164 DOLEBUS FULVIVENTEIS. 



On the Continent it is found in Sweden, Germany, 

 Holland, France, Switzerland, Russia. 



5. DOLEEUS FULVIVENTKIS. 



PL IX, fig. 7 ? , 9 c? . 



Tenthredofulviventris, Scop., I. C., 736 ; Schr., En., 337, 679 ; 



Vill., E. P., 64. 



pratensis, Fall., Acta, 1808, 64. 



pedestris, Pz., F. G., Ixxxii, fig. 11. 



eglanterice, Fab., E. S., ii, 109, 19; Spin., Ins, Lag., 



ii, 155, 38. 



germanica, Pz., F. G., Hi, fig. 4; Fab., E. S., ii, 



116, 43; Spin., Ins. Lig., i, 

 56; VilL.E. P., ii, 76; Schaef., 

 Ic., t 62, fig. 89. 



Hylotoma eglanterice, Fab., S. P., 25, 18. 



Dolerus eglanterite, Lep., Mon., 120,356; Klug, Berl. Mag., 



viii, 291, 218; Htg., Blattw., 

 232, 1 ; Evers., Bull. Mosc., xx, 

 22, 1. 

 germanicus, Lep., Mon., 121, 359. 



bajulus, Lep., Mon., 121, 357. 



pratensis, Thorns., Hym. Scand., i, 284, 10; Cam., 



Fauna, 17, 1; Andre, Species, 

 1, 263 ; Cat., 33,* 14. 

 Dosytheus eglanteriez, Ste., 111., vii, 82, 1. 



hyalinis, Ste., I.e., 83, 4. 



fulviventris, Ste., I.e., 83, 5. 



bajulus, Ste., 111., I.e., 83, 6. 



xanthopus, Ste., I.e., 83, 7. 



Head covered with a greyish pile, punctured, opaque, frontal sutures 

 invisible ; pleurse opaque, covered with a close, depressed pile, and with 

 deep irregular punctures ; middle lobe of the mesonotum scarcely punc- 

 tured, smooth, shining ; lateral lobes and scutellum with a fine puncta- 

 tion. Antennae shorter than abdomen, somewhat attenuated at the 

 apex. Head and antennae black. Thorax with the sides, breast, 

 scutellum and metanotum, black, the rest of the thorax and tegulae 

 red. Abdomen reddish, basal joint black. Legs black ; apex of 

 femora and tibiae more or less reddish. Wings subhyaline, with a 

 blackish tinge ; nervures and costa black. 



Length 3 3f lines. 



The above is a description of the commonest form, 

 but numerous varieties occur. The scutellum may be 

 red, a common aberration has a black mark on the 

 middle lobe of the mesonotum, the latter and the pro- 

 notum are not unfrequently marked with black. In 



