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ceding legs black in both sexes, wings witli stigma larger, 

 the marginal cell complete in both sexes, all the carina! of 

 the propodeum reaching the terminal carina; $ without a 

 transverse raised line at tiie base of the first abdominal 

 segment. 



L. 6—7 mm. 



Woking ; Chobham ; Hastings ; Ilfracombe. Hampstead ; 

 Soathgate ; Colney Hatch ; Brauuton Burrows, North 

 Devon; {Smith). Glanvilles Wootton ; Dorset; (Dale). 

 Wotton-under-Edge ; {E.C. L. Perkins). Eaton and Mouse- 

 hold, Norfolk; {BridijDtan) . Dawlish; {Parfitt). Land's 

 Eiud ; {Martimind) . Tavistock; [Swale). Rugby; {Morice). 



SAPYGIDJE. 



A very small family, consisting of only a few genera, of' 

 which we have one in this country. The species inhabit 

 decaying wood. Smith has seen the J carrying a green 

 caterpillar and entering a burrow, and on digging into 

 the bank four cells filled with small green caterpillars were 

 found, from which he reared specimens of *S'. b-jnincfata. 

 Eyes large, reniform, touching the mandibles, antenna; 

 long, thickening towards the apex; pronotum truncate in 

 front ; abdomen in our British genus elongate, sub-clavi- 

 forra, its sides straight and sub-parallel. Eighth ventral 

 segment in the S exposed ventrally. 



SAPYGA, Latr. 



Generic characters as given above ; also wings with fnur 

 submarginal cells, third submarginal much narrowed 

 anteriorly, its apical nerve sinuate. Maxillary palpi six- 

 jointed, labial palpi four-jointed, tongue rather elongate, 

 calcaria of anterior legs bifid at the apex. 



('2) 1. (J apical joint of antpnna; very short, 

 narrr>wor than the preceJing. ? with 

 the abdomen red across tne middle . 5-PUKrTATA. 



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