TENTHREDOPSIS ORNATA. Ill 



pleurse are scarcely punctured ; ornata, too, has the 

 clypeus black. 

 Rare. Scotland. 



11. TENTHREDOPSIS ORNATA. 



Tenthredo ornata, Lep., F. FT., pi. 3, fig. 5 ; Mon., 77, 228 ; Ste., 



111., vii, 12. 

 Perineum excisa, Thorns, Opus., 301, 3 ; Hym. Sc., i, 267, 5. 



ornata, Andre, Species, i, 427 ; Cat., 54,* 33. 

 Tenthredopsis ornatus, Cam., Tr. Ent. Soc., 1881, 568. 



Black, smooth, shining ; mandibles, clypeus, labrum, more or less of 

 the orbits of the eyes, edge of pronotum, tegulae, scutellar spots 

 yellowish -white; the second abdominal segments at the sides, the third, 

 fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh in part reddish-testaceous, with a black 

 dot on each in the middle. Legs reddish-testaceous ; coxse, base, and 

 sometimes the apex of hinder femora black; coxse and trpchanters 

 more or less white. Antennae pitchy beneath, the third joint dis- 

 tinctly longer than fourth. "Wings hyaline. Pleura? punctured above. 

 Abdomen beneath with two broad black bands along the sides. 



The $ has the legs more marked with black, and the abdomen is for 

 the most part entirely black above. 



Length 4 5 lines. 



Tenthredopsis dorsata, Spin., is very like this insect; 

 it is a broader and stouter species ; antennas are shorter 

 and stouter, the abdomen has only four segments red, 

 and the wings are fuscous. 



T. ornata is not common in Britain ; I have only 

 seen a few specimens from the south of England and 

 from Norwich. 



Continental distribution : Sweden, France, Switzer- 

 land, Italy, Russia. 



12. TENTHREDOPSIS TEISTIS. 

 PI. XVII, fig. 6, Saw. 



Tenthredo tristis, Ste., 111., vii, 78, 15. 



spreta, Lep., Mon., 78, 231 ; Ste., 111., vii, 77, 14 ? 

 Tenthredopsis tristis, Cam., Tr. Ent. Soc., 1881, 568, 



Black ; labrum, clypeus, mandibles, orbits, a spot behind each eye. 

 a line on the pronotum, scutellar spots, and a line on basal segment 



