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(Bowdler), Witersliani, Kent, in flood refuse (BeniicU), Oucslliiig, near 

 ilastings (Bloonifield) ; and it has occurred to me at Bentley Woods, 

 Bramford chalk-pits, and Brandon, in Suffolk. The male is recorded, not 

 very commonly, about London (Stephens), Maldon, in Essex (l'"itch), 

 Hastings district (Hast. List) ; I possess it from (Ireenings, in Surrey (W. 

 Saunders), Kirknewton, near Edinburgh (Evans), Kreshncy l^ogs, near 

 Clrimsby ('rhornloy). West ALilvern (Tomlin), IVnacre Broad and 'Vostock, 

 in Suffolk (Tuck) ; and have taken it at Barton Mills, Mildenhall, Tud- 

 denhani Fen, Beccles, Henstead, Claydon bridge, and Bentley Woods in 

 the same county, as well as at Gosfield, in Essex, and several times at 

 1-yndhurst, in the New Forest. Both se.xes have been captured at Shere, 

 in Surrey, by Dr. Capron, in Devon, by Bignell, and about Norwich, by 

 Bridgman. Mr. Bradley has drawn attention to the similarity of this 

 female to that of the fossorial Myrmosa melanocephala (Birmingham luit. 

 Soc, 2 1 St Nov., 1898). The only British example of the variety sudeticus 

 was taken by me at the roots of Aim caespifosa, in the Bentley Woods, on 

 i3lh RLirch, 1904 ; it differs from the type form in very little but colour, 

 the narrower and more convex abdomen and post-petiole, and smaller size. 



17. cretatus, Grav. 



PhygOiieuon cretatus, Gr. I. E. ii. 652 ; Tasch. Zeils. Ges. Nat. 1S65, p. 30, i ; (/. 

 Kriech. Ent. Nachr. xviii. p. 364. Miaocryptus cretatus, Thorns. O. E. ix. 856, i ; 

 lib. cit. xiv. 1532, 9 . (?) Phygadeuon facialis, Gr. I. E. ii. 656 ; Tasch Zeits. Ges. Nat. 

 1865, p. 31, <J. 



Head nearly cubical, with cheeks buccate, long and broad ; frons 

 strongly and sparsely punctate, clypeus distinctly produced apically in the 

 centre ; of 9 as broad as the thorax, glabrous and not narrowed behind 

 the eyes, black, with the facial orbits and the cheeks broadly rufescent, 

 genal costa inflexed and not elevated, clypeus with the palpi and stout 

 mandibles pale red ; of $ with mouth, clypeus, cheeks, the internal orbits, 

 a facial and vertical dots, white. Antennae with the scape only slightly 

 excised a[)ically ; of $ elongate and setaceous, with the basal joints 

 rufescent, and the scape sometimes white beneath ; of ? filiform, brown, 

 with joints eight to eleven white. Thoracic spiracles small and sub- 

 circular ; c? with pronotum and a callosity beneath the radix white ; 

 metathorax in both sexes short, with the petiolar area reaching nearly 

 to the base, areola sub-obsolete, basal area (juadrate and well-defined. 

 Scutellum deplanate and, with the post-scutellum, pale in 9 'I'lJ white in 

 $. Abdomen neither alutaceous nor white-marked ; of 9 sub compressed 

 posteriorly, red, with the [)etiole smooth, not carinate, basally black, terebra 

 half the length of the ai)domen ; of ^ slightly narrower than the thorax, 

 oblong-ovate, deplanate, black, with the second and third and the apical 

 margins of the following segments red, post-petiole red and quadrate. 

 Legs red ; hind femora incrassate and clo.sely punctate, anterior tibiae 

 spinulose ; coxae, trochanters, hind tarsi, apices of their tibiae, and in the 

 9 all the femora basally, black. Wings hardly clouded ; radix and tegulae 

 of c? white ; areolet broad pentagonal. Length, 7 mm. 



The i has the often indistinct vertical dots as in J/, abdoinituitor, 

 but differs from it in its shorter antennae, which arc paler beneath, in its 

 white pronotum, tegulae, scutellum, post-scutellum, internal orbits, face 



