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conspicua, quorum l um . angustum, 2 um . longius, 3 um . adhuc 

 longius, 4 um . 5 um . et 6 um . parva : pedes pubescentes ; coxae et 

 trochanteres parva; protarsi breves articulo 1°. validiore sub- 

 arcuato : articuli 1°. ad 4 um . longitudine decrescentes, 5 US . 4°. 

 paullo longior ; ungues et pulvilli minuti : alae angustae, subtilis- 

 sime pubescentes, iridescentes, cuique nervus costalis unicus, 

 alae triente brevior, apice ramulum emittens brevem stigmate 

 terminatum minimo : metala? nervo unico simplici, dimidii longi- 

 tudine. 



* Alee perfectce. 



•f Antennce filiformes ; articuli lineares. 



Sp. 1. Tel. varicornis (Latreille? MSS.) Fern. Ater, an- 

 tennce albo cingulatce, pedes ruft, alee fusees. (PI. XIII. 

 fig. 7.) 



Ater, scaber, obscurus, pubescens, parum convexus : caput thoracis 

 latitudine : oculi ocellique picei : antennas nigrae, subfiliformes, 

 extrorsum crassiores, capitis thoracisque longitudine ; articulus 

 l us . basi piceus ; 3 US . et sequentes ad 6™. albi ; 12 us . acuminatus, 

 gracilior, flagellum longi-fusiforme : thorax ovatus : abdomen 

 longi-ovatum, subnitens, subtilissime punctatum, fere glabrum, 

 basi scitissime sulcatum, thorace fere duplo longius : pedes run ; 

 coxae nigro-piceae : proalas fumosae ; metalae pallidiores ; squa- 

 mulae piceag ; nervi fusci. (Corp. long. lin. 2± ; alar. lin. 3i.) 



Described from a French specimen in the British Museum, 

 named " Acanthophora varicornis" by Latreille ? Those 

 taken by Mr. Haliday in sand-pits, Kent, and at Holywood, 

 Ireland, are much smaller, and their antennas are banded with 

 red. 



Sp. 2. Tel. Metabus. Mas. Ater, genua rufa, alee sub- 

 fuscce, abdomen thorace multo longius. 



Ater, punctatus, parum nitens : caput transverse undatim sulcatum : 

 oculi ocellique picei : antennae corpore longiores : thorax brevi- 

 ovatus, confertim punctatus : abdomen subfusiforme, thoracis 

 latitudine at multo longius, sulcatum, ad suturas laeve, apicem 

 versus dense hirtum ; segmentum I 1 ™, profunde et confertim 

 sulcatum ; 2 um . sulcis postice evanescentibus ; 3 um . sulcis ad 

 hue levioribus : pedes nigri ; genua, trochanteres necnon tibiae 

 basi et apice rufa : alae longitudine mediocri : proalae subfuscae ; 



