HEPTAMELUS OCHROLEUCUS. 303 



The larva is unknown. 



This is a very distinct genus, easily distinguished 

 from every other. Its affinities appear to me to be 

 with the Phyllotomides on the one hand and Atlialui 

 on the other, although it is very distinct from 

 both. 



It is only known from Europe. 



HEPTAMELUS OCHROLEDCUS. 



PI. XIII, figs. 8, ? , 8 a, Antenna; PL XVIII, fig. 9, 



Saw. 



Melicerta ochroleucus, Ste., 111., vii, 94 (?). 



Heptamelus ochroleucus, Haliday, Nat. Hist. Rev., 1855, ii, 60, 



pi. ii, fig. 1. 

 C&noneum Dahlbomi, Thoms., Opus., 271, 1 ; Hym. Sc., i, 



182; Cam., E. M. M., 



xi, 108, J ; Fauna, 22 ; 



Andre, Species, i, 238 (pi. 



xv, fig. IP); Cat., 29,* 1. 



Black or fuscous black ; head, thorax, antennas and costa covered 

 with long pale hairs; the two basal joints of antennas testaceous 

 legs pale testaceous, the apex of posterior tibiae and tarsi fuscous. 

 Wings hyaline ; costa testaceous ; stigma fuscous-black, pale at the 

 base ; tegulas white. ? . 



Ab. ? . Antennas black, a small spot on mesonotum and sternum 

 dull reddish ; the middle of abdomen above the lower part of the sides 

 and belly dull reddish. 



(. Mouth pale; two basal joints of antennas pale testaceous, the 

 rest fuscous. Pro- and mesonotum, the metapleurse and sternum red- 

 dish ; abdomen pale testaceous with black or fuscous-black transverse 

 bands above, metanotum and base of abdomen black. Wings with 

 nervures, costa and stigma reddish-yellow. 



Length 2i 2$ lines. 



The two varieties of the ? are about equally com- 

 mon, but the first does not appear to have eight- 

 jointed antennas as it has in Sweden ; the eighth joint, 

 however, is somewhat longer and more sharply pointed, 

 the point being constricted giving the appearance of 

 two joints. The quantity of red on the thorax and 

 abdomen of the second variety varies, as do the black 

 abdominal bands on the 3 . 



Common in two or three places in Clydesdale. 

 North Yorkshire (Marshall). County Down, Blarney 



