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testaceous ; 4 anterior legs pale testaceous ; hinder pair with the femora 

 black ; tibiae dull testaceous^ and the tarsi fuscous ; wings hyaline, fusces- 

 cent^ with the nervures darker; stigma fuscous, pale at the base. 



Male with the intermediate segments of the abdomen dull testaceous, obscurely 

 clouded with dusky at the base of each. 

 Very abundant in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, frequenting 



flowers on the borders of woods and hedges, in June. 



Sp. 12. ornata. Nigra, abdominis segmentis 5-que testaceis lined dorsali puncto- 

 rum nigrorum, ore luteo, collare scutelloqiie albidis ; pedibus testaceis. (Long, 

 corp. 5 — 51 lin.; Exp. Alar. 10 — lOi lin.) 



Te. ornata. St. Fargeau. — Steph. Catal. 336. No. 3915. 



Black : antennae pitchy beneath ; clypeus luteous, with a black patch, labrum 

 and base of the mandibles also luteous ; collar and scutellum whitish ; 

 abdomen with the 3rd to the 7th segments testaceous, with a row of black 

 spots down their centre ; legs entirely testaceous ; wings hyaline, with the 

 nervures fuscous, and the stigma darker at the apex, pale at the base. 

 Apparently rare ; taken in the vicinity of the metropolis, and near 



Dover, in the beginning of June. 



Sp. 13. negiecta. Nigra, abdomine segmentis S-tio ad 6-tam testaceis, dorso plus 

 minusve nigro, ore scutello orbitisque internis luteis, Jiemoribus nigro-variis. 

 (Long. corp. 5 — 5^ lin.; Exp. Alar. 10 — 11 lin.) 



Te. negiecta. St. Fargeau Mon. 77. — Te. subinterrupta. Steph. Catal. 337. 

 No. 3916. 



Black: antennae pitchy beneath; mouth, clypeus, and inner orbits of the eyes 

 pale yellow ; collar, scutellum, and spot beneath luteous ; abdomen with 

 the 3rd to the 6th segments pale testaceous, more or less black on the back; 

 legs pale testaceous, the femora more or less black at the base, the hinder 

 pair and their tibiae entirely so; posterior tarsi dusky at the base, pale 

 towards the tip ; wings hyaline, the stigma fuscous, pale at the base. 

 Not uncommon in the woods about London, and throughout the 



metropolitan district, in the beginning of June. 



Sp. 14. spreta. Nigra, ore, scutello orbitisque internis albis, abdomine segmentis 

 3-tio ad 6-tam subtus piceo-testaceis, supra piceo nigris. (Long. corp. 5^:— 

 5§ lin.; Exp. Alar. 10— IQi lin.) 



Te. spreta. St. Fargeau Mon. 78. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. Appendix. 



Black : antennae pitchy beneath; mouth, clypeus, and inner orbits of the eyes 

 whitish; scutellum and dots beneath yellowish; abdomen with the 3rd to 

 the 6th segment beneath pitchy-testaceous, above pitchy-black ; legs pale 

 testaceous, with the 2 hinder femora brown, or dusky ; wings hyaline, with 

 the nervures pale fuscous, stigma the same, paler at the base. 

 Not very common ; taken at Darenth wood in June. 



