XXI. CRABRO, 169 
rufo-piceous or piceous, the base of the basal joint of the 
posterior ones sometimes paler. 
The abdomen subclavate, black, shining, subpubescent; the 
apex of the last segment sometimes piceous 9. 
The ¢ differs in having the antenne fimbriated beneath, and 
the intermediate tibiz yellow in front. 
$ ¢ in my own Collection. 
+4-+ This species resembles a good deal to the C. levipes 
of Van der Linden, but is distinguished from it in the 
shape of its head chiefly, and the colour of the legs; it 
approaches very closely to the C. Wesmaeli, but from 
which it differs both in colour and the shape of its abdomen. 
Itis also very like the Crossocerus pallidipalpis of St. Far- 
geau, of which it may possibly be a variety. I captured it 
in the vicinity of London. 
Sp. 28. Genicutatus. Steph. 
niger, clypeo flavo-maculato, mandibulis nigris, metathorace levi. 
length 5 lines, 
Stephens’s Systematic Catalogue, pt. 1. p. 365. 496, n. 
Head black, punctured, shining ; stemmata placed in a triangle 
on the vertex, with an impressed line in front of the anterior one 
extending to the base of the antenne, which are black, with the 
scape yellow, but having a black stain behind ; the interior orbits 
of the eyes and clypeus covered with a dense silvery pubescence, 
the latter having a yellow spot in its centre covering the carina; 
the mandibles black, with their apex piceous. 
The thorax black, punctured, shining; the dorsolum with two 
central parallel lines, extending from the base to the disc; the 
metathorax with the subcordiform space at its base smooth, and 
having down its centre a longitudinal consute incisure, the 
posterior portion also smooth or very slightly transversely stri- 
ated; the tegule piceous; the wings slightly coloured, their 
