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company with Ilalictiis xanthoinis ; {li. C. L. Pcrhins). 

 There seems to be little doubt that this species is associated 

 with H. xanthopus. Ireland ; {Hnliday). Cowbridge, 

 Devon ; (/. C. Bale), I doubt if the ? I recorded from 

 Littlehampton belongs to this species. 



S. puncticeps, Thoms. — Smaller than any of the pre- 

 ceding, tS with the basal rings of the antennal joints 

 reaching to about a third of their length, vertex closely 

 punctured; mesonotum shining, rather remotely and 

 strongly punctured, wings with the second submargiual 

 cell as wide at the base as high, slightly narrowed towards 

 the apex, sides of the ppopodeum strongly rugose ; abdomen 

 either entirely black, or with the first, second, and third 

 segments more or less red, armature orange red in colour, 

 the stipites finely rugulose, not strigose, the lacinia simply 

 triangular and submembranous. 



? rather more brightly coloured than in most of the 

 species ; mandibles long, pointed, uutoothed ; mesonotum 

 shining, distinctly and rather strongly punctured, wings as 

 in the c?; abdomen with the fourth and following segments 

 black, the apex of the thii'd more or less clouded, glabrous 

 area of dorsal valve narrow, punctured, with a rather deeply 

 impressed marginal line, legs entirely black. 

 L. 6-7 mm. 



Kare. Woking; Chobham ; Bournemouth. Sidmouth ; 

 (/?. C. L. Perkins). Lowestoft ; {Morice). Gloucester- 

 shire; [V. R. Perkins). 



S. longulus, V. Hay. — Very like puncticeji.t but smaller 

 and narrower, being one of the smallest of the 

 genus. 



(J entirely black or piceous, differing from 2'>i(nclici-2)s in 

 the pubescent bands of the antenna?, which extend to nearly 

 half the length of each joint, and in the fringed lacinia, the 

 membrane of which is not produced along the inner edge 

 of the stipes ; from niger, the only other species it could be 

 mistaken for, the shape of the armature and the wider 



