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Hymenopterous Genus Scleroderma. 
specimen of Scleroderma , forwarded to me by M. Boyer de Fons- 
colombe, having been found by him in his “ Musee,” and M. 
Bouche informing me that he finds the insects crawling slowly 
about the old stumps of uprooted trees in his garden at Berlin. 
Species 1 . Scleroderma domestica. 
Piceo-rufescens, nitida, leevis ; margine postico segmentorum 
abdominalium pallidiori ; antennis fulvis, articulo basali, ad 
basin, obscuro ; femoribus piceo-rufis ; tibiis pallidioribus ; 
tarsis pallide luteis. S 
Long. corp. lin. 2|. 
Habitat Berolini. D. Klug. 
In Mus. Reg. Berol. 
Species 2 . Scleroderma thoracica. 
Picea ; thorace ferrugineo, capite piceo-rufo, margine postico 
segmentorum abdominalium rufescenti ; pedibus ferrugineis, 
tarsis pallidis. $ 
Long. corp. lin. 2 ^-. 
Habitat in America Boreali. 
In Mus. Reg. Berol. 
Species 3. Scleroderma abdominatis. 
Capite luteo-fuscescenti, postice rufescenti, thorace pallide luteo, 
collaris margine postico obscuro, abdomine nigro nitido ; anten- 
nis pallide luteis, pedibus luteis, femoribus tibiisque in medio 
fulvis. ^ 
Long. corp. fere 1 1 lin. 
Habitat Marseilles. D. von Winthem. 
In Mus. Reg. Berol. 
Species 4. Scleroderma nitida. 
Lutea, nitidissima ; capite fuscescenti, abdomine piceo basi api- 
ceque rufescentibus, elongato-ovato, subconvexo ; capite qua- 
drato, angulis posticis rotundatis, meso et metathorace fere 
aequalibus. 2 (An. var. Sc. abdominalis ?) 
Long. corp. lin. 1^-. 
Habitat in Gallia Australi, in Musoeo Dom. Fonscolombe. 
In Mus. nostr. Communic. Dom. Fonscolombe. 
Species 5. Scleroderma unicolor. 
Luteo-fulva ; abdomine paullo obscuriori, breviori, magis acumi- 
nato, capite fere rotundato, depresso, thorace vix latiori. 5 
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