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black, piloso, vertex distinctly punctured ; pronotum 

 deeply aad ansfularly emarginate posteriorly, wiugs slightly 

 smoky, clouded towards the apex aud across the sub- 

 marginal and three discoidal cells, propodeum dull, finely 

 pilose, not rugose ; abdomen shiniug, elongate-ovate iu 

 the (J, more broadly ovate, and somewhat acuminate in the 

 ? , first and second segments entirely red, third entirely so 

 or only so towards the base, the rest black, apical ventral 

 valve in the ^ flat, deeply emarginate at the apex, fringed 

 ■with curved hairs at the sides, ? with the apical three seg- 

 ments above, and all the segm3nts beneath pilose ; anterior 

 tibias pale iu front in the J, posterior tibite serrate in 

 the ? . 



L. 15-18 mm. 



Mr. Frisby possesses a curious specimen of this species, 

 in which the third submarginal cell (lefb wing) is divided 

 near the middle by a transverse nervure. 



Woking; Chobhara; Esher. Colchester; [Harwood). Ox- 

 ford ; {R. G. L. Perkins). G. Wootton ; Weymouth ; Port- 

 land; Bournemouth ; {Dale). Hastings ; Maidstone ; {Frid>i/). 

 Lancashire; {Gardner). Devon; {Parfitt). Land's End; 

 {Marquand). Norfolk; {Bridgman). Armagh; {Johnson). 



S. afi5.Ilis, V. de Liiid. — Like f/iseus in coloration, but 

 the c? with the legs entirely black, and both sexes with a 

 well-defined dark band at the apex of the wings. 



The (J may be further known by the glabrous propo- 

 deum, and the somewhat concave rounded apical ventral 

 valve, fringed with short hairs at the sides, sixth segment 

 impressed, emarginate at the apex. 



? with the pronotum very wide in front, its posterior 

 emargination very obtuse, motanotum transversely rugose ; 

 abdomen less shining than in fuscui^, clothed with a fine, 

 white, silky pile. 



L. 10-15 mm. 



Rare. Chobham. Woking; {Morlcc). Ripley; Woy- 

 bridge ; Southend; Deal; Walmor ; {Siui/h). Norfolk; 

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