalem secundam contingente." I 

 am strongly inclined to regard Harheria rufa {loc. cit., p. 538), from Glou- 

 cester, as the hitherto unknown female of Eupliorus accinctus, Hal., which 

 no one has taken for seventy years, and for which no locality more exact 

 than England or Ireland has yet been given. 



