358 ON THE SPECIES OF TELEAS. 



metalae sublimpidae ; nervi fusci ; squamulae picejje. (Corp. 

 long. liii. 2 ; alar. lin. 3.) 



May ; near London. 



Sp. 3. Tel. elatior. Mas et Fern. Prcecedefitis structura 

 at IcBvior glabrior nitentior, mari abdomen thorace paullo 

 longius. 



Teleas elatiov . . . Halidai/,Curtis,Brit. Ent.Vll. 333. 

 Prosacantha spinosula? Nees ah Esenbeck, Hymenopt. Ichn. 



affin. Monog. II. 296. 



Ater, punctatus, parum nitens : caput posticum transverse undatim 

 sulcatum : oculi ocellique picei : antennae mari corpore longiores, 

 fem. capite thoraceque paullo longiores : thorax brevi-ovatus, 

 punctatus : abdomen nitens, laeve, fere glabrum, mari ovatum 

 thorace paullo longius, fem. longi-ovatum thorace multo longius ; 

 segmenta 1""\ et 2"™. ad discum 3"™. qui basi scite sulcata; 

 pedes nigri ; trochanteres, genua tibi^que apice et basi flava ; 

 tarsi fusci, articulus 1"^ basi flavus : alse longitudine mediocri, 

 sublimpidae ; squamulas piceae ; nervi fusci. (Corp. long. lin. 

 1|— 11; alar. lin. 2i— 2|.) 



Var. j3. — Abdominis segmenta 4". ad 6"'". punctata. 



Found by Mr. Haliday, in marshes ; in England, Ireland, 

 and Scotland. Common near London. Taken near Paris, by 

 the Comte de Castelneau. 



Sp. 4. Tel. Lycaon. Mas. Prcecedenti similis at brevior, 

 ales quoque breviores obscuriores. 



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

 ocellique picei : antennae corpore longiores : thorax brevi-ovatus, 

 punctatus : abdomen ovatum, nitens, laeve, fere glabrum, thorace 

 paullo longius; segmenta 1^™. et 2"™. ad discum 3"™.que basi 

 scite sulcata : pedes nigro-picei ; coxae nigrae ; trochanteres 

 necnon femora tibiagque apice rufa ; tarsi rufo-picei : alae fuscae ; 

 nervi obscuriores; squamulae piceae. (Corp. long. lin. 1 — 15 ; 

 alar. lin. 2— 2i.) 



Far. /3. — Abdominis sulci segmenti 3". fere apicem attingentes. 



Far. y. — Minor, alae subfuscae. 



September; near London, Devonshire, and Lanarkshire. 



