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Sutures of the mesothorax obsolete ; the disk smooth, except a few 

 minute transverse wrinkles. Metathorax punctato-reticulate, elon- 

 gate, horizontal, abruptly rounded, or almost truncate, posteriorly. 

 First abdominal segment punctate, slender, curved, elongate, not 

 wider at the apex ; tubercles antemedial ; the rest of the abdomen 

 pyriform, smooth, shining; in the $ the apex is truncated. 



Walker first discovered at Southgate the $ which was 

 figured and described by Curtis. Haliday must have 

 had several specimens of both sexes, but without coloured 

 wings. Euthe's examples, three males, one female, 

 appear to have been typical; they were taken in the 

 Brieselanger Forest, near Berlin, in May and June. The 

 species occurs in England not uncommonly, especially 

 in North Devon, where I once captured a good series of 

 intermediate forms, enabling me with confidence to 

 unite apicalis, Cur., with fascipennis, Ruthe. Others 

 have occurred singly, in the London district, taken by 

 Billups, and by myself at Nunton, Wilts ; another is in 

 Fitch's collection. Van Vollenhoven records the rearing 

 of a specimen from an unlikely source, viz., the case 

 of a Coleophora. 



10. Euphorus ornatus, n. s. (PI. V., fig. 1). 



Testaceus, oculis, abdominis triente postico, nigris ; segmento 

 lmo et metathorace piceis ; antennis apicem versus infuscatis. 

 Alae hyalinse, nervis pallidis, stigmate picescente basin versus 

 hyalino, cellulis discoidalibus obsoletis ; alae posticae fere enerves. 

 Mesothorax lsevissimus. Metathorax punctatus, subelongatus, vix 

 declivis, apice subtruncatus. Abdominis segmentum lmum rugu- 

 losum, postice nonnihil ampliaturn, antice coarctatum, tuberculis 

 prominulis ; caetera lsevissima. 



Testaceous, eyes, and apical third of the abdomen, black; meta- 

 thorax and first abdominal segment piceous ; antennae infuscated 

 towards the tips. Wings hyaline, nervures pale, stigma pale 

 piceous, its base hyaline ; discoidal areolets obsolete ; hind wings 

 without visible nervures. Mesothorax entirely smooth. Meta- 

 thorax punctate, subelongate, almost horizontal, subtruncate 

 posteriorly. First abdominal segment rugulose, coarctatc at the 

 base, somewhat widened after the prominent tubercles ; the rest 

 smooth and shining. $ . Length, 1J ; wings, 2J lin. 



Antennae 17-jointed, incrassated towards the apex, a little shorter 

 than the body. 



