CEROPALES VARIEGATA. // 



Male. Length 2£-3 lines. — The male has the markings more 

 distinct and larger, and the abbreviated band on the fourth seg- 

 ment usually obliterated. 

 The female varies in its markings : the line on the orbits of 

 the eyes is sometimes abbreviated, not crossing the sides of the 

 clypeus ; the legs varying to nearly black ; the white spots and 

 bands on the abdomen more or less obliterated in some examples : 

 sometimes the sixth segment is white above. 



Not a very abundant species, but widely distributed ; it appears 

 about the end of July. It has been taken at Barmouth and Pen- 

 zance ; in North Wales ; at Birch Wood, Erith and Gravesend, 

 Kent ; at Hawley, Hants ; at Ventnor aud Shanklin, Isle of 

 Wight ; and nearWakefield, Yorkshire. At Lowestoft it is very 

 plentiful, settling on the heads of the Wild Carrot. 



2. Ceropales variegata. 

 C. nigra, albo-maculata ; abdomine rufo, maculis tribus albis. 



Evania variegata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Supp. 24] . 2, 3. 



Panz. Faun. Germ. 77. 10. 

 Ceropales variegata, Latr. Hist. Nat. Crust, et Ins. xiii. 284. 2. 



Fabr. Syst. Piez. 186. 2. 



Spin. Ins. Lig. i. 66. 1. 



Jan d. Lind. Obs. i. 347. 2. 



Shuck. Foss. Hym. 71. 2. 



Curtis, Brit. Ent. xvi. 756 $ . 



St. Farg. Hym.nl 466. 2. t. 33. f. 2. 



Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 31. 14. 



Wesm. Hym. Foss. Belg. 27. 2. 



Female. Length 3-3^ lines. — Black; a line on the inner orbit 

 of the eyes crossing the lateral margins of the clypeus, the 

 labrum, a minute spot between the antenna 1 , and a spot in front 

 of the scape, white. Thorax : a slightly interrupted line on the 

 collar, the tubercles, post-seutellum, and a minute spot at the 

 posterior lateral angles of the metathorax, white ; the wings 

 subhyaline and iridescent ; the legs red ; the anterior coxae 

 white in front and black behind ; the intermediate and posterior 

 coxae and trochanters, the tips of the posterior femora and 

 tibiae, and also the tarsi, black ; a white line on the outside of 

 the intermediate and posterior coxae. Abdomen : the two basal 

 segments red ; the second with a lunate cream-coloured spot on 

 each side; the apical segment cream-coloured. 



Male. Length 2\ lines. — Very closely resembles the female, 

 but differs in having a minute white spot at the base of the 



