268 MAXDIBULATA. HYMENOPTERA. 



Black : mouth and face yellow ; antennae of the male slender, rather shorter 

 than the body, tawny-red beneath, with the basal jomt yellow ; of the 

 female half the length of the body, stoutish and black ; thorax silky ; 

 abdomen narrower than the thorax in the male, of the female as wide, a 

 little thickened towards the apex, the basal segment somewhat quadrate 

 and roughish, with 2 elevated lines, 2nd and 3rd also roughish, with 

 punctures, and slightly opaque, with a faintly elevated longitudinal line ; 

 remainder rather shining, the intermediate segments occasionally edged 

 with chestnut ; legs red, 4 anterior of the male with the coxa; and trochanters 

 yellow beneath ; posterior coxse black, their tibiae pale at the extreme base ; 

 wings somewhat hyaline. 

 Taken in June, near London, and in Salop. 



Sp. 13. funebris. Niger, abdominis basi scabricula, pedibus anterioribvs rnfis, 

 posticis nigris basi tibiarum alba. (Long. corp. 2| lin. ; Exp. Alar. 4§ lin.) 



Ex. funebris. Gravenhorst, 1. 695. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. Gen. 716. 13. 



Black: mouth ferruginous ; abdomen as in the foregoing species, roughish at 

 the base; legs moderate, 4 anterior red, coxae and trochanters black, middle 

 with the femora beneath towards the base black, tibiae without and tarsi 

 fuscous, posterior black, with the base of the tibiae white; wings smoky- 

 hyaline. 

 Found in June in tlie vicinity of the metropolis, and in Salop. 



Genus XLVII.— SCOLOBATES, Gravenhorst. 



Antenna porrect, slender and curved at the apex : head transverse, a little 

 swollen in front, and deeply excavated behind : etjes ovate : thorax gibbous : 

 5CM?eZ/?mi 3-angular, somewhat gibbous : wings moderate, cellule wanting: 

 abdomen somewhat sessile, ol)long-ovate, the apex slightly compressed, the 

 1st segment sensibly narrowed towards the base, the lateral tubercles placed 

 before the middle; ovipositor scarcely exserted; legs various, 4 anterior 

 moderate, posterior pair elongate, tarsi either simple or thickened, as in the 

 Anomala. 



These insects principally differ from the preceding by having the 

 hinder pair of legs elongated, and their tarsi thickened, as in the 

 genus Anomalon ; the wings moderate, destitute of a cellule, the 

 abdomen somewhat sessile, the 1st segment narrowed towards the 

 base, and its lateral tubercles placed before the middle : — there are 

 probably more indigenous species of this genus than I have indicated, 

 as Mr. Shuckard informs me has seen 3 or 4, unnamed, placed in 

 some cabinets. 



