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the eyes, are of a dirty white : the antennae are brown : the eyes 

 and crown of the head are black : the body is entirely black and 

 shining, with the exception of a row of white spots on each side of 

 the abdominal segments: the fore wings are elongate and ample ; 

 they have the costal margin as far as the stigma, the inferior 

 margin to the same extent, and a direct fascia uniting these two, 

 blackish : the marginal as well as submarginal cells are of 

 nearly equal proportions : the hind wings have a slight black 

 cloud : legs white, with a black patch on the femora : size that 

 of Cladius difformis. 



Not common ; taken twice by Mr. Walker. 



The Club Cabinet appears to possess many other Fenusw 

 undescribed ; but none are so distinct as the foregoing. 



Genus. — Selandria, Leach. 

 Sp. 1. Selan. pallida. Pallide viridls, oculis ocellisque nigris. 



This insect is entirely of a pale, sickly, green colour, with black 

 eyes and ocelli : its size is that of Selandria ferruginca. 

 Occurs commonly on the mountain ash. 



Sp- 2 Selan. versicolor. Niger ; abdominis dorso flaw, late- 

 nfcwg rmtrique albidis nigro-sparsis, pedes pallid! '. 



Head very broad, black : pro- meso- and metathorax black ; the latter 

 with two white spots above : propodeon black above, with a white 

 posterior margin, and a central oblong white spot : the seven fol- 

 lowing segments dorsally bright yellow, laterally and ventrally 

 white, sprinkled with black spots, disposed in some specimens in 

 somewhat regular lines : telum dusky : wings hyaline, but com- 

 pletely covered with minute brown dots, nervures brown : coxae 

 white : trochanters white, with a black spot : the legs pale yellow : 

 about the size of Cladius difformis. 

 Neighbourhood of London ; May and June. 



Sp. 3. Selan. chrysorrhaea. Niger, alis nigro-tinctis ano pedi- 



busque croceis. 

 Tenthredo chrysorrhaea. Klug. 

 Very small, being less than Nematus gallicola of Stephens. 



London, Birch Wood ; Worcester, Leominster, &c. 



