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corresponds accurately, except that the terebra is 

 insufficiently estimated as shorter than the body. A. 

 merula, Eeinh., Berl. ent. Zeit., 1881, p. 46, ? , which 

 he hesitated to join to this species, is widely dili'erent, 

 having segments 1 — 2 smooth, the stigma fuscous, and 

 the metatliorax carinated. 



One ? was found by Haliday in the Mourne Mountains, 

 North Ireland. The 2 S2)ecimens here described were 

 bred by W. H. B. Fletcher from an undetermined Tincid, 

 mining the leaves oiArctostapliylusuva-ursi, thebearberry. 



37. AjJcinteles prcstor, n. s. 



Ater, feuioribus anticis apice, tibiis iisdem totis, posterioribus 

 basi, ferrugineis. Alse fasco-hyalinae plaga sub stigmate limpida 

 hoc nigro-fiisciim macula iuteriore testacea. Eadii abscissa Ima 

 curvata, cuiii nervo intercubitali Imo angulum nuUuui fingens. 

 Mesothorax et scutelluni nitida, subtilissime parcius piuictulata ; 

 nietathorax subtiliter exaratus, fere opacus, Segmentum linum 

 latitudine fere duplo longii;s, nitidiun, marginatum, subrugosum, 

 apice trimcatum ; 2dum 3tio vix duplo brevius, cum reliquis medio 

 subcarinatum, Iseve. Terebra abdominse paulo brevior, recta, valvis 

 subclavatis. 



Deep black ; fore femora at the apex, their- tibiae entir-ely, and the 

 other tibiae at the base, ferrugmous. Wings fusco-hyaline, with a 

 limpid space under the stigma, which is dark fuscous, having a 

 testaceous spot at the inner angle. First abscissa of the radius 

 rounded, forming no angle with the 1st intercubital nervure. 

 Mesothorax and scutelluna shming, sparmgly and very minutely 

 punctulate ; metatliorax finely exarated, almost dull. Segment 1 

 about twice as long as its breadth, shining, margined, subrugose, 

 truncate at the apex ; 2 a little more than half as long as 3, smooth 

 and subcarinated, as are also the remaining segments. Terebra a 

 little shorter than the abdomen, straight, the valves subclavate. 

 (J 5 . Length, 2 ; wings, 4^ hn. 



One of the largest species, and resembling ohscnrus, 

 Nees; but the mesothorax is smooth, without the medial 

 depressions, the stigma bicolorous, &c. From all the 

 allied species it differs in the wings, as above described, 

 the upper angle of the 2d cubital areolet not being 

 indicated. 



Described from two males taken by Bignell in S. 

 Devon ; and one female bred by Elisha, Sept. 4th, from 

 CatojJtria cemulana, Scbl. 



