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but this may be absent. The face is pale, the mouth 

 brownish. At the last moult the head loses the black 

 colour, becoming entirely white. 



Its habits are similar to the other species. 



It is not uncommon in the London districts, at 

 Worcester, Norwich, Bristol, Devonshire and Paisley. 



It has a wide Continental distribution, being found 

 in Sweden, Holland, Germany, France, Italy and 

 Russia. 



2. EMPHYTUS CINCTUS. 

 Plate VI, fig. 4, Larva. 



Tenthredo cincta, Lin., S. N., ii, 925. 



togata, Zett., Ins. Lapp., 342, 16. 



Empliytus cinctus, Klug, Berl. Mag., 279; Ste., 111., vii, 89, 

 4; Htg., Blattw., 248, 3; Bouche, 

 Naturg., 139 (lar.) ; Westwood, G. 

 Cbr., 1856, No. 25, 421; Vollenhoven, 

 Tidj. Ent., viii, 73-77, pi. 3 (lar., im., 

 Ac.); Thorns., Op., 274, 6; Hym., 

 Sc., i, 189, 2; Kalt., Pfl., 222; 

 Brischke, Beschr., 16, pi. iii, fig. 6 ; 

 Evers., Bull. Mosc., xx, 26, 2; Cam., 

 Fauna, 20, 1 ; Andre, Species, i, 251 ; 

 Cat., 31* 17. 



Dolerus cindue, Lep., Mon., 117, 342. 



Antennae black, the apical joints produced on the underside at their 

 apices and a little attenuate; the ninth is much shorter than the 

 eighth and very sharply pointed ; the third is a little shorter than the 

 fourth. Head black, shining, covered with a fuscous down, the front 

 projecting; pentagonal area not distinct; palpi fuscous, labrum and 

 apex of clypeus sometimes pale white, generally black ; clypeus slightly 

 emarginated ; the head is nearly as broad as the mesothorax and con- 

 siderably emarginated behind. Thorax black, shining, almost glabrous, 

 semi-globular, narrowed in front ; sutures of mesonotum deep ; cenchri 

 white; scutellum rounded, finely punctured, and with two foveae in 

 front. Abdomen a little longer than the head and thorax, the apex 

 acuminate, blotch small but distinct, the fifth segment with a white 

 band which does not, however, reach all round ; the sheath curved, 

 hairy, a little projecting. Legs black, the posterior coxae at apex, tro- 

 chanters, base of femora and apex of all the tibiae white ; the rest of 

 tibias and tarsi reddish, apex of tarsi fuscous ; calcaria short. Wings 

 hyaline, costaand base of stigma fuscous ; the apical part of the stigma 

 black ; the radial nervure curved, received a little beyond the middle of 

 the second cellule ; the second recurrent is received a very little beyond 

 the first cubital, almost interstitial. 



