new or little hnoicn British Ilymenoptera. 115 



apical tliircl or so of the abdomen fuscous, wliile, according 

 to Foerster and Thomson, the entire body is reddish- 

 testaceous. The identity of the British specimen is thus 

 a little doubtful; but as neither Thomson nor Foerster 

 describes the $ of their species, it would be somewhat 

 hazardous to consider ours as distinct. All the other 

 species described by Thomson have the bodies black. 



PsiCHACRA, Foerster, /. c, p. 356. 

 Psichacra Dalei, sp. n. 



Antennre a little longer than the body, red, the four 

 apical joints fuscous, the 1st nearly double the length of 

 the 2nd, thickened and semi-truncated at the apex, the 

 2nd globular, the 3rd a little longer than the 4th, thin, 

 slightly thickened and truncated, and of a fuscous colour 

 at the apex ; the three following joints a very little shorter 

 and of the same form and colour; the next three are a 

 little shorter, thicker, and rounded at the apex ; the last 

 four are thicker than the pi'eceding, the last being thicker 

 and longer than the 12th; but there is scarcely a well- 

 marked club. Head smooth, shining. Thorax smooth, 

 shining, covered with a scattered pile ; dull red, the meso- 

 notum obscured with black in the middle; the pleurte and 

 sternum for the greater part black. Cup of scutellum 

 raised, with a projecting rim, the posterior end projecting 

 over the top like a ridge ; at the base of the scutellum are 

 two deep depressions. 



Abdomen shorter than the thorax, -compressed, acute, 

 thin, black; the belly testaceous. On the second segment 

 is a long hair fringe. Legs red. Wings hyaline, nervures 

 pale testaceous. 



Length 1^ lines; alar. exp. 3^ lines. 



I am not quite sure as to the generic position of this 

 insect of which I have only seen the female, but as a 

 whole it comes very near to Psichacra, as defined by 

 Foerster, and more particularly in the antennaj not ending 

 in a distinct club, and in the form of the scutellum. The 

 iy^Q of Psichacra is lonfjicornis, Iltg., of which I have 

 only seen the $ . Foerster {I. c, p. 356), makes mention 

 of the female, but gives no particular account of the 

 antennte in that sex beyond that there is no distinct club. 

 Thomson (Oef. 1861, 40-4, 12), quotes Eucoela gracilis, 

 Dbm., as probably the female of lovgicoriiis, Iltg. lie 



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