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14. aculeata, Bridg. 



LiDiiicria (Angitia) aculeata, Bridg. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 428, ? . 



Head transverse and somewhat dull, anteriorly subtriangiilar, vertex 

 slightly oblique; face subquadrate, cly{)eus basally discreted and ajjically 

 rounded, mandibular teeth of equal length and rufescent with palpi 

 testaceous. Antennae about lialf length of body and apically attenuate. 

 'I'horax subnitidulous ; metathorax smooth and shining, rounded with 

 hardly any sculpture, except five discal arcae, of which the areola is not 

 longer than broad; mesopleurae nitidulous and i)unctate, with speculum 

 smooth. Abdomen smooth and shining; postpetiole but slightly shorter 

 than petiole, stout and fully double breadth of petiole, parallel-sided ; 

 second segment a third longer than broad ; third slightly transverse ; 

 sixth and seventh discally deeply emarginate ; terebra reflexed and fully 

 two-thirds as long as abdomen. Legs not stout, red with coxae and base 

 of front trochanters black, hind trochanters concolorous with extreme 

 apices red; all the tibiae pale stramineous, with the apices and a mark 

 before base of huid ones rufescent-infuscate ; hind tarsi infuscate with 

 calcaria and nearly whole of basal joint pale. Stigma flavidous testa- 

 ceous, tegulae stramineous; areolet subpetiolate or subsessile, emitting 

 recurrent nervure almost from its centre ; apical radial abscissa nearly 

 straight, stigma not narrow, nervellus entire. Length, 7 mm. 9 only. 



"It is easily distinguished by the long aculeus, the sixth and seventh 

 dorsal segments of the abdomen being deeply notched, and the colour of 

 the legs," says its author; though it is very distinct from all other species 

 of the genus (except perhaps A. maru/ti/a) in the very strongly nitidulous 

 and subglabrous body, and deeply })unctate mesonotum with its interstices 

 not at all reticulate. 



Two females were bred bv W. H. B. Fletcher from Lveatiia alsiis during 

 August, 1883, with no definite locality. The only other known example 

 appears to be a female in my own collection, captured some twenty years 

 ago by the late Mr. Albert Piftard at Felden near Boxmoor in Hertford- 

 shire. 



15. apostata, Grav. 



Canipoplcx apostata, (ir. I.E. iii. 510, ? . Liiinwria apostata, Bridg. -Fitch, 

 Entom. 1S85, p. 105, ? . A)igitia Apostata, Thorns, O.E. xi. IKSl, i ? . Dioctcs 

 apostata, Schm. Opusc. Ichn l(•i4;^ 



Head but slightly constrieteil poslrriorU-, with the palpi and undiTside 

 of scape flavous. Thorax with the mesopleurae evidently punctate and 

 their interstices alutaceous, speculum dull ; metathorax alutaceous ; with 

 costulae fine. Abdomen black with ventral plica infuscate, and terebra less 

 than half length of abdomen. Legs flavidous fulvous, with the anterior 

 trochanters flavous ; hind coxae and trochanters black, most of their tarsi 

 except basally, the apices and often a subbasal indefinite mark on their 

 tibiae infuscate; hind tibiae centrally testaceous. Stigma narrow and 

 fiavidous, tegulae stramineous ; areolet entirely wanting. Length, 3.^nnn. 



This is quite a small species, strongly resembling .1. nana but known 

 by the total lack of areolet ; both Thomson and Schmiedeknecht give its 

 length incorrectly at 5-6 mm. though it was rightly placed at i^ lines by 

 Bridg. -Fitch. 



