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from which the above characters instantly distinguish it. It is 
very widespread, for on July 16th, 1900, Col. Yerbury sent me 
from Invershin, in Scotland, the indurated skin of a Lepidopterous 
larva on a grass stem, whence a female soon afterwards emerged. 
Elliott took it at Ullswater during September, 1910. On 
June 18th and 18th, 1907, I swept three at Matley Bog in the 
New Forest; it has occurred to me also in the Aldercarr Wood at 
Newstead in Notts., in August, 1914, and by sweeping on 
July 30th, 1900, in Barnby Broad in Suffolk. I note the 
antennal joints to be 45, 46 or 48. 
17. Rhogas armatus, Wesm. 
A rare species everywhere, and apparently not bred till 
Peachell sent me a female raised on June 24th, 1899, from a 
larva of Odonestis potatoria at Weymouth. Males have occurred 
to me very sparingly by sweeping in Bentley Woods—once at 
dusk—in Suffolk during June and October, and on reeds in the 
Wicken marshes in Cambs. All my antennal joints are ¢ 43, 
2? 42. 
CuinocentRus, Hal. 
A genus of small and somewhat uncommon insects, differing 
so much from typical Rhogadides that Thomson in 1892 
removed them to the Exothecides, between which two tribes they 
appear to be a somewhat natural form of transition. From all 
other Exothecides he distinguishes the genus by its deeply 
impressed sternauli (wherein, and the stout sculpture, it some- 
what resembles the Ichneumonid genus Cecidonomus, Bridg., 
which has equally elongate terebra), in the sculptured third 
segment, the internally subemarginate eyes and structure of the 
recurrent nervure of hind wing. Its exponents are distinctly 
uncommon or overlooked. Bignell found none in Devon, and | 
have hardly more than single specimens of five out of our eight 
ees species, of which two have not hitherto been recorded 
hence. 
TABLE OF HUROPEAN SPECIES. 
(2) 1. Hind femora apically black . 1. exsertor, Nees. 
(1) 2. Hind femora testaceous throughout. 
(10) 3. Stigma testaceous, darker towards its outer angle. 
(7) 4. Flagellum not filiform, its basal joint not twice as 
long as broad. 
(6) 5. Third segment trans-striolate ; length 3-4 mm. 
2. cunctator, Hal. 
(5) 6, Third segment aciculate-punctate ; length 4} mm. 
3. striolatus, Thoms. 
(4) 7. Flagellum subfiliform, its basal joint twice as long 
as broad. 
