X2 [Januarj-, 



?. Black, liearl and tliorax ciotlicd sparingly with pale hairs; face wide, 

 very closely punctured witli a bright shining line running from the anterior ocellus 

 to the clypeus generally traceable all along its path ; vertex somewhat shining, not 

 closely but rather irregularly punctured ; inesonotuni rather closely punctured, 

 much as in paiixillus, the intervals between the punctures very finely rugulose ; 

 wings witli the nervures pale testaceous, subcosta darker ; legs pitchy-brown ; pro- 

 j)odeum with its sides converging in nearly straight lines to the brow, which 

 terminates in a straight, verj' sliglitly pronounced, raised line, lateral angles not 

 prominent ; abdomen with the apices of all the segments pale testaceous, basal 

 segment very finely and very remotely punctured, 2nd somewhat singularly punc- 

 tured, the other segments with a still finer puncturation, the puncturation is 

 scarcely perceptible with a power less than a Coddington ; at the base of the 2nd 

 and 3rd segments there is a small patch of white pubescence which easily rubs off, 

 and all the segments have a sort of frosted appearance in certain lights in fresh 

 specimens, due to a very short, white, sparse pubescence, this is more evident and 

 denser on the 4th and 5th, apical rima golden, segments beneath densely fringed 

 with white hairs 



(J. Head and thorax clothed with erect brownish hairs ; antenna; reaching to 

 about the apex of the propodeum, pale beneath ; head, across the eyes about as wide 

 as long ; clypeus pale at the apex ; mesonotum sliglitly shining, very finely punc- 

 tured ; wings as in ? ; legs, with the extreme apex of the femora, the base and apex 

 of the tibiae and the tarsi, yellowish-white ; the anterior tibiae largely pale in front ; 

 propodeum finely and more or less radiately rugose, its apex truncate, but without 

 prominent angles, the rugosities extending to the brow, whereas in pauxillus the 

 actual brow is smooth ; abdomen very similarly punctured to the ? , but the punc- 

 tures larger, all the segments witli pale testaceous apices, and only very slightly 

 impressed at their bases, the basal segment is distinctly longer than its apical width, 

 the segments beneath bear a few short hairs. Long., S > 7 mm. ; ? , 6 mm. 



Lyme Kogis, July, 1903 (E. B. Nevinson). 



Allied to suhfasciatus and paumllus, but differing from both by 

 the broader face and the paler margins of the abdominal segments ; 

 from suhfascintus the (^ may be known by the hairs ou the ventral 

 segment of the abdomen, and the less rugose propodeum with less 

 sharp brow ; the ? by the form of the propodeum, which lacks the 

 prominents lateral angles, the less convex abdomen, and the more 

 punctured basal segment. I'rom pauxillus the ^ may be known by 

 the form of the abdominal segments, which are not impressed at the 

 base, as in jjauxillus, and by the sharp brow of the propodeum ; the ? 

 by the entire raised apical margin of the propodeum and the less 

 strongly marked apical depressions of the abdominal segments. 



St. Ann's, Woking : 



December, 1903. 



Hymenoptera Aculeala at Portlicawl, S. Wales. — Amongst some Hymenoptera 

 which Colonel Yerbury was kind enough to collect for me at the above locality last 

 summer the following are of special interest: — Crahro styrius, Kohl, $, one 



