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beneath; mesothorax with two longitudmal testaceous lines dilated 

 behind and uniting near the middle of the disk, curved outwards 

 in front and bordering the prothorax to the insertion of the wings ; 

 3d abdominal segment testaceous, blackish at the sides and apex ; 

 the remaining segments, and belly, testaceous ; terebra nearly as 

 long as the abdomen. In the ^ described by Wesmael the testa- 

 ceous dorsal lines of the mesothorax were indisthact, and segments 

 4 — 5 blackish. 



Not common ; Haliday took bis specimens in woods 

 in the West of Ireland ; I found a 3" near Abergavenny 

 in May ; and Wesmael possessed a male and two females 

 captured near Brussels. 



5. Clinocentrus vestlgator, Hal. 



Glinocentrus vestigator, Hal., Ent. Mag., iv., 95, ^ 2 . 



Black ; antennae at the base, mouth, orbits, and legs, testaceous; 

 abdomen rugulose at the base ; stigraa of the ^ entirely fiiscous ; 

 terebra $ ^ the length of the abdomen. Length, 1^ — 2; wings, 

 3 — 4 lines. 



Shorter than the preceding species, metathorax more coarsely 

 rugose ; antenna 27-jointed ; abdomen shorter, ovate, segments 

 1 — 2, and sometimes 3 at the base, rugulose, the rest smooth, 

 nigro-piceous ; terebra less than half as long as in the other 

 species, stouter, subclavate ; wings hyaline, stigma somewhat 

 larger, fuscous, pale at the base, in the ^ wholly nigi-o-fuscous, or 

 with a small testaceous basal streak. 



Var. 1. Third abdominal segment testaceous at the sides, fuscous 

 in the middle. 



Var. 2, ^ . Apex of the scutellum fuscous. 



Var. 3, (? . More finely sculptured ; head black, face pale 

 testaceous. 



Inbabits England and Ireland. Not common. I bave 

 a <? of tbis species, taken at Nunton, near Salisbury. 



ii. Petalodes, Wesm. 



Wesm., Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux., 1838, p. 123 ; Eeinb., 

 Berl. ent. Zeit., 1865, p. 245. 



Suturiform articulation obsolete; 2d cubital areolet rectangular; 

 abdomen sublinear, of the ^ depressed, of the ? strongly com- 

 pressed from segment 2 to the apex, longer than tlie head and 

 thorax ; terebra subexserted. 



