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distinct but not strong. Scutellum and abdomen black ; the latter with 

 the first segment slightly curved laterally, dorsaliy feebly canaliculate, with 

 somewhat projecting spiracles ; terebra one third length of abdomen. 

 Legs red, with coxae and trochanters black. Wings not fasciated ; nervelet 

 small, radix and tegulae infuscate. Length, 12 mm. 



The colour of the $ legs is similar to that of C. tarso/etici/s, but the 

 pale frontal orbits produced below, the occasional large facial and clypeal 

 mark, the frons not foveate between the scrobes, the grey-haired and not 

 sub-cyaneous abdomen, as well as the white-marked front or anterior tro- 

 chanters and front coxae, callosity beneath radix and margin of tegulae, 

 render it distinct. 



Than C. i7ioschator the present species is larger and stouter, with thicker 

 antennae and shorter terebra, the mesonotum more densely and finely 

 punctate, the hind tibiae and tarsi red, of which the latter are pale-banded 

 or, in $ , broadly white ; the $ may be known by its white-marked face 

 and clypeus, its scutellum unusually also bearing a white mark. 



From C. viduatorius, also, the colour of the hind legs, the larger and 

 stouter body, and nearly totally black frontal orbits will distinguish it. 



This common Continental species is recorded from Heigham, Brundall 

 and Horning Ferry, in Norfolk by Bridgman, and from Stonehouse in 

 Devon, at the end of March, by Bignell. The males were not uncommon 

 upon Angelica sylves/ris, with Acroricniis macrobaius at ^Litley Bog in the 

 New Forest in the middle of August, 1901 ; I have also received it from 

 Thornley, who took it at South Leverton in May, 1896. 



6. viduatorius, Fab. 



Cryptus viduatorius. Fab. Piez. 70, ? ; Gr. I. E. ii. 476 et i. Suppl,700 ; Ste. HI. 

 M. vii. 280; Tasch. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1865, p. 70; Voll Pinac. pi. vi. f. 5 (details); 

 Thorns. O. E. 479, $ ^ ; cf. lib. cit. xxi. 2351, var. $ , et Brisch. Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 

 1879 P-332, var. $ ?. 



Head black ; of $ with internal orbits, a facial and clypeal mark, the 

 palpi and most of the mandibles, white, of ? rarely with interior and 

 sometimes a mark in centre of exterior orbits, and another on the cheeks, 

 fiavescent, labrum rufescent and palpi infuscate, its epistoma prominent. 

 Antennae of $ sub-setaceous, w-ith scape white beneath ; of 9 more 

 slender and filiform, with the central joints more or less white above and 

 the basal ones rarely rufescent. Thorax generally with a dot beneath, 

 more rarely also a line before, the radix white ; metathorax of $ finely 

 longitudinally rugose, with both costae fine but entire, of $, confluently 

 punctate, with only the basal costa comi)lete and the petiolar area sub- 

 discreted ; apophyses sub-acute. Scutellum marked with pale flavous. 

 Abdomen black, of $ narrower than thorax and apically sub-compressed ; 

 basal segment smoother in $, sub-linear, with the post-petiole slightly 

 broader and the spiracles sometimes prominent ; of 9 oblong-ovate, the 

 post-petiole sub-quadrate and second segment sometimes sub-castaneous, 

 or with the margin castaneous ; terebra shorter than abdomen, with 

 spicula red. Legs slender and red ; coxae and trochanters black, anterior 

 of $ white-marked beneath ; hind tarsi and tibiae apically nigrescent, the 

 former in c^ with central joints ferrugineous or whitish ; tibiae of 9 spinu- 

 lose. ^Vings darker in 9 ; tegulae wholly or partly white ; nervelet 

 indicated. Length, 8-10 mm. 



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