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flavous, ? witli the last three segments black, the fourth 

 with a lateral spot at the apex, fifth with a pale apical 

 band, and sixth with a triangular apical spot, extreme 

 apex testaceous brown; legs flavous in the c?, except the 

 black posterior femora, $ with the femora black except a 

 white spot at the apex of the first and second pairs 

 beneath, tibiae and tarsi whitish, the former black in- 

 wardly. 



L. 8 mm. 



Exceedingly rare. Smith records it from Windsor and 

 Ascot, but it has not been taken for many years. 



MISCOPHUS, Jur. 



Closely allied to Tachytes, but easily recognizable by the 

 smaller size of the species, by the three round ocelli, the 

 posterior pair not raised on an elevation as in that genus, 

 and the petiolated second submarginal cell in the anterior 

 wing which only receives the second recurrent nervure. 

 According to Giraud and Smith M. hicolor provisions its 

 nests with spiders. The species frequent sandy commons, 

 sand-hills, &c., and are excessively active and difficult to 

 catch. There are only two British species. Kohl, in 1884, 

 records eleven species, of which ten are Palaearctic and one 

 Neotropical. 



(2) 1. Head and thorax black, abdomen in the ? 

 and rarely in the <J more or less red at the 

 base coNCOLOR. 



(1) 2 Head and thorax bronzy black; ? abdomen 



entirely black maritisius. 



M. COncolor, Baldb. {hicolor. Smith, Sound., etc., nee 

 Jurine). — Black, cJ sometimes with the first abdominal seg- 

 ment more or less red, ? with the first or with the first and 

 second red. Head dull, closely punctured, face without a 

 central impressed line, mcsonotum closely but not quite so 

 finely punctured as the head, more or less shining, meso- 

 plcurac shining, very shaliowly punctured, scutellum punc- 

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