4 MANDIBULATA.— IIYMENOPTEKA. 
Plate XXXVII. fig. 1. 
Microgaster ! basulls. 
Ml. Niger, abdominis basi, pedibusque rnjis ; alls hyalom, sti<jinate 
rufo. (Long. Corp. 2 lin.) 
Mi. \ ])asalis, Siefli. Nomen. 2d edit. 
Black : the three basal segments of the abdomen, and the legs wholly red : 
wings hyaline, yellowish, vAi\\ the stigma reddish. 
Very rare : found near Loiidoii;, and in Devonshire. 
Plate XXXVII. fig. '6$. J ? 
Helcon annulicornis. 
He. Jter, nitidissimus ; abdominis sublincaris prima seymento acute 
bicarinato ; pedibus rufis, coxis trochanteribusque anterioribus 
tibiis tarsisqxie posticis nigris, his medio albis ; femorihtis posticis 
unidentatis. Fern. Annido antennarum alba. (Long. Corp. 5 lin.) 
He. annulicornis, Nees ab Essen. Jlyvx. i. 231. — N. S. dcntata.— >S(;ew/^ 
Cat. No. 4010. 
Deep, shining, black : abdomen somewhat linear, its basal segment with 
2 sharp ridges : legs red, the anterior coxae and trochanters and hinder 
tibifc and tarsi black, the middle of the latter white : hinder thio-hs 
with a single sharp tooth near the tip beneath. Female, with a wliite 
ring in the middle of the antennae. 
I possess a fine pair of these remarkable insects, taken I believe 
in South Wales ; and in the collection of the Entomological Club 
arc several examples, of both sexes, whicii, if I mistake not, were 
captiuvd nu;n- Leominster, by Mr. Newman. 
