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rufous. All are without data excepting one which is labelled 

 " Xewton, 1903" (possibly this is Buckland Newton, in Dorset). 

 Ten of the eleven specimens mentioned by Marshall as having 

 been bred by Elisha from Eupoecilia roseaua are still in the 

 Fitch Collection. 



Agathis aiuilica, Marsh.* 



Up to the present recorded only from Britain, and said by 

 Marshall to be commoner than A. nigra, from which species it 

 may be distinguished by the noticeable dark ring before the base 

 of the hind tibiae and shorter terebra (as long as abdomen and 

 metathorax or rather longer). The author also mentions that 

 the antennae have more joints, viz. 29-31 ; in Dale's Collection, 

 however, is a female which I feel confident may be referred to 

 this species, having only 24-jointed antennae. In my own col- 

 lection is a female that has 28 joints and also a male with 26. 



A female in Dale's Collection is labelled " B.N.," and Har- 

 wood has another from " Box Hill, 27/6/85." I took a male on 

 the muddy shore of the Solent, near Lymington, August 2nd, 

 1916, and a female from bushes on the Gog Magog Hills, 

 Cambridge, June 8th, 1917. 



Marshall tells us that W. H. B. Fletcher reared the species 

 from a Coleophora and also from Depressaria nervosa, Haw. A pair 

 in the Fitch Collection bear Marshall's label, " A. anglica, n. sp." 



Agathis hrevisetis, Nees.t 



The males are difficult to distinguish from those of A. nigra 

 and A. anglica though perhaps rather larger ; the females, how- 

 ever, are easily separated by the length of the terebra, which in 

 this species is much shorter. In hrevisetis the second cubital 

 cell is usually subquadrate while in nigra and anglica it is usually 

 triangular, but, as before mentioned, the shape is inconstant. 



Harwood has three females on one card (bearing Marshall's 

 yellow label), which, judging from the mounting, came from 

 Cameron's Collection, and which are probably the three speci- 

 mens taken by him in Scotland and mentioned by Marshall. 

 These insects have the terebra stout, pilose, and distinctly rather 

 shorter than the abdomen, so agreeing with Nees' description. 



Bignell records it from Coleophora troglodytella and Nannodia 

 hcrmanella. 



Agathis rvfipalpis, Nees.+ 



In the Essex Museum is a single female under this name; 

 two labels are attached, one I believe in Marshall's writing, 



* ' Trans. Entom. Soc.,' 1S85, p. 265. 

 t ' Mod.,' vol., i, p. 131. 

 \ ' Mon. Af.,' vol. i, p. 129. 



