260 EDWARD NORTON. 



This may belong to one of the sections of Diaeura. although in 

 King's paper it is associated with Sdnndria. 



28. S. labiata. 



Tcnthrcdo {AH) labiaia, Klug. Berl. Mag. viii, ]814, 56. Tribe II, A. t- 

 "Antennae the length of thorax; body elongate, black; abdomen pubescent 

 at apex, collar on each side, with the wing scales, pale ; labruni and legs testa- 

 ceous, wings hyaline. Length 3 lines. Exp. fi lines. 



Mandibles brown, at tip black, the labrura fringed with fine hair, 

 the back plates like the wing scale, white; the segments of abdomen 

 shining on hinder edge, pitchy. On each side of the spurs projects 

 backward pale spiny hair; the hinder portion of the anterior legs 

 fades into white ; in the middle the color is rather dirty red-yellow. 

 The hinder coxae are at the base yellowish. The wing-nerves and cos- 

 ta dark brown-black. 



(leorgia. Not seen. 



This is also placed by Klug in his Fam. 2. (Antennae 9-jointed.) 

 Sec. 1. Wings with two marginal and four submarginal cells. Div. A. 

 Body oval. f. Antennas filiform. 



49. ALLANTUS, Panz. (as restricted by Hartig.) 

 Alkintus, Panz. 



Jurine, Nov. nieth. 1807, 52. 

 AUantus, Leach. 



Stephens, Brit. Ent. Mand. vii. 

 Hartig, Die Blattw. 285, 

 Wiiu/s — Two marginal and four submarginal cells, the second and 

 third each receiving a recurrent nervure. Lanceolate cell always ici'th 

 a straight cross line ; bullae as in Selandria^ that on the third trans- 

 verse nervure wide and often indistinct, but most distinct at the ends ; 

 under wings with two inner cells. 



Antennse. (with one exception) [)-articulate, scarcely longer than the 

 thorax, mostly thickened toward the end, with stout basal joints, third 

 joint longer than fourth. 



Jhiily cylindrical, clypeus hardly emarginate, labrum rounded, man- 

 dibles with obtuse teeth. 



Leys simple; coxse reaching as far as the edge of the third ahdomi- 

 nal segment ; anterior inner spur bifid, inner claw tooth large. 



Larva twenty-two-footed, solitary, and feeds upon the leaves of va- 

 rious plants. It is generally found rolled up in a spiral form. It per- 

 forms its transformations in the earth. July and August. 



Leach divided the genus Tenthredo into two Sections. AUantus: 

 Antennae generally somewhat clavate, third joint longer than fourth ; 

 and Tentliredo : Antenmo slender, third and fourth joints equal. The 



