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(40) 41. Terebra shorter than the abdomen. 



(43) 42. Body broadly marked with black, 



especially the metathorax . . 20. scutellator, Nees. 



(42) 43. Body entirely testaceous, basal seg- 

 ment at most infuscate . . .21. unicolor, Wesm. 

 (1) 44. Post-petiole not discally bisulcate, 

 though often aciculate. 



(46) 45. Wings short, narrow and clouded, 



white below stigma . . . 22. micropterus, Hal. 

 (45) 46. Wings normally developed and hyaline. 



(48) 47. Petiole white or paler than post- 



petiole 23. versicolor, Wesm. 



(47) 48. Petiole not pale, usually black. 



(56) 49. Stigma piceous and internally pale. 



(53) 50. Head broader than thorax ; terebra 



as long as abdomen. 

 (52) 51. First abscissa of radial nervure much 



shorter than the second . . .24. profligator, Hal. 

 (51) 52. First abscissa of radial nervure as long 



as second . . . . .25. filator, Hal. 

 (50) 63. Head narrower than thorax ; terebra 



shorter than abdomen. 

 (55) 54. Petiole shorter than post-petiole . 26. cinctellus, Nees. 



(54) 55. Petiole as long as the post-petiole . 27. tenellus, Marsh. 



(49) 56. Stigma entirely pale. 



(60) 57. Antennge at most twenty-eight jointed, 



of female filiform. 



(59) 58. Body testaceous, with only the abdo- 

 men basally infuscate . . .28. rubens, Nees. 



(58) 59. Body mainly black, centre of abdomen 



pale 29. Iceviventris, Wesm. 



(57) 60. Antennae at least thirty-jointed, of 



male and female setaceous. 

 (62) 61. Abdomen black, with at most second 



segment pale-marked . . . 30. fragilis, Wesm. 



(61) 62. Abdomen mainly, or body entirely, 



testaceous . . . . .31. luridus, Euthe. 



1. albiditarsis. — An abundant species. I have it from In- 

 veruglas, Scotland (Dalglish) ; New Forest (Miss Chawner) ; 

 Bentley Woods, near Ipswich (Elliott) ; Guestling, near Hast- 

 ings, in 1876 and 1889 — the females misnamed Zele testaceator 

 by Bridgman — (Bloomfield). I have several times taken the 

 females flying round young trees about Ipswich, and beaten the 

 males both there and at Wilverley, in the New Forest. It is on 

 the wing from May 16th till July 1st. Marshall gives no 

 authority for his statement that the cocoon — which he correctly 

 describes as woolly, spindle-shaped, dirty yellow, with a very 

 tough leathery lining — is attached to leaves. On the contrary, 

 Wigin sent me, on November 18th, 1899, thirteen which he had 

 dug up from beneath the surface of his garden at Methley, 



