130 MANDIBULATA. HYME^^OPTERA. 



punctured, the 1st and 2nd segments longitudinally aciculated ; anterior 

 femora beneath and middle of the tip pale yellow; 4 anterior tibiae whitish, 

 with the outer edge towards the apex black, posterior pair white, black at 

 the tip; tarsi white, 4 anterior with the tips of the joints reddish or brown- 

 ish, posterior whitish, with the basal joint black at the tip, the other joints 

 more or less black; wings rather smoky-hyaline, with the stigma fuscous; 

 cellule somewhat 5-angular, 

 Posterior tibiae sometimes dusky. 



Very rare : found in July in the New Forest. 



Sp. 9. lineator. Niger, orbitis oculorum internis et lineolis duahus ante scutellum 

 albis J fcemina annulo aJbo antennarum. (Long. corp. 5\ — 7§ lin. ; Exp. 

 Alar. 91—11 lin.) 



Ic. lineator. Fabricius. — Steph. Catal. 346. No. 4325.~Ic. nigrator. Fab. — 

 Sieph. Catal. No. 4326, var. 9 • — Ic narrator. Fab. — Steph. Catal. 4327, var. S- 



Black : palpi pale, or dusky ; mandibles sometimes with a reddish or yellowish 

 spot ; inner orbits of the eyes, and a dot on the occipital orbits, white ; 

 antennse about half the length of the abdomen, incurved at the tip, with the 

 loth to 16th joints, in part, or all, white above and on the sides; thorax 

 with a dot or streak before the wings (on the collar), and one beneath, 

 sometimes wanting, as well as a dot or streak on each side of the base of 

 the scutellum white; abdomen punctured, somewhat opaque, more glossy 

 towards the apes, frequently bluish or violaceous, with the extreme edge of 

 the 2nd to 5th segments at times ferruginous ; 4 anterior femora beneath at 

 the apex, and the tibise within red, or ferruginous ; posterior femora sorhe- 

 times chestnut beneath, and their tibise red towards the base ; wings hyaline, 

 with the stigma, scales, and costa black, or ferruginous. 



Male, with the inner orbits of the eyes very broadly white, and the outer ones 

 narrowly so ; antenna porrect, black ; legs with the femora and tibise 

 beneath inclining to pale yellow instead of red; but both sexes vary a little 

 in these respects, as well as in wanting the 2 streaks at the base of the 

 scutellum, or white orbits. 

 Abundant within the metropolitan district, the larvae subsisting 



upon those of the Bombycidae : found towards the end of June and 

 in July. 



Sp. 10. nigerrimus. Ater nitidus, tibiis anticis interne albis. (Long. corp. 



6lin. ; Exp. Alar. 9§ lin.) 

 Ic. nigerrimus. Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. Appendix. 

 Deep glossy black : head and thorax immaculate ; abdomen rich blue-black, 



opaque at the base, the terminal segments rather shining ; legs slender, 



anterior tibiee white within, and the extreme base of the 2nd pair whitish; 



antennae rather slender, black ; wings smoky-hyaline, with the stigma, costa, 



and scales black; cellule nearly triangular. 



Rare : taken in Shropshire by the Rev. F. W. Hope, to whom I 



