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$ . Very like sccalis. Antennae hardly shorter than the body, 

 25 — 26-jointed. Metathorax thickly rugulose and reticulated. 

 First abdominal segment broader than in secalls, longitudinally 

 striolated; tubercles very prominent ; condylus oblong, and slightly 

 widened at the apex. 



The sixteen males described by Wesrnael, with 22 — 28- 

 jointed antennae, are probably not all of the same 

 species ; his three females with 23-jointed antennae 

 appear also doubtful. The same must be said of Ruthe's 

 three varieties, differing structurally in the neuration, 

 and his males, which were only two-thirds of a line long. 



Described from six males, one female. Common. 

 Found by Haliday on sandy coasts, the ? once only, the 

 $ more frequently. Capron has taken four females and 

 many more males at Shiere. 



vi. Microctonus, Wcsm. 



Wesm., Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux., 1835, p. 54 ; Eeinh., 

 Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862, p. 321. 



Antennas filiform. Maxillary palpi G-, labial 3-jointed. Fore 

 wings with two cubital areolets, the 1st not separated from the 

 prasdiscoidal ; radial areolet cultrate, elongate, extending nearly to 

 the apex of the wing; radius straight, or nearly so. Mesothoracic 

 sutures almost always effaced. Terebra exserted or subexserted. 



The species are few in number, smooth and shining, 

 testaceous and black in different proportions. They 

 stand nearer to Metcorus than the other Euphorides, 

 having a similar radial areolet, and the same number of 

 joints in the palpi. The abdomen is usually ovate, 

 lanceolate ; in one species clavate, compressed, and 

 obtuse ; the 1st segment is nearly as long as the rest of 

 the abdomen, widened gradually from the base to the 

 apex, and having the tubercles beyond the middle. 

 Suturiform articulation obsolete. Radius of the fore 

 wings seldom very slightly curved, in which case it ends 

 somewhat further from the extremity of the wing. 

 Metathorax smooth, or obsoletely areated, more or less 

 truncated and excavated posteriorly. The wings are 

 very like those of Lciophron and Blacus, but in both those 

 genera the 1st cubital areolet is distinct from the prae- 

 discoidal. Nees and Haliday were acquainted with one 

 species, Wesrnael with two, and Ruthe with six ; of 



