SPHEGW.E- 8t 



podeum dull, finely rugose, and clotlied with wliitisli hairs, 

 especially at the sides, which are finely strigose, wings 

 slightly dusky in the ? ; abdomen finely but clearly punc- 

 tured, segments depressed at the apex and with a lateral 

 apical spot of silvery hairs visible only in certain lights ; 

 apical dorsal valve rounded in the ^ , smooth and elon- 

 gately triangular in the ?, with a few shallow punctures; 

 tibise with a few stout spines, tarsi piceous at the apes, 

 anterior pair in the 2 very longly pectinated. 



L. 8-9 mm. 



Rare. Chobham; Hayling Island; Ilfnicombe. Sandown 

 Bay, Isle of Wight; Sandhurst; Weybridge ; Deal; 

 (Smith). Ventnor ; [Rotlineij). Portland; Lulworth; (Dale). 

 June to August. 



T. pectinipes, Linn, (pompiliformis. Smith). — Black, 

 the two basal segments of the abdomen red; head finely 

 punctured, distance between the eyes on the vertex longer 

 than the first two joints of the flagellum, impressed 

 behind the ocelli, clypeal region clothed with golden 

 silvery hairs ; mesonotum closely punctured, propodeum 

 finely rugose, its sides strigose, and clothed with silvery 

 hairs, wings slightly smoky, marginal cell with a distinct 

 appendix; abdomen with the apices of the segments less 

 deeply impressed than in unicolor, and the puucturation 

 much closer and finer, sides of the segments with an apical 

 patch of silvery hairs, terminal dorsal valve in the ^ trun- 

 cate, in the ? very elongate and triangular, more than twice 

 as long as its basal width, its sides raised, and the disc very 

 largely and remotely punctured ; legs black, clothed with 

 silvery hairs, tibiaa with a few short spines, anterior tarsi 

 very longly pectinated in the ? . 



L. 8-9 mm. 



Common on sandy commons, &c., and generally dis- 

 tributed. 



T. lativalvis, Thoms. — Exceedingly like pectinipes, but 

 the S has the face densely clothed with bright golden 



