the anus, basally nigrescent or, especially in rf. pale beneath. 



Thorax discallv shining and nearly smooth throughout, black, with 



no pale humeral marks; notauli 

 indicated, pleurae smooth ; basal 

 metanotal area distinct and 

 subquadrate ; petiolar area 

 large, subovate and nitidulous. 

 Scutellum black and subconvex. 

 Abdomen black, with segments 

 three, four, and apex of second 

 red, fifth rarelv red ; basal seg- 

 ment aciculate, twice as long as 

 broad, parallel-sided, with the- 



h~J ^fj^_ \T spiracles not very prominent ; 



f f sss ^mr ss ^\ second basally a little con- 



stricted and substriate between 

 the distinct and subpellucid 

 thyridii ; anus of $ by no- 

 means strongly compressed. 

 Legs slender and fulvous, with 

 all the trochanters and the an- 

 terior coxae pale testaceous or, 



in c? . flavous ; hind tarsi of rf subinfuscate. Wings with tegulae 

 flavous ; stigma pale and apically darker, or in c? infuscate and 

 basally paler : nervellus opposite and intercepted below its centre. 

 The <? abdomen is rarelv black-marked centrally. 

 Length 4-6 millim. 



SIKKIM: Darjiling, 6000 ft., ix. 08 (E. Brunetti Ind. Mus.). 

 EUBOPE. 



Type in the Breslau Museum. 



This is a very abundant species in Western Europe from Lapland 

 to Hungary. It is captured by sweeping throughout the summer, 

 and is occasionally seen upon umbelliferous flowers ; Holmgren 

 once bred it from an unknown species of SyrpJius fly in Sweden. 

 Brunetti took a single rather dark male by sweeping grass and 

 low herbage at Darjiling. 



Fig. 73. Promcthus sitlcator, Grav.] 



205. Promethus pulchellus. Holing. 



Bassui sulcator, var. 1 <3 , vars. 3 et 4 c? $ , Gravenhorst, Ichn. Eur. 



iii, 1829, p. 321. 



Bassm festivus, vars. 2 et 3, Gravenhorst, op. cit. p. 316 (tf $> ). 

 Basses jwlchellus, Holmgren (nee Desv.), Sv. Ak. Handl 1855 t 



p. 366 ( d 9 ) : Briscbke, Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1878, p. 113. 

 Promethus pulchellus, Thomson, Opusc. Ent. xiv, 1890, p. 1483; 



Morley, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1905, p. 429 ( rf $ ). ' 

 Sussaba bicarinata, Cameron,* Journ. Bombay Nax. Hist. Soc. 1909, 



p. 7 



A shining and punctulate, mainly black species. Head broad, 



