of nno species of Tenthredinidce, ^-c. 377 



Genus Strongylogaster, Dahlb. 



1. Strongylogaster iridipennis. 



Female.-— Length 4 lines. Black, wings hyaline and 

 brilliantly iridescent, nervures and stigma fuscous; legs 

 pale. Head black, with the palpi pale. Thorax: the 

 tegulte, and a minute spot on each side of the post-scu- 

 tellum, white ; legs pale ferruginous, the coxae and tro- 

 chanters, the apex of the posterior tibife above, and the 

 tarsi, black ; the base of the posterior tibiaj white. Ab- 

 domen : above, subcarinate in the middle, longitudinally ; 

 the apical margins of the third, fourth and fifth segments 

 narrowly fei-ruginous ; beneath, the third and three follow- 

 ing segments fen-uginous. 



Hab. — Hakodadi. 



Genus Pachtprotasis, Hartig. 



1. Pachjprotasis erraticus. 



Male. — Length 4 lines. Black, pale yellow beneath. 

 Head : antennae pale testaceous beneath, and as long as 

 the body ; the face, as high as the insei'tion of the antennas, 

 the mandibles, cheeks, and an interrupted narrow line on 

 the vertex, testaceous. Thorax : two longitudinal oblique 

 lines on the mesothorax, the tegulte, scutellura and two 

 minute spots behind it, testaceous ; wings hyaline and 

 iridescent, the nervures black ; the legs with a black line 

 above, the pectus with two ovate spots, and a longitudinal 

 line beneath the Avings (which unites with two perpendicular 

 lines), testaceous. Abdomen : a triangular spot on the first 

 segment, and a short transverse line in the middle of the 

 apical margins of the third and fourth segments, white. 



Hab. — Hakodadi. 



This species is extremely like the European P. simulans. 



Genus Macrophya, Dahlb. 

 L Macrophya nigropicta. 

 Female. — Length 6\ lines. Yellow, with black mark- 

 ings. Head : the antennas, a somewhat irregular circular 

 spot on the vertex, enclosing the ocelli, a semicircular spot 

 behind the eyes, and the head behind the vertex, black. 

 Thorax: the mesothorax has above a triangular spot 



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