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tarsi, and tips of the hinder femora and of the tibiae, black ; wings smoky- 

 hyaline, with the stigma, costa, and scales fuscous ; cellule somewhat 

 triangular. 

 Rare : found in the north of England, and in Scotland. 



Sp. 40. multicolor. Niger, orbitis oculorum internis et ptincto ad alarum 

 radicem albis, stigmata, femoribus, tibiisque rufis ; foem. annulo antennarum 

 albo. (Long. corp. 7^ lin.; Exp. Alar. 13 lin.) 



Ic. multicolor. Gravenhorst.—Steph. Catal. 346. No. 4333. 



Black: mandibles ferruginous : inner orbits white; thorax of the male with a 

 streak below the wings, of the female with a dot before and iJ dots on the 

 back white ; scutellum entirely white in the female, with the tip only so in 

 the male ; abdomen opaque, with the 6th and 7th segments glossy, the 2nd 

 in the male sometimes obscurely chestnut; legs pale red, the coxse and tro- 

 chanters black, posterior with the tarsi black, the basal joint sometimes 

 reddish in the male, and in that sex the apex and femora sometimes black ; 

 antennse with the 3rd to 10th joints rusty-brown, the 11th to 16th white 

 above ; wings hyaline, smoky, or somewhat reddish, with the stigma fuscous 

 or pitchy, sometimes dull yellowish in the male ; costa fuscous ; scales black, 

 occasionally with a white dot. 

 Found, but very rarely, within the metropolitan district, in July. 



Sp. 41. monostagon. Niger, orbitis oculorum internis albidis, stigmate fusco, 

 femoribus tibiisque rufis. (Long. corp. 6 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 11 lin.) 



Ic. monostagon. Gravenhorst. — Steph. Catal. 346. No. 4335. 



Black: palpi dirty-whitish ; inner orbits of the eyes and a spot on the sides of 

 the clypeiis dull white ; thorax with a minute dot beneath the wings ; scu- 

 tellum white at the tip ; abdomen somewhat opaque, with the apex shining ; 

 legs red, coxeb and trochanters, as well as the hinder tarsi and apex of their 

 tibiffi black, middle tarsi fuscous ; wings hyaline, a little stained towards the 

 apex, the stigma, costa, and scales dusky. 

 Also taken occasionally, within the metropolitan district, in June. 



Sp. 42. albicillus. Niger, facie, coxis anticis, lineis duabus ante scutellum, 

 lineaque ante alis albis, femoribus tibiisque rufis, posticisfuscescentibus. (Long, 

 corp. 51 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 10 lin.) 



Ic. albicillus. Gravenhorst, i. m.— Steph. Catal. 346. No. 4336. 



Black : mouth, orbits, and face white, the last with a black cloud ; the basal 

 joint of the antennse also white ; thorax with a streak before the wings, a 

 shorter one beneath, and one on each side of the scutellum, with a transverse 

 one behind the latter, and its lateral margins, white ; abdomen blue-black, 

 with the 2nd to 6th segments a little depressed on the back, and with the 

 extreme margins red ; legs with the anterior coxae dirty-white, trochanters 

 black, femora and tibiae dull red, pale straw beneath, tarsi whitish ; middle 

 with the coxae and trochanters black, femora chestnut, beneath straw-colour. 



