4. NEMOTELUS 119 



''?l^i(7VSon''ca'w^ occipite puncto flavo. Antenna' ^syescenteB. 



" Ablmen71vL ,segiTientis marg^ne nigris : tribus prioribus macula nigra trans- 



" ^ TH; J^vLS^o1,vio^^sly a repetition of the one given in 1 758, but the descripti<m 

 obviouslf rSs to Oxyc.r^ trilineata, and it seems probable that Lmne had recog- 

 S his mistake in 1 767 when he ga^e his revised description of M. pantherina as 

 ^the ame page he described M. trilineata and 3f hypoleon, which are believed to 

 brthe S and the yellow forms respectively of Oari/cera trthneata, ^ndm his 

 descriptfon of M. trilineata some words occur almost identical with those given in 

 tlip Fimna Snecica "description" of il/.;?aM^/i«'^«^a- „ , . ^ 



I thS it rSay therefore be accepted that Linne's name of panthepn^ may be 

 applied ?o this sp^eci^s' but that his '^description " of M. panther^an^ m the Fauna 



""""'^^l^V^.'^-^^^'^Ty^^^n considered applicable. to. this species is that of 

 Stratirniys marginatm of Eabricius whose original descnption was : ^^ 



"10. S. scutello inermi, nigra, abdominis margme tibusque albidis. 



" Habitat in Anglia. Mus. Banks." 



"Caput n -rum! antennis filatis, basi connatis. Thorax nigrO:^neus, immacu- 

 " latus^ Abdomen depressum, atrum, margine maculisque aliquot dorsalibus 

 " obsoletis albidis. Femora nigra, tibiffi pallida?, alee albse, , , . , 



Thifi'? almost certai^^ the description of a female #.mo^./«s which, occurs m 

 England and a^ V .o>a^«I was not recognised as a distinct species until sixty years 

 Si and its female has the whitish abdominal margin extended along.lhe hmd- 

 .V«rl'ii^rth4mav be excluded. The words "abdominis margine... albidis ' and 

 " cS^ more accurately to N. pantherinus .than to N. .ligrn^sus 



and consequently Fabricius' name may be allowed to smk as.a synonym, of 

 iT ,>rSS though I do not for a moment believe that Fabricius recognised 

 th^SiSon 'of the%egular margin of the abdomen m A\ panthertnus horn t\.^ 

 irregular margin of N. vligmosiis. 



2 N uliginosus Linne. Face moderately produced ; frons with white 

 markings in both sexes. Abdomen of the male mainly whitish, and the 

 belly of both sexes black with a rather large white spot near the base. 



^ Face shinin'- black, and in combination with the frons produced out to a 

 ^' 'atherTominent cone or snout (fig. 121) which is moreor less brown and 

 sUghtV curved down at its tip; frons pale yellow or whitish right down to 

 the antennoe with a very narrow dividmg middle line; frons bare but the 

 snout witi a little short pale pubescence on its sides and beneath; jowls 

 very shallow but not small, shining black with 

 fairly long sparse brownish yellow pubescence ; 



back of the head slightly puffed out and bear- ^...^^ 



ing short brownish pubescence ; vertex shining y^ ^ 



l)lue black with short pale pubescence behind ^-j. ^ \ 



the ocelli, and there is a rather dense short ^k^ J/ 



brownish yellow pubescence extending ctown ^js^HI ' ' ■■m 



between the eyes almost to the antennae. Eyes ^^^%. M 



bare, almost touching for about one-third the ^^^^^.=_-^m 



distance between the occiput and the antennse ; '^^^^^Tv'Af) 



facets on the upper two-thirds larger than '"'V'#/i/;'^ 



those on the darker colored lower third, but ^,^ _^,^,otdns ^a^gino,uB $. 



not very conspicuously so and not bulging over fig. i.i. ^ ^^^ 



the occiput. Antennae dull blackish brown, 



rather long but rather thick, and placed m a conspicuously 



depression about half-way . down the .snout ; thud joint ^o^^P^^X^^^J 

 anUated and bearing an apical ^tyle, which is nearly as long as t^^^^^^ 

 loint and which becomes abruptly thm and hairlike on its apical quarte , 

 while the style itself bears two or three minute P^^^mes 



Thorax and scuteUum shining black ; humeri with a rather large ovai pa « 



