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fuscous beneath ; metathorax with 2 rather acute spines ; scutellum with a 

 whitish-yellow spot; abdomen sometimes with the extreme edge of the 2nd 

 segment chestnut ; ovipositor rather shorter than the abdomen, chestnut ; 

 legs slender, stoutest in the female, red ; coxa and trochanters black, the 4 

 anterior of the male with a white spot beneath ; hinder tarsi red, the apex 

 of their tibise blackish, the femora with 3 or 4 of the joints rusty or reddish ; 

 wings more or less hyaline ; cellule 3- or somewhat 3-anguIar. 

 Taken, but not very commonly, in the vicinity of London, in June; 

 found also in Salop. 



S]!. 12. cinctorius. Niger, ano albo, pedihus rufis, metathorace bispino, antennis 

 suhdavatis. (Long. corp. 3 — 4 lin. ; Long. ovip. 1\ lin. ; Exp. Alar. 5 — 6 

 lin.) 

 Cry. cinctorius. Fabricius. — Ich. ? cinctorius. Steph. Catal. 350. No. 4453. 

 Black, slightly sericeous: palpi red; antennae rather above half the length of 

 the abdomen, a little thickened towards the apex, the 3rd to 10th joints 

 rusty beneath, the remainder black ; metathorax with 2 spines ; abdomen 

 oblong-ovate, the 2nd segment sometimes with the edge chestnut, the 7th 

 white above ; ovipositor about half the length of the abdomen, red ; legs 

 slender, red, the hinder tarsi fuscescent; wings slightly hyaline; cellule 

 rather large, 4-rate. 

 Fabricius described this species as a British insect in his Systema Entomologia, 

 published in 1793. 



Found, but rather uncommon, near liOndon : taken also in Devon- 

 shire, the New Forest, &c. in June. 



§ IIL Scutellum with pale marks; abdomen red, or red and black. 



Sp. 13. arrogans. Niger, abdominis medio, nee non J'emoribus tibiisque ante- 

 rioribus et posticarum basi, rufis, orbiiis oculorum internis, articulisque 3 e^ 4 

 tarsorum posticorum, albis. (Long. corp. 4§ — 5J lin. ; Exp. Alar. 6 — 1\ lin.) 



Cry. arrogans. Gravenhorst, ii. 494. — Steph, Nomen. 2d edit. Gen. 721. 13. 



Black : palpi fuscescent ; mandibles and labrum whitish, facial and part of the 

 external orbits white; antennae porrect, as long as the body, the basal joint 

 white beneath : the extreme tip of the scutellum white ; abdomen with 

 the basal segment black, the apex generally red, 2nd to 4th red, the margin 

 of the latter sometimes black ; remainder black, the 5th sometimes fuscous, 

 with the sides red; legs elongate, slender, 4 anterior red, coxae and trochan- 

 ters black, the middle femora sometimes black towards the base, their tarsi 

 fuscescent; posterior legs black, the extreme base and apex of the femora 

 red, tibise either black with the base red, or red with the apex alone black, 

 their tarsi with the 3rd and 4th joints entirely red, the apex of the 2nd 

 white ; wings smoky-hyaline ; cellule 3-angular, or somewhat 5-angular. 

 Not very common : taken near London in June. 



Sp. 14. asserlorius. Niger, abdomine, femoribus, tibiis tar sisque rufis, horum 



