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they are strongly and closely punctured throughout. The 
mesopleure are somewhat rugosely punctured and the meta- 
pleure show a fine longitudinal striation, The first abdo- 
minal segment is largely and irregularly punctured above, 
the second also irregularly but not so largely, those following 
more finely and closely. The impressed apices of all the 
segments are narrowly fasciated or ciliated with whitish 
hairs, and there is a similar narrow fascia at the base of the 
second segment. ‘The head, thorax, and bases of the legs 
(including the femora) are clothed beneath with moderately 
long white hairs ; those on the tibie and tarsi are also white, 
but shorter. The posterior ocelli are about as far from each 
other as from the compound eyes. The legs and antenne 
seem perfectly simple: in the latter joints 4 to 12 are about 
equal and about as broad as long; joints 3 and 13 are a 
little longer than the others, about half as long as the scape. 
‘The wings are hyaline, with fuscous nervures and slightly 
clouded apices. 
Crocisa Jagerskiéldi, sp. n., 3 2. 
Nigra vel obscure cyanescens, pilositate alba (partim strata ac sub- 
squamosa, et in certis aspectibus plus minusve czrulescente), 
opulentissime variegata. 
Forma scutelli (apice sinuose emarginati et in medio profunde angu- 
latim excisi) Crocise scutellart proxima; sed differt pilositate 
magis ut in C. ramosa disposita (mesonoti vittis lateralibus in- 
tegris, abdominis segmenti primi basi vix interrupte fasciata etc.). 
Magnitudine utramque speciem multo superat (18-20 mill. 
long.!), et ab omnibus mihi quidem cognitis Crocisis differt 
scutelli ipsius disco in utroque angulo laterali-basali macula 
bene definita pilositatis czerulescenti-albze ornato. 
3. Abdominis segmentum dorsale septimum apice utrinque dentato, 
inter hos dentes fere recte truncato. 
Antennarum articulus 3" in utroque sexu 4° fere sesquilongior. 
palnartom: G21. OL; 9, 3. 1. Ol.” 
Hixamples which, I think, belong to this very large and 
handsome species are placed in the British Museum with 
others, apparently not belonging to it, under the name 
seutellaris, F. But what recent authors (e. g. Friese in 
‘ Bienen Europa’s’) identify with Fabricius’s species is a 
much smaller and less striking-looking insect, with snow- 
white markings, naked scutellum, and nearly naked base to 
the first abdominal segment. 
In Jégerskioldi the white pilosity in both sexes is very 
copious, arranged almost exactly as in ramosa, but with a 
peculiar bluish reflection in certain lights which distinguishes 
