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the forceps roimded at the end, but at the iipper or inner margin near 

 the base with a small, blimt process; the arms are distinctly hairy. 

 Legs blackish to brownish, front legs not or slightly paler; front tibiæ 

 without a row of bristles below the iipper dorsal bristle, though an 

 indication of a bristly row is seen; the lower bristle on hind tibiæ 

 not longer and generally shorter than the upper. Wings quite slightly 

 coloiired; thick veins brown, the thin veins pale brown; costa about 

 0,40 of the wing-length, a vertical line from the apex of costa reaches 

 the hind margin at or a little beyond the apex of seventh vein; costal 

 cilia short, I tliink shorter than in the other species and somewhat 

 fme; sixth and seventh veins distinctly abbreviated, not reaching 

 the margin; fourth vein slightly and evenly curved in the whole 

 length. Halteres black. 



Female. Similar to the male; antennæ short; palpi often paler, 

 brownish; wings longer, and also costa relatively longer, 0,44 of the 



Fig. 72. Wing of C. pauxilla ?. 



wing-length, so that a vertical line from apex of costa always reaches 

 the margin at a point nearer to the end of sixth than to the end of 

 seventh vein or in the middle between them, and a vertical line 

 from the end of first vein meets the margin about at the apex of seventh 

 vein; sixth and seventh veins not abbreviated. 



Length 0,8 — 1,3 mm. 



C. pauxilla is as common in Denmark as the other two; Gentofte, 

 Ermelund, Geel Skov, Lillerød, Suserup Skov at Sorø, Bogø south of 

 Sealand, Lohals, and in Jutland at Hejls south of Kolding, Ry and 

 Nørresundby (Th. Mortensen, Kryger, the author); the dates are 

 ^Vs—^U in 1915 to 1921; I have taken it in copula on "/e. Mr. Kryger 

 took a nest of Vespa viilgaris? at Lillerød on ^"/g 1915 and from this 

 I bred a great number of the species which emerged from ^"/s — ^Vs 

 1916 together with Volucella pelliicens, Ophyra leiicostoma^ Fannia sca- 

 laris, an Eccoptomera and a Sciara. 



Geographical distribution: — Hitherto known from Holland 



