58 HYMENOrTERA ACULEATA. 



Antennas not very close together at tlieir bases, pronotuni 

 more declivous than in Ajwnis, thorax not so long as the 

 abdomen, wings dusky with a darker apical band, two sub- 

 marginal cells ; abdomen with the apical ventral valve 

 slightly convex narrowed and rounded at the apex ; tibiis 

 and tarsi finely spinose. 



? broader than the c?, the abdomen with the first, second 

 and base of the third segments red. Exceedingly like the 

 cJ of P. 2'iectlnipos, but wings with only two submarginal 

 cells, and the division between the pro and meso-thorax 

 rather straighter and the apical segments of the abdomen 

 beneath rather less hairy. 



L. 6-7 mm., ? 8-9 mm. 



Chobham ; Woking; Bournemouth. Sidmouth ; (Z?. C. L. 

 rerldns). Middlemarsh ; Parley Heath ; Barmouth ; {Dale). 

 Colchester ; {Ilartvood). 



(SuBG. POMPILUS.) 



P. sericeus, F.d. Lind.(acum{natus, Smith). — ^ Black, 

 head very delicately punctured, with a few larger shallow 

 punctures interspersed, face below the antennae clothed with 

 thin silvery hairs, antennas rather thick, narrowing to the 

 apical joint ; pronotum arcuately emarginate, finely punc- 

 tured as also the mesonotum, propodeum more strongly so, 

 with silvery hairs at the sides, wings slightly clouded 

 across the apex, second submarginal cell larger and oblong, 

 third large, slightly narrowed above ; legs black, femora 

 inclining to piceous red ; abdomen smooth, shining, apical 

 segment with a pale spot, beneath with the fourth to the 

 apical segment laterally compressed and almost carinated, 

 apical valve strongly so. 



L. 8-10 mm. 



Hab. — Kirkpatrick Juxta, Moffat, Scotland. 



I have seen the original specimens from which Smith 

 described, and have no doubt that they are large examples 

 of this specie?. 



