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Male. — Black, usually more or less red on the second 

 abdominal sef^^ment; sometimes entirely black : covered with 

 a fine silvery pile ; the border of the wings usually lighter 

 than in the female. 



Length 2|— 2 J lines. 



This rare insect has been taken at Parley Heath by Mr. 

 Dale, and by myself at Weybridge and Bournemouth. The 

 examples referred to by Shuckard, as being in the Collections 

 of Stephens and Curtis, were both the true Apoj'us hicolor. 



Miscus CA.MPESTRis. — This very local insect is plentiful 

 at Bournemouth in July and August ; its other localities 

 are Parley Heath ; Ringwood ; Dorsetshire ; Plawley, near 

 Blackwater, Hants, and Weybridge. 



Crabro palmipes. — Male. — Black and shining. FTead 

 and thorax with distant delicate punctures ; the face silvery; 

 the scape outside, collar and scutellura yellow ; the anterior 

 legs yellow ; the coxae, trochanters, a line on the femora and 

 tibise behind, a spot on the basal joint of the tarsi, and the 

 claw-joint, black ; the basal joint dilated, the following joints 

 subtriangular ; the intermediate and posterior legs with the 

 base of the tibiae and the basal joint of the tarsi white ; 

 wrings hyaline ; abdomen elongate. 



Length 2^ lines. 



Female. — Black. Head smooth, shining, and finely punc- 

 tured ; a longitudinal impressed line between the ocelli, 

 which extends a little beyond them ; in front of the anterior 

 ocellus is a deeply impressed line that extends to the face, 

 which is canaliculated, smooth, and shining; the clypeus 

 covered with silvery pubescence ; a narrow line of the same 

 runs half-way up the inner orbits of the eyes ; the scape in 

 front yellow ; on each side of the ocelli is a slightly impressed 



