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(6). 7. Scutcllum flavous and not carinate ; 



Hagellum fulvous 4. r.IGL IIA'ITM, Crav. 



(i). 8. Frons centrally cornute ; claws dis- 

 tinctly pectinate [Aphanisies, 

 Forst.]. 

 (10). 9. Flasifellum as long as body, red; 



scutellum carinate . . ■ ■ 5- Kl'FKORNK, Grav. 



(9). 10. Flagellum short, basally black; 

 scutellum mutic. 

 (12). II. Scape black; scutcllum strong-ly 



convex .6. x \x 1 hoits, S(lir. 



(11). 12. Scape clear rufescent ; scutellum 



not strongly convex .. ■ 7- HKl-i-icusUM, W'csm. 



1. latro, S>i:hr. 



Ichiiciinion latro. Schr. En. 1781, 360, ? ; Vill. Linn. Ent. iii. 181; Gmel. 

 S.N. 1790, -2697. /. latnitor, Oliv. Encycl. Meth. 1792, 184 {ncc Fab.). Opiiion 

 latro, Gr. Nov. Act. Acad. Curios. 1818, p. 295. Aiioiiialon latro, Or. I.E. iii. 

 (377; Hrisch. Schr. Nat. Danz. 1880, p. 137; Bridg. -Fitch, Entom. 1884, p. 224 ; 

 Thorns. O.E. xvi. 1765, j ? . 



Head and thorax densely pubescent and bhick, with the face laterally 

 and often centrally, or in (^ sometimes whole face, flavous. Antennae 

 black, with J scape flavous beneath. Scutelhim black. Abdomen red; 

 of V \vith first segment basally infuscate, the second discally and anus 

 from fifth black ; of (J with first segment nearly entirely black and re- 

 mainder subinfuscate, darker apically. Legs red with all the coxae, basal 

 half or most of hind femora and their tibial apices, black ; anterior tibiae 

 and tarsi of ^ flavidous. Wings slightly clouded, with stigma and tegulac 

 rufescent. Length, 20 mm. 



A variable species, with the J hind femora and tibiae sometimes en- 

 tirely black, at others also (var. 7'icimim, Forst.) with ^ face flavous ; or 

 the male legs not black, though face flavous; the ^ var. orbi/ale, Thoms., 

 has the basal segment entirely red, face laterally flavous, size smaller, the 

 legs fulvous with coxae and part of hind ones black. 



It is said to be a form of transition to Erigorgus. 



Widely distributed but everywhere scarce on the Continent : Germany, 

 (jenoa, Austria, France, Sweden ; bred from pupae of Diloba auruleo- 

 Liphala in Prussia by Brischke, and from Perigrapha cincta in Hungar)- by 

 Mocsary ; unknown in Belgium. It appears a somewhat southern species, 

 hardly likely to occur with us, though twice taken by Thomson in Sweden 

 where it must be very rare since Holmgren did not know it. Desvignes 

 gives it as contained in his collection in 1856, and it has consequently 

 figured in our Catalogues. Its right to inclusion must be regarded as open 

 to doubt. 



2. cerinops, Grav. 



Ophion flavifroiis, Gr. Ubers. zool. Syst. 1807, p. 267 ; Nov. Act. Acad. Curios. 

 1818, p. 295 {ncc Fab.). O. ptibcscens, Zett. l.L. i. 393, <! . Anoiiialon cerinops, 

 Gr. I.E. iii. 658; Katz. Ichn. d. Forst, i. 90; iii. 79; Wesm. Bui. Ac. ]>rux. 1849. 

 p. 126; Vol). Pinac. pi. iii, fig. 7 ; Bridg. -Fitch, Entom. 1884, p. 224 ; Tiioms. 

 O.E. xvi. 1763, (^ ? . A.flavifrons, UT. Wien. Ent. Zeit. 1890, p. 140. 



Head deiisel) jjunctate and pubescent, subexplanatt' behind the eyes, 

 black with face and clypeus flavous, and usually vertical orbits rufescent; 

 irons rugose, slightly impressed, with a simple central carina; clypeus 



