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middle tarsi brownish ; antennse of the male porrect, with the basal joint 

 yellow beneath ; of the female slightly curved at the apex, with the 11th to 

 15th joints, and occasionally one or two others, white above, fuscous 

 beneath; wings hyaline, iridescent; stigma brown or rusty, costa brown, 

 scales white or yellowish in the males, black in the females; cellule some- 

 what 3-angular. 

 The male has one, or more, pair of the coxae frequently marked with a white 

 dot. 

 Also rare, and found within the metropohtan district, in June. 



Sp. 46. ochropis. Niger, annulo antennarum albo, femoribus tibiisque rufis, 

 thorace rufo, aut albopicto ; mas J'acie et scutello albidis ; foemina Jac/e et 

 scutello rubropictis. (Long. corp. 5 — 5\ lin. ; Exp. Alar. 8| — 91 lin.) 



Ic. ochropis. Gmelin. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 132. 



Black ; mouth and face white ; antennse porrect, basal joint white beneath, 

 then about 13 pale red, 4. or 5 entirely white, and the rest black ; thorax with 

 a dot before and beneath the wings, and a transverse streak beneath the 

 scutellum whitish, or reddish ; scutellum whitish, or red, with the centre 

 yellow ; abdomen slender, finely punctured, entirely black, or with some of 

 the basal segments faintly edged with chestnut; legs red; hinder coxae 

 sometimes blackish above, or all the coxse and the trochanters at the base 

 black ; posterior tarsi sometimes fuscous at the tip ; wings with the costa 

 and scales pitchy ; stigma rather ochreous ; cellule somewhat 5-angular. 



Female with the inner orbits and face more or less reddish or bay ; antennae 

 incurved, the basal joint black, 6 or 7 following black or brown, then about 

 as many white, and the remahider black; scutellum entirely, or at the apex, 

 red-bay ; abdomen black, or dull bay, with the margins of the segments 

 sometimes paler, the 7th entirely, and the edge of the 6th, white ; ovipositor 

 slightly exserted; legs with the coxae dusky; wings somewhat yellowish. 



Larvse feed on that of Abraxas Grossulariata. 



Not uncommon in June, in the vicinity of London ; found also in 



Salop. 



Sp. 47. fabricator. Niger, scutelli apice, facieque albis, antennis inferne,J'evio~ 

 ribus tibiisque rufis. (Long. corp. 3^ — 64 Tm.; Exp. Alar. 6^ — 12 lin.) 



Ic. fabricator. Fabricius. — Steph. Catal. 347. No. 4351. 



Black: mouth, face, and generally a portion of the outer orbits of the eyes 

 yellowish- white; antennae porrect, above fuscous, basal joint yellow or 

 red; remainder reddish, with the apical ones sometimes fuscous beneath ; 

 thorax sometimes with a dot before and a streak beneath the wings, and, 

 rarely, another transverse one below the scutellum yellowish ; scutellum 

 with the extreme apex or 2 minute dots yellowish ; rarely immaculate ; 

 abdomen with 2 more or less distinct elevated lines on the basal segment, 

 the 2nd with the base aciculated, and with 2 obsolete red dots, and the extreme 

 edge sometimes chestnut; legs reddish, more or less bright; coxae ar' 



