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Genus 25. PASITES. 



Nomada, pt., Fahr. Syst. Piez. p. 390. 

 Pasites, Latr. Gen. Or. Ins. iv. 141. 

 Tiphia, pt., Panz. Faun. Germ. 53. 6. 



1. Pasites Schottii. B.M. 

 Pasites Schottii, Latr. Gen. Cr. Ins. iv. 141. 



Blanch. Hist. Nat. des Ins. iii. 412. 



Eversm. Bull. Mosc. xxv. 89. 1. 



St.Farg. Hijm. ii. 532. 1. 

 Pasites unicolor, Jurine, Hyin. p. 224. 

 Nomada Schottii, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 394. 15. 

 Tiphia brevicornis, Panz. Faun. Germ. 53. 6. 



Hab. France ; Germany ; Russia. 



2. Pasites atra. 



Pasites atra, Latr. Gen. Cr. Ins. iv. 171. 

 Spin. Ins. Lig. ii. t. 2. f. 7 ? 

 St. Farg. Hym. ii. 533. 2. 



Hab. France ; Italy. 



M. Spinola has figured in plate 2 an insect which he believes to 

 have been a Pasites, but as the specimen was destroyed or lost 

 by the artist who executed the figiu-e, there is no description of 

 it in the work. 



3. Pasites fasciata. 



Pasites fasciata, Eversm. Bull. Mosc. xxv. 90. 2. 

 Hab. Russia. 



4. Pasites dichroa. B.M. 

 Male. Length 3.f lines. — Head and thorax black, strongly 



lumctured, the face below the insertion of the antennae has a 

 short glittering white pubescence, the flagellum fusco-ferruginous 

 beneath, the labrum and mandibles ferruginous. Thorax, a lon- 

 gitudinal depression in the centre and a shorter one on each side 

 opposite the tegulse ; the scutellum bituberculate ; the tubercles 

 prominent and having a fringe of white pubescence behind ; the 

 wings dark fuscous ; the legs ferruginous, the coxae black. Ab- 

 domen ferruginous. 

 Hab. Sierra Leone. (Coll. the Rev. D. F. Morgan.) 



It is very pro})able that the present species may be separated 

 fi-om Pasites by a monographer of these parasitic genera, in 

 which case we would propose the name of Morgania. 



