200 nVMEh'OPTERA ACULEATA. 



second submarginal cell with its more contracted apex will 

 distinguish it at once. 



? smaller and paler than ^uncticeps, the legs paler, and 

 tJie area of the apical dorsal valve widely rounded at the 

 apex. 



L. 5-5^ mm. 



Kare. Woking ; Chobham ; I have received no other 

 localities. 



S. uigcr, V. Hag. — About the same size as longuh's ; S 

 entirely black, armature dark brown, very short, aud trans- 

 verse, the stipites scarcely strigose, lacinise very short, 

 narrow, and concave ; second submarginal cell narrow, sub- 

 parallel-sided. 



? second submarginal cell as in the ^, face much raised 

 just below the insertion of the antennje, labrum pale, 

 mandibles toothed, abdomen very convex and short, with 

 the basal segment entirely pale, the rest more or less clouded 

 with black. 



L. 5-51 mm. 



Guestling, near Hastings ; (Bev. E. N. Bloomfidd). 



S. pilifrons, Tlioms. — A large species, about the size 

 of (jibbus, &c., alar hooks 5-6 in number. 



(J vertex clothed with grey, face densely clothed wiih 

 white hairs, antenniB short, the third joint of the flagellum 

 about as long as the first and second together, the pubescent 

 rings of the joints reaching to about a third of their length ; 

 niesonotum rather wide, closely punctured, and clothed with 

 grey hairs, wings hyaline, second submarginal cell wide ; 

 abdomen very shining, red, first segment black at the base, 

 iirst and second scarcely punctured, fourth and following 

 black, armature with the lacinia subquadrate and sub- 

 membranous, thickened iu a curved line across the centre, 

 its apical margin fringed with long hairs. 



$ very like gibhus, &c., but easily recognized by the 

 closely punctured, grey pubescent mesonotum, the number 

 of the alar hooks, and the wido, flat, punctured area of the 



