TENTH 11IDINID.«. CLAVELLARIA. 



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Tr. unidentatum. Leach.- Sieph. Catal. 324. No. 3747. 



Black : head, thorax, and base of the abdomen clothed with a dense ferruginous 

 pui.escence; femora violet; tibia and tarsi luteous ; wings slightly ful- 

 vescent, with the apex fuscous ; mandibles red, unidentate. 

 Found (but rarely) at Coombe wood. 



Sp. 8. pusillum. Obscure csneo-nigrum, capite pallidiore, femoribus cyaneo^ 

 nigris, tibiis tarsisque fusco-luteis, mandibulis piceis. (Long. corp. 4hn.; 

 Exp. Alar. 10—11 lin.) 



Tr. pusillum. Steph. Catal 325. No. 3748. 



Dull brassy-black: head and thorax clothed with a pale griseous pubescence; 

 abdomen nearly glabrous; antenns deep black; head dull black ; femora 

 bright blue-black; tibiffi and tarsi dirty-luteous ; mandibles pitchy-red at 

 the apex, strongly bidentate; wings of a dull yellowish-brown, with the 

 apex a little darker. 

 Found in the vicinity of London, but not common. 



Sp. 9. biverrucatum. Ater, griseo-villosum, femoribus cyaneo-nigris, tibiis 

 tarsisque luUis, antennarum medio ferrugineo ; abdominis apice verrucis 

 duabus luteo-rvfis. (Long. corp. 6— 7^ lin. ; Exp. Alar. 12—13 lin.) 



Tr. biverrucatum. Steph. Nomen. 9.d edit. Appendix. 



Deep black, rather opaque, and [densely clothed with a griseous pubescence ; 

 femora blue-black; tibite and tarsi dull luteous; antennffi^pitchy-black, 

 ferruginous in the middle ; abdomen very slender in the male, and but 

 slightly dilated in the female, its apex in both sexes furnished with two 

 exserted luteous-red tubercles. 

 Taken near Teignmouth in Devonshire. 



Genus III.— CLAVELLARIA, Leach. 



Avtennw 5-jointed, shortest in the females ; basal joint robust, 2nd transverse, 

 3rd very long and slender, 4th short, 5th forming a club as long as the 3rd, 

 and punctured : Zairuwz large ; mandibles A^^^i^.i&, long in the males: head 

 nearly as wide as the thorax: eyes not approximating: ocelli 3 : wings as in 

 Cimbex: body slightly villose: abdomen linear in the males, with the basal 

 joint slightly emarginate, a little dilated towards the apex, and depressed on 

 the back in the females: legs rather short; 4 posterior /emora unarmed, 

 thickened in the males ; tibi<E furnished with obtuse spurs at the apex. 

 The 5-jointed antennae of the insects of this genus, exclusively of 

 the difference in the trophi, the slightly emarginated abdomen, the 

 base of which is not furnished vith a membrane, the simple hinder 

 femora, extraordinary length of the mandibles of the males, longer 

 labrum, &c. sufficiently point out its distinction from the two pre- 

 ceding, with which it is generally included: the difference of habit 

 alone seems to call for a separation, setting aside the differences above 



