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DOLICIIURUS. 



Female. Length 7-J-9J lines. — Black and shining, covered with 

 a thin, loose, hoary pubescence ; the base of the mandibles fer- 

 ruginous, their apex piceous ; the face covered with aurichal- 

 ceous pubescence. Thorax covered with long, thin, hoary 

 pubescence, the disk punctured ; the metathorax opake ; the 

 anterior tibiae in front and all the tarsi ferruginous, the basal 

 joint of the posterior pair usually black; the anterior tarsi 

 ciliated, the intermediate and posterior pairs, as well as the 

 tibiae, spinose. Abdomen : the petiole and base of the first 

 segment black ; the remainder, as well as the second segment 

 and the greater portion of the third, ferruginous. 



This insect is included in the British list with much doubt of 

 its being indigenous. The only specimen is in the National 

 Museum : it was formerly in the possession of the late J. F. Ste- 

 phens, who did not know its locality. The species does not 

 occur near Paris, but in the south of France and Italy is of 

 common occurrence. 



Genus 4. DOLICHURUS. 



Pompilus, pt., Spin. Ins. Liy. ii. 52. 41 (1806). 

 Pison, pt., Latr. Gen. Crust, et Ins. iv. 58 (1809). 

 Dolichurus, Latr. Gen. Crust, et Ins. ir. 387 (1809). 



Head subglobose, as wide as the thorax ; the eyes large, 

 lateral and ovate ; the stemmata placed in a triangle forwards 

 on the vertex ; antennae filiform, inserted on a tubercle at the 

 base of the clypeus ; the clypeus transverse ; the labrum con- 

 cealed ; mandibles long, narrow, and arcuate, their apex acute 

 and dentate within. Thorax ovate ; the prothorax transverso- 

 quadrate posteriori}, narrowed into a neck anteriorly ; the meso- 

 thorax short, not extending beyond the posterior margin of the 

 tegulae ; the scutellum semicircular and flat ; the anterior wings 

 with one marginal and three submarginal cells, a fourth faintly 

 traced ; the marginal cell long, and acute at the apex ; the first 

 submarginal cell about the same length as the second, its apical 

 nervure emitting in the middle a short nervure or branch in- 

 wardly ; the second and third submarginal cells narrowed towards 

 the marginal, the second receiving the first recurrent nervure in 

 the middle, the third receiving the second recurrent nervure near 

 its base; the legs simple. The abdomen conical, attached to 

 the thorax by a broad, short, flat petiole ; the two basal segments 



