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Table of Species. 



(4). I. Basal segment apically glabrous; third 

 quadrate. 



(3). 2. All coxae and trochanters red ; terebra 



shorter than abdomen i. CALIGATA, G^r«z/. 



(2). 3. All coxae and trochanters black ; tere- 

 bra longer than abdomen 2. MELANCHOLICA, G?-av. 



(i). 4. Basal segments dull throughout ; third 



transverse .. ..' .. .. 3. accusator, 7vz(5. 



1. caligata, Grav. 



Phytodietus caligattis. Gr. I. E. ill. 93(), <? ? . Cylloceria caligata, Schiod. 

 Guer. Mag. Zool. 1839, Ins. p. 25, pi. x, fig. 1 ; Holragr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1854, p. 92. 

 Lampronota caligata, Holmgr. Ofv. 1859, p. 128 ; Sv. Ak. Handl. 18G0, n. 10, 

 p. 48; Tasch. Z. G. N. 1863, p. 295, <? ? . L. crenicornis, Hal. Ann. Nat. Hist. 

 1839, p. 121 ; Curt. B. E. pi. ccccvii, i ? . Bassiis nuntiator, Zett. I. L. 381, 



c? ? . 



Head entirely black or with the mandibles dull ferrugineous ; frons a 

 little concave and more finely punctate than the centrally subprominent 

 face. Antennae black and in $ as long as the body. Thorax dull and 

 immaculate, confluently and not very distinctly punctate ; mesonotum 

 anteriorly convex and perpendicular, notauli very deeply impressed, disc 

 often basallv substriate ; nietathorax rugulose with the lateral carinae, 

 and the parallel-sided areola coalesced with the basal area, strong ; petio- 

 lar area short with its basal carina curved and distinct ; spiracles trans- 

 verse and oblong. Scutclluni normal and l)lack. Abdomen elongate- 

 fusiform, nearly parallel-sided, black, somewhat nitidulous, finely and 

 closely alutaceous with the segments usually narrowly and obsoletely fer- 

 rugineous apically ; basal segment rugose to near its smooth apex, gradu- 

 ally narrowed throughout and more abruptly from the conspicuous spira- 

 cles,' of $ basally bicarinate and nearly twice longer than broad, of 9 half 

 as long again as broad ; second segment and in J third quad- 

 rate, following transverse ; terebra longer than half the abdo- 

 men (^abdomen 5, terebra + nun.). Legs clear red, with only 

 the hind tibiae and tarsi nigrescent ; J rarely with all the 

 coxae and trochanters slightly infuscate. Wings distinctly a 

 little clouded ; stigma, radix and tegulae infuscate, latter 

 apically paler ; fenestrae widely discreted by a corneous line ; nervellus 

 intercepting in the centre. Length, 7 — 9 nun. 



At once known from the remaining species by the red coxae of both 

 sexes and its short terebra; the J ilagellar excision (figured) is brt)adcr. 

 A common species throughout Europe and the most ubiquitous of the 

 genus in Britain from June to September. Not unconnnon at Holywood 

 in Ireland (Haliday) ; Bickleigh in Devon, in August (liignell) ; Lands 

 Knd district (Marquand) ; Bawsey Heath (Atmore) and Earlham, Norfolk 



