1868.J 203 



Several specimens are in Mr. Walker's collection. Resembles a Lomtropa or 

 an Entomacis, but belongs undoubtedly to this genus. 



aa. Mesonotum not bisnlcate at the base. 



5.— Spilomiceus integer, Thorns., Ofv., 1858, p. 369. 



Black, shining ; legs frith the coxae testaceous ; club of the antenna3 sub-5- 

 articulate, the 8th joint broader than the preceding; wings very slightly 

 infumated. $ . 



<? . Antennse longer than the thorax, 4th joint almost twice as long as the 2nd. 



The ? is distinguished from flavipes, Thoms., by the antennae, which have the 

 9th joint conspicuously narrower than the 10th, the 8th transverse, broader than 

 the 7th. 



Not uncommon in England. In Mr. Walker's collection and my own. 



(To he concluded in our next.) 



Description of anew species of Dryinus, Latr. — While entomologizing last June on 

 the barren and sunburnt slopes of the Spanish Pyrenees, near the village of Torla, 

 I took, running on the ground, what seemed a large Gonatopus, but differing from 

 others that I have met with in having wings, and in the length of its antennae. 

 Subsequent examination, with the aid of various books, convinces me that I have 

 here an undescribed species of the real Dryinus, Latr., not to be confounded with 

 Dryinus, Nees. (Mon. 2, 370), or Dryinus, Walk. (Ent. Mag., 4, 413). As the 

 present condition of Latreille's genus is very unsatisfactory, owing to the extreme 

 rarity of types, and its confusion with other allied forms, and with Metlioca and 

 Tengyrd, I have thought it worth while to bring forward and desci'ibe the present 

 insect. Latreille himself admitted that his genus was founded upon a single 

 mutilated specimen, and it is far from clear that the individuals subsequently used 

 by him in connecting the diagnosis were identical with the first, or even that they 

 were anything more than Gonatopus, Ljungh, 



Dryinus, Latr., Gen. Cr. et Ins., iv, p. 40. 



Partium statura eadem fere ut in Gonatopide, sed antennarum art. primus arcu- 

 atus, 3tius longissimus, sequentibus 3 bussimul sumptis sequaHs ; 4-5 elongati 

 lineares, 4tus 5to sesqui longior ; 6-9 subaequales, paulo incrassati, ultimus 

 praecedente longior, acuminatus. Prothorax Gonatopidis ; mesothorax optime 

 determinatus, elevatus ; scutellum sat conspicuum, sutura basali transverse 

 impressum. Metathorax elongatus, convexus, supra planiusculus, non-nisi apice 

 declivis. Alas angustse, abdomine breviores ; nervus subcostaHs stigma attingens ; 

 nervus basalis in discum declivis ramulo occurrit nervi humeralis ex apice orto, et 

 paulo etiam ultra in discum excurrit. Stigma elongatum, lineare, apice incraa- 

 satum. Nervus radialis incurvus, incompletus, sed nervo spurio a3gre cernendo 

 continuatus, cellulam cultriformem, alse apicem fere attingentem claudit ; ramulum 

 etiam retrorsum sub stigmate rejicit, quo cellula cubitalis unica quasi innuitur. 

 Abdomen, pedes, caetora omnes, eadem quae in Gonatopide. 



