HYMENOPTERA. 



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mesothorax in front are four slightly raised smooth carinse which 

 terminate before the middle ; the two lateral earinae elevated at 

 their extremity, forming minute tubercles ; the wings flavo-hya- 

 line, their apical margins clear, the nervures ferruginous. The 

 margins of the segments of the abdomen depressed, the first, 

 second and basal half of the third red ; the extreme base of the 

 abdomen red. 

 Hab. India. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



Genus 7. MISCOPHUS. 



Larra, pt., Panz. Faun. Germ. fasc. 106. 

 Miscophus, J urine, Hym. 206. 



The species of this genus being of rare occurrence, and the 

 male of the type, M. bicolor, varying from black and red to a 

 totally black msect, it is most probable that one or more of 

 the following species are only varieties of the type. 



1. Miscophus bicolor. B.M. 



Miscophus bicolor, Jurine, Hym. 206. t. 11. gen. 25 $ . 



Latr. Gen. Crust, et Ins. iv. 72. 



Guer. Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. x. 632. 



Van d. hind, Obs. ii. 25. 1. 



Shuck. Foss. Hym. 92. 1. 



Dahlb. Hym. Europ. 235. 135. 



Smith, Zool. ii. 697 c? ? . 



St. Fary. Hym. iii. 237- 1. t. 27. f. 6 ? . 



Steph. Illustr. Mand. Supp. vii. 12. t. 42. f . 3 ? . 



Wesm. Hym. Foss. Belg. 72. 1. 

 Larra dubia, Panz. Faun. Germ. 106. 14 $ . 



Hab. Britain; France; Germany; Belgium; Scandinavia; Sweden. 



2. Miscophus concolor. 



Miscophus concolor, Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 236. 137 <? ? . 



Wesm. Hym. Foss. Belg. 72. 2. 

 Hab. Scandinavia; Germany (Berlin) ; Belgium (Brussels). 



3. Miscophus nicer. 



Miscophus niger, Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 236. 136 S ? . 



Hab. Germany; Gothland. 



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