264 Kev. T. A. Marshall's monograph of 



areolet small, subqnadrate. Terebra longer than the body. J ? 

 Length, 3^ lin. 



Metathorax bicarinated, each carina with a row of punctures on 

 both sides ; the space between the carinac transversely striolated. 

 Segment 1 striato-rugulose at the base ; its apical half rufous ; 

 segment 2 rufous with the hind margin black. Wings . whitish 

 from the base to about the middle, afterwards darker ; areolet 

 forixiing a truncated triangle. 



A species of central and southern Europe, but said by 

 Stephens to have been taken by himself in the London 

 district, though no recent captures are recorded. A 

 male and two females are in Walker's collection at 

 Oxford, as I am informed by Westwood, but some 

 proof is required to show that Walker took them in this 

 country. 



Giraud bred it in France from Parasia lappella, L., 

 and Goureau, in great numbers, from P. carlinella, Dougl. 

 (Ann. Soc. Fr., 1858, p. 275). 



2. Agathis nigra, Nees. 



Agathis nigra, Nees, Mon., i., 128; Wesm., Nouv. 



Mem. Ac. Brux., 1837, p. 23, a^ ? ; S. v. YolL, 



Pinac, pi. 29, f. 4, ? . 

 Black, with black palpi ; anterior femora at the apex broadly, 

 and all the tibiae, rufo-testaceous ; posterior tibiee tipped with 

 black. Wings fuscous, with a whitish streak below the stigma, 

 which, with the squamulae and nervures, is black. Antennae 3' ? 

 22 — 24-jointed. Rostrum longer than the head. Head and thorax 

 smooth and shining ; mesothorax with a few vague punctures ; 

 metathorax uneven, with two longitudinal carinae and a few trans- 

 verse lateral wrinkles. Segment 1 with a deep basal fovea, longi- 

 tudinally convex from thence to the apex, weakly striolated at the 

 base, the rest of the abdomen smooth and shining. Kadial areolet 

 longer and more acute than that of A. anglica; 2d abscissa of the 

 radius obsolete ; 3d abscissa straight ; 2d cubital areolet triangular, 

 petiolated, sometimes irregular or obsolete. Terebra \ longer than 

 the body. (? ? . Length, 2 ; wings, 3f lin. 



Distinguished from other species by the longer rostrum, 

 and intense colour of the wings. Coxse and trochanters 

 black ; 4 posterior femora in British examples con- 

 colorous ; in two cases the hind tibiae bear vestiges of a 

 dusk}^ ring near the base ; intermediate tibiae also black 

 at the tips. The 2d cubital areolet is very irregular. 



