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of Eagged Robin, which have been since kindly identified by 

 the late Mr. Rowland-Brown as Z. trifolii. We "returned home 

 on the 18th. 



From larva feeding in purses at the end of osier leaves 

 picked m our beds in September I reared a few specimens of 

 Gracilaria stigmatella and its ichneumon, Anqitia virginalis, 

 Grav. The latter was kindly identified by Mr. Morley. ' I beat 

 out a $ Exapate congelatella from a hedge near here for tbe first 

 time on October 14th. Tephroch/stis pulcheUata began emerging 

 on June 4th, 1921, from pupae brought from Towyn. In 

 conclusion my thanks are due to Mr. E. Meyrick, F.R.S., for 

 identifying most of the micros. 



23, Heathville Eoad, 

 Gloucester ; 



June 10th, 1921. 



A SYNOPSIS OF BRITISH PROCTOTRYPID^ 

 (OXYURA). 



By Claude Morley, F.E.S., F.Z.S., etc. 



(Continued from p. 135.) 



16. Proctotrypes hyalinipennis, sp. nov. 



A black and finely pubescent species ; tegula?, base of flagellum 

 obscurely, and tbe legs except basally, clear red. Superficially 

 very like the last species, but abundantly distinct in its longer 

 head, short, stout and filiform flagellum, whereof the joints are 

 parallel-sided, and nearly truncate at both extremities, with the 

 seventh to twelfth but slightly longer than broad, the radial 

 appendix is wanting, the metathorax is shorter and apically less 

 attenuate, with its disc less smooth ; the abdomen is slightly, and 

 the legs very distinctly shorter, with the terebra very nearly 

 straight. The orbicular head is not at all broader than long in 

 ? and but slightly so in 3, and resembles that of P. clavipes, 

 Thorns., but the short metathorax with its finely sculptured disc, 

 and the equally long third and thirteenth antennal joints, render 

 it distinct. In the $ the flagellum is more slender than in ? , 

 though its joints are equally cylindrical and truncate. Length 

 3^5 mm. $ ? . 



Types of sexes in author's collection. 



Doubtless a winter species, since of my single pair, the female 

 was swept from thistles (Cnicus palustris), in marshy ground at 

 Bentley Woods so late in the year as November 16th, 1895, 

 and Mr. W. H. Tuck kindly sent me the male, taken by him 

 during May, 1899, at Tostock, in Suffolk. 



