186 Rev. T. A. Marshall's monograph of 



than 1 ; spurs of hind tibiae proportionally shorter. Antennse J as 

 long as the body, of the ^ longer. Stigma rufescent. 



Specimens from Leicestershire, under this name, have 

 long been in my collection. On re-examination I find 

 them to agree entirely with Haliday's description, so far 

 as that extends. 



23. A'panteles placidus, Hal. 



Mic7-og aster jildcichis, Hal., Ent. Mag., ii., 251, <? . 



Black ; palpi pale ; belly at the base, sides of 1st segment 

 narrowly, femora and tibiae, rufo-testaceous ; fore femora black at 

 the base, posterior pitchy, black abovo and at the apex, or entirely 

 black ; hind tibiae at the apex, and all the tarsi, fuscous. Antennae 

 (? much longer than the body, beneath and on their apical half 

 sometimes flavo-testaceous. Wings whitish hyaline, stigma fiasco- 

 ferruginous. Mesothorax thickly and very finely puuctulate, dull 

 in the middle of the disk, posteriorly, together with the scutellum, 

 more shming. Metathorax rugulose, sometimes carinulated. 

 Segment 1 half as long again as its breadth, slightly narrowed at 

 the base, truncated at the apex, rugulose ; segment 2 rugulose, as 

 long as 3 ; the rest smooth and shining. Hind coxs puuctulate, 

 shining. Inner spur of the hind tibia not longer than ^ the meta- 

 tarsus. Shape slender, elongate. S' ?• Length, 1;^; wings, 

 2i lin. 



Described from a pair in Bridgman's collection, and a 

 $ taken by myself. The ^ is remarkable for its very 

 long antennae, of which the apical half is flavo-testaceous, 

 perhaps accidentally. Keinhard refers the species doubt- 

 fully to brevicornis, Wesm., i.e., sericeus, Nees, but the 

 possession of both sexes of placidus shows them to be 

 distinct, as correctly supposed by Haliday. 



24. ApanteUs nothus, Eeinh. MS. 



Niger, pedibus flavo-ferrugineis, femoribus posterioribus, tibiis 

 iisdem apice late, tarsisque fuscis ; coxis et trochanteribus nigris. 

 Alae subfumato-hyalinae, squamulis, stigmate, nervis, pallide piceis. 

 Mesothorax et scutellum confertina punctulata, parum nitida ; meta- 

 thorax leviter rugulosus. Segmentum Imum siibquadratum, mar- 

 ginatum, truncatum, cum 2do rugulosum, subnitidum ; hoc Imo 

 non multolatius, paulo brevius quam Stium ; caetera laevia. Terebra 

 brevissima. Valvula ventralis anum non superans. Calcaria pos- 

 tica metatarsi dimidio paulo lougiora. 



Black ; legs flavo-feiTUgiuous, 4 posterior femora, their tibiae at 



