140 NEMATUS CONJUGATUS. 



and thinner, and do not taper so much towards the 

 apex, being of more uniform thickness. N. conjugatus, 

 Dbm. has the back of the abdomen black, the third 

 cubital cellule is much longer than broad, and the 

 tooth on the claw is much smaller, the spurs 

 reach to the middle of metatarsus, the metatarsus 

 itself being longer compared to the next joint. The 

 abdomen may be entirely yellow, and the eyes may be 

 broadly yellow round the borders. 



A rare species seemingly. One specimen taken at 

 Worcester by Mr. Fletcher. 



East Gothland, Silesia and Frankfort-on-the-Main, 

 are the only other localities recorded. 



64. NEMATUS CONJUGATUS. 

 PI. XXIII, fig. 2, Saw. 



Nematus conjugatus, Dbm., S. E. Z., 1848, 177 ; Thorns., Opus. 



Ent., 623, 19; Kalt, Pfl., 558, 

 584; Andre, Species, i, 188 ; Oat., 

 24,* 184 j Br. and Z., Schr. Ges. 

 Konig., xvi, Taf. Ill, f. 15 (lar.), 

 1. c., xxiv, 305. 



Black, shining, covered with close fuscous pubescence, labrum and 

 apex of clypeus white, pronotum, tegulse, a large mark in centre of 

 mesopleurse and abdomen orange-yellow; base of abdomen entirely 

 black, the rest with a line of black marks; metapleura pale yellow; 

 legs reddish-yellow, the base and tibiae pale, darker in the middle ; the 

 apex of hinder tibia3 and tarsi black. Wings hyaline, costa pale at the 

 base, the rest and stigma fuscous, the latter with the lower apical half 

 pallid yellow. Antenna black, brownish beneath, in length as long as 

 the thorax and abdomen; the clypeus is almost truncated at the apex, 

 the frontal sutures distinct, but not the frontal area, the antennai 

 fovea deep. Sometimes the inner orbits, and the space between 

 the antennae are brownish. In rare cases the black stripe on abdomen 

 is very much narrowed, if not absent entirely, at least on the apical 

 three-fourths. The spurs reach to the middle of metatarsus; claws 

 bifid. 



The J has the antennae reddish, slightly blackish at the base above ; 

 the abdomen as a rule has no black on the back, and on its eighth 

 segment above is a short carina. The antenna are somewhat com- 

 pressed. 



Length 2 2J lines. 



The body is broader and more stumpy than it is 



