244 Mr. E. Saunders' Si/noj'tsis of British 



covered with hairs, posterior tibiae externally- serrate and 

 spined. Length 4 — 4^ lines. 



Hah. — Camberwell, Highgate, Hampstead, Fulham. 



Agenia, Schiodte. (PL VII. fig. 16). 



Kroy. Tidskr. i. p. 321. 



Closely allied to Priocnemis, but the females with 

 simple tibiee. 



(4) 1. Front wings with a dark band near the apex. 



(3) 2. Prothorax angulatelyemarginate posteriorly; meta- 



thorax punctured . , . . . , . . . hifasciatus. 



(2) 3. Prothorax arouately emarginate posteriorly ; nieta- 



thorax transversely rugose. . .. .. .. variegatiis, 



(1) 4. Front wings not banded . . . . . . . lymictum. 



1. variegata, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. vol. i. p. 570. 



Fig. Panz. Faun. Germ. 87, 21. 



Black ; head and thorax punctured ; anterior wings 

 with a narrow band along the transverso-medial and 

 externo-medial nervures, and a wide band covering the 

 radial, 2nd and 3rd submarginals, and part of the 3rd 

 discoidal cell, brown ; the extreme apical margin of the 

 wing also of that colour ; these bands are only faintly 

 indicated in the S ; prothorax arcuately emarginate 

 posteriorly ; metathorax transversely rugose and punc- 

 tured ; abdomen shining, finely and closely punctured ; 

 abdomen in the S somewhat elongate, with the apical 

 segment beneath narrow and carinated, the crest densely 

 covered with long hairs ; abdomen in the female shorter 

 and wider, the apex covered with bristly hairs ; legs 

 black. Length 7 — 9 mill. 



Piare. Coombe Wood, Wakefield, Yorkshire, &c. 



2. hifasciata, Fab. Ent. Syst. ii. p. 212. Fig. Panz. 



Faun. Germ. 86, 11. 



Very like the precedmg, but with the prothorax 

 angulately emarginate posteriorly, and the metathorax 

 shining and punctured, not transversely rugose ; ^ with 

 the apical segment of the abdomen beneath with an 

 elevated crest, not covered with long hairs, as in 

 variegata. Length 7 — 9 mill. 



Pare. New Forest, Colney Hatch, Hampstead, Nor- 

 wich, Coombe Wood, N. Wales, &c. 



