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iogetlier rugose, or tending to run into one anotlier, the snioolh siirfnce here 

 and there with an excessively minute puncture; towards the sides the punc- 

 tures become very dense and less coarse. The scutellum is very coarsely 

 punctured, the punctures dense all over and leaving very little smooth space 

 anywhere, while on the posterior half they are rather finer and still denser 

 than in front. Anterior area of the propodeum very strongly longitudinally 

 rugose, the wrinkles more or less connected posteriorly before reaching the 

 bruw ; at the sides the propodeum is much duller, with irregular and compara- 

 tively feeble sculpture. Wings largely hyaline basally, but distinctly iufuscate 

 on the apical part, and with the appearance of a distinct, smoky, apical band. 

 Stigma dark brown, the neuration for the most part evidently paler than this, 

 more yellow. Hooks of the hind wings, 8 on one, 9 on the other. Spines of 

 the hind tibiae dark, but some of them in certain aspects have a reddish tinge, 

 and the fringe in which they are placed is not pure white, but sordid, as is 

 that on the metatarsus. 



Basal segment of the abdomen with very fine and extremely remote 

 punctures (which, however, are scattered over the disc as ou other parts) except 

 along the apical margin ; second segment with the punctures much more 

 numerous, but jiot dense, except at the sides, where they become larger, the 

 paler apical part or apical impression of the segment without visible sculpture, 

 while that of the Si'A and 4tli has an extremely fine transverse rugulosity ; 

 pygidial area very small for the size of the insect, and very minutely granulate, 

 the hairs around it sordid, greyish. 



The single specimen described is in very fresh condition and had 

 probabl}^ only recently emerged, even the minute marginal cilia of the 

 wings being perfect. It was caught on August Stli, 1919, at Shapwick, 

 Somerset {Jenny ii) . 



Mr. Morice has, with his usual kindness, lent me the only Conti- 

 nental example he possessed named " scahricollis ? ". This specimen 

 was caught by him at Bozen, Tirol, on June 9th, 1899, and bad evidently 

 been very long on the wing, as the mai-gins of these organs are very 

 much frayed and their colour is entirely brownish. The punctures on 

 the mesonotum are a little closer, and the abdominal punctures are rather 

 more developed than in the British specimen, but these and other slight 

 differences are not greater than one finds between individuals of any series 

 oi f/ihhiis or of other species. I refer the Somerset specimen to scalri- 

 coUis rather than to schenchii because the scutellum cannot be considered 

 at all remotely punctured, the apical impunctate part of the 2nd abdo- 

 minal segment occupies considerably less than half the surface of 

 the segment, and on account of some other differences in Meyer's 

 description of scheiicJiii. The English specimen could only belong to 

 one of these. 



The 6 of S. l-ersTtauH Berk., from Macao, China, was described 



