148 MANDIBULATA. HYMENOl'TERA. 



stigma and costa brown, scales the same, with a white clot, or entirely white ; 



cellule 3-angular. 



Also uncommon : taken at Coombe wood, in July. 



Sp. 59. dolorosus. Niger, orhitis ocidorum lineaque ante alas Jlavix, annulo 

 antennarum albo, pedibus anterioribus piceis. (Long. corp. 4;| lin. ; Exp. 

 Alar. 9 lin.) 



Ic dolorosus. Gravenhorst, i. 204. — Steph. Nomen. 9d edit. col. 204. 



Black : palpi and dot on the mandibles straw-colour, a spot on the sides of 

 the clypeus, the inner, and part of the outer orbits yellow ; antennae with 

 the 10th to 13th joints white, with a brown dot beneath, the basal one 

 straw-coloured beneath ; thorax with the margin of the collar, a streak 

 before the wings, another beneath them, a transverse one below the scu- 

 tellum, and this last, yellow ; abdomen with the extreme edges of the 2nd, 

 6th, and 7th segnnents somewhat straw-coloured ; legs black ; anterior 

 femora pitchy-brown, dull straw-colour beneath, tibiae pitchy-straw, paler 

 beneath; middle femora blackish-brown, with the apex and the tibias 

 beneath straw-colour, the tibise outside, and the tarsi fuscous ; wings 

 hyaline, the stigma and costa black; scales yellowish, with the base black. 

 Scarce : found in June near London. 



Sp. 60. funereus. Niger, annulo antennarum albo. (Long. corp. 6 — 7 lin. ; 

 Exp. Alar. 134 lin.) 



Ic. funereus. Fourcroy, ii. p. 406. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 132. 



Black: mandibles frequently chestnut ; antennae with the 9th to the 13th or 

 16th joints white, with a dusky spot beneath; abdomen with the apex 

 obtuse, shining, the 2nd and 3rd segments somewhat opaque; legs variable, 

 the anterior femora and tibise more or less ferruginous or straw^-coloured 

 within ; the middle dusky beneath, and the posterior somewhat ferruginous 

 at the base, with a pale obsolete dot towards the inner edge; 4 anterior tarsi 

 ferruginous, posterior fuscous ; wings slightly hyaline, or yellowish, with 

 the stigma straw-colour, or rusty, rarely brown; the costa and scales 

 fuscous, or black ; cellule 5-angular. 

 Also very rare: taken in July, at Darenth wood. 



Sp. 61. leucocerus. Niger, antennarum annulo, orbitis oculorum internis punc- 

 tisque ad radicem alarum albis, abdomine ccendescenie. (Long. corp. 6^ — S 

 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 14—16 lin.) 



Ic. leucocerus. Gravenhorst. — Steph. Catal. 346. N'o. 4339. 



Black : facial orbits and a lateral spot on the clypeus white ; in the female 

 the frontal orbits alone whitish; antennae porrect, involuted in the female, 

 with about 7 of the central joints white, more in the female than in the 

 male ; thorax with the upper margins of the collar, a dot before, and another 

 beneath the wings white ; scutellum white, edged with black in the female ; 



