186 GENUS ANACHAHIS. 



The colour of the antennae varies ; sometimes they 

 are fuscous above throughout; the legs vary also in 

 colour ; not infrequently the trochanters, base of 

 femora, and knees are yellow ; the femora and tibiae 

 have sometimes a fuscous tinge, and the hind tarsi 

 may be entirely black. In some males the hind tarsi 

 and the apical half of the hind tibiaa are black, the four 

 coxae being also black. The four front legs may be 

 yellowish. The alar nervures vary from clear yellow 

 to fuscous. 



Reinhard (1. c., p. 221) describes a species (^M. spini- 

 gerd) which is very nearly related to armala, but 

 differs from it in the mesonotum being transversely 

 rugose. 



This is no doubt the species on which Walker (Ent. 

 Mag., iii, 161) formed his section ii of JEgilips : 

 " Species unica Scotise incola," with " scutellum 

 summo apice productum acuminatum, inde ad infimum 

 'basin retractum, ideoque angulum acutum fingens." 



Clydesdale. 



Genus ANACHARIS. 



Anacharis, Dal., Anal. Ent., 95 ; G-iraud, Yerh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 



x, 169 ; Reinhard, B. E. Z., iv, 214. 



Megapelmus, Htg., Germ. Zeit., ii, 186 ; Foerster, Verb. z.-b. 

 Ges. Wien, xix, 361. 



Radial cellule closed ; parapsidal furrows more or less distinct ; 

 scutellum bifurcate at base; conical; median segment pilose, impunc- 

 tate, shining, without keels. Abdomen compressed; petiole of variable 

 length, but always longer than the hind coxae. Antennae filiform, 

 thickened towards the apex in $ ; the third joint in $ cylindrical. 



We owe to the observations of Herr Anton Hand- 

 lirsch (Yerh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxxvi, pp. 235-7) 

 the only information we possess on the metamorphosis 

 of Anacharis typica and ensifera. He found them to 

 be parasitic on the Neuropteron, Hemerobius nervosus, 

 Fab. The larva leaves its victim between the feet, 

 throwing itself completely out, consuming then the 

 remains of its host. It then increases conspicuously 



