28 HAUSTELLATA. 
: XYLOPHAGIDiE. 
Plate XLVI. fig. 2. 
Actina fihwlxs. 
Ac. Thorace a-neo-viridi ; abdomine nigra; spinis scutelli pedibusque 
Jlavis; tibiis posticis clavath, fuscis. (Long. Corp. 2\ lin.) 
Be. tibialis, Meifjen.—Steph. Catal. No, 8488. 
Metallic green ; face with whitish hairs ; a small white dot at the base of 
the antennse ; spines on the scutellum yellow ; abdomen black, of the 
female yellow beneath ; legs yellow ; hinder tibiae and tarsi thickened 
and brown : wings brown, stigma black. 
Not very common, in hedges, within the metropolitan district. 
Plate XLVI. fig. 3. 
Subula maculata. ? 
Su. Ater, thorace Jlavo macxdato, abdominis segmentis margine Jiavis. 
(Long. Corp. 4 lin.) 
Xyl. maculatus, Fabricii Ant. 65 t—Sleph. Nomen. 2d edit. 
Black ; palpi and antennae beneath tawny-yellow ; thorax with its tubercles, 
a slender interrupted transverse line, a larger spot on each side near the 
insertion of the wings and the lateral margin yellow ; scutellum yellow : 
abdomen with a large yellow spot on the sides of the second segment, 
and the margins of the rest also yellow ; legs yellow, the tips of the 
hinder thighs and tibise, and of all the tarsi, black. 
Taken in June in the New Forest, but seemingly very rare. 
