POMI'ILID.£. 17 



pendant spine near tVie centre; ? 



apical ventral valve carinateJ . . Wesmaeli. 



(28) 29. (? and 5 apical ventral valve simple. GiBiius. 



(17) 30. Pronotum arcuate posteriorly . . pectinu'ES. 



(Sdeq. APORUS.) 



P. Unicolor Spin, bicolor, Smith, var. fcmnralis v. d. 

 Linden. — c? black, clothed with sericeous silvery pu- 

 bescence ; posterior femora red beneath near the apex ; face 

 nearly round, antennaa inserted close together ; pronotuia 

 as long as the mesonotum to the scutellar suture, scutellum 

 triangularly raised above the metanotum, wings slightly 

 dusk}', with a darker apical band on both pairs, anterior 

 wings with two snbmarginal cells, propodeum very long ; 

 abdomen with the ventral segments apparently simple. But 

 in both my examples the apical segment is unfortunately 

 retracted. 



? black, clothed with a sericeous, in some lights almost 

 prismatic, pile; wings very dark ; abdomen more or less 

 red on tbe basal segments ; face round, antenna inserted 

 close together just above the margin of the cljpeus ; pro- 

 notum nearly twice as long as the mesonotum to the 

 scutellar suture ; propodeum long and rather flat, abruptly 

 declivous postei-iorly, wings very dark fuscous with two 

 submarginal cells ; abdomen rather elongate, apical 

 segment scarcely hairy ; legs black, tibia; with a few very 

 short spines. 



L. 8-10 mm. 



Very rare, Woking, July, 1888, c?- Steephill, Tentnor ; 

 4 (J, 3 $,July, 1871; (liothncij). High Peak, Sidmouth, 

 (? ; Southend, 2 ? ; Pakefield, nr. Lowestoft, ? ; (Smith). 

 Aliddlcmarsh, Dorset, 1835; (/. C. Vale). Portland, 

 IbOl, ? ; {Enoch). 



(SuBG. EVAGETHES.) 

 P. bicolor, I'lp- — ? black, clothed with a fine sericeous 



pile, first and second abdominal segments more or less red. 



