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domen testaceous yellow ; the latter with a black style ; anterior legs tes- 

 taceous, middle pitchy, hinder black ; antenna? dusky-black, basal and 

 terminal joints testaceous. (L. 2^-34: 1.) Hedges: Copenhagen fields; 

 Coombe Wood ; Ripley ; Monk's Wood ; New Forest ; Swansea : 6-7. 



2612 aculeata L. ii. 682. — Shaw G. Z* vi. pi. 38 Ste. M. v. 48. — 



Black, with a silken pile ; mouth pitchy ; thorax short, transverse, the base 

 waved, disc very convex ; elytra attenuated, with a single stria towards 

 the suture ; body with a silvery pile beneath, its apex with an elongate 

 style; antenna distinctly serrated. (L. 2-2^1.) Hedges: Ripley; Hert- 

 ford ; Monk's Wood ; Swansea ; Scotland : 6. 



2613 pumila Gyll. ii. 605. — Ste. M. v. 48. — Black ; spotless ; with a 

 dark silken pile ; mouth pitchy ; thorax somewhat 4-drate, rather longer 

 than broad, base 2-sinuated, middle lobe notched ; elytra nearly linear ; 

 body slightly shining beneath, its apex with an elongate style ; antennae 

 filiform, scarcely serrated. (L. 1^-2 1.) Flowers: Coombe Wood; Hert- 

 ford; Ripley; S. Wales: 6-7. 



2614 parvula Gyll. iv. 519. — Black, spotless, with a bright griseous silken 

 pile ; thorax nearly as wide as long, base slightly 2-sinuated, middle lobe 

 rounded, entire ; abdomen rather glossy, anal style very short, conical, 

 thickened at the base ; mouth and base of antennae pitchy ; anterior thighs 

 sometimes dull testaceous. (L. 1|-1|- 1.) Flowers: Dulwich ; Penge 

 Wood, &c. : 6. 



2615 ruficeps Stephens. — Black; clothed with a griseous silken pile : head 

 red ; eyes brown : thorax rather long, deeply 2-sinuated behind, the middle 

 lobe notched ; elytra densely pubescent ; abdomen with an elongate, slender 

 acute style ; 4 anterior thighs and base of their tibiae bright testaceous, 

 apex of the latter dusky ; posterior tibiae reddish, and antennae reddish at 

 the base. (L. 1^ 1. ) Flowers: near Camberwell : 6. 



2616 ventralis Fab. E. ii. 125. — Ste. M. v. 48. — Black, with a silken 

 pile ; mouth and base of the antennae dull testaceous ; thorax black, 4-an- 

 gular, with an ashy pile ; elytra considerably attenuated behind, with a 

 rusty pile ; abdomen testaceous-yellow, with a longish style, black at tip, 

 and testaceous at base; antennae pitchy. (L. 2\ 1.) Hedges: Darenth 

 Wood ; Ripley ; Hertford : 6-7. 



2617 humeralis L. ii. 682. — Pz. F. Ixii. f. 3. — Ste. M. v. 49. — Black, 

 with an ashy pile ; mouth, base of the antennae, and thorax entirely testa- 

 ceous-yellow ; elytra somewhat linear, with a wedge-shaped testaceous- 

 yellow spot on the shoulder ; 4 anterior legs testaceous; forehead pitchy- red. 

 (L. 2^1.) Flowers: Hertford: 6. 



2618 variegata Fab. E. ii. 122. — Ste. M. v. 49. — Mo. dorsalis Pz. F. 

 xlii. f. 15. — Black; with an ashy pile; mouth and thorax testaceous- 

 yellow, the latter with a large basal black spot, and sometimes with the 

 anterior edge brownish ; elytra with a large elongate pale testaceous streak 

 at the base, narrowed behind, and extending nearly to the middle ; legs 

 and antennae entirely testaceous : — thorax sometimes black, with the sides 

 testaceous. (L. 2-2^1.) Hedges: Ripley and Darenth Wood : 6-7. 



2619 flavescens Marsh, i. 490. — Ste. M. v. 50. — Dull red, pubescent; 

 paler beneath ; eyes black ; anal style elongate, chestnut or brownish ; 

 legs and antennae paler dull red: — elytra sometimes dusky. (L. 2^- 1.) 

 Hedges : Ripley ; Coombe Wood, Darenth Wood, Hertford ; S. Wales : 

 6-7. 



(2620f brunnea Fab. E. ii. 125. — Ste. M. v. 50. note. — Head and thorax 

 testaceous, spotless ; elytra testaceous, with the tip obscure ; abdomen 

 brownish, with the anal style black ; legs and base of antennae testaceous, 

 tip of the latter fuscous. (L. 2\ 1.) Improperly recorded as British. "> 



