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beneath, thorax with a somewhat elongate flavous callosity and the 

 trochanters red. 



This species is very similar to G. consi/iii/is, from which it diflers, 

 besides the colour of the legs and wings, in having the second and third 

 segments longer than broad. The frontal excrescence appears to render 

 the present species intermediate between those with and without a horn 

 in that position. 



Gravenhorst records that Necs von Esenbcck took the former's typical 

 male /;/ cop. with a female G. bifoTcolata ; he had himself also found the 

 two species together though never in cop. Lands End district (.Maquand), 

 Norwich (Bridgman), Theddlethorpe, Lines., in July ((Jibbs). Goureau 

 has, according to Dours (Cat. 65) bred it from Anacampsis leinenlla. 



18. punctifrons, Bridg. 

 Glypta punctifrons, Bridg. Trans. Norf. Soc. 1889, p. 70, <r . 



Head black with the cheeks below the eyes scarcely, if at all, longer 

 than the width of the base of the mandibles ; clypeus not clothed with 

 long and dense pubescence ; frons with no horn. Antennae with scape 

 not flavous beneath. Thorax immaculate. Abdomen with the second 

 and third segments not transverse. Legs with all the coxae red ; hind 

 tibiae biannulated, their base and that of the tarsal joints pale ; fifth hind 

 tarsal joint not longer than the fourth. 



A species is thus shortly diagnosed by Bridgman {loc. cit.) under the 

 name G. pimctifnms, Thoms. ; but he remarks, on introducing it into our 

 fauna (Trans. Knt. Soc. 1889, p. 436), that he does not know where it is 

 described. As a matter of fact, no species of this genus has been else- 

 where mentioned under such a name and the present must, consequently, 

 be attributed to Bridgman, as is done by Schmiedeknecht, who copies 

 Bridgman's table of this genus, in which is a bad fault towards the end. 



This male is said to differ from G. flavipes (femorator), Desv., in having 

 the front coxae and the scape not flavous beneath and the clvpeus not 

 densely pubescent ; it a})pears to me to differ from G. teres is nothing but 

 the coxal and hind tibial colour, and is probably no more than a variety 

 of that species. No female has vet been assigned to it. 



" I'his was bred by .Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher ex Aiilitlhsia dimidiana {xo\\\ 

 Rannock." 



19. pedata, Des,v. 



Glypta pedata, Desv. Cat 74,? (?<^|, Thoms. O.E. xiii. 1348, ? ; c/. Bridg. 

 Trans. Norf. Soc. v. 70, <f ? . G. pictipcs. Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1863, p. 276. 

 ? ; Thoms. O.E. xiii. 1347, <f ? . 



Head transverse and somewhat narr(n\- behind the eyes; face distinctly 

 punctate with very short pubescence, epistoma prominent ; clypeus 

 sparsely pubescent, convex and, like the apices of the mandibles,' cas- 

 taneous ; frons mutic, strongly and distinctly punctate ; pali)i flavous, 

 cheeks normal. Antennae distinctly longer than half the body ; black, 

 with the flagellum ferrrugineous beneath. Thorax black with flavous cal- 

 losities before the radices ; mesopleurae evenly and distinctly punctate ; 

 metathorax convex, coarsely but distinctly punctate, with the areola 

 elongate and apically indeterminate. Scutelliim black, rarely (as in Desv.'s 

 type) apically castaneous, as also is the carina of the frenum. Abdomen 

 black and punctate with the incisures of the three basal segments dull 



