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from the latter to the apex of the anterior margin a black streak, 

 generally darkest at the base ; inner marginal nerve piceous ; cell- 

 nerves yellowish, or brownish-yellow ; apex and inner cell-nerve 

 whitish or reddish. Legs; coxes pale-yellowish, base blackish; 

 thighs yellowish, upper and under margins black ; upper side at the 

 apex irregularly and underneath with a longitudinal row of large 

 black spots ; tihice yellowish, with large black spots, and longish, 

 stout, somewhat spinose, black hairs ; knees and apex blackish ; 

 tarsi and claivs black. 



Abdomen underneath olive-green, piceous or black. 



Length, 1| — 2 lines. 



A vexy abundant sj^eeies in June and July, by sweeping amongst 

 flowers, &c., on hedge-banks at Darenth, Mickleham, Bexley, and 

 other places in the London district. 



Genus 2. — Apocremnus, Fie6. 

 ^ elongate, somewhat parallel ; $ oval. 



Head almost vertical in front, 1| times as broad across the eyes as 

 long ; Crown almost flat, very much deflected ; Clypeus almost flat, 

 base lower than the anterior margin of the eyes ; apex a little pro- 

 duced, almost in a line with the middle of the eyes ; antenniferous 

 processes short, placed near the lower margin of the eyes ; Face ; 

 central lobe longish, convex, somewhat broad ; side lobes short, 

 narrow, rounded outwardly. Antennce shorter than the body ; Ist 

 joint cylindrical, shorter than the head ; 2nd Ji times as long as the 

 1st, in the ^ stouter than in the $ , gradually thickened to the 

 apex ; 3rd and 4th filiform, 3rd about 4- the length of the 2nd, 4th 

 |rds the length of the 3rd. JEyes large, somewhat prominent ; 

 viewed from above almost hemispherical ; from the side, long oval. 

 nostrum slender, reaching to the 3rd pair of coxse ; 1st joint free. 



Thorax. — Pronotum trapeziform, twice as broad across the poste- 

 rior margin as long, with 2 callosities in front ; anterior margin 

 straight, angles rounded ; sides straight ; hinder angles short, 

 rounded, slightly raised ; posterior margin concave across the 

 scutellum rounded towards and at the hinder angles ; disk convex, 

 deflected to the head. Scutellum triangular, almost equilateral, raised 

 above the clavus, with a transverse channel near the base ; anterior 

 portion somewhat flat, deflected to the ti'ansverse channel ; hinder 



