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would have been sure to do if his species had black coxaj. lie 
further says that G. consimilis, Tascli., is not the same species as 
G. consimilis, Holm. The former he has named microcera. But 
I think if Holmgren’s species is resinance, and not a good species, 
then Taschenburg’s name ought to be kept for the species he 
describes under that name. He also says that the female of 
G. sculpturata, Gr. = bifoveolata, Gr. ; and the next species he 
describes is bifoveolata, Gr., male and female. These two species 
are evidently very much alike : the main difference appear to be, 
that the head of sculpturata is less narrow behind the eyes than 
lugubrina. He gives the length of the aculeus ; but this I find is 
not constant ; sometimes it is as long as the body, and sometimes 
longer. I have placed an * in front of those species which have 
occurred in Norfolk. G. teres, Gr. J var. 1, Thomsen says is the 
male of bifoveolata. 
Besides those given in the list of bred insects at the end, 
G. lineata, bifoveolata, and annulata have been bred from uncertain 
hosts by Mr. W. Id. B. Fletcher: all these, unfortunately, were 
females. 
Two of Desvigncs’ species, G. femorata and nigrina, described in 
the Museum Catalogue, giving only a description of colour, have 
kindly been examined for me by Mr. W. F. Kirby of the British 
Museum. Of G. nigrina there are six females ; and besides the 
points given in the table, Mr. Kirby says, the clypeus is bristly 
rather than pubescent, and the head is not narrow behind the eyes. 
Of the other Glijpta examined by Mr. Kirby, G. femorata, 
Desv., there is only one in the Museum. The head is short, 
subrotund; and the clypeus is covered with short pubescence. 
This species, also, should be very easily recognized. 
Many years ago Mr. Charles G. Barrett gave me three pairs of 
a smallish Ghjpta, which I thought might be this species; the hind 
femora of some were more or less marked with brown, especially 
the base and apex, and sometimes the upper surface also. These 
were bred from Euptecilia hybridellana. I sent a pair of them to 
Professor Thomsen of Sweden, and he said they were the same 
species as some I sent named G. lugubrina. Singularly these latter 
were bred by Mr. W. II. B. Fletcher from the same host in 1886. 
Holmgren gave the name lugubrina to an insect which lie 
thought was probably G. bifoveolata, Gr., Var. 2, and as a synonym 
