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Sp. 23. Dry. nanus. (Haliday MSS.) Mas. Ater, antenna 

 nigrce, pedes nigri, tarsi picei, protibicefulvee, alee limpidee. 



Ater : oculi et ocelli picei ; antennae nigrae ; pedes nigri ; propedum 

 trochanteres et tarsi fusci, genua et tibiae fulva ; meso- et meta- 

 pedum trochanteres genua et tarsi picea : alae limpidse ; squamulse 

 et nervi fulva ; stigma fuscum ; nervi subcostales flavi. (Corp. 

 long. lin. | ; alar, lin. 1.) 



Found in Wicklow, by Mr. Haliday. 



Genus. — Aphelopus, Dalman. 



Mas. — Caput mediocre, transversum, vix convexum, thorace fere 

 angustius, antice subproductum, utrinque convexum, postice con- 

 cavum,obscurum, pubescens, scitissime etconfertissime punctatum : 

 oculi ovati, mediocres, laterales, vix extantes ; ocelli vertice trian- 

 gulum fingentes : antennae filiformes, sat graciles, pubescentes, 

 corpore fere longiores ; articulus V s . fusiformis, validus ; 2 US . 

 ovatus; 3 US . et sequentes longi, lineares, usque ad 9 Qm . subpro- 

 tracti; 10 as . fusiformis, 9°. paullo longior et gracilior : thorax 

 pyriformis, convexus, scitissime et confertissime punetatus, ob- 

 scurus, pubescens : prothorax brevissimus, supra non conspicuus : 

 mesothoracis scutum magnum transversum, parapsides bene de- 

 terminates ; scutellum et metascutellum brevi-obconica, laeviora, 

 nitentia: metathorax brevi-obconicus, rugosus, ad apicem abrupte 

 declivis : petiolus brevis, validus : abdomen longi-ovatum, sub- 

 convexum, fere compressum, nitens, laeve, glabrum, thorace 

 brevius et multo angustius ; segmentum l nm . maximum, dorsi 

 plus dimidium obtegens ; 2 nm . et sequentia brevia : pedes graciles ; 

 propedes simplices breviores, ungues minuti ; metapedes lon- 

 giores, coxae magnse : proalis nervus unicus basi emissus sub- 

 costam usque ad stigma percurrens, hoc magnum oblongum 

 ramulum emittens arcuatum. 



Fern. — Antennae extrorsum crassiores, corpore breviores ; articulus 

 2 US . longi-ovatus ; 3 a \ et sequentes ad 9 am . parum curtantes et la- 

 tescentes; 10 as . fusiformis, 9°. multo longior vix latior : abdomen 

 ensiforme, compressum, thorace multo angustius et brevius. 



Sp. 1. Aphel. melaleucus. Mas et Fem. Ater, {em. caput 

 antice album, antennce et pedes nigra picea ant fulva, alee 

 albidee. PL XVI. Fig. 3. 



Gonatopus melaleucus . Dalman, Kongl. Vetens. Acad. Handl. 

 forar, 1818.89.6. 



