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beneath, 2ml black;, 3rd red, fuscous above, 3 or 4 following entirely red, 

 remainder red, fuscous above ; thorax with a streak before, and one below, 

 the wings, and another beneath the scutelium, and the scutellum yellow ; 

 abdomen v/itli the 2nd and 3rd segments yellow, somewhat fulvescent 

 towards the base, the 4th sometimes with a yellow lateral spot; legs with 

 the coxse black, anterior more or less yellow in the middle, trochanters black, 

 4 anterior yellow at the tip, and the posterior red ; femora yellow, anterior 

 fulvous above, middle more or less black in the middle ; posterior black, 

 with the extreme tip red; tibiae yellow, the middle intensely fulvous, and 

 the posterior generally black, at the tip ; tarsi yellow, posterior dusky at the 

 apex ; wings somewhat smoky-hyaline ; cellule nearly 5-angular. 

 Not common : taken, but very rarely, near liOndon, in July. 



Sp. 150. illuminatorius. Niger, facie et segmentis 2 et 3 flavis, 3 hasifusco 

 nigra, antennis suhtiis riifis, tibiis tarsisque flavis, posticis apice nigro. (Long, 

 corp. 4| — 6 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 11 lin.) 



Ic. illuminatorius. Gravenhorst, i. 423. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 135. 



Black : mouth, face, and frontal orbits yellow ; antennse fuscous, with the 1st 

 joint yellow beneath, the remainder reddish ; thorax with a streak beneath 

 the wings, a dot before them, and an obscure one below the scutellum, with 

 this last, yellow; abdomen with the 2nd and 3rd segments yellow, the 3rd 

 with a transverse black or fuscous line at the base ; 4 anterior legs yellow, 

 with the base of the coxa; and outer edge of the femora black ; posterior 

 black, with the tibia? yellow, black at the tip ; tarsi brown, with the basal 

 joint yellow; wings somewhat smoky-hyaline. 

 Also found in July near London, and somewhat uncommon. 



Sp. 151. occupator. Niger, orbitis oculorum internis segmentisque 2 et 3, flavis, 

 femoi'ibus tibiisque fulvis. (Long. corp. 5 — 6lin. ; Exp. Alar. 10 — 11 lin.) 



Ic. occupator. Gravenhorst, i. 425. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 135. 



Black : inner orbits more or less broadly yellow, and sometimes 2 dots of the 

 same beneath the antennse, of which the 1st joint below is also yellow, the 

 remainder reddish or fuscescent ; thorax occasionally with a faint line or 

 streak before the wings, and a minute dot beneath them, and the scutellum 

 yellow; abdomen with the 2nd and 3rd segments yellow, the margin some- 

 times fulvous, 4th with the base and sometimes a small marginal dorsal spot 

 fulvescent, and rarely the 3 following segments also with a yellow marginal 

 dot; legs with the femora fulvous, the tibiae also fulvous, palest at the base, 

 especially the posterior, which last are black at the tip ; tarsi also fulvous, 

 with the hinder pair rather dusky, except the basal joint, which is reddish; 

 wings smoky-hyaline ; cellule somewhat 5-angular. 

 Rather uncommon : taken near London, and at Netley, in June. 



Sp. 152. bidentorius. Niger, punctis duobus ad radicem alarum, hasique seg- 

 mentorum 2 et 3, flavis, pedibus fulvis, coxis et trochanteribus nigris. (Long, 

 corp, 7 liu. ; Exp, Alar. 13 lin.) 



