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Not unfrequent in woods, near London, in June (Stephens) ; Lynn, in 

 Norfolk (Bridgman) ; Bolt Head, in June, and Horrabridge, in September 

 (Bignell) ; Land's End district (Marquand) ; Harting and Oxted (Beau- 

 mont) ; it is also recorded from Essex. In France, M. Pic found it 

 commonly about Digoin, in meadows near woods. I expect most of the 

 foregoing records really refer to the next species, which is not noted in 

 Berthoumieu's work. I have found C. celerafor, Grav., to be uncommon in 

 Britain. Miss Chawner has given me a specimen from the New Forest, 

 and Mr. R. C. Bradley another, captured about Birmingham in 1901. It 

 is said to be common throughout Europe, where Gravenhorst records it 

 copiously on umbelliferae, and to have been bred from the pupa of Sesia 

 hylaeiformis and from Botys 7mbilalis (bipullnalis). 



2. divisus, ThoJHS. 

 Colpognathus divisus y Thorns. O. E. xv. 1636, $ ? . 



Closely allied to the preceding, from which it may at once be known by 

 its smaller size, more elongate thorax, more deeply punctate mesonotum, 

 longer areola, and by the strongly discreted petiolar area, which is more 

 strongly contracted basally ; the S has the second segment distinctly 

 striolate basally, all the coxae and trochanters red, with the hind femora 

 more narrowly black at their apices ; the ? has the antennae bicoloured 

 and the mandibles much less deeply sinuate below. Length, 6-8 mm. 



This species has hitherto been mixed with the preceding, and is unre- 

 corded from Britain, where it is undoubtedly abundant during hibernation 

 in tufts of Aira caespitosa and other grasses. The male, which is found in 

 September, is of much rarer occurrence, and I have only seen two 

 examples of it taken at Tostock by Mr. Tuck, and at Oulton Broad, in 

 Suffolk, by Mr. Bedwell. Dalglish has taken females at Bowling in ]\Iay ; 

 Col. Yerbury at Golspie in August ; Piffard, at Felden ; and I have found 

 it freely, at Bentley Woods, near Ipswich, at Sedlescombe, Brede and 

 Battle, near Hastings. Heads Nook, near Carlisle (Routledge) ; Ply- 

 mouth (Bignell) ; and both sexes at Harting (Beaumont) ; Darenth and 

 South Wales (Chitty). 



3. jucundus, Wesm. 



Phaeogenes jucwidits, Wesm. Nouv. M(im. Ac. Brux. 1844, P- '94 '■> Bui. Ac. Brux. 

 1848, p. 324, ? ; Holmgr. Ichn. Suec. iii. 444 ; Berth. Ann. Soc. Fr. 1S96, p. 3S3, 6 ? . 

 Colpognathiis jucundus. Thorns. O. E. xv. 1636. 



Head strongly nitidulous, black ; palpi and mandibles sometimes pale. 

 Antennae black ; of $, with fiagellum basally rufescent beneath ; of ? 

 with scape and basal flagellar joints red, the central three white. Thorax 

 black ; notauli obsolete ; areola hardly longer than broad ; petiolar area 

 slightly concave. Abdomen of $ sub-cylindrical, of ? elongate-fusiform ; 

 black, with segments two and three or four and part of first and fifth, red ; 

 post-petiole nearly quadrate, indistinctly aciculate ; second segment basally 

 densely striolate, with somewhat distinct gastrocaeli ; terebra hardly ex- 

 'serted. Legs red ; anterior coxae and trochanters fulvidous ; hind coxae 

 in part, apices of hind femora and tibiae, and all the tarsi, infuscate. 

 Tegulae piceous ; radix white, stigma infuscate. Length, 8 mm. 



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