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or heath-loving species, rather than a frequenter of meadow land or 

 cultivated places. 



A. spreta, Perez (= niveata, E. Saund., necFriese) is distinguished 

 at a glance from any of our species by the deep apical impressions of 

 the abdominal segments with their very densely, minutely punctate or 

 granular-like, dull surface. This is mostly a coastal or heath-loving 

 species, but occurs in the fens also. 



A. saundersella (== nana, Smith, Saunders) in the ? is distinct 

 from all others by the deep shining impression of the third abdominal 

 segment ; that of the second is also generally much smoother than in 

 other species. The $ is most like minutuloides, which often has a 

 plentiful abdominal punctui'ation, but the clypeal hairs are of a different 

 character, longer and less erect, giving it a quite distinct appearance. 

 In this species the rugosities of the propodeal area are usually 

 abbreviated, often very much so, but occasionally they reach the brow, 

 In minutuloides they are still more variable. 



A. moricella, sp. n. — In the $ of this species the face is clothed 

 with long black or sooty hairs, as in typical parvula, Kirby, and I can 

 add nothing to the characters given in the table. I have not taken 

 examples of this species in cop., and so cannot be sure that the $ is 

 correctly assigned. As Herr Alfken has found a very similar ? in 

 Germany, the <$ of which is quite different from moricella, I have 

 taken the J as the type of my species. One of the ? ? was taken 

 on the same patch of daisies as the <$ , no other species occurring at 

 the time except saundersella. I have seen but few examples, all told, 

 of this form. 



A. subopaca, Nyl. — This is the sp. a of my earlier paper, and I 

 have to thank Herr Alfken for preventing me from giving it a new 

 name, he having been able recently to examine Ny lander's type speci- 

 mens. The $ , which has a pale-haii'ed face, could only be confounded 

 with minuhda or minutuloides, but the very feeble thoracic puncturation 

 easily distinguishes it. The propodeal area is much more rugose 

 than in saundersella, The ? with impunctate abdomen resembles 

 only minuhda and parvula, but the very finely remotely punctured 

 mesonotum easily separates it. The dark appressed hairs of the 5th 

 abdominal segment and the dark stigma are characteristic. 



A. parvula, Kirby, and minuhda, Kirby. — These are spring and 

 summer broods of one species, the £ of the former being unlike any 

 other species except moricella, as above noted. The <$ of the second 



