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horst tells us (I.E. i. 717) that Hope took it about Netley in Shropshire; 

 more recently it is recorded from Bickleigh in Devon during Au<^ust 

 (Bignell); Shere in 1870 (Capron, Kntom. 1880, p. 89); bred from Taeiiio- 

 campiX slabilis through Spudaslica Kricchbaiinuri (Ikickler). It cannot be 

 common with us for I possess but three females in Capron's collection, 

 and one captured by Stanley Edwards at Lynton in Dcvt)n during 1890. 



6. scutellatus, Grav. 



Mcsochonis scutellatus, Gr. I.E. ii. 973, 3 : Ratz. Ichn. d. Forst. ii. Ill, <f ? 

 [iicc Brisch.). M. fcstivus, MolmKr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 1858, p. 121, s 9 . Asti- 

 plironniius scitfclhttiis, Thorns. Ann Soc. Ent. Fr. 1885, p. 320, <s ? . 



A black species with the scutellum and pleurae sanguineous, the legs 

 fulvous with hind tarsi and their tibial apices nigrescent, and the lateral 

 metanotal costae basally obsolete. Head slighllv constricted behind 

 eyes; face transverse and densely punctate ; of 9 with palpi and mandi- 

 bles except apically stramineous; of (^ with the'clypeus, face and genal 

 apices concolorous. Antennae as long as body, nigrescent and slightly 

 paler beneath. I'horax with pleural marks red in 9 . prothorax apically 

 and callosities below radices whitish in ^ with most of the sternum red ; 

 metathorax with complete upper areae ; areola usually incomplete at its 

 apex. Scutellum red. Abdomen black with apex of second segment 

 triangularly rufescent, and most of the third and fourth rarely concol- 

 orous ; second segment not longer than broad and third subtransverse. 

 I>egs fulvous with the hind tarsi and apices of their tibiae infuscatc. 

 Wings subhyaline, with stigma piceous and tegulae whitish ; basal ner- 

 vure subcontinuous through the median ; nervellus nearly always inter- 

 cepted. Length, 6-8 mm. 



Known by the entirely or jiartly red mesopleurae and scutellum, the 

 subelongate face and cheeks and hind calcaria, the subacute lower angle 

 of the discoidal cell, at most but the apical margin of the second segment 

 pale, and the sometimes nearly continuous lower ba.sal ncrvure. 



North and central Europe; bred in France from Croesus /a/ip(S (Gaulle) 

 and in Germany from LopZ/vrus p/n/ (Ratz.); taken at Breda in Holland 

 during August (Burgst). It is said to have been represented in the 

 British iNIuseum collection so long ago as 1856 by Desvignes and has 

 figured in our subsequent catalogues, but there are no more recent 

 records and I ha\o not met with indigenous exani{)les. 



7. hamulus, Tlioins. 



Asfi/)liroiiii>!iis litiiuiilus. Tlioms. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1885, p. 330, c? ? . 



A black spesies with the legs pale, mesonotal marks citrinous, and the 

 basal nervure subcontinuous. Head with cheeks broadly stramineous ; 

 mandibular teeth of i-ciual length. Thorax with mesonotal lines before 

 tegulae pale sulphureous, each emitting branches towards the disc ; 

 mesosternum with a pale line on either side ; lateral metanotal costae 

 complete, areola narrow and emitting costulae far before its centre, 

 petiolar area small and nearly transverse. Abdomen with petiole some- 

 what broad and not elongate ; innnaculate black, with at most third seg- 

 ment of (^ narrowly testaceous at its base. Eegs somewhat stout and 

 testaceous with ai)i(<'s o| tlu- hind liliiar li.irdh infuscatc; claws small 



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