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Black : inner orbits, and sometimes a transverse line on the clypeus and a dot 

 on the face white ; palpi whitish or fuscous ; mandibles rusty-brown ; 

 antennae porrect, half the length of the body, the basal joint whitish beneath; 

 metathorax with 2 acute tubercles ; scutellum white, a line beneath it 

 whitish; abdomen narrower than the thorax, oblong, the basal segment 

 slightly channelled, black, its apex testaceous, 2nd and 3rd testaceous-red, 

 4th the same, or fuscous with the edge chestnut, remainder black ; legs 

 rather slender, tawny, coxae and trochanters, and the tip of the hinder tibiae 

 and tarsi, and also occasionally the base of the anterior femora, black ; 

 wings rather smoky-hyaline ; cellule 5-angular. 

 Not common : found within the metropolitan district in June and 



July. 



Sp. 3. jucundus. Nige?-, abdominis medio rufo, femoribus tibiisque rufis, 

 posticis pro parte nigris. (Long. corp. 2i — 4 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 4 — 6 lin.) 



Phy. jucundus. Gravenhorst, ii. 658. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. Gen. 722. 3. 



Black: inner orbits in general slightly whitish ; mandibles dusky, or sooty; 

 palpi pale straw-colour ; antennae porrect, shorter than the body, the basal 

 joint reddish or dull ochreous beneath, the following reddish or dusky; 

 thorax with a white dot below the scutellum, and the tip of the latter 

 whitish ; abdomen narrower than the thorax, its basal segment somewhat 

 linear, and raiher long and narrow, edged with red, 2nd to 4th red, the 

 margin of the latter occasionally black, 5th black, with the edge chestnut, 

 or at times totally red, remainder black ; legs moderate, 4 anterior red, 

 coxae and trochanters black, posterior with the coxse, trochanters, and femora 

 black, the base of the latter red; tarsi and tibiae black, the base of the last 

 red or fuscous, with the apical spines whitish; wings somewhat hyaline, 

 cellule 5-angu!ar. 

 Not very uncommon, in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, in 



June. 



Sp. 4. larvatus. Niger, piciuris faciei et scutelli, nee nan trochanteribus coxisque 

 anterioribus, albis, abdominis medio femoribus tibiisque rufis, harum posticis 

 apice nigris. (Long. corp. 4 lin.; Exp. Alar. 7 lin.) 



Phy. larvatus. Gravenhorst, ii. 69,2.— Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. Gen. 722. 4. 



Black : mouth, clypeus, a spot on the face, and inner orbits broadly white ; 

 antennae porrect, shorter than the body, and stoutish, the basal joint white 

 beneath ; thorax slightly clothed with a griseous pile, with a white dot 

 before, and another beneath, the wings ; scutellum with 2 white dots ; 

 abdomen rather narrower than the thorax, the basal segment black and 

 finely channelled, its margin red, 2nd to 4th red, the edge of the last black, 

 remainder black ; legs moderate, anterior pale red, coxse and trochanters 

 whitish, the middle coxae black at the base; posterior coxae black, 

 trochanters black, red at the base, femora and tibiae red, black at the tip, 

 tarsi brown-black ; wings smoky-hyaline ; cellule 4-rate. 

 Found, not commonly, within the metropolitan district, in June. 



