RAPHIDIID.E. RAFHIDIA. l31 



ochreous-yellow, the femora, especially the hinder pair, dusky above ; base 

 of the antennae ochreous ; wings hyaline, nervures brown ; stigma pale 

 yellowish. 



Found in the vicinity of London, in Battersea and Copenhagen- 

 fields, about June, but not very common ; apparently more abundant 

 near Rochford, in Essex. 



Sp. 4. affinis. Nigra, nitida, antennarum basi, ore, collaris marginibus, pedi- 

 busque anterioribus ochraceo-Jiavis, abdom.ine punctis Jlavis, alls hyalinis, 

 stigmate subjlavescente. (Long. corp. s 5 lin. ; ? 7 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 7 — 9 lin.) 



Ra. affinis. Leach MSS.—Steph. Catal. 314. No. 3530. 



Shining, black : mouth luteous, varied with black ; base of the antennae dull 

 ochreous ; all the margins of the collar more or less broadly ochreous- 

 yellow ; legs ochreous-yellow, the four anterior femora with a blackish line 

 above, the posterior pair wholly pitchy ; tips of hinder tarsi also pitchy ; 

 abdomen with minute yellow, or straw-coloured dots, placed in two rows 

 on each side ; wings hyaline, with fuscous nervures, and a very slightly fus- 

 cescent stigma. 



Also taken in June, near London. 



Sp. S. maculicollis. Nigra, nitida, antennarum basi, clypeo, tibiis tarsisque 

 ochraceo-Jlavis, collare fulvescente-ochraceo nigro maculate later ibus luteo- 

 Jlavis ; alls subjiavescentibus stigmate concolore, nervis fuscescentibus. (Long, 

 corp. (J 5 lin.; ? 6\ lin. ; Exp. Alar 6 — 8 lin.) 



Ra. maculicollis. Leach MSS.—Steph. Catal. 314. No. 3531. 



Black, shining : head small, slightly punctured ; base of antennae and clypeus 

 ochreous, the latter with two black dots beneath the antennae ; collar dull 

 tawny ochreous, with irregular black spots ; the lateral margins broadly 

 ochreous-yellow; abdomen with the edges of the segments pale yellow; 

 legs ochreous-yellow, with the base of the hinder femora, and a line on the 

 others above, dusky or blackish; wings faintly tinged with yellowish, with 

 the stigma concolorous ; nervures fuscescent. 



Taken at Darenth wood in June ; also near Coombe wood, and in 

 Devonshire. 



Sp. 6. confinis. Nigra, nitida, orefulvo, collaris lateribus ochraceis, pedibus 

 ochraceo-Jlavis, alis hyalinis, stigmate concolore, nervis fuscis. (Long, corp*^ 

 (J 5 lin.; 9 7 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 8—10 lin.) 



Ra. confinis. Steph. Catal. 314. No. 3532. 



Shining, black : mouth tawny, with a black dot ; antennte ochreous at the 

 base, and the sides of the collar the same; legs ochreous-yellow, with a 

 dusky line on the upper edge of all the femora ; abdomen with the margins 



