two nkw species of diastephavus, knderl. 131 



By Claude Morli':y. 



The other autumn, in a.d. 6*2, as Suetonius Paulinus was 

 strolling through the forest of Celtic Saegham, just before the 

 monks had cut the name to Soham, he plucked and chewed 

 the rubus berries; and, while doing so, I saw him fling one 

 of them away with an impatient " rubidus ! " Anon, we passed 

 a cherry-cheeked Iberian whistling, as his swine gorged mast 

 pannage from the beech. " Hens ! porcarius est rufus," Paul 

 exclaimed : the swine were clean and pink like a young 

 summer's afterglow, so jocundly I continued, *'Et porcae 

 sunt rufidae ! " His eye came twinkling round at me, as 

 though to say a language a'in't worth much that's cribbed, 

 cabined, and confined. Surely, if you (like Charles Laml)) 

 allow the polisb of the town derived from TroXtg and the rusti- 

 ness of country life accumulated out of ms, then rufidornatus 

 is but the easing of a stay-lace. 



Monks' Soham, 

 May, 1917. 



TWO NEW SPECIES OF DIASTEPHANUS, END^IRL. 

 By E. a. Elliott, F.E.S. 



Dill Site phanus flavireps, sp. nov. 



^, Frons alutaceous, dull ; vertex and occiput in front arcuate 

 rugose, becoming transverse towards the posterior margin, which is 

 simple ; temples smooth. First and second flagellar joints of equal 

 length, 3rd a little longer. Prothorax almost smooth ; mesonotum 

 trans-striate in front, central row of punctures and lateral impres- 

 sions distinct ; median segment coarsely punctate. Petiole trans- 

 striate, a little longer than rest of abdomen, which is smooth and 

 shining. Hind coxae trans-striate, femora smooth, tridentate ; tibiae 

 compressed to beyond middle. Wings hyaline. — Black ; face, frons, 

 base of antennae and anterior legs flavo-testaceous, cheeks pale red, 

 occiput dark red, apex of prothorax and the hind femora rufescent. 

 Length, 11 mm. ; abdomen, 7J mm. ; petiole, 4 mm. 



The type, in the British Museum, bears a label: " F. Sm. 

 coll. 79, 22," without further indication of habitat. 



Diastephanus fiavifrons, sp. nov. 



^ . Frons irregularly rugose, vertex trans-carinate, occiput trans- 

 striate, its posterior margin bordered, temples smooth. Second 

 flagellar joint not quite twice as long as first, 3rd nearly as long as 

 first and second together. Prothorax trans-striate, deeply impressed 

 at apex ; mesonotum centrally smooth, laterally rugose, lateral im- 

 pressions distinct ; mesopleurae finely str ate, metapleurae punctate. 

 Petiole trans-striate, as long as rest of abdomen, which is smooth 

 and shining. Hind coxae trans-striate ; hind femora smooth, biden- 



