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to tbe margin, the callosities not nearly meeting at the 

 apex ; apex between them densely clothed with fulvous vel- 

 vety pubescence ; legs clothed with black hairs, apical joints 

 of the tarsi piceous, with reddish hairs, the hairs on the sides 

 of the tibife and tarsi towards tbe body in the ? , fulvous ; 

 posterior metatarsi in both sexes as broad as the tibia3. 



L. 18-22 mm. 



Associates with B. terrestri.i, and is generally distributed. 



P. Barbutellus, Kirb. nee Smith. — Very like vesfalis, 

 but easily distinguished by the following characters : in both 

 sexes the hairs of the vertex of the head and of the 

 scutellum are more or less yellow; in the c? the third joint 

 of the antennfe is much longer than the fourth, and the fifth 

 is only slightly longer than the third ; the basal segment of 

 the abdomen in both sexes more or less clothed with 

 yellowish hairs, the third segment with no lemon-yellow 

 band between the black and the white, sixth in the ? 

 rugosely punctured, with a raised central line, sixth ventral 

 segment in the (J with a slight tubercle on each side near 

 the apex, sixth in the ? with its posterior margins rounded, 

 and callosely raised on each side, the callosities meeting at 

 the apex, which is clothed with velvety hairs only beyond 

 them, lacinia of (J armature subelongate, sagittae strongly 

 hamate in the centre beneath ; posterior metatarsi in both 

 sexes distinctly narrower than the tibias. 



L. 17-20 mm. 



Generally distributed, associating with B. hortorum. 



P. campestris, Pam. {Rosdellus, Eirb. ; Francisanus, 

 Kirb. ; Leeanus, Kirb.; suhterraneus, Kirb.). — A most vari- 

 able species in colour, especially in the ^ , which is some- 

 times entirely clothed with black hairs and sometimes 

 almost entirely with yellowish hairs, but so far as I know 

 the hairs of the apical segments are never white as in the 

 two preceding species ; as a rule the coloration is not un- 

 like that of Barbutellus, with the apical segments yellowish. 

 The ? has nearly always the head and thorax coloured as in 



