En'gorgus] 



BRITISH ICHNFUMONS. 



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6. melanobatus, Grav. 



Anoiiuiloii iiiclaiiobattini , Gr. I.E. iii. (i62 ; Voll. Pinac. xliii, fig. 6 ; Bridg.- 

 Fitch, Entom. 1884, p. 224, i. A. chiripcnnc. Thorns. O.E. x%i. 1764, <? ?. 

 En'gorgus siiiiilis, Szepl. Term. Fijz. 1899, p. 214, i . E. melanobatus, Schm. 

 Opusc. Ichn. p. 1489, <? ? . Var. Anonialoii brcvicornc, Forst. Verb. pr. Kheinl. 

 1855, p. 236, ? [ncc Grav.). Var. ^4 . iiiclauops, Forst. lib. cit. p. 234, ? ; A. 

 variaiis, Brauns, Term. Fiiz. 1895, p. 47, ? ; Erigorgiis intcrstitialis et flavi- 

 iiianus. Szepl. I.e. 1899, p. 214, s ? ; E . piirpuratac et apollinis, Kriech. Ent. 

 Nach. 1900, pp. 172 cM74, <f ? . 



Head black; face flavou.s, rarely witli two black viltae or only laterally 

 and centrally pale; $ orbits vertically rufescent. Antennae black with 

 the S scape flavous beneath. Thora.x black. Abdomen red with basal 

 .segment except usually its apex, second discall\- and anus more or less 



broadly, black. Legs ri-d, with anterior of J parll\- llavous ; coxae, part 

 of trochanters, lines on anterior femora and most of the hind ones black; 

 hind tibiae dull red with their apices broadly black, their tarsi rufescent 

 with the basal joints apically, and the apical ones, black. Length, 

 1 5-20 mm. 



The var. brevicornis has the face only laterally pale, the hind femora 

 and basal segment entirely red ; the var. me/afwps, considered a good 

 species by Schm., differs from the typical form only in having the hind 

 tarsi entirely flavidous-red with the female face, except rarel) an orbital 

 dot, black. I have not found tlic very possibly synonymous E./iirugina- 

 lor, Grav., to be British. 



