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scutellum white. Abdomen black, the whole of the third and fourth 

 segments above and at the sides reddish, a large stripe on the sixth, and 

 a smaller mark on the seventh at the sides and apex white. Legs : all 

 the coxae except at the apex black, the four anterior and posterior at the 

 base straw-yellow or pale red, hind femora and tibiae reddish, posterior 

 tibiae with a black line near the base, hind tarsi and calcaria black. 

 The anterior femora have a reddish tinge. Wings hyaline, smoky at 

 the apex, costa and stigma sordid-testaceous. 



The $ wants the white fasciae on the abdomen ; anterior femora are 

 reddish ; coxae nearly all straw-yellow ; there is a mark of the same colour 

 on the middle of the breast, a small black line on the upper surface of 

 the posterior femora, ; the posterior tibia) as well as the tarsi are black ; 

 the third to the fifth abdominal segments are red all round. 



Length 5 5J lines. 



The amount of red on the abdomen is subject to 

 variation. 



Rvfipes is easily distinguished from its close ally, 

 hcematopus, by the white pronotum and coxa3, blackish 

 hinder tibiae, red banded abdomen. The c? is known 

 from the same sex in hcematopus by its having (besides 

 the abdominal band) the tegulae whitish, abdomen 

 without any white marking, and posterior tibiae entirely 

 black instead of only the basal half. 



Rufipes is rare in this country, and is, so far as I 

 know, confined to the south of England. Stephens 

 reports it from Darenth and Coombe Woods, Devon- 

 shire, Dover ; and Mr. Smith tells me that it occurs 

 occasionally in woods in Kent. 



Continental distribution : Scandinavia, near Dantzig, 

 South Germany, Holland, France, Italy, Switzerland 

 and Ural districts in Russia. 



Body short, with white marking on thorax and abdomen. Mouth 

 black; clypeus shortly incised. Anterior legs black, white in 

 front ; posterior femora red, tibiae black, with a broad white 

 band. Eyes parallel, front convex. Lanceolate cellule con- 

 tracted (Species 10). 



10- MACEOPHYA PUNCTUM ALBUM. 

 PI. VIII, fig. 11. 



Tentkredo punctum album, Lin., S. E., ed. xii, 924, 23 ; Schr., 



En., 333, 669; Vill., E. P., 

 33. 



