182 DOLERUS ELONGATUS. 



as it is in bad condition and as it is a <$ I cannot be 

 certain about the species. It fed on Festuca. 

 Continental distribution : General. 



27. DOLERUS JENEUS. 



PL XX, fig. 5, Saw. 



Dolerus ceneus, Htg., Blattw., 241, 31; Zad., Beschr., 20; 

 Thorns., Hym. Scand., i, 293, 28; 

 Andre, Species, i, 275, 51 ; Cat., 34,* 

 38. 



Deep black, with a very faint bluish tint ; head, thorax and apical 

 segments of the abdomen covered with a moderately long greyish 

 pile. Vertex with a faint bluish tinge, deeply punctured; the two 

 visible sutures deep, short; vertex narrow behind the ocelli. An- 

 tennae about the length of the abdomen, slightly thickened in the 

 middle ; apical joints somewhat thinner. Mesonotum smooth, shining ; 

 sparsely punctured on the middle lobe, at the inner sides of lateral 

 lobes and the base of scutellum ; pleurae punctured ; sternum smooth, 

 shining ; both are covered with a long grey pile. Cenchri large, white ; 

 sutures of mesonotum deep. Legs with the knees pale fuscous ; some- 

 times, also, the tibise are pale in front. Abdomen longer than head 

 and thorax ; basal segments are almost glabrous ; apical covered with 

 long, grey hair ; blotch small, narrow. Cerci black. Wings hyaline, 

 greyish at the apex. Nervures, costa and stigma fuscous, the latter is 

 sometimes greyish on the lower side. The labrum and palpi are usually 

 pale white, more rarely black or fuscous. 



The has the antennas longer than the body ; the third and fourth 

 joints subequal ; vertex distinctly narrowed behind. 



Length 3 3f lines. 



Not uncommon in Clydesdale, the Midland Counties, 

 Norwich and the South of England generally. 



Continental distribution : Sweden, Germany, Hol- 

 land, France. 



28. DOLERUS ELONGATUS. 

 PL XX, fig. 7. 



Dolerus ceneus, var., i; Htg., Blattw., 241. 



ceneus, Zad., Beschr., 20, in part. 



elongatus, Thorns., Hym. Sc., i, 293, 29; Cam., Fauna, 



18, 9; Andre, Species, i, 276 ; Cat., 

 34,* 39. 



Black ; covered with a longish white or griseous pile ; the vertex with 

 a faint bluish tinge, sparsely punctured. Mesonotum smooth, shining ; 



