An unusual perturbation theory anomaly is pointed out. If there exists a trace identity valid in an arbitrary number of dimensions, then employing dimensional regularization can result in an amplitude satisfying the identity in an arbitrary number of dimensions, but the finite part of the amplitude violating it in four dimensions. An example given here is the one-loop neutrino contribution to the graviton propagator. Anomalous behaviour, of a different origin, also occurs in the one-loop photon contribution. Both kinds of anomaly can be removed at the expense of introducingn-dimensional, rather than 4-dimensional, counterterms.