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legs brown, apices of tlie femora paler, tarsi very pale ; head 

 and thorax dull, rugose, clothed with long erect hairs, scape 

 of the twelve-jointed antennas scarcely more than twice as 

 long as wide, first joint of flagellum nearly as broad as long, 

 second twice as long as the first ; propodeum with two 

 angular teeth posteriorly, wings milky white, nervures 

 almost colourless; abdomen shining, clothed with erect 

 hairs, nodes of the petiole rounded, about equal to each 

 other in length. 



? and ? clothed with scattered hairs, head and abdomen 

 beyond the petiole pitchy brown, antennas, except at the 

 apex, mandibles, thorax, petiole of the abdomen and legs 

 testaceous ; head finely rugose, antennas eleven-jointed, 

 scape considerably bent at the base, club three-jointed ; 

 thorax slightly rugose, constricted across the middle in the 

 5, wings in the ? as in the c?, propodeum with two strong 

 spines ; abdomen with the first segment of the petiole much 

 raised posteriorly, and with a small tooth-like spine be- 

 neath, second joint nearly round, both joints more or less 

 rugose, posterior segments of the abdomen shining ; tibias 

 without calcaria on the second and hind pairs of legs, autei-ior 

 metatarsi curved. 



L. (J and ? 4-5 mm., ? 4 mm. 



Nests under bark, in old stumps, rarely in the ground. 

 (J and ? appear in September. Woking. Maidstone ; 

 (Frishy). Dawlish, Devon; (Bignell). Stouehouse "com- 

 mon; " Forest of Dean ; Wye District ; Wellington College ; 

 Lynmouth ; (IF. F. White). Shirley, often in nests of 

 F. sanguiiiea{Rothnei/). London district ; (Smith). Hamp- 

 shire and Dorsetshire "common"; (Dale). Scotland 

 "common." Carlingford, Ireland. {]V. F. Jolinson). 



L, tuberum, Fid>. [Nijlanderi, Fwrst. uni/asciatu.i, Latr.) 

 — (J much smaller than that of acorvorum, testaceous or 

 pitchy brown, head and tlioras dull, antennas with the sca])e 

 much longer than tlie second joint of the flagellum, which 

 is scarcely longer than the first, first almost as wide as 



