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First abdominal segment also punctato-reticulate, linear; the other 

 segments smooth. Antennae $ longer and more slender. $ ? . 

 Length, \ — \ ; wings, 1 — 1:} Lin. 



I have not seen the $ , but the short antennas of 

 the ? are very distinctive. The first abdominal segment 

 is shorter than in the allied species, coarctate at the 

 base, and very slightly dilated beyond the antemedial 

 tubercles. Legs rather short. Capron is of opinion 

 that this species may prove to be a form of the following. 



Common, according to Haliday, in grassy hedgerows. 

 My only specimen was taken near Teignmouth. 



12. Euphorus parvulus, Euthe. 

 Leiophron* pallidistigma, Cur., B. E., 476, 6; Hal., 



Ent. Mag., ii., 466, ? . 

 Microctonus parvulus, Euthe, Stett. Zeit., 1856, p. 302, 



$ ? . 



"Antenna ? 16-jointed, slender, shorter than the body. Black; 

 abdomen, after the 1st segment, piceous ; antennae and legs pale 

 pieeous, hind coxae inmscated at the base. Wings hyaline, 

 squamulae and stigma stramineous, or the latter pale piceous. 

 More elongate than fulvipes, the legs and petiole more slender. 

 Mesothorax smooth and shining, the sutures obsolete. First 

 abdominal segment punctato-reticulate, linear, slightly coarctate 

 at the base, the tubercles medial." ? . Haliday. Length, §— 1 ; 

 wings, 1^ — 2 lin. 



I have only one specimen, in bad condition^ which is 

 shown by its antennas to belong to this species. The 

 antennas oifulvipes are shorter and stouter. E. intactus 

 has the antennas not stouter but longer; the mesothorax, 

 moreover, exhibits traces of sutures. According to 

 Eeinhard pallidistigma, Cur., is identical with parvulus, 

 Euthe. The diagnosis of the latter includes both sexes, 

 and is as follows : — 



"Black, shining, slender, antennae and legs testaceous ; antennae 

 towards the apex (mostly in the ?), and hind coxae at the base, 

 more obscure ; head and mesothorax very smooth and shining, the 

 former subcubic, the latter with no visible sutures ; metathorax 

 somewhat narrowed posteriorly, descending in a regular curve from 



* "Pallidistigma" is the older name, but parvulus is preferred 

 here as involving no mistakes in sense or form. 



