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The following species have been bred : — 



1. declinator, Gr., from uncertain host. Bignell, 25th March. 



zonata group, from Cheimatobia brumata; Bignell. Eubolia cervinaria ; 



Cross. Hecatera serena; Bignell. Coleo- 

 phora therinella ; Fletcher, 

 raptor, Zett., from Orgyia antiqua, Eupithecia campanulata, E. sobri- 



nata ; Brischke. 

 laticollis, Holmgr., from Mania typica ; Bignell. 

 incisa, Br'ulgm., from Anisopteryx sescularia ; Norgate. 

 Kriechbaumer bred a species from Grammodes Ajgira.* 



Casinaria, Holmgr. 



A. Apex of abdomen not compressed at the sides (males and females). 

 Abdomen black. 



a. Scape of antennae pale beneath. 



Orbits yellowish white; legs red, coxae and trochanters black, hind 

 tibiae and tarsi white and black variegated. 



1. orbitalis, 2+ — 3 lines. 



b. Scape of antennae entirely black. 



Legs red, coxae and trochanters blackish, front ones sometimes 

 entirely or apex yellowish, tarsi and hind tibiae black, the latter 

 in the middle, outside and extreme base whitish or reddish. 



4. tenuiventris, 3 lines. 



B. Apex of abdomen more or less compressed at the sides (males and 



females). 



a. Abdomen black. 



Front legs fulvous, base black, hinder black, middle of tibiae widely 

 and base of tarsi beneath whitish. - 3. vidua, 2^ — 3^ lines. 



b. Middle of abdomen red-marked. 



Legs reddish, base black ; hind femora brown at apex ; hind tibige, 

 apex and before the base, and tarsi pale fuscous. 



2. mesozosta, 3 — 4 lines. 



The species of this genus are distinguished from Limneria by- 

 having the margin of the eyes against the antennse notched, but 

 this character is slightly noticeable in certain other Limnerias. 

 The metathorax is without arese, the head is transverse, and the 

 aculeus is very short, scarcely exserted. C. vidua is included by 



Holmgren as a true Campoidlex in his Monograph. He writes : 



" The compact hairy covering on the metathorax conceals the 

 spiracles, and this was the reason that I assigned the species to 

 a wrong place at the time of the publication of the ' Monofyrai^hia 

 Ophionidum Suecise.' " Tschek says the spiracles are " kurz- 

 spaltformig " ; they are not circular. Desvignes' C. HenauUii is 

 certainly this species. It is a common parasite of Abraxas 

 grossulariata, having been bred therefrom by Bignell (Entom. 



