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white joints in the middle; thorax with an obscure white streak at the base 

 of the wings; scutellunni white at the tip of the male, and of the female entirely- 

 white ; abdomen with the extreme margin of the 2nd segment chestnut, and 

 sometimes with the edges of all the segments of the females; the ovipositor 

 slightly exserted ; legs red, coxae and trochanters black ; the posterior with 

 the extreme tips of the femora, tibiae, and joints of the tarsi, black ; wings 

 hyaline, slightly smoky in the male, the costa, stigma, and scales, pitchy 

 •• or brown, paler in the female- 

 Taken, but rarely, near London ; also, I believe, in Wiltshire. 



Sp. 51, candidatus. Niger, pedibus rufis, coxis, trochanteribus, facie, punctisque 

 ad alarum radicem., albis. (Long. corp. 3^ lin. ; Exp. Alar. 5 lin.) 



Ic. candidatus. Graoenhorst, i. 193. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 132. 



Black: mouth and face white; antennae porrect, with the basal joint white, 

 the rest rusty-brown ; thorax with 2 white dots at the base of the wings; 

 scutellum white at the apex ; abdomen with the basal segment shining, the 

 following silky ; 4 anterior legs pale saffron, with the coxae and trochanters 

 white; posterior red, the coxae fuscous, with the tip white, trochanters 

 white, the extreme apex of the femora and of the tibiae and tarsi fuscous; 

 wings hyaline, the costa and stigma fuscous, the scales white ; cellule 

 5-angular. 

 Taken at Hertford in June ; rare. 



Sp. 52. iridipennis. A^iger, femoribus tibiisque rtifis, linea alba ante alas: mas 

 facie et antennarum articulo 1-mo sitbtus albo ; fcemina orbitis oculorum internis 

 et antennarum annulo albis. (Long, corp, 3 — 3^ lin,; Exp. Alar, 5^ lin.) 



Ic. iridipennis. Gravevhorst, i. 194. — Steph . Nomen. 2d edit. col. 132. 



Black : mouth, face, frontal orbits of the eyes, and sometimes a portion of the 

 exterior ones yellowish-white ; of the female the inner orbits towards the 

 antennae and a portion of the outer above are white; thorax with a white 

 line before the wings, and occasionally a transverse one below the scutellum, 

 which is pale yellow ; abdomen sometimes with the extreme edge of the 

 2nd segment, and a dot at its basal angles chestnut ; legs red ; coxae and 

 trochanters usually black, 4 anterior of the male more or less spotted with 

 white ; the extreme tip of the hinder femora and tibiae, in this sex, fre- 

 quently dusky ; antennae also porrect, with the basal joint yellow or white 

 beneath ; of the female with 3 or 4 of the middle joints white above; wings 

 more or Jess hyaline, iridescent, the stigma and costa pitchy or straw- 

 colour ; cellule somewhat 3-angular. 

 Found in June at Hertford, and again in July last. 



Sp. 53. pallidatorius. Niger, facie alba, pedibus anterioribus stramineis, femo- 

 ribus externe. obscuris, posticis nigris, tibiarum bast alba. (Long. corp. 

 5A lin. ; Exp. Alar. 10 lin.) 

 Ic, pallidatorius. Gj^avenhorst , i, 196.— Steph. Nome?!. 2d edit. col. 132, 

 Black: face, mouth, and part of the outer orbits above, white; antenna 



JM.ANDIBULATA, VoL. VII., 30tH SkI'T., "1 «35. k 



