68 SOHIZOCERA FURCATA. 



the apices of the tarsal joints darker, clypeus brownish, palpi pale. 

 Wings obscure hyaline, darker at apical third. Costa and stigma 

 fuscous ; third cubital cellule much shorter than second, wider at apex 

 than at base ; third cubital nervure oblique but not curved. Head not 

 dilated behind the eyes. Scutellum raised, punctured ; the suture at 

 its base deep, wide. 

 Length 3 lines. 



Kare. London district, Strathcarron, Ross-shire. 

 The larva is reported to feed on Rumex acutus. 



Continental distribution: Sweden, Germany, Austria, 

 France, Tyrol, Silesia. 



2. SOHIZOOEBA FURCATA. 



Vol. II, PI. Y, fig. 9; $ 9 a, Antenna ? ; 9 b, Antenna <? . 



Tenthredo furcata, Vill., Ent., iii, 86, 19, pi. vii, f. 16, <?, 17, $ 

 (1789); Fab.,E.S.,supp.215; Pz., 

 F. G., Heft 46, pi. i. ' 

 rubi-idsei, Rossi, Faun. Etr., ii, 31, 731. 



Hylotoma furcata, King, Berl. Mag., vi, 301, 31; Fab., S. P., 



22, 8 ; Fall., Acta Holm., 1808, 44 ; 

 Hon., 25, 11. 



Cryptusfurcatus, Lep., Mon., 52, 149. 



Schizocera furcata, Br. and Zad., Schr. Ges. Konig., vi, 118 ; 



Andre, Species, i, 51 ; Cat., 7,* 9. 

 Var. angelicas. 

 Tenthredo angelicse, Pz., F. G., Heft 72, pi. i. 



melanocephala, Pz., 1. c., Heft 64, pi. v. 

 taraxaci, Pz., Ent. Yersl., ii, p. 24. 

 Hylotoma angelicse, King, Berl. Mag., vi, 302, 32. 

 Cryptus angelicse, Lep., Mon., 53, 152 ; F. Fr., pi. 2, f. 6. 

 Cyphona angelicse, Thorns., Hym. Sc., i, 48, 2. 



Black ; abdomen and legs yellow ; coxae at base, trochanters and base 

 of femora (especially the four anterior) more or less black. Clypeus 

 and palpi yellowish. Wings obscure hyaline, darker at the basal three- 

 fourths; third cellule much shorter than second, wider than long, 

 dilated at apex; third transverse cubital nervure curved ; second recur- 

 rent nervure received not far from second transverse cubital and in the 

 third cellule ; <$ sometimes interstitial. 



Length 3^4 lines. 



In a British <$ the third cubital cellule is much wider 

 at the apex on upper side than on lower, through the 

 third transverse cubital nervure taking a curve from 

 the bottom towards the apex of the wing. In the 

 other specimens I have there is no great difference 



