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Hylotoma ccerulescens, Klug, Berl. Mag., vi, 294 ; Fab., S. P., 

 24, 12: Tall., Acta, 1807, 202, 9; 

 Mon., 24, 10 ; Spin., Ins. Lig., i, 51, 

 2 ; Lep., Mon., 42, 116 ; Dbm., Consp., 

 6,29; Prod., 78,21; Htg., Blattw., 

 87, 15; Tasch., Hym., 13; Thorns., 

 Hym. Sc., i, 41, 11. 



cyanocrocea, Ste., 111., vii, 18, 11 ; Br. and Zad., 

 Schr. Ges. Konig., ii, 106, 33 ; Andre, 

 Species, i, 46 ; Cat., 6,* 20. 



Bluish -black, shining. Abdomen and legs yellow ; coxse, trochanters, 

 and four anterior femora, posterior femora at apex, anterior tibise at 

 apex, apical joints of tarsi and sheath of saw, bluish-black. Wings 

 yellowish, smoky at apex, and with a distinct narrow fuscous fascia 

 below stigma ; stigma black. 



Length 3 4 lines. 



In the ? the anterior tibise are darkened at base ; in 

 c? they are quite yellow ; in the <$ also the tarsi have 

 not so much black colour, but the black colour on the 

 legs varies in both sexes. 



Easily known by the colour of the legs and wings. 

 The larva is unknown. 



" Abundant on umbelliferous plants throughout the 

 metropolitan district in June and at beginning of 

 July," Stephens, 1. c. New Forest. 



Continental distribution: Sweden (?),* Germany, 

 France, Russia, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Morea. 



12. HYLOTOMA MELANOCHRA. 

 PL I, fig. 3, ? . 



Tenthredo melanochra, Gmel., Syst. Nat., v, 2637, 100. 

 Hylotoma femoralis, Klug, Berl. Mag., vi, 295, 14 ; Htg., 

 Blattw., 87, 16; Ste., 111., vii, 18, 11; 

 Dbm., Prod., 6, 21. 



dimidiata, Lep., Mon., 43, 118 ; F. Fr., 12, 3, pi. ii, f. 2. 

 similis, Rudow, S. E. Z., xxxii, 384. 



melanochra, Br. and Zad., Schr. Ges. Konig, ii, 107, 

 34. 



Head, thorax, femora, coxae, trochanters, apex of posterior tibiae, 

 apical joints of tarsi, apex of abdomen, and sheath, bluish-black ; abdo- 

 men luteous. Antennae black. Wings hyaline ; costa yellow ; stigma 



* Dahlbom records it from Sweden, but not Thomson. 

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