HAKPIPHORUS LEPIDUS. 265 



the species as already noted want either occasionally 

 or permanently the first transverse cubital nervure. 

 In America Harpiphorus is more numerously repre- 

 sented than Emphytus, there being eleven species to 

 six of Emphytus. 



1. HARPIPHORUS LEPIDUS. 

 PL XIII, fig. 4. 9 4 a, Antenna. 



Emphytus lepidus y Klug, Berl. Mag., viii, 277, 191; Htg., 



Blattw., 253, 25. 



Fenusa lanthe, Newman, Ent. Mag., iv, 261. 



Asticta lanthe, Newman, Ent. Mag., v, 484. 



Harpiphorus lepidus, Thorns., Opus., 276, i ; Hym. Sc., i, 198, 



1; Andre, Species, i, 242, pi. 

 xvii,fig.l(?); Cat., 29,* 1. 



Antennae as long as the abdomen and metathorax, black or fuscous 

 black above, testaceous beneath. Head black, the part below the 

 antennae, a small spot above them, and a band surrounding the upper 

 part of the eyes, dull white. Thorax black, pronotum, the tegulse and 

 a broad band extending from them to near the scutellum, white. 

 Abdomen black, broadly white at the sides. Legs white, the coxae and 

 the basal half of femora black. Wings slightly infuscated ; costa and 

 stigma yellowish -white. 



The j similar, but with the white markings more extended. 



Length 2 lines. 



Nothing definite appears to be known regarding the 

 life history of this species. Kaltenbach (Pfl., 222, 

 quoting Kirchner) says that the larva lives in the pith 

 of the rose; Dours, on the other hand (Cat. Syn. 17), 

 says that it lives under the dead leaves of oak. It has 

 been bred in this country from the empty galls of 

 Cynips Kollari (cf. Fitch, Ent. xiii, 1880, 252) so that 

 it would appear to be attached to oak. H. lepidus has 

 been found in the London district, at Glanvilles' 

 Wootton, Dorset, and near Manchester (Mr. Joseph 

 Chappell). 



Continental distribution : Scandinavia, Holland, 

 Germany, France. 



