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short and stout, a little shorter than the postpetiole, which is longer than 

 broad ; terebra not longer than basal segment. Legs flavidcnis with the 

 hind coxae entirely and in 9 the anterior except apically black ; hind 

 trochanters black. Wings with tegulae ])ale flavous, areolet small, irregu- 

 lar and elongately petiolate. Length, nearly 5 mm. 



The old descriptions bear little or nothing distinctive ; but Thomson 

 separates this and the next three species from all the rest of the genus, 

 thus : — Head with the vertex not or hardly constricted, face parallel- 

 sided, cheeks subbuccate, peristomium and mandibles small ; antennae 

 longer than half body, with flagellum filiform and slender, and scape 

 usually immaculate black ; thorax elongate, with no costulae ; areola 

 short and laterally continuous with petiolar area ; abdomen black, un- 

 usually compressed, becoming nitidulous and nearly glabrous towards its 

 anus, with second segment elongate and the seventh dorsally emarginate 

 and laterally cleft to its base on either side ; terebra strongly curved with 

 stout spicula, generally a little longer than the petiole which is shortish 

 and thick, but little narrower than the postpetiole ; areolet small and 

 petiolate, emitting recurrent nervure slightly before its apex. 



Widelv distributed and recorded from Austria, Piedmont, France and 

 near Lund. It figures in Marshall's 1870 and 1872 catalogues, but I (ind 

 no explicit British records. I can confirm it as indigenous, since he him- 

 self gave me a female, which he was unable to name, taken at Botus- 

 fleming in Cornwall ; and I have found the species at \\'il\erle\ in llie 

 New Forest in the middle of June. 



2. parvula, Grav. 



Cavtpoplex parviihis, Gr. I.E. iii. 489, ? . Linnicria parxuila, Bridg. -Fitch, 

 Entom. 1885, p. 107, ? . Augitia parvula, Thorns. O.E. xi. 1155, ■? . 



This female differs from thi- last species in nothing Inil its])e(l;il (^)l(iiir- 

 ation, truncate clypeus and possibly larger size. Anli'rii>r legs testaceous, 

 with trochanters paler and coxae black ; hind legs fulvous with coxae and 

 trochanters black, apices of femora nigrescent, tibiae dull whitish with a 

 mark before their base and a broader one at their apex infuscate, tarsi 

 infuscate with the first joint basally stramineous. Abdomen not shorter 

 than head and thorax, with terebra about as long as basal segment or a 

 fourth of the body. Length, 4^-5^- mm. 



The male has not hitherto been described and dilTt-rs somewhat con- 

 siderably from the female in having the hind femora nearly iMiliri>lv black 

 and their tibiae much darkc:r. In both sexi-s the mandibles are black and 

 the basal third of the hind tarsi alone is pale, with reniaiiider nigrescent 

 throughout. 



Our claim to this species as l>rilish has hitherlo been chimerical, and 

 rested solely upon its inclusion in .Marshall's catalogues. Only two 

 records seem to exist: (Jravenhorst received a single specimen from 

 about Warmbrunn in Silesia, and Thomson found tlii- female in Norway. 

 My Clare Island refcreiu e to this species (Proc. R. Irish Acad. 191 1, Nt). 

 24) is an error. 1 am able to confirm this species as British on the 

 strength of one female (which has the apices of the second to fourth .seg- 

 ments laterally dull red) and two males, bred together, with a single 

 Apantflts, during )uly, 1906, from Cdicp/riij Irifioliana, Barr., at \'arinoutli 

 in the Isle of Wight by Mr. E. R. Hankes. 



