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(28) 26. Head transverse and cheeks normal, 



(28) 27. Femora of female entirely testaceous ; male 



cleft, elongate .... 13. latninculus, Msh. 



(27) 28. Femora mainly black ; male cleft, transverse. 



(80) 29. Anus of female emarginate below; male an- 

 tennas at least 27-jointed . . 14. parcicornis,ll.S. 



(29) 30. Anus of female entire ; male antenufe at most 



25-jointed ...... 15. sulcahts, Nees. 



(22) 31. Abdomen basally flavous ; size, 1^ mm. . 16. basulis, Curt. 

 (1) 32. Tegulfe testaceous. 



(34) 33. Face of male obsoletely pubescent ; female an- 

 tenna 16-jointed .... 17. dispar, Marsh. 



(33) 34. Face of male densely pubescent ; female an- 

 tennae 18-jointed ... 18. canescens, Wesm. 



Chelonus inanitus. — The most abundant species of the whole 

 group, occurring in meadows and marshy situations everywhere 

 from 11th June to 12th September, but very rarely bred. I have 

 but once bred it, and then from an unknown host, at Lowestoft. 

 It is commonly swept from reeds, oats, &c., and frequents the 

 flowers of angelica, heracleum, thistles, fennel, carrot, meadow- 

 sweet, mallow, and Limonmm statice. There are ninety-six 

 specimens in my collection, taken at Parknasilla, in Ireland 

 (Yerbury) ; Shere, in Surrey (Capron) ; Felden, in Herts (Pif- 

 fard) ; Totland Bay, in Isle of Wight (Newbery) ; Tostock, Ben- 

 acre Broad, and Southwold, in Suffolk (Tuck) ; West Runton, in 

 Norfolk (Wainwright) ; Abinger Hammer, near Guildford (But- 

 ler) ; Oulton Broad (Bedwell) ; New Forest (Miss Chawner) ; 

 Rye, in Sussex (Donisthorpe) ; Reigate, Greenings, &c., in Sur- 

 rey (Wilson Saunders) ; Hastings district (Bloomfield) ; Epsom, 

 Ryde, and Lyndhurst ; Ringstead, Holme, and Burnham Thorpe, 

 in Norfolk ; and in Suffolk at Henstead, Claydon, Blakenham, 

 Baylham, Alderton. Foxhall, Barnby Broad, Southwold, Monks 

 Sobam, Burgh, Peasenhall, Farnham, Dunwich, Barham, Clop- 

 ton, Bealings, Grundisburgh, and Bramford. 



C. speculator. — Mr. Albert Piffard has given me a female, 

 which he took at Felden, in Herts. 



C. corvulus. — Certainly uncommon. I possess it from Green- 

 ings, in Surrey, one in June, 1871 (W. Saunders) ; Felden, in 

 Herts, two (Piffard) ; and Brighton, where I took a male on 

 umbelliferous flowers, 28th June, 1897. 



C. carhonator. — Somewhat common ; I have thirteen speci- 

 mens. Piffard found several females at Felden, in Herts, and I 

 swept the males commonly from Limoniuin statice at Holme, in 

 Norfolk, in August, 1906 ; W. Saunders took a male at Reigate 

 in July, 1872 ; and others have occurred to me in Suffolk, at 

 Bamford, Foxhall, Blythborough (beneath growing dock-leaves), 

 and Westleton (by sweeping), and upon angelica and other 

 flowers, from 8th July to 5th September. 



