248 BLENNOOAMPA EPPIPHIUM. 



larva is not known, and the same may be said of 

 the <?. 



Continental distribution : Sweden, Holland, Ger- 

 many, France, Switzerland, Tyrol, Russia. 



SECTION 2. Posterior Wings with no middle cellule. 



Body and legs black, the knees paler, pronotum sometimes 

 reddish. Antennae shorter than abdomen, thick, not attenuated 

 at the apex. Transverse radial nervure received in apical 

 third of third cellule ; tr. median nervure received close to 

 middle of cellule ; accessory nervure in hind wing received in 

 middle of cellule ; an incipient nervure at base of lanceolate 

 cellule. Wings smoky (Species 14 and 16). 



14. BLENNOCAMPA EPPIPHIUM. 

 Plate XII, fig. 6, ? . 



Tenthredo eppiphium, Pz., F. G., 52, t. 5 ; Klug, Beii. Mag., 



viii, 61, 32; Lep., Hon., 110, 317 ; 



Htg., Blattw.,270, 12; Evers., Bull. 



Mosc., xx, 30, 5; Fall., ActaHolm., 



1807, 207, 15. 



Sylotoma eppiphium, Fab., S. P., 27, 28. 

 Phyllotoma eppiphium, Fallen, Mon., 33, 12. 

 Blennocampa aethiops, Thorns., Op., 283, 17. 

 JBlennocampa eppiphium, Thorns., Hym. Sc., i, 214, 15 ; Andre, 



Species, i, 310; Cat., 39,* 34. 



Black, shining, scarcely pubescent ; knees and base of tibiae and ante- 

 rior tibiae (broadly) white ; prothorax and mesonotum (except scutel- 

 lum) blood red ; breast black. Antennae thick, a little longer than head 

 and thorax; attenuate towards the apex, the third joint a half longer 

 than the fourth, the rest a little shorter. Wings fuscous ; the tr. radial 

 nervure is received a little beyond the middle of the third cubital 

 cellule. 



Length 21 lines. 



This little species may be known from fuliginosa by 

 its smaller size, shorter antennas, much longer third 

 cubital cellule, distinct pentagonal area, and by the 

 blood-red coloration of thorax ; from cinereipes it may 

 be also known by the last-mentioned peculiarity ; it 

 has also a narrower, more rounded body, while the 

 scutelluni is punctured. The <$ is very rare. 



