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Common in sandy localities in the south ; provisions its 

 nest -with spiders. 



A. lutaria, Fah. (nj/inix, Kirh.). — Eather smaller than 

 the precediug and recognizable at once by the diagonally 

 striate propodeum, and the almost glabrous petiole of the 

 abdomen; the head and thorax are less closely punctured, 

 and it is not such a densely hairy insect. 



L. 14-18 mm. 



Rarer than the preceding. Littlehampton ; Hayling 

 Island ; Chobham ; Southend ; Deal ; Lowestoft ; Coast of 

 Hampshire; (Smith). St. Osyth; {Harwood). Norfolk; 

 {Bridgman). 



SPILOMENA, Shuck. 



{Celia, Shuck.) 



The only European species of this genus one of the 

 smallest of our Aculeate Hymenoptera, and recognizable 

 from all but the species of the next genus by the very large 

 stigma of the anterior wings; head large, subquadrate 

 on the vertex, mandibles in the S bidentate at the apex ; 

 pronotum short and collar like, mesonotum with a deep 

 channel in front of the scutellum, anterior wings with 

 two submarginal cells and only one recurrent nervure 

 which unites with the first submarginal nervure, pro- 

 podeum rather elongate; abdomen subulliptic, its petiole 

 short but formed of the ventral valve only of the first 

 segment, as in Ammophila ; eighth ventral valve in the 

 S with a short straight process ; tibiae not spinose. 

 Goureau says it provisions its nest with Coccus vitis 

 Linn, and that it captures them almost as they leave the 



S. troglodytes, V. de Lind. — Black, the mandibles and 

 scape of the antennae in front in both sexes and the 

 clypeus and sides of the face, and sometimes the entire 

 antennaj tegulae and legs in the S flavous. Head and 

 mesonotum very finely punctured, the latter with two 



