284 PHYLLOTOMA NEMORATA. 



A very distinct genus of small extent (there being 

 only seven species known) and confined to Europe. 



Synopsis of Species. 



1 (6) Abdomen black. 



2 (5) Antennae ten to eleven-jointed, body oblong, half depressed, 



black above and beneath ; pronotum and tegulas white. Legs 

 white. Wings for the greater part hyaline. 



3 (4) "Wings with a smoky fascia in the middle, sides of abdomen 



with white marks. Nemorata. 



4, (3) Wings without a fascia; abdomen without distinct white 



marks. Aceris. 



5 (2) Antennas twelve to thirteen-jointed. Abdomen entirely black, 



or white underneath. Legs pale yellow, black at the base. 

 Wings smoky, clear at the apex. Ochropoda. 



6 (1) Abdomen luteous ; wings nearly smoky throughout ; legs luteous, 



body scarcely depressed. 



7 (8) Antennas ten to twelve-jointed, black at the base ; pronotum and 



tegulas black. Vagans. 



8 (7) Antennas fourteen to fifteen-jointed, pale at the base ; pronotum 



and tegulas black. Microcephala. 



1. PHYLLOTOMA NEMORATA. 

 PL XIII, figs. 6, 6 a, ? ; PL IV, fig. 3, Mine. 



Tenthredo nemorata, Fall., Acta Holm., 1808, 47, 23. 



Druida parviceps, Newman, Ent. Mag., iv, 261 ; 1. c., v, 484 ; 



Healy, Ent., No. 62, 208. 



Phyllotoma tenella, Zad., Beschr., 28, pi. 1, fig. 17 ; Voll., Tidj. 



Ent., xviii, 3942, pi. 4. 



Phyllotoma nemorata, Thorns., Hym. Sc., i, 176, 1 ; Cam.,Proc., 



N. H. Glas., ii, 317; Fauna, 

 23, 1 ; Tr. Ent. Soc., 1880, 

 77; Andre, Species, i,- 235; 

 Cat., 28,* 1. 



Black, shining. Antennas shorter than the abdomen, ten to eleven- 

 jointed, fuscous beneath ; inner orbits of the eyes and face yellowish - 

 white ; a black line above theepistoma; mandibles piceons, palpi white. 

 Pronotum and tegulas white ; cenchri large, dull white. Abdomen with 

 the sides marked with white, usually oblong dots. Legs white ; base of 

 coxas and femora black. Wings hyaline at the apex, a little infuscated 

 at the base and with a large smoke-coloured fascia extending from the 

 stigma to the bottom of the wing. 



Length 2 2 lines. 



The cT is unknown. I have got virgin females 

 to lay fertile eggs, and in one experiment bred two 

 females (April, 1882). 



