Paiiiscus^ UKI'IISII 1(1 1 X ICL'MC )NS. 303 



ill rrussiii Ilrischki- records il thence, ;is well as iVom Poni/miim/hj /hi/>u/i, 

 Acivnvila Irideus, /).v/and iiitgiuepha/a, Cuciillia tis/tris, ahrolani uir/iiiiisiin), 

 ari^t'it/id, scrop/iu/anar, //i(jpsip/ii\^a and Im/siimi/iU'. 1 1 does not appear 

 wide-spread on llie Continent, iIioul;Ii ( iaulle records it from France. 

 With us r.aker once bred il from />iiiiuiiini bifida (I'jitoni. i^iXj, p. 65) 

 and Ihidn.- Fitch— j)ossibl\' in error — add Drgyia pudibiinda {I.e. 1HH5, 

 |). 1-I-). .Mrs. Molnics has ,i;i\cn me a female from Sw<r/////i//s popu/i bred 

 in Cornwall clurinif igoS ; and another from the sami' hosi or .S'. occllatus 

 at Sevcnoaks in Kent, durinjj^ the same )ear. 1 possess it trt)ni (iuestling 

 (Hloomfield), Hastni^^s (Esani), Bristol (Ciiarbonnier), Tootinjf Bee Road 

 (Sparke) and have bred it from its usual host at Epsom in iSSq (Science 

 Gossip, 1893, P- 3*^) '^'^^ Ipswich. It is recorded from Lee in Kent 

 (Insect Arch. 325); Yorks, Norfolk, Devon, etc. 



ABSYRTUS, Holmgren. 

 HolrriKr. Sv. Ak. Hand!. KS.SS, p. 321 ; Ofv. KS58, p. 323. 



Si)ecies mainly testaceous. Head transverse and hardly buccate ; cly- 

 peus discreted, ajjically broadlv rounded ; mandibles moderately broad, 

 with the lower tooth the longer ; palpi filiform and subelongate ; eyes 

 slightly emarginate next the scrobes ; ocelli large, face deplanate. An- 

 tennae slender and filiform, with scape very little excised, obliquely trun- 

 cate. I'horax narrower than head ; pleurae glabrous, nitidulous and not 

 transimpressed ; metathorax with spiracles subrotund and areae sub- 

 obsolete with only traces of apical carinae. .Scutellum con\ex and apic- 

 ealh' rounded. Abdomen petiolate, of 9 'i little eompre>s((l ; basal seg- 

 nu'ut straight, laterally margined, about a third k'nglh of abdomen, with 

 s])iracles between centre and base. Legs slender with the tarsal claws 

 small, pectinate or internally rigidly setose. 



This genus is best known by the lower mandibular tooth being dis- 

 tinctly longer than the upper; the wing is figured in (jenera Insectorum, 

 191 1, pl. ii, lig. 18. 



1. luteus, Holuigr. 



Absyrfus lutciis, Holmgr. Ofv. 1858, p. 323 ; Sv. Ak. Handl. 1858. p. 33 ; 

 Bridg.-Fitcli, Entom. 1885, p. 15 ; Schm. Upusc. Iclin. p. 1846, i ? . 



A ful\'(Jus-testaceous s])ecies, with very sparse black markings. Head 

 but slighth' constricted jiosteriorU behind (he oblong anil nigrescent 

 eyes, the space betw een which and the sirobes is \'er\' narrow; cheeks 

 not buccaie ; ocelli and mandibular apices nigrescent. Antennae fili- 

 form, as long as or sonu'what longer than body, gradual I v attt'nuate and 

 fin<]\ pilose towartls their apices. Tliorax narrv)wer than head, smooth 

 will: a nigrescent subradical mark ; metathorax with obsolete areae. 

 Abdomen subpubescent ; basal segment straiglit, about as long as coxae 

 and trochanters, and apically gradually subexplanate ; terebra of 9 short, 

 liardly exserted. Legs slender with hind coxae, subelongate and sub- 

 cylindrical ; calcaria not extending to metatarsal centre. Wings sub- 

 ample and slightly fiavescent, with radial cell elongate and both abscis.sae 

 of radius straight ; areolet irregular and complete, emitting ri'current 

 nervure almost from its apex; nervellus postfurcal, intiMcepted a little 

 above its centre. Length, 7-12 nun. 



