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them as hyaline. Reinhard* appears to have gone quite astray, 
having identified an insect with infumated wings as juniperate ; 
he remarks that Nees cannot be correct in his synonymy, as 
sericeus has hyaline wings. As I have before noticed, Bouché 
makes no mention of dusky wings. That Reinhard should have 
made this error does not seem surprising when we read the 
following remark made by Marshall in ‘Trans. Entom. Soc.,’ 
1885, p. 184: ‘‘The insects sent me as types named by 
Reinhard were in great confusion, consisting of three species, 
juniperate, Bouché, popularis, Hal., and difficilis, Nees.” Most 
unfortunately Marshall evidently accepted one of the insects 
sent him, which had infumated wings, to be the true juniperate ; 
this has led to great confusion, the insect described by Marshall 
as juniperate being, I believe, insidens, Ratz. 
I give below the description of Nees: 
‘Niger, obscurus, pube adpressa tenui tectus, palpis pallidis, 
tibiis anterioribus, postisque basi, rufis, abdominis primo segmento, 
secundoque basi rugulosis et lineis impressis; terebra subexserta ; 
alis hyalinis, stigmate cum ramo descendente nigro fuscis, reliquis 
nervis pallide fuscis.”’ 
I should like to add a description taken from nine specimens 
in my own collection: 
Black ; palpi pale testaceous; fore femora testaceous except at 
base, middle femora black, or black with the apex testaceous, hind 
femora black; fore tibize entirely testaceous, middle and hind tibize 
testaceous with the apices dusky; all the tarsi basally testaceous, 
Wings hyaline, stigma fuscous. Abdomen beneath entirely black or 
piceous. Mesothorax and scutellum punctate, somewhat shining ; 
metathorax rugulose, with a median carina. First and second seg- 
ments of the abdomen weakly rugulose, the rest smooth, all 
shining. Segment 1 truncate, longer than wide (this is more 
noticeable in the female than in the male), segment 2 shorter than 3, 
obsoletely impressed with two curved converging lines, wide apart. 
Hind cox smooth and shining. Antennz of female as long as 
body, of male longer. 
Length 3 mm., expands 7 mm. 
The above is the usual form, but the colour of the legs varies 
greatly, so much so that in some cases even the hind femoraare 
testaceous with only a fuscous stripe above. 
Both Bouché and Nees bred the insect from larve of Eupi- 
thecia juniperata and say that it is a solitary parasite. This 
agrees with my experience, and though I have not obtained it 
from EH. juniperata, never having reared that insect, I have bred 
it from EH. abbreviata, July 14th and 17th, 1911, and other 
dates ; from Hybernia defoliaria, June 16th and 28th, 1915; from 
Ephyra pendularia, March 28th, 1911; from E. annulata, 
* ¢ Berl. ent. Zeit.,’ 1881, p. 34. 
