338 Mr. Bridgman's additions to T. A. Marshall's 



in having the coxae red, sometimes the hind pair dark at 



the base above, or very rarely almost entirely dark ; the 

 scape of the antenna3 beneath in the male is pale yellow, 

 and red in the female. It also comes very near to 

 P. austriacus, Gr. Taschenburg, in his table (Die 

 Schlupf. Cryptides), gives No. 23, " Hiiften roth, wie die 

 Spitz en der Hinterschienen, austriacus " ; this is evidently 

 a mistake, as both he and Gravenhorst give "legs red, 

 coxae and trochanters black." If Taschenburg had added 

 after Spitzen, " und Wurzel," he would have accurately 

 described this species. 



Pedibiis, abdomiueque rufis, segmento primo nigro. 



The antenna;, like those of P. vagans, are slender, rather more 

 like a Cryptus than a Phygadeuon ; head behind the eyes scarcely 

 narrow; forehead smooth and shining; thorax shining; meso- 

 noti;m finely punctated ; arese of metathorax distinct, supero- 

 medial area transverse ; 1st segment of abdomen rather long and 

 somewhat slender ; post-petiole about three times as wide as the 

 petiole ; the entire abdomen smooth and shining, elongate-ovate ; 

 apex of 2nd segment the widest ; aculeus fully half the length of 

 the abdomen ; legs moderate ; the posterior inferior angle of 

 discoidal cell of front wings acute ; transverse anal nervure ante- 

 furcal ; legs moderate. 



5 . Black ; legs red, front ones paler than the hind ones ; base 

 and apex of hind tibite and hind tarsi brownish black ; base of hind 

 coxae above sometimes more or less brown; scape of antennae 

 brownish red, dark above ; ilagellum brownish beneath ; abdomen 

 red ; 1st segment black ; stigma black. 



The male differs in having the scape of the antennae pale yellow 

 beneath ; front and middle coxae are paler, and the hind pair darker 

 at the base ; the abdomen has only the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th segments 

 red, and these often stained with brown. 



Male and female. Length, 4 — 5 mm. 



These were bred by Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher from old 

 birds' nests from Bognor, and from the same host were 

 bred two females and one male of an Hemiteles, which I 

 believe to be jioricolator. The two females differ very 

 much from one another in colour ; one has the abdomen 

 almost black, only the two first segments reddish at 

 the apex. 



