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apical plate raised posteriorly and truncate, eiglitli flat, 

 trnncate, with a slight central emargination, armature with 

 the stipites truncate at the apex, with a short narrow pro- 

 cess at their inner angle; ventral segments of the ? 

 fringed with fulvous hairs, legs simple in both sexes, 

 clothed with pale brownish hairs, the hairs on the side 

 towards the body darker, apical joint of the tarsi in the <? 

 testaceous. 



L. 11-12 mm. 



Not very common, burrows in dead wood, and appears 

 in July. Chobham ; Southwold ; Deal ; Littlehampton ; 

 Hastings. Norwich; [Bridgman). Bury St. Edmunds; 

 {Tuck). Rugby, Lowestoft; (Morice). Colchester; {Har- 

 wood). London District ; {Smith). Devon, generally dis- 

 tributed; {Parjitt). Glanvilles Wootton ; Sandown, Isle of 

 Wight ; {Dale). Tavistock ; (Swale). Gloucestershire ; 

 {Perliins). Maidstone ; (Frisbij). Mr. Bridgman remarks 

 that the larvae of this species, which are enclosed iu cells of 

 triturated wood, spin cocoons just before changing, which 

 is not the case with the two preceding. 



A, quadrimaculata, Paiiz. {lulinna, Eirb. ; suhglobosa, 

 Kird.). — Slightly smaller than the preceding, black, head 

 and thorax punctured, clothed with pale ochreous hairs, 

 intermixed with black on the vertex and thorax, clypeus 

 and labrum in the c? white, the former with two irregularly 

 shaped spots on the disc, the latter with two spots on its 

 basal margin, black, anterior margin of both clypeus and 

 labrum narrowly black, sides of the face, a transverse spot 

 above the clypeus, and the scape of the antenna; in front 

 also white, face and antenna) in the ? entirely black ; 

 mesonotum in the c? shining, and sparsely punctured on 

 the disc, dull in the ? , wings scarcely clouded, scutellum 

 in the ^ shining, and almost impuuctate in the cJ ; 

 abdomen rather shining in the S , dull in the 9 > clothed in 

 both sexes with dark hairs, each segment with an apical 

 band of pale hairs, basal segment entirely clothed with long 



