166 DOLERUS PALUSTRIS. 



those mentioned by Stephens Bipley and near Here- 

 ford and Worcester, where it has been taken by Mr. 

 Fletcher. 



Continental distribution : Sweden, Germany, Hol- 

 land, France, Switzerland. 



7. DOLERUS CHAPPELLI. 

 PI. IX, fig. 8 ? . 



Dolerus Chappelli, Cameron, E. M. M., xiv, 155 ; Andre, Species, 



i, 204; Cat., 33*15. 



$ dull black, with a faint bluish tinge, densely covered with a pale 

 pubescence, deeply and coarsely punctured. Abdomen from the second 

 segment reddish-yellow; the sheath of the saw black. Wings sub- 

 hyaline ; costa, stigma and nervures black. 



Length 4^ lines. 



The nearest ally of this insect is D. anticus, but it 

 has the clypeus more deeply incised, pubescence thicker 

 and closer, abdomen more sharply pointed, pleura? less 

 shining, and the whole of the first abdominal segment 

 with the tegulas, pronotum and mesonotum black. 



A single specimen has been taken by Mr. Joseph 

 Chappell in Staffordshire. 



8. DOLERUS PALUSTRIS. 



Dolerus palustris, Klug, Berl. Mag., viii, 296, 222 ; Htg., Blattw., 



233, 6; Thorns., Hym. Scand., i, 283, 9; 



Cam., Fauna, 17, 3 ; Andre, Species, i, 267 ; 



Cat., 33,* 11; Fitch, Proc. Ent. Soc., 1881, 



xxii. 

 ? uliginosus, Kl., Berl. Mag., viii, 297, 223 ; Htg., Blattw., 



233, 7 (ab.). 

 Dosytheus junci, Ste., 111., vii, 84, 11. 



Black ; the second and sixth at the base and apex respectively, and 

 the intermediate segments of the abdomen, with the knees and tibiae 

 (except at the apex), red ; mesonotum and breast finely punctured ; 

 tegula? black. Wings subhyaline, having a fuscous tinge; the basal 

 segments of abdomen smooth, shining. ? and $ . 



Length 3^ 4 lines. 



Ab. a. Posterior tibia3 black ; anterior brownish in 

 front, or entirely black, and the abdominal band of a 



