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tured, basal segments sliglitly impressed at the base, 

 beneath simple, eighth ventral valve with a strongly curved 

 apical process; legs with very long tarsi, the posterior 

 metatarsi nearly as long as the tibise. 



2 very shining, with very short scattered hairs, red, head, 

 except the mouth parts and antennas, and abdomen black ; 

 head much wider than the thorax ; thorax elongate, deeply 

 constricted between the segments, each of which is very 

 convex dorsally, the prothorax is the widest, the mesonotum 

 small and narrow, with a deep division marking off the 

 scutellum ; abdomen shortly petiolate, ovate, somewhat 

 acuminate posteriorly, impuuctate, its apex narrowly tes- 

 taceous; tibiae finely spinose. 



L. $ 7-12 mm., ? 6-9 mm. 



Rare, on sandy commons, &c., the $ exceedingly scarce. 

 I took it once at Chobham by sweeping after 8 p.m. in 

 hot thundery weather. Chobham ; Woking, occasiouall}-. 

 Weybridge ; Blackwater, Hants ; High Peak, Sidmouth ; 

 Hampstead Heath ; Southend ; Lyme Regis ; Black Gang 

 Chine and Sandown, Isle of Wight; [F. Smith). Oxshott ; 

 (Billups). Lulworth ; Charmouth ; (Dale). Morthoe, Nortli 

 Devon; {Dr. Swale). Land's End; {2Iarquaud). Banks of 

 Lynher, Cornwall, with Myiniosa, but rarer; {MurshaU). 



TIPHIIDiE. 



Eyes entire, not sinuate on their inner margin, antenna) 

 thick, not claviform, convoluted in the ? ; pronotum trun- 

 cate in front, tegulae very large ; femora sub-compressed, 

 tibia3 spinose, intermediate coxa) distant, posterior coxis 

 very large ; <S with the eighth ventral segment terminating 

 in an upturned process. 



TIPHIA, Fab. 



Of this genus there are only two Britisli, but numerous 

 Continental species. The 8])ecies may be known fr^m 



