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in the female ; connexivum reflexed, with reddish spots at 
the apices of the segments, sixth segment with its angles 
rounded; legs long, ochreous, mottled with brown, and 
clothed with long hairs. 
L. 8-10 mm. 
I have never seen a developed British specimen, but have 
a $ continental one, in which the membrane reaches beyond 
the apex of the abdomen and is irrorated with small obscare 
spots. 
On COorylus, August and September ; Wimbledon, 
Bromley, Kent; Headley Lane and Weybridge, Billups ; 
Stevenage, Battle, Butler; St. Osyth, Blatch; Quat- 
ford, Milford, Darenth, Marshall; Glanvilles Wootton, 
Dale. 
N. lativentris, Boh. (apterus, D. S S.)—Smaller, but 
similar to the preceding in colour, being brown mottled 
with darker brown ; the antennz, however, are shorter, not 
being so long as the entire insect, and the basal joint not 
so long as the head ; the elytra, though generally shortened, 
reach to the fourth or fifth abdominal segment; the con- 
nexiyum is more dilated in the ¢ and less dilated in the 
? than in brevipennis, the connexival spots are paler, and 
the sixth segment has distinct lateral angles; the femora 
are shorter, and the tibiz want the exserted long hairs of 
that species. 
L. 63-7 mm. 
Developed form very rare. I have a@ taken at Bourne- 
mouth. 
Generally distributed, and common by sweeping. 
N. major, Cost. (pilosulus, Fieb ; flavomarginatus, 
D. § S.).—Ochreous brown, clothed with fine black hairs. 
Head elongate, with a dark central stripe, face nearly hori- 
zontal; antennz ochreous, first joimt black at the base; 
pronotum at the base about as wide as long, anterior mar- 
gin not half the width of the base, sides rounded in the 
