340 



segment straight, hardly extending to apex of hind trochanters, 

 deplanate and apically strongly widened, with the spiracles 

 prominent and subcentral ; second segment subquadrate and the 

 following transverse : terebra straight and not extending beyond 

 the anus. Leys : anterior pairs somewhat slender and red, basally 

 black ; hind ones stout and longer, black, with whole of femora 



Fig. $6.ScoZobutes auricula* us, F. 



and extreme base of tibiae red; hind tarsi broad, with their claws 

 distinctly pectinate. Wings very slightly infumate with the 

 stigma infuscate piceous, radix testaceous and tegulre blackish : 

 radial nervure curved ; nervellus strongly intercepted nearly in its 

 centre. 



Length 5-9 millim. 



KASHMIR, 5000-6000 ft., v.Ol (Col. Nurse). EUROPE. NOBTII 

 AMBBIOA. 



This is a very variable species in size, but its colour, the incrassate 

 hind tarsi and peculiarly broad head, render it unmistakable. 



It is nowhere common, though occurring throughout nearly the 

 whole of Europe and Northern America from Ottawa to Texas. 

 The older authors thought it parasitic on Lepidoptera (Smerinthtts 

 ocellatus, Eatz. 1. c.), but it attacks TENTHBEDHTID.I; (Hylotoma 

 pagana, Bche, and H. rosce, Giraud (Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 

 1877, p. 407); the observations of Hudson (Ent. 1884, p. 171) 

 and W. W. Smith (E. M. M. 1900, p. 160) refer to Basnt* 

 fatatoriiis, F. (v. p. 278). The only Indian example I have seen is 

 a somewhat small but very typical female. 



