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I have omitted the followmg species, descrihed hy 

 Shuckard and Smith as British, as their claims to a place 

 in our fauna seem to me to rest on very doubtful 

 authority : — hellicosus, Oliv., 14-)iotatiis, Oliv., nigri- 

 cornis, Shuck,, hijyunctatus, Oliv., and nigrcxciieus, Shuck. 



1. uniglumis, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. vol. i. p. 573. 



Fig. Panz. Faun. Germ. 64, 14. 



Black ; antennae towards the apex, beneath fulvous ; 

 thorax with the tubercles in the ? pale, and the tegulae 

 in both sexes ; abdomen with a whitish spot on each 

 side of the 1st and 2nd segments of the <? and of 

 each of the segments of the 2 except the 6tli ; legs 

 with the tibiae and tarsi fulvous, and the extreme apex of 

 the femora in the ? . Head and thorax rugosely punc- 

 tured, covered with short hairs, those on the face, in front 

 of the antennae, bright silver}^ ; wings subhyaline, nervures 

 pale ; scutellum with a central carina ; wing-like appen- 

 dages of the post-scutellum pale, subtriangular, acute ; 

 sjjine of the metathorax short and rounded at the apex ; 

 metathorax traversed by fine elevated lines, basal area 

 defined by an elevated line intersecting these others, 

 sides with an elevated ridge running nearly parallel to 

 the sides of the basal area ; abdomen dull in the J , 

 shining in the ? , its puncturation very line and close, 

 especially on the 2nd and following segments, its sur- 

 face covered with short grey hairs, longer in the J" than 

 the ? ; tibiae and tarsi with pale sijines. 



Length 6—9 mill. 



Hah. — Common in many sandy places, and generally 

 distributed. 



2. mandihidaris, ])bm. Hym. Eur. i. p. 514. 



(? closely allied to the above, but having the mandibles 

 Havous at the base and rufescent at the apex, the spots 

 of the abdomen of a more distinct yellow, and the punc- 

 turing of the segments, especially of the 2nd and follow- 

 ing, much stronger, and more scattered ; thorax with the 

 tubercles and a spot on each side of the collar flavous ; 

 the femora are black, with their apices pale, and the front 

 tarsi are broadly flavous beneath ; the tibiae flavous, more 

 or less reddish at their extremities, the 1st and 2nd 

 pairs with a streak behind, and the 3rd with a broad band 

 near the apex, black ; tarsi rufescent. 



Length 6 mill. 



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