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ones ; but one division of the latter subgenus is given 

 with large spiracles, and into this these two species are 

 placed. 



Phygadeuon {Microcryptus, Th.) rufoniger, n. s. 



Niger ; abdominis basi et pedibus rufis, posticis femorum et 

 tibiarum apice fuscis, antennis tricoloribus. 



Head and thorax somewhat shining, punctate. Head behind 

 the ej'es not narrow, almost narrower than the thorax, shghtly 

 concave behind ; antennae rather more than half the length of the 

 body, almost filiform ; 1st joint of the flagellum about three times 

 longer than wide ; 6th quadrate ; metathorax somewhat rugulose, 

 with three superior areas ; supero-medial area small, about as 

 broad as long, narrower in front than behind ; lateral areae not 

 divided, the transverse ridge deeply concave in the middle ; 

 spiracles small, almost circular. Abdomen elongate-ovate, as wide 

 as the thorax, smooth and shining ; 1st segment without promi- 

 nent keels ; remaining segments transverse ; 2nd and 3rd of equal 

 lengths, the 3rd the widest ; aculeus about one-third the length of 

 the abdomen. Legs rather slender. Areolet of wings pentagonal, 

 outer nervure more or less incomplete ; posterior-inferior angle of 

 discoidal cell rectangular ; transverse anal nervure of hind wings 

 scarcely anti-furcal, divided below the middle. 



Black ; flagellum tricoloured ; joints 1 — 3 red, 4 and 5 fuscous, 

 6 — 9 white, the 6th and 9th partly brown, remainder black; 1st to 

 3rd segments of the abdomen red, and also the 4th laterally at the 

 base obscurely so, remainder black ; apex not white-marked. Legs 

 red ; the hind ones have the tarsi and apex of femora and tibiae 

 fuscous. Stigma and tegulae fuscous. "Wings fusco-hyaline. 

 Female. Length, 5 mm. 



Several females were taken by Mr. Billups in Ash- 

 down Forest on November 10th, 1885, I suppose dug up 

 from the roots of grass, &c. 



It is very like P. improbus, Tasch., but has shorter 

 antennae and aculeus, thinner legs, and no white on the 

 apex of the abdomen. 



. Leptocryptus, Th. {Flemiteles, Gr.) rvficaudatus, m. 



In the ' Transactions' of this Society for 1883, p. 149, 

 I described the female of this insect. It appears to be 

 not uncommon : I have taken it in the neighbourhood 

 of Norwich, and have seen it from other collectors. The 



