40 SCOLIADE. 
Q Fab. Sys. Ent. 353. 1; Ent. Syst. 2. 223. 1; Piez. 232; Rossi, 2. 
No. 828; Lat. Hist. 18. 267; Nouv. Dict.; Panz. 53. 3. 9 ; 
Jurine, Pl. 9. Gen. 11. 9 ; St. Farg. et Serv. Ency. Méth. 10. 
655. 
Bethyllus femoratus. Panz. Krit. Rev. 2. 134 9. 
& T. villosa. Fab, E.S. 2. 227.18 ; Piez.235. 22 ; Lat. Hist. 13. 267 ; 
Vander Linden, Obs. pt. 1.10.2. 
Bethyllus villosus. Panz. 98. 16. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen black, pubescent with scattered 
punctures; antenne black; the superior surface of the meta- 
thorax with three longitudinal elevated lines, the central one 
abbreviated, not extending to the transverse one at their extremity 
upon the verge of the truncation, the interstices having a few 
delicate punctures; the tegule piceous, as also the nervures of 
the wings, the wings themselves slightly fuscous; the legs villose, 
the anterior pair black, with the apex of the tibize and the tarsi 
rufo-piceous, the intermediate and posterior pairs rufous, with 
their coxe black, and their tarsi piceous. ‘The margin of the 
segments of the abdomen and the apical segment rufo-piceous ¢- 
Var. a. with the intermediate and posterior legs piceous ?. 
7 lines. In Mus. Brit. 1 Sp. 
Var. (3. with the intermediate and posterior legs black, the 
antenne from the third joint rufo-piceous, and the nervures 
of the wings very slight ¢. 
53 lines. In Brit. Mus. 1 Sp. 
Var. y. the legs and antenne the same as var. 3. but the wings 
deeply fuscous, the stigma nearly obsolete, and the nervures 
of the wings slight and very pale 9. 
43 lines. In Brit. Mus. 2 Sp. 
The ¢ differs in being entirely black, the wings hyaline and 
their nervures black. 
$ and ¢ in most Cabinets. 
+1} This insect has occurred in abundance at Birch Wood 
in Kent, and it has been captured near London and in the 
New Forest, Hampshire, by Mr. Walker. The sexes have 
