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Far. fS tripio minor; alls albo-hyalinls. 



y praccedenti dimidio minor. 

 Obs. In hue varielate anus, in aduhiorihus,fuU 



vo-aureus. 

 Maris Corpus hirsutum, subtus flavescens. 

 Maxillce supra pallidas, barba pallescenti. 

 jintenncr thorace breviores, articulis rectius- 

 culis. Occiput et Vertex ynedio pilis citrinis 

 ornata. Fades ante antennas fascicule denso 

 quadrangular! villorum citrinorum insignita, 

 Truncus supra basi citrinus, medio ater, apice 

 pallidus. Squamulce piceas. jil^ albo-hya- 

 linae. Pedes rufescente-hirti, femorum barba 

 dilution. Scopulce subauratae. Digiti ferru- 

 ginei. Abdomen subovatum, ano ferrugineo. 

 The difference of size between $ and y, which I 

 take to be the two descriptions of neuters, and 

 a, which is the female, is so great, that were they 

 not most exact counterparts of each other in every 

 other respect, I should scarcely be able to persuade 

 myself of their identity. ^. pratorum of Christius, 

 as far as I can judge from his figure, is nothing 

 more than the largest of the two neuters of this 

 species. The male has usually been considered as 

 a distinct spscies: Fabricius mistook it for j4, pra- 

 torum, Lin. but changed its name to A. arbusto- 

 rum. That it is not A. pratorum, we have shewn 

 above; it remains that we assign our reasons for 

 giving it as the male of the species before us. In 

 the first place Reaunmrj speaking of the variations 



of 



