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Var. B. — Mas, pedes omnino rufi. 



Far. €. — Fern, tibias rufo-piceas ; genua, tarsi et protibise rufa. 



Found by the Comte de Castelneau, at Paris ; by Mr. Hali- 

 day, in August, on marshy heaths, in the Isles of Skye and 

 Arran. Summer and autumn ; near London, Isle of Wight, 

 Dorsetshire, Devonshire, South of France, &c. 



Gen. VIIL — Sparasion. — Latreille. 



Caput subquadratum, antice in aciem transversam acutam productum: 

 mandibulse arcuatag, longae, angustae, bidentatae ; dentes sub- 

 aequales : maxillae breves, latse, intus apice lobatae ; palpi 

 5-articulati, longissimi, filiformes ; articulus l*^^. gracilis ; 2^^. 

 brevissimus ; Z^^. longi-cyathiformis, 1°. longior; 4^^. 1'. longi- 

 tudine ; 5"^ uiulto longior : labium subpentagonum, ligulam 

 obtegens ; palpi 3-articulati, mediocres ; articulus 1"^ longi- 

 cyathiformis ; 2^^. brevior ; 3"^. fusiformis, 1°. multo longior : 

 oculi laterales, sat magni : antennae 1 2-articulatae, apice graciliores, 

 mari capitis thoracisque longitudine, fern. pauUo crassiores et 

 breviores ; articuli approximati ; 1"^ fusiformis, longus ; 2"^ et 

 3"^. longi-cyathiformes ; 4"^. brevior; 5*^^. et sequentes ad 11^™. 

 cyathiformes ; 12"^. conicus, angustus, acuminatus : thorax 

 ovatus, convexus : pro- et metathorax brevia : mesothoracis 

 parapsidum suturee conspicuae ; postscutellum tuberculum fingens 

 subacutum : abdomen sessile, sublineare, planum, basi et apice 

 angustius ; segmenta 6 dorsalia subaequalia conspicua, totidem 

 ventralibus aciem fingentia : pedes validi, curraces ; femora et 

 tibiae subclavata ; tarsis articulus l"^^. multo longissimus, pro- 

 tarsis subtus arcuatus ; sequentes ad 4^™. longitudine decrescentes ; 

 5"^. longior; ungues et pulvilli parvi : alae pubescentes, irides- 

 centes, mediocres ; proalis nervus subcostalis ad costae medium 

 stigma fingens et inde ramulum emittens angulatum, in alae 

 apicem porrectum ; metalis nervus subcostalis unicus simplex. 



Sp. 1. Spar, frontale. Mas et Fern. Alrum, protihicB apice 

 subtusque riifcs, tarsi picei, alcefuscce. 



Sparasion frontale . Latr. Hist. Nat. des Crust, et des 

 Insect. XII I. 230; Gen. Crust, et 

 Insect. IV. 32; St. Fargeau et Ser- 

 ville, Eiicycl. Method. X.M3; Cur- 

 tis, Brit. Ent. VII. 317; Nees ah 

 Esenheck, Hymenopt. Ichueam. affin. 

 Monogr. II. 260. 



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