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(6) 7. Second segment black with a rufous spot at 



either side ..... claiisthalkmus, var. 

 (3) 8. Second segment entirely black. 



(13) 9. Hind tibite rufous or ochreous with apex 



fuscous. 



(16) 10. Third abdominal segment smooth. 



(12) 11. Orbits with a rufous spot, length 4^ mm. 



tumichchis, Nees. 

 (11) 12. Orbits immaculate, length 6 mm. . clausthalianus, Eatz. 

 (9) 13. Hind tibia? not rufous or ochreous, with apex 

 fuscous. 

 (15) 14. Hind tibiae blackish throughout . . nugax, Rein. 



(14) 15. Hind tibiae half black, half white . . cingidipes, Nees. 

 (10) 16. Third abdominal segment at least partially 



acciculate or coriaceous. 

 {18) 17. Hind coxae rufous ..... rufipes, Nees. 



(17) 18. Hind cox» black. 



(20) 19. Hind tibia? rufous with apex black . . mediator, l^ees. 

 (19) 20. Hind tibiae half white, half black . . niguIosus,l>iees. 



Microdus calidator, Fab.* 



A fine, handsome species, distinguished principally by the 

 rufous mesothorax and black bind femora and tibit^ (hind femora 

 rufous at apex and hind tibipe narrowly whitish at base). A very 

 scarce insect and in this country known so far only from the 

 New Forest, where in 1822 Curtis captured both sexes alighting 

 on the stool of a felled tree. In the Dale Collection is a gigantic 

 female having a length of 7h mm., which was taken in the New 

 Forest on July 1st, 1881 (the date is indistinct and may possibly 

 be 1831), while in the Cambridge University Museum is a pair 

 obtained by Dr. Sharp in the same locality in June, 1902; the 

 Cambridge specimens have a length of only 6 mm. 



Marshall throws doubt on the correctness of Curtis's figure 

 ("B.E.," plate Ixxiii), where the antenna? are depicted as longer 

 than the body, as according to Nees they should be shorter. All 

 the antennae of the specimens taken by Dr. Sharp are broken 

 but fortunately Dale's example has one intact ; this is certainly 

 rather shorter than the body. 



Microdus conspicuus, Wesm.f 



In 18851 Marshall described a new species of Earinus under 

 the name of E. zonatus, from two specimens, presumably both 

 males, in Fitche's Collection. The types (on gilt pins) are still 

 in existence though one is in a deplorable condition, the whole 

 of the abdomen and half the thorax having been eaten by mites, 



* ' ^nt. Syst.,' sup., p. 22.5. 



t 'Nouv. Mem. Ac. Sc. Belg.,' vol.- x, p. 17. 



I ' Trans. Entom. Soc.,' p. 268. 



