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conspicua, quorum I"'", angustum, 2"". longius, 3"'". adhuc 

 longius, 4"'». 5™\ et 6""\ parva : pedes pubescentes ; coxae et 

 trochanteres parva; protarsi breves articulo 1", validiore sub- 

 arcuato : articuli 1°. ad 4"™. longitudine decrescentes, 5^^ 4°. 

 paullo longior ; ungues et pulvilli minuti : alae angustse, subtilis- 

 sime pubescentes, iridescentes, cuique nervus costalis unicus, 

 ala3 triente brevior, apice ramulum emittens brevem stigmate 

 terminatum minimo : metalse nervo unico simplici, dimidii longi- 

 tudine. 



* Alee perfectce. 



■f Antennce filiformes ; articuli lineares. 



Sp. 1. Tel. varicornis (Latreille ? MSS.) Fern. Ater, an- 

 tennce alho cingulatcs, pedes ruji, alee fuscce. (PI. XIII. 



fig. 7.) 



Ater, scaber, obscurus, pubescens, parum convexus : caput thoracis 

 latitudine : oculi ocellique picei : antennae nigrae, subfiliformes, 

 extrorsum crassiores, capitis thoracisque longitudine ; articulus 

 1"^. basi piceus ; 3^^. et sequentes ad 6™\ albi ; 12"^ acuminatus, 

 gracilior, flagellum longi-fusiforme : thorax ovatus : abdomen 

 longi-ovatum, subnitens, subtilissime punctatum, fere glabrum, 

 basi scitissirae sulcatum, thorace fere duplo longius : pedes rufi ; 

 coxae nigro-piceae : proalae fumosae ; metalae pallidiores ; squa- 

 mulae piceae ; nervi fusci. (Corp. long. lin. 2^ ; alar. lin. 34«) 



Described from a French specimen in the British Museum, 

 named " Acanthophora varicornis" by Latreille? Those 

 taken by Mr. Haliday in sand-pits, Kent, and at Holywood, 

 Ireland, are much smaller, and their antennae are banded with 

 red. 



Sp. 2. Tel. Metabus. Mas. Ater, genua rufa, alae sub- 

 fuscce, ahdomen thorace viulto longius. 



Ater, punctatus, parum nitens : caput transverse undatim sulcatum : 

 oculi ocellique picei : antennae corpore longiores : thorax brevi- 

 ovatus, confertim punctatus : abdomen subfusiforme, thoracis 

 latitudine at multo longius, sulcatum, ad suturas Iseve, apiceni 

 versus dense hirtum ; segmentum I""*, profunde et confertim 

 sulcatum ; 2"™. sulcis postice evanescentibus ; 3"™. sulcis ad 

 hue levioribus : pedes nigri ; genua, trochanteres necnon tibiai 

 basi et apice rufa : alac longitudine mediocri : proalae subfuscae ; 



