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curved at the base ; squamnlae testaceous. Head and mesothorax 

 somewhat shiuing, minutely ruguloso-punctulate ; the former 

 almost coriaceous, not contracted behind the eyes, cheeks sub- 

 dilated, frontal fovea smooth, shiuing, cariuated in the middle. 

 Antennae <? as long as the body, 27— 30-jointed (27- in Eughsh 

 specimens) ; of the 5 16-jointed. Mesothorax more rugulose than 

 the head, especially near the scutellum, which is shining in the 

 middle. Metathorax reticulated, rugose, bidenticulate. Abdomen 

 rather shorter than the head and thorax, sculptured as usual ; at 

 the apex is a large transversely ovate fissure, not quite twice as 

 broad as long, ciUated. The 2 , which I have not seen, is said to 

 have the coxa) testaceous at the apex, and the anus emarginate 

 beneath to receive the point of the subexserted terebra. (? $ . 

 Length, 1^; wings, 2| lin. 



Described from three males taken in Epping Forest, 

 Yorkshire, and near St. Albans ; and a fom-th bred by 

 W. H. B. Fletcher, July 1st, from Scoparia plueoleuca, 

 Zell. Reinhard examined live males and nine females 

 from Germany and Switzerland ; two were reared by 

 Von Heyden from the cases of a Tineid feeding on 

 juniper. 



15. Chelonus sukatus, Nees. (PL V., fig. la). 

 Chelonus sukatus, Nees, Mon., i., 293, <y (wrongly 

 called ? ; antennse 23-jointed) ; Reinh., Berl. ent. 

 Zeit., 1867, p. 359, <? 2 ; not of Wesm. 

 C.fenestmtus, Nees, Mon., i., 292, ? only; not the 

 vars. ; antennee 17- (i. e., 16-) jointed ; Wesm., 

 Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux., 1835, p. 223, ? only. 

 C. contractus, Nees, Mon., i., 298, ? ; not of Ratz., 

 Iclm. d. Forst., ii., 24, which is there wrongly 

 placed under Ascog aster. 

 Black; abdomen immaculate; palpi, tips of mandibles, 4 

 anterior femora at the apex, their tibis, and a broad ring on the 

 hind tibiiE, testaceous ; middle tibiae often annulated with fuscous 

 near the base. Wings iufumated ; a whitish streak under the 

 stigma, which, with the nervures and costa, is fuscous ; para- 

 stigma and prgebrachial nervure testaceous ; radial areolet short, of 

 the same size as the stigma, 3d abscissa straight, radius of hind 

 wings very slightly curved at the base ; squamulse fuscous. 

 Sculpture as in the last species ; head transverse, contracted 

 behind the eyes, cheeks not dilated ; fi-ontal fovea dull, rugulose, 

 carinated in the middle. Antenna <? as long as the body, 23—24- 

 jointed; of the ? much shorter, l(J-jointed, filiform. Scutellum 



