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face in the ^ with white hairs, at the sides and vertex 

 with greyish black, its mandibles produced outwardly at 

 the base into a triangular tooth, face in the ? with rather 

 sooty-brown hairs, antennae in both sexes with the third 

 joint very long, in the $ distinctly longer than the fifth, 

 in the ? very narrow, considerably more than twice as long 

 as its apical width and much longer than the following two 

 together ; mesonotura densely hairy in both sexes ; abdomen 

 rather shining in the $ with the first two segments, the 

 sides and the apex clothed with long pale hairs, the re- 

 mainder with short blackish ones, dull and finely punctured 

 in the ? , the first three segments rather densely clothed 

 with pale hairs, the rest with brownish black ; dorsal valve 

 with a triangularly raised oenti-e, segments beneath fringed 

 with pale hairs in both sexes ; apical ventral valve in the 

 cJ entire ; legs clothed with pale hairs in the $ , femora 

 coxa? and trochantei's in the $ with pale brown hairs, 

 tibiae with dark brown, scopse paler beneath, tarsi beneath 

 golden brown. 



L. 12-15 mm. 



Rare; on Sallows in early spring. Hastings and St. 

 Leonards. Chippenham ; {11. C. L. Perkins). Gloucester- 

 shire ; (V. B. Perkins). Maidstone; [Frisbij). Moffat; 

 Bristol ; {Sviith'). 



The ¥ of this species closely resembles rosa var Trim- 

 merana, but may be known at once by the antennal 

 characters and the triangularly raised centre of the apical 

 dorsal valve. 



This is clearly not the Icvpponica of Zett., so I have 

 followed the Continental authors in adopting Smith's name 

 for it. 



A. praeCOX, Scop. {SmilkeUa, Kirh. chjiieata, Sutitli J). — 

 Very like apicata, especially in the J* sex, only smaller. 

 The (J may be distinguished from it by the shorter third 

 joint of the antennte, which is not quite etjual in length to 

 the fifth and scarcely longer than the fourth, by the rather 



