264 Mr. E. Saunders' Synojysis of British 



anterior and intermediate legs beneath, except the 

 femora and also the posterior tarsi, more or less 

 fulvous. Head punctured, finely pilose, face densely 

 covered with golden hairs, and with a short spine 

 between the antennae ; antennae in the <? with the scape 

 very much dilated, flagellum compressed and dilated, the 

 8th to 10th joints excavated beneath and serrated ; 

 thorax finely i)ilose ; mesothorax and scutellum punc- 

 tured ; wings slightly dusk}^ ; metathorax clathrately 

 rugose, with a well-defined triangular basal area, which 

 is longitudinally rugose ; abdomen with the petiole long, 

 (looked at sideways) curved, smooth, and somewhat 

 flattened above, with a few long pilose hairs beneath, the 

 rest of the abdomen finely punctured ; apical segment in 

 the ? very largely punctured and carinated at the sides ; 

 posterior tibiae serrate ; <? with the two basal joints of the 

 intermediate tarsi produced at the sides. 

 Length 10 mill. 



Hah. — Hawley, Hants ; Lowestoft. Very rare. 



2. 7M?/?7:)c.s, Panz. Faun. Germ. Hi. 22 = atrafus, Panz., 

 Shuck., &c. 



Much smaller than ater, black, with the antennae 

 beneath, anterior tarsi, and the anterior tibia in front 

 testaceous in both sexes ; the ^ has also the intermediate 

 tarsi pale ; head closely and rugosely punctured, face 

 below the antennae covered with silvery hairs ; between 

 the antennae is a well-marked carina, wide posteriorly, 

 and sharpened anteriorly where it joins the carinated 

 margin of the large antennal cavities ; antennae in ? 

 short and somewhat thickened towards the apex ; thorax 

 largely punctured, more or less covered with rather 

 short white hairs ; wings hyaline ; metathorax clathrately 

 rugose, deeply and widely sulcate down the middle ; 

 abdomen shining, covered with short grey-white hairs, 

 especially towards the apex ; apical segment in the ? not 

 more strongly punctured than the others ; legs covered 

 with short, fine, adpresscd hairs. 



Length G — 7 mill. 



Very common generally. I have bred it from pierced 

 bramble stems. 



