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THREE NEW BRITISH SAWFLIES. 

 uy F. J). MOurcE, m.a., f.k.s. 



1. Pamphilius gtlleniiali, Dahib. 

 A ? of thin species waH sent to me for determination by the Kev. 

 E. N. Bloonifield in the autumn of last year. It is a very handsome 

 insect, and an important addition to our rather meagre list of British 

 Lydini. In the tabulation piven in my Help-Notes (Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 vol. XV, 2nd ser., p. 243) it should come next to hetuJce, having like that 

 species the frons Hwollcn laterally into two strong separated tiihereles, a 

 character which at once separates it from the species most resembling 

 it superficially, viz., haltratus and pallipea. 



In colour it is black, variegated, as follows, with yellow and red. The insertions 

 and scapes of the antenna;, the mouth parts and mandibles, the apex of the cljpeus, 

 the frontal tubercles and a patch between each of them and the nearest eye, a patch 

 behind each eye, four streaks on the vertex, tlie pronotal tubercles, the tegulse, the 

 middle lobe of the raesonotum (at its base), the scutellum and postscutellum, the 

 trochanters, femora and tibise, the overlapping edges of the abdominal dorsal rings, 

 and the extreme apices of the ventral rings, are creamy -yellow. The fiagellum of 

 the antennae, the cenchri, and the tarsi, orange-te.itaceous. The third dorsal ring 

 wholly, the fourth in part (obscurely), and the eighth wholly, sordid red. 



Mr. Bloomfield has most kindly presented me with the specimen. 

 I understand that he received it from Colchester many years ago as 

 halteatus. It is, however, certa\n\j f/yllen/iali, and has been recognised 

 as such by Pastor Konow to whom I sent it. (May I be allowed to 

 take this opportunity of mentioning that the unique British specimen 

 of Sciopteryx costalis recorded some years ago by Mr. Bloomfield is 

 also, through his generosity, at present in my collection ?). 



2. Amauronkmatus moricei, Konow. 



'J"hi.s was first described in the Zeitsclirift fiir system. Hvmenop- 

 lerologie u. Dipterologie, November, 1902. The ? had occurred in 

 France, (I crmany, and England; the ^J only in England, taken by Mr. 

 Chitty at Dodington in Kent. Although it bears my name, I was 

 merely the " middle man " through whom the British specimens (I (J 

 and I ? , both in Mr. Chitty's collection) reached the describer. 



The insect is large and consj)icuous for a Nematid, and it seems 

 strange that it should not have been detected sooner. Konow's (Latin) 

 diagnosis runs substantially as follows : — 



Testaceous, either entirely or with black markings dorsally, often with the ex- 

 treme base of the clypeus and two lateral vittaj on the mesonotum black, sometimes 

 with the metanotum also marked with black, and the dorsum of the abdomen more 

 or less black fasciated ; saw sheath of ? black margined : mouth, apex of coxee, 



