MONOGRAPHIA CHALCIDITUM. 149 



The other characters of this genus are noticed in Mr. 

 Haliday's description of Lcesthia, Vol. I. pp.335 & SSQ of 

 this Magazine. 



Sp. 1. Cero. cornigera. Mas. et fem. Ri/fa aut ferruginea, 

 nigro plus minusve variegata, alls albis fuscofasciatis. 



Cerophala cornigera. Westwood. Gy,erin. Magasm de 

 Zoologie. lere. Livraison, PI. 4. 



Epimacrus rufus . Walker, Ent. Magazine, Vol. I. p. 369. 



Mas. — Nigro-fuscus, nitens, fere glaber, pubescens : caput magnum, 

 thorace latius, ferrugineum : oculi ocelliquefusci : antennae nigro- 

 fuscae, pubescentes, corporis dimidio longiores, basi obscure fer- 

 rugineae : prothorax antice, utrinque et subtus ferrugineus ; 

 squamulae concolores : metathorax scaber, obscurus, apice ferru- 

 gineus : petiolus abdominis dimidio vix brevior, linearis, ferru- 

 ginous, obscurus : abdomen nigrum, thorace latius, brevi-ovatum, 

 convexum, glabrum ; segmentum 1™™. fusco ferrugineum, maxi- 

 mum ; sequentia parva : pedes fusci, subtus et tarsi omnin6 fulvi : 

 . alae albae, ciliatae ; proalae sub ulnae basi fusco-maculatse, sub 

 cubito fusco-fasciatje : nervus solitus fuscus ; ulna basi et cubitus 

 nigra, crassa. (Corp. long. 1 — 1^ Kn.; alar. 1 J — If lin.) 



Var. /3.' — Fern, ferrugineo-aenea : caput ferrugineum ; vertex ferru- 

 gineo-aeneus : antennas ferrugineae, apice fuscse : thoracis latera et 

 pectus abdominisque basis subtus ferruginea ; pedes concolores, 

 subtus et tarsi omnino fulvi. 



Taken by Mr. Stephens, near Ripley, in Surrey; by Mr. 

 E. Doubleday, near Epping, and by Mr. Lewis, near London. 



Sp. 2. Cero. formiciformis. Mas. et fem. Ferruginea, 

 alls vix ullis. 



Theocolax formiciformis. Weshvood, Lond. and Edin. Phil. 



Mag. Third Series. Vol. \. 



No. IL p. 127. 

 Laesthia vespertina . . Haliday, Ent. Mag. Vol. L pp. 



s^5, sm. 



Taken near Paris, by M. F. de Laporte. I have found it 

 crawling on paper, once near London ; and once, in September, 

 near Linton, North Devon. 



