150 MANDIBULATA. HYMENOPTKKA. 



segments somewhat opaque, the remainder shining; ovipositor slightly 

 exserted ; legs moderate, black, 4 anterior with the tibise beneath and tip of 

 the femora rusty-white ; rather thickened in the female, with the anterior 

 tibiae rusty beneath ; wings ochreous-hyaline, the apex with a purplish 

 tinge, stigma dull red ; costa brown, scales black, with a white dot. 

 Also rare : found near London, in June. 



Sp. 65. laminatorius. Niger, facie, lined ante alas, iibiis tarsisque albis. (Long, 

 corp. 10—12 lin.; Exp. Alar. 15— 15| lin.) 



Ic. laminatorius. Fabricius. — Steph. CataL 348. JVo. 4413. Albin.pl. ix.. Jig. 

 sup. sinist. 



Black : mouth, face, and spot on the cheeks vt^hite, the face above with 2 or 3 

 abbreviated longituduial black streaks, and the apex of the mandibles also 

 black ; antennae with the basal joint white beneath ; thorax with the suture 

 before the wings, a spot below them, and 2 minute ones beneath the scu- 

 tellum whitish; raetathorax slightly pubescent; scutellum white; legs 

 black ; 4 anterior coxa?, with a spot, the trochanters, a longitudinal line on 

 the femora, the tibiae and tarsi, white; the tibiae with the apex without, and 

 the tips of the joints of the tarsi fuscous or black ; posterior trochanters and 

 middle of the femora white, tibiae and joints of the tarsi white, with the tip 

 black ; wings smoky-hyaline, or hyaline ; stigma safFron-coloured, or rusty- 

 brown, the costa fuscous, scales black, with a whitish spot; cellule irre- 

 gularly 3-angular. 



The white lines on the thorax are sometimes wanting, and the occipital orbits 

 and a portion of the outer ones are occasionally whitish. 



Larva feeds on that of Dielephila Elpenor. 



Not uncommon, in June, in the marshy places within the metro- 

 politan district, where Dielephila Elpenor occurs ; also found in 



Devonshire, &c. 



Sp. Q6. Proteus. Niger, orbitis oculorum supernis, annuloque antennarnm albis. 

 (Long. corp. 9—13 lin.; Exp. Alar. 15 — 17 lin.) 



Ic. Proteus. Christius. — Steph. Catal. 347. No. 4352. — Ic. bilineator. Donovan, 

 V. xiv. pi. 478 ? 



Black : frontal and ventral orbits of the eyes more or less distinctly whitish ; 

 antennae above half the length of the body, with the apex curved, with all, 

 or the greater portion from the 6th to 15th joints white above and dusky 

 beneath ; metathorax slightly pubescent ; scutellum white ; abdomen 

 oblong-ovate, as wide as the thorax ; legs black, anterior beneath dull 

 white ; wings smoky-hyaline, the apex darker, stigma ferruginous ; costa 

 and scales black ; cellule 5-angular. 

 Found with the last, of which it is probably the female. 



Sp. 67. deliratorius. Niger, iibiarum annulo alio ; mas facie et pimctii ad 



