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Manchester. It appears from the beginning of June to 

 the beginning of July. 



Continental distribution : Scandinavia, Germany, 

 France, Holland, Tyrol. 



4. PACHYPROTASIS VARIEGATA. 



Tenthredo varicyata, Klug, Berl. Mag., viii, 129, 99 ; Ste., 111., 



vii, 74, 4, pi. 38, fig. 3; Htg., 

 Blattw., 296, 22. 



Pachyproiasis variegata, Thorns., Opus., 294, 2 ; Hym., Scand., 



i. 249, 3; Cam., Fauna,, 15, 2; 

 Andre, Species, i, 339 ; Cat., 43*, 2. 



Black, smooth, shining; head (except behind and a large spot on 

 vertex), pleura}, sternum, abdomen beneath, and some spots on the 

 niesonotuin, white ; the upper sides of the pleurae, and a large spot on 

 the edge of the sternum, black. Legs : all the femora and the hinder 

 tibiae red, four anterior tibiae and tarsi, white in front, black behind ; 

 apex of posterior tibiae and tarsi black ; coxae and trochanters white. 

 There is a thin black line above the first pair of femora. The base of 

 the hinder tarsi and the calcaria reddish. The margins of the dorsal 

 abdominal segments are white, the sides and belly are faintly variegated 

 with black. Wings hyaline, costa and stigma fuscous. $. 



Length 4 4i lines. 



This species is readily separated from all the other 

 species by the reddish legs. 



It is not very common. I have taken it in Rannoch, 

 Kingussie, and Glen Urquhart. Stephens records it 

 from Darenth Wood and Devonshire. 



Continental distribution : Sweden, Germany, Hol- 

 land and France. 



Genus MACROPHYA. 



Macropliya, Dbm., Comp., 4. 



Wings with two radial and four cubital cellules, the second and third 

 of the latter receiving each a'recurrent nervure. Lanceolate cellule with 

 a short transverse nervure, or shortly contracted. Transverse cubital 

 and recurrent nervures in hind wings present. Antenna? short, not much 

 longer than the head and thorax, thickened from the fourth joint, and 

 sometimes fusiform ; third joint about double the length of fourth. 

 Legs long, hind coxae large, reaching to the third abdominal segment; 

 hind calcaria reaching beyond the middle of the metatarsus. Clypeus 

 deeply incised at the apex; eyes converging on the inner side, and 

 reaching to the base of mandibles. 



The body is cylindrical, appearing short and thickset owing to the 



