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base blackj the femora with a black dot at the tip^ and the tarsi and the 

 apex of the tibiae fuscous ; in the female all the legs are red, with the hinder 

 tarsi and tip of their tibise black ; wings hyaline, with a very indistinct 

 vestige of a triangular cellule. 

 Found at Dover, in August, 1818, 



Sp. 10. cingulatus. Niger, pedihusfulvis, coxispallidioribus,tarsis posticis nee 

 non tibiarum posticarum apice fuscis, pectore et facie Jlavis, segmentis albo- 

 marginatis. (Long. corp. Sg — 4lin. ; Exp. Alar. 5—6 lin.) 



Me. cingulatus. Gravenhorst, ii. 22. — Steph. Nomen. '2d edit. Gen. 714. 10. 



Black: face, cheeks, and mouth yellow, or reddish; antennas incurved at the 

 tip, fuscous, with the basal joint yellow beneath ; thorax yellow on the sides 

 and below, with a black dot beneath the wings, above black, with a dot 

 beneath the scutellum, and sometimes 2 longitudinal ones, and the scu- 

 tellum, yellow ; abdomen with the margins of all the segments dull whitish, 

 the colour vanishing towards the sides of the terminal ones ; legs fulvous, 

 4 anterior coxae and trochanters, and 2 posterior beneath, paler, their tarsi 

 and the tip of the tibise fuscescent, the base of the last palish ; wings some= 

 what smoky-hyaline ; cellule wanting. 

 Not common : found at Darentli and Coombe woods in June. 



Sp. 11. exornatus. Nigro Jlavoque varius, pedibus pallide fulvis, posiicorum 

 tarsis et tibiisfuscescentibus, segmentis Jlavomarginatis. (Long. corp. 3 lin. ; 

 Exp. Alar. 5| lin.) 



Me. exornatus. Gravenhorst, ii. 23. — Steph. Nomen. '2d edit. Gen. 714. 11. 



Head subglobose, yellow, mandibles ferruginous at the tip ; eyes small, ocelli 

 and region of the eyes black ; antenna? porrect, with the basal joint yellow- 

 ish below, of the female reddish at the tip ; thorax yellow, with a black or 

 rusty spot on the front, 3 broad longitudinal black lines on the back, reddish 

 or rusty-black in the female, and often interrupted in the middle, the margin 

 of the scutellum and a transverse dot before the peduncle black ; a streak 

 below the scutellum and the latter yellow ; abdomen black, with the margin 

 of the segments yellow, or reddish in the female; legs slender, fulvo-testa- 

 ceous, coxse and trochanters yellow, posterior with a black dot above, the 

 hinder femora sometimes black at the base, their tibiae brownish, with the 

 base occasionally dull tawny-brown; wings hyaline; cellule S-angular, 

 somewhat petiolated. 

 Apparently scarce : taken in June near London. 



Sp. 12. albolineatus. Niger, capite thorace scutelloque albolineatis, femoribiis 



tibiisque rvfis, antennis albo annulatis. (Long. corp. 5 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 8^ Ihi.) 



Me. albolineatus. Gravenhorst, i. 631.— Steph. Nomen 2d edit. Gen. 714. 12, 



Black: palpi, base of the mandibles, and inner and outer orbits white; antennae 



curved at the tip, the 12th to 14th joints white above; thorax with a line 



on the suture before the wings, a streak beneath; and 2 dots below the 



