X. MISCUS. 79 
Black, punctured, pubescent: head with the stemmata placed 
in a close triangle on the forehead, in the front of the anterior 
one there is an impressed line extending to the base of the 
antenne. 
The thorax, with the dorsolum having an impressed line 
furcate at its base, extending backwards from the collar to the 
disc ; the metathorax delicately, either transversely or obliquely, 
wrinkled, and having towards its extremity a fossulet, which 
extends to the truncation, the striz or wrinkles diverge on each 
side from the centre; the wings darkly clouded, their edge 
having a broad black margin which extends inwardly as far as 
the marginal and submarginal cells ; the nervures piceous; the 
anterior tarsi strongly ciliated, and all the tibiz spinose. 
The abdomen, with the petiole and the basal half of the first 
segment, and the three apical segments, black; the posterior 
portion of the first segment, and the second and third segments, 
of a deep dullred 9. 
The ¢ differs in having the face covered with a dense silvery 
pubescence; the legs and abdomen also covered with a close 
down, of a yellowish hue; the superior surface of the meta- 
thorax with a subturbinate enclosure, transversely delicately 
striate with a central longitudinal impression, the sides of the 
enclosure rugose; the petiole and nearly the whole of the first 
segment of the abdomen black, a portion of the sides only red, 
the second and third segments red, with the margin of the latter 
black. g @ in my own and other Cabinets. 
+1+ This species has occurred in Essex, Hampshire, and 
Suffolk ; it is very distinct from the preceding. 
Genus X. Miuscus. Jurine. 
The characters of this genus are precisely those of the first 
section of Ammophila, with the exception of the third sub- 
marginal cell being petiolated. 
Type, M. campestris. 
