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3. scutellaris, Bridg. 
Bassus scutellaris, Bridg. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 364, 2 (¢ sic’. Promethus 
scutellaris, Thoms. O. E. xiv. 1478; Morl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1905, p.429, ¢°. 
Black with the epistoma of ? above and of ¢ entirely, and the scu- 
tellum in both sexes entirely, flavous; abdomen broadly rufo-testaceous 
centrally with the disc more or less broadly nigrescent ; legs flavous with 
their base white. Length, 5 mm. 
At once recognised by its pale scutellum, elongate basal segment, only 
basally strigose second, and the nitidulous mesonotum. The epistoma of 
Q is testaceous below the slender antennae, which are pale beneath; the 
mouth, as well as the ¢@ face and cheeks, are flavous; thorax shining, 
with notauli hardly indicated and humeral marks entirely wanting ; basal 
metanotal area subtransversely quadrate; abdomen black and in 9 
apically subcompressed, with the third to fifth or sixth segments and apex 
of the second pale red, all more or less broadly infuscate discally; second 
segment basally constricted and substriate only between the thyridi, re- 
mainder of abdomen smooth and nitidulous; legs entirely pale with coxae 
and trochanters whitish; stigma pale, nervellus subopposite and inter- 
cepted almost above its centre. 
Bridgman’s description is clumsy and makes no mention of the facial 
sculpture ; I had supposed it to belong to the e/egans group of Homocidus, 
but Thomson examined the type, which was captured by Bignell at 
Bickleigh, near Plymouth, in Devon, on 3rd June, 1884, and found 
that Kriechbaumer had taken the male sex in Germany. I have a female 
and three males, found some twenty years ago at (probably) Shere in 
Surrey, by the late Dr. Edward Capron; and there is also a male in Rev. 
T. A. Marshall’s collection from Govilon. 
4. Dodsi, Morl. 
Promethus Dodsi, Morl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1905, pp. 421 et 429, ¢. 
** Black ; legs, scutellum, postscutellum and centre of abdomen broadly, 
red ; antennae beneath, part of the face and of the mouth, flavous; 
mesonotum closely and coarsely punctate, dull; antennae as long as the 
body; clypeus bifoveolate. Length,6 mm. 9 only. 
This species is so closely allied to P. scu/ellaris, Bridg., as to require no 
detailed description. ‘Therefrom it differs in its twice longer antennae 
(which possess twenty-four, not twenty-two, joints), its bifoveate clypeus 
which is subdentately produced apically in the centre and distinctly im- 
pressed transversely before the base ; in its dull and coriaceously punctate 
mesonotum, distinct and discally coalesced notauli, strongly transverse 
basal area ; in the broadly flavous facial orbits, entirely rufescent clypeus, 
apically black epistoma, the antennae entirely flavidous beneath, darker 
scutellum and red postscutellum, immaculate trochanters, testaceous 
stigma; and in having the abdomen and especially its basal segment 
stouter, with segments three, four, base of the fifth and apex of the second 
entirely clear red, the last-mentioned being striolate from its base nearly 
to its apex. In the dull and confluently punctate mesonotum it resembles 
P. pulchellus, from which the entirely pale coxae and scutellum, as also 
the clypeal structure, at once distinguish it. 
Taken by Dr. Capron, probably in Surrey; the type is is my collection. 
Uxort met hoc tnsectum dicalum volo.’ 1 have seen no second example. 
