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The Ceropales are supposed to be parasitic, depositing 

 their eggs in the larvae of other fossorial Hymenoptera. 



1. maculata Fab. — frontalis Pa?iz. 72. 9. ? . 



Black : clypeus and labrum in the male, and orbits of eyes 

 in the female cream-colour : a band on the collar and a 

 spot on the scutel of the same colour : 1st abdominal seg- 

 ment with 2 cream-coloured spots, margin of the 2nd and 

 apex white : legs ferruginous ; coxae, hinder thighs and apex 

 of tibias and tarsi more or less brown. 1 



Middle of August, Norfolk, and Heron Court, Hants, on 



umbelliferous flowers ; also in Kent, Surrey, and Wales as 



late as September, Mr. F. Walter. 



2. semiannulatus Curt. Guide, No. 2. Length 2f lines. 

 Black, inner orbits of eyes, margin of 2nd abdominal seg- 

 ment, interrupted in the centre, and apex cream-colour : 

 legs rufous, coxae, trochanters, base and apex of the 4 pos- 

 terior thighs and terminal half of hinder tibiae black, tarsi 

 brown. 



This female was taken by me in Norfolk ; it may prove to 

 be only a small variety of C. maculata. J 



3. variegatus Fab. — Curt. Brit. Ent. pi. 756. (?. 



Male black, smooth, exceedingly minutely and thickly 

 punctured, slightly silky with short pile : 2 basal joints of 

 antennae beneath and face cream-colour, the latter with a 

 black stripe under the antennae, a dot on each side of the 

 collar, and the hinder margin, as well as a spot behind the 

 scutel, of the same colour: metathorax whitish with pile: 

 2 basal segments of abdomen rufous, 2nd with a sublunate 

 cream-coloured spot on each side of the margin, and 2 dots 

 at the apex : wings yellowish-brown on the disc : stigma 

 and nervures piceous : legs bright rufous : coxae black, 

 hoary sericeous, with a cream-coloured spot on the outside 

 of each ; trochanters blackish, tips of hinder thighs and 

 tibiae and the tarsi brownish, basal joint of the hinder feet 

 ciliated internally. 



Supposed to have been first captured by Dr. Leach in De- 

 vonshire, and a pair has since been taken near Parley Copse 

 and Catherine-hill, Hampshire, in August, by the Rev. G. T. 

 Rudd, to whom I am indebted for the loan of the male. 



Lagurus ovatus, Hare's-tail-grass, from Guernsey, was 

 obligingly communicated by S. H. Haslem, Esq. 



