106 P^y- 



2. ASTATUS MASSILIENSIS, n. Sp. 



$ . Niger, antice albo-pilosus, pedibus maximam partem rufis. Ab A. boope, 

 Sclir., differt abdomine lolo nigro, tibiis tarsisque omnibus lsete rufis, thorace (etiam 

 basi scutelli !) crebrius punctato pi'optereaque minus uitido, antennarum articulis 

 intermediis infra fortius sod simpliciter (baud emarginate) dilatatis, abdomine infra 

 brevius subfusco-piloso. Long., 13 ndll. 



One $ taken at Marseille, 27th June, 1898: Ilerr Kohl told me 

 that there was a similar specimen (from Oran) in the Vienna 

 Hofmuscum. 



This species is not distinguished by quite such satisfactory 

 characters as the last. I see nothing in the clypeus or wings, except 

 that the latter are unusually clear, to separate it from boops. The 

 antenna-, however, are certainly different, and the combination of a 

 black abdoinen with red tibia) and tarsi gives it a very distinct 

 appearance. It cannot well be luiicohr, Lep., for that is described as 

 having the legs and the hairs of the thorax black. Nor does it agree 

 with a specimen 1 have seen from Corsica, labelled " piceus, Costa," 

 which (inter alia) has the sinuated antennal dilatations of hoops, and 

 is, I suspect, only a black form of that species. In massiliensis the 

 dilatations are strong, but with a quite simply convex (not sinuated) 

 outline. Nor — teste auctore ipso — is it carbonarius, Kohl, which further 

 is described as identical structurally with loops. 



Brunswick, Woking : 



February, 1902. 



<) DINER US BIFASCIATU1S, Linn., 

 AN ADDITION TO THE LIST OF BRITISH RYMEJSOPTERA. 



BY EDWAItD SAUJynEUS, E.L.S. 



I have had in my collection for some time, i. e., since 1SSJ5, a 

 series of this wasp mixed up with O. sinuatus, Fab. Nearly all my 

 specimens were taken by Mr. W. II. Tuck at Tostock, near Bury St. 

 Edmund's, some in 1895 and others in 1897 ; but I possess one indi- 

 vidual, which formed part of Shuckard's collection, and was included 

 by him also under sinuatus. In general facies the species are 

 very much alike, but they may be distinguished by the following 

 characters :•— 



Tbe postpetiole of the first segment of the abdomen in bifasciatus, i. e., that 

 portion beyond the basal transverse ridge, is distinctly more quadrate and less cone 

 shaped than in sinuatus, being shorter, and wider at the base than in that species, 



