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Eev. T. A. MarshalPs Monograph of 
This genus,, hitherto undescribed as such, was 
originally joined to CEnone by Curtis ; it differs, however, 
widely in the conformation of the abdomen. Haliday 
placed it at the head of his genus Dacnusa, but in a 
separate section ; although most of the technical details 
in Epimicta and Dacnusa are similar, yet the important 
characters of the abdomen, together with the very 
different facies caused by the stout form and robustness 
of the body, sufficiently distinguish the former genus. 
In Forster^s table it is stated that the second abdominal 
segment is marked with a transverse furrow ; this is 
derived from Haliday, who often speaks of segments 
2-3 (soldered together in the Braconidse) as the second 
segment ; the expression is not quite correct, as in the 
present instance, where the transverse furrow in 
question is nothing else than the second suture. There 
is only one known species, which cannot be confounded 
with any other of the Dacnusidse, 
1. Epimicta marginalis, Hal. 
Dacnusa marginalis, Hal., Hym. Brit., ii., 6, ^ ? . 
E, marginalis J Marsh., Species des Hym. d'Bur. et 
d'Alg., Bracon., vol. ii., p. 456, $ ? . 
$ . Black, with the apex of the abdomen rufous or testaceous, 
the posterior segments narrowly bordered with the same colour. 
Vertex very short ; face indistinctly carinate, punctulate ; clypeus, 
mandibles, and palpi testaceous. Antennae a little longer than the 
body, submoniliform, brownish or reddish testaceous, 37-38- 
jointed. Wings slightly infumated ; squamulae, stigma, and 
nervures brownish, sometimes very pale ; recurrent nervure 
hardly rejected. Legs testaceous ; base of the hind coxse, tarsi of 
the same pair, and tips of the other tarsi, fuscous. Abdomen 
beset with whitish hairs ; segments 3-5 margined with testaceous ; 
6th testaceous with an obscure dorsal patch ; belly concave, testa- 
ceous. Yalves of the terebra incrassated, concealed. $ Similar ; 
6th segment without an obscure patch ; 7th exserted, testaceous. 
Length, 2 ; wings, 4 lines. 
Rare in England, and not yet noticed in any other 
country. I have taken three specimens, in Leicester- 
shire, Wiltshire^ and Cornwall. 
