274 Eev. T. A. Marshall's monograph of 



This species seems to have been found in England 

 only by Curtis, and no recent specimens are forth- 

 coming. The locality named is the New Forest, about a 

 mile to the north of Lyndhurst, where early in September, 

 1822, Curtis captured both sexes alighting on the flat 

 stump of a felled tree. Others have been taken in 

 central Europe and Italy. The <? was bred by Eatze- 

 burg from buds of pine-tree occupied by Pissodes notatus, 

 Fab., at Borutin, in Upper Silesia. The ? by Tischbein 

 from Ordicsia micans, Panz. By Giraud also from 

 ii Boletus \\ith. Scardia holeti, Fab., and Tinea parasitella, 

 Hiib. By Schonbach from galls of the beech-tree. 



6. Microdus hrevicatidis, Eeinh. 



Microdns brcvicandis, Eeinh., Berl. ent. Zeit., 1867, 

 p. 356, ? . 



$ . Black ; palpi at the apex testaceous ; anterior femora at the 

 apex, and their tibiae, rufo-testaceous, hind tibiae whitish, fuscous 

 at the tips and below the base. Wings infunaated. Antennae 29- 

 jointed. Mesothorax distinctly trilobate. Mesopleurae shining, im- 

 pressed with a crenate furrow. Segments 1 — 2 rugulose ; 2 at the 

 apex, and all the following segments, smooth. Terebra a little 

 longer than ^ the abdomen. Areolet sessile, subquadrate, Length, 

 If lua. 



The 1st segment is longitudinally rugose, the rugulosity of the 

 2d is very fine, consisting of transverse curved lines, concave 

 anteriorly. Hind tarsi blackish brown, whitish at the base. 



The above is Eeinhard's description of the ? , which I 

 have not seen. The following is very likely to be the 

 ^ , but from the nature of the case there can be no 

 certainty : — 



$ . Palpi black ; hind tibite the same colour as the others, fus- 

 cous at the tips and below the base. Antennae 29-jointed. Second 

 segment with a triangular striolated discal patch, the apex of which 

 reaches the hind margin ; the sides smooth ; striae somewhat 

 siniiated, biit not transverse, nor concave anteriorly. In other 

 respects the specimen agrees with Eeinhard's description, and, 

 according to his table, it is hrevicaudis, 



Eeinhard docs not say much about the wings. Those 

 of the (? have the 1st cubital areolet divided from the 

 praidiscoidal by a visible nervure, contrary to the law of 

 the genus Microdus ; while the trilobate structure of the 

 mesothorax excludes the species from Eariniis. 



