86 TENTHREDO DISPAE. 



Continental distribution : Tyrol, Germany, Sweden, 

 Eussia. 



11. TENTHBEDO DISPAR. 

 PL XVI, fig. 1, Saw. 



Tentkredo dispar, King, Berl. Mag., viii, 206, 154; Htg., 



Blattw.,-306, 27; Evers., Bull. 

 Mosc., xx, 13, 47 ; Cam., P. N. 

 H. S., Glas., iii, 89 (la.) ; E. M. 

 M., xiii, 198; Cam., Fauna, 12, 

 8 ; Andre, Species, i, 454 ; Cat., 

 55 * 8. 

 atra, Thorns., Hym. Scand., i, 274, 1 (in part). 



Allantus dispar, Ste., 111., vii, 68, 34. 



Black ; clypeus, labrum, mandibles, a line on the pronotum, and a 

 spot over the posterior coxae white; legs red; coxse, sometimes the 

 trochanters, apical third of posterior tibise and tarsi black. Tegulse 

 reddish, frequently black; palpi pale testaceous. Antennae scarcely 

 the length of abdomen, middle joints not thicker than the third and 

 fourth, the apical thinner. Head densely covered with short hair; 

 mesonotum and pleurae opaque, alutaceous. Head and abdomen 

 shining. Wings hyaline, apical half of costa testaceous; stigma 

 black. 



The <? has the white band on pronotum broader, there is a white line 

 below the eye; the 2 5 abdominal segments are reddish, femora 

 banded with black above, and the posterior tibiae have only the basal 

 third reddish. 



Length 5 5 lines. 



There is sometimes a pale streak in front of anterior 

 legs ; the trochanters and base of femora are often more 

 or less black, and posterior tibiae nearly all black ; 

 pronotum devoid of white, and the tegulaa vary from 

 red (the normal colour) to black, while there may be 

 one or two marks over the posterior coxa?. 



The larva I have found in July and August feeding 

 on Scabiosa succisa. It has the head black, except 

 the face, which, with the sides, is green ; the eye spots 

 black, or rather they are placed in the black coloured 

 part of the head. The body is dark green, the folds 

 of the skin being marked with black, and across the 

 back there are darker green stripes proceeding from the 



