170 MAXDILULATA.^ — IlYMENOl'TERA. 



white ahove ; legs with the 4 anterior tarsi and tibiiB pale straw-colour, 

 the latter a little dusky without towards the tip^, the femora black, pale 

 ferruginous within ; posterior femora black, their tibise bright ferruginous, 

 dusky towards the tip ; wings slightly smoky-hyaline, stigma, costa, and 

 scales black. 

 Very rare : I have a specimen that was taken near London. 



Sp. 117. iocerus. ]Vi[!>-er, facie Jlava, macidcl nigra, antennis infra rujis, nno 

 alhomaculato, segmentis 2 et 3 iibiisque ruJis, harwm posticis apice nigro. 

 (Long. corp. 5 — 6 lin.; Exp. Alar. 10 — 11 lin.) 



Ic. iocerus. Gravenhorst, i. 326. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 134. 



Black : mouth and face yellowish-white, with a large black patch, rarely 

 immaculate, or black, with the orbits above white ; mandibles black at the 

 tip ; palpi reddish ; antennae porrect, brown-black, with the basal joint 

 beneath yellow, the following pale ferruginous ; thorax occasionally with a 

 yellow dot beneath the wings, and a streak before them; scutellum yellow; 

 abdomen with the 2nd and 3rd segments pale red, the following black ; 

 some, or idl, of them with a whitish or yellow dark spot ; legs with the 4. 

 anterior femora within and at the apex, the tibiae and tarsi pale saffron ; 

 posterior femora black, red at the very base ; tibiae pale saffron, with the 

 apex more or less broadly black; base of the 1st joint of the tarsi red; 

 wings smoky-hyaline ; stigma red, costa and scales fuscous, or black. 

 Not very common : found in June and July near London and in 



Salop. 



Sp. 118. hilaris. Nigei', antennarum annulo et segmentorum. 6 et 7 maj-gine albis, 

 segmentis 2 etS totis, nee non 4> proparte rufis,femoribus anterioribus tihiisque 

 ritfis. (Long. corp. 4— 4i- lin. ; Exp. Alar. 8— 9 lin.) 



Ic. hilaris. Gravenhorst, i. 328. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 134. 



Black : frontal orbits dull chestnut; antennse slender, involuted at the apex, 

 9th or loth to 15th joints white; scutellum white; abdomen rather slender 

 and acute, the 2nd and 3rd segments red ; 4th red, with the margin black, 

 or black, with a large angular spot on each side, the 6tli and 7lh with the 

 margins white; leas red, coxae and trochanters black; posterior femora 

 black, their tarsi ferruginous within ; hinder tibine at the tip, and their 

 tarsi black ; whigs yellowish-hyaline, the stigma pale saffron : costa and 

 scales generally black, rarely fuscous. 

 More abundant than the last, but not very common ; taken near 



London in June. 



Sp. 119. deceptor. Niger, segmentis 1-3 libiisqne riifis, harum posticis apice 

 nigro J fojmina aiitennarunt, annulo albo. (Long. corp. 3 — 5 lin.; Exp. Alar. 

 B^Hh, Hn.) 



Ic. deceptor. Scopoli, 746. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 134. 



Black ; mandibles ferruginous ; occipital orbits, and occasionally the facial 



