228 Mr. E. Saunders' Si/nojms oj British 



shining, with irregular scattered punctures, the 1st four 

 segments depressed and constricted at the apex, apical 

 segment beneath bearing a strong upcurved spine ; legs 

 with short grey hairs. Length 12 mill. 



? apterous, covered with scattered short hairs, 

 shining ; head, except the mandibles, and abdomen 

 black ; mandibles, thorax, legs, and antennae testaceous- 

 red ; antennae towards the apex, and front legs, more or 

 less dusky ; head nearly twice as wide as the thorax, 

 rounded behind, and convex on the vertex, largely and 

 remotely punctured ; mandibles falcate, very pointed, 

 with a single tooth on each before the apex, and with 

 long white hairs on their surface ; prothorax convex, 

 much rounded at the sides, emarginate at the base, 

 wider than the mesothorax ; metathorax very globose ; 

 abdomen petiolated, elongate, ovate, impunctate, tes- 

 taceous at the apex ; tibiae finely spinose ; tarsi obscure 

 at the apex. Length 6 — 9 mill. 



Hah. — In sandy places. Weybridge ; Chobham ; Black 

 Gang Chine and Sandown, Isle of Wight ; Hampstead ; 

 Southend; Lyme Eegis; Barnes Common; Dr. Power. <? 

 very rare ; I took one at Chobham in July, 1880, by 

 sweeping in the evening after 8 p.m. 



SAPYGID^. 



Sapyga, Latr. (PL VII. fig. 12). 



Prec. Car act. gen. Ins. p. 134. 



Easily recognised by the long, somewhat clavate 

 antennae ; the truncate thorax in front, and the smooth 

 cylindrical abdomen, which is slightl}" widened towards 

 the apex ; wings with four submarginal cells. 



(2) 1. Antennaj of ^ gradually thickened to the apex; 



body in J more or less red . . . . . . ^-punctata. 



(1) 2. Antenua3 of ^ with their two apical joints strongly 



incrassate ; 5 without red on body . . . . clavicornis. 



1. 5-pniictat(t, Fab. Sp. Ins. p. 453. Fig. Panz. Faun. 

 Germ. 100, 17, <? . 



Black, punctured ; ^ with the clypeus, two sjDots on 

 the anterior margin of the prothorax, and a transverse 

 spot on each side of the 2nd, 3rd, 4tli, and sometimes 5th, 

 abdominal segments, and a spot at the base of the 

 posterior tibiae white ; antennae beneath more or less 



