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little excised ; o flagellum ferrugineous beneath, scape black ; 9 with scape 

 and the eight basal flagellar joints red. Thorax entirely black ; notauli 

 punctiform ; epomiae wanting ; metanotum distinctly areated ; areola not 

 longer than broad, pentagonal ; petiolar area slightly excavate. Abdomen 

 grey-haired, elongate-ovate ; black, with the second, third, and usually 

 apices of the following segments, red ; the first geniculate, with the petiole 

 stout ; post-petiole broad, coarsely and strongly punctate throughout ; 

 thyridii ill-defined, transverse-linear ; terebra slightly exserted. Legs black, 

 with all the tibiae, anterior tarsi, and more or less of their femora, red ; 

 coxae mutic. Wings hyaline ; areolet not broad ; lower angle of discoidal 

 Cell sub-acute ; nervellus sub-opposite. Length, 7 mm. 



The structure of the basal segment will at once distinguish this species. 



Stephens says, " Taken at Hertford and Coombe Wood, in June " ; and 

 no one seems to have found it in Britain since 1835, though it is included 

 in all the catalogues but Desvignes'. Its right to inclusion in our fauna is 

 certainly nebulous ; on the continent it occurs in Sweden and Germany. 



7. stipator, JVes/fi. 



Phaeo!;enes stipator, Wesm. Bui. Ac. Brux. 1855, p. 422, ? ; Holmgr. Ichn. Suec. 

 iii. 442 ; Thorns. O. E. xv. 1645 ; Berth. Ann. Soc. Fr. 1896, p 378, c5 9 . P- ciaitella, 

 Siebold, ? Preuss. Trovinzialbl. 1850, p. 212; Brisch. Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1878, n. 6, 

 p. 56,(5 9. P. JHCHiidns, Wesm. Bui. Ac. Brux. 1S55, p. 423,(5. Ichnetimon cam- 

 brensis, Desv. E. M.AI. 1867, p. 130. Linierodes cainbrensis, Bridg. -Fitch. Entom. 

 1881, p. 60, 6; cf. Mori. E.M.M. 1902, p. 123. 



Head sub-buccate ; frons nearly flat, a little impressed, strongly and 

 sub-rugosely punctate ; clypeus distinctly discreted, punctate, apically 

 sub-sinuate and centrally slightly produced ; palpi and mandibles reddish. 

 Antennae stout, short, basally attenuate ; of ? sub-filiform, with four basal 

 flagellar joints red, the sixth quadrate, and centrally white- banded. 

 Thorax sub-deplanate, entirely black ; notauli obsolete ; metanotal areae 

 complete ; areola a little longer than broad ; petiolar area discreted and 

 centrally hardly concave. Abdomen elongate, black, with four basal 

 segments red ; post-petiole sub-aciculate, shining ; gastrocaeli distinct, the 

 intervening space in $ aciculate ; terebra distinctly exserted. Legs red ; 

 hind ones with apex of femora, and base and apex of tibiae, black ; coxae 

 of 9 with a short, simple, dentiform tubercle beneath. Stigma fuscous ; 

 tegulae dark ; radix white. Length, 8-9 mm. 



At first sight this species somewhat closely resembles those of the genus 

 Colpognathus ; it may, however, be distinguished from C. jucundiis by its 

 sub-buccate head, completely discreted petiolar area, more deeply excised 

 and black scape, and sub-cylindrical body ; from C. celerator the $ differs 

 in the basal impression of the second segment, the colour of the coxae, etc. 



Marshall first found this species, in Britain, in the autumn of 1866, in a 

 marsh near the sea, at Gellyswick, in Pembroke ; these specimens were 

 sent to Wesmael, who pronounced them to be new to science, and were 

 subsequently described by Desvignes as such ; nevertheless it will be seen 

 by comparing the following description, which I have taken direct from 

 Desvignes' types in the British Museum, with \\\^\. oi P. jucundus xw the 

 " Miscellanea," that they are nothing but males of P. stipator, as pointed 

 out by Berthoumieu. It has also been bred, in Britain, from Orthotelia 

 spargetiella in the New Forest (Trans. Ent. Soc. 18S4, p. 423) ; and I have 



