46 HYMENOPTERA ACULEATA. 



nests of Bombus ; the S frequents flowers. I have taken it 

 at Bournemouth on Ixuhiis. Bournemouth; Dareuth and 

 Birch Woods; (Smith). Wellington College; [W. F. White). 

 Teignmouth ; Parley Heath; New Forest; (C. W. Dale). 

 Stoke Wood, near Exeter ; (Par_/iif). Hastings; Colchester, 

 several cJ, and one ? "curled round a young oak twig in a 

 curious manner "; (iforwood). Croydon ; {Rothney). Chob- 

 ham; (Beaumont). Rochester; Isle of Purbeck ; Swanage ; 

 (Marahall) . 



M. rufipes, Latr. (efhippinm Fab.). — Clothed in both 

 sexes with fine erect whitish hairs ; c? shining, deeply punc- 

 tured throughout ; ? dull, head and thorax deeply punc- 

 tured, abdomen finely so. 



(J head black, with a longitudinal impi-ession on each 

 side of the vertex and a short central one behind the 

 middle ocellus ; pro and meso-notum and scutellum red, the 

 former sometimes black, propodeum, mesopleursB, and 

 sterna black, rarely with the thorax entirely black, meso- 

 notum with two deep entire longitudinal lines, tegulaa 

 large, red, wings dusky, nervure between the second and 

 third submarginal cells incomplete, propodeum clatlirately 

 rugose ; abdomen black, segments fringed with silvery 

 hairs at the apex, first and second and apical segments 

 beneath largely punctured, the rest largely punctured at 

 the apex only ; legs black, clothed with silvery hairs. 



? black, thorax, legs, mouth parts, tubercles above the 

 insertion of the antenna and base of the antennie testaceous 

 red, head and thorax above very largely punctured, the 

 latter slightly narrowed posteriorly, metanotum with a 

 slight transverse shining tubercle on its brow, pleurae 

 bright and shining ; abdomen sometimes paler towards the 

 apex, a round spot and apical band of silvery golden hairs on 

 the first segment, and the second segment entirely clothed 

 with silvery golden hairs, dorsal valve of the sixth segment 

 flat, finely and longitudinally striate; tibia3 spinose. 

 L. 5-8 mm. 



