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Sp- 44. spilonotus. Rufus, oculis, vertice, ocellLi, thorace {lateribus colli excepto) 

 abdominis segmento l-mo maculuque 2-di dorso nigiHs. (Long. corp. 4 — 4i 

 lin. j Exp. Alar. 7 — 8 lin.) 



Mes. spilonotus. Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. Gen. 714. 44. 



Head pale red ; tips of the mandibles pitchy ; eyes and ocelli, and a square 

 patch in -which the latter are placed black; thorax black, with a pale red 

 triangular patch on the sides of the collar ; abdomen with its basal segment 

 black, the remainder pale red, with a round black dot in the middle of the 

 back of the 2nd; legs pale red, hinder coxse blackish at the base; wings 

 hyaline; stigma fulvous ; cellule suborbicular, petiolated. 

 Apparently very rare ; I have taken specimens at Coombe and 



Darentli woods in J une. 



Sp. 45. filicornis. Niger, abdominis medio, ore, pedihnsque testcceis, femoribus 

 posticis nigricantibus. (Long. corp. 3 — 4f lin. ; Exp. Alar. 5 — 8 lin.) 



Me. fiiicornis. Gravenhorst, ii. 94. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. Gen. 714. 45. 



Black : mouth and clypeus pale red or straw-colour, and sometimes in the male 

 a faint chestnut spot on the face ; antennse slender, porrect, incurved at the 

 tip, red in the female, ferruginous at the base and fuscous at the tip in the 

 male ; abdomen slightly silky, a little compressed at the apex in the females, 

 basal segment black, with the margin sometimes reddish ; 2nd to 4th red, or 

 chestnut, the base of the 2nd and margin of the 3rd sometimes dusky; 5th to 

 7th black, the former sometimes chestnut at the base or before the margin 

 legs slender, red or testaceous, with the hinder femora entirely, or in the 

 middle alone, dusky or black ; wings hyaline ; cellule somewhat orbicular, 

 and slightly petiolated. 



■ Found in June near London, and at Netley. 



Sp. 46. variator. Niger, abdominis medio, pedibusqiie riijis, facie Jlavd. 

 (Long. corp. 3 — 4 lin.; Exp. Alar. 5 — 7§ lin.) 



Ic. variator. Gravenhorst, Fed. 118. — Me. variator. Stejyh. Nomen. 2d edit. 

 Gen. 714. 46. 



Black : face and mouth yellow, with the tip of the mandibles fuscous; antenna 

 fuscous, with the 1st to about the 5th joints rusty; abdomen with the basal 

 segment black, with its margin reddish, 2nd to 4th red, remainder black, 

 with the base and a lateral spot on the sides of the 5th chestnut ; legs pale 

 red; posterior femora fuscescent towards the apex; wings hyaline; cellule 

 somewhat 3-angular, petiolated. 

 Taken within the metropolitan district in June. 



Sp. 47. sternoleucus. Niger, abdominis medio pedibusque fuhis, tibiis posticis 

 apice nigro, coxis pectore et facie albis. (Long. corp. 4— 4^^- lin.; Exp. Alai'. 

 6—8 lin.) 



Me. sternoleucus. Gravenhorst, ii. 99. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. Gen. 714. 47. 



Black : mouth, face, and cheeks white ; antennai fuscous, with the 2 basal joints 



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