go HYMENOPTERA ACULEATA. 



short impressed lines in front, wings hyaline, nervures 

 pitchy, propodeum rugose, with two longitudinal raised 

 lines down the centre, transversely striated between them ; 

 abdomen shining, apparently impunctate, legs with the 

 tibias and tarsi more or less pale. 



L 2|-3 mm. 



Woking; Charlwood, Surrey. London District ; Charl- 

 ton, Kent; burrowing in hard white sand; (Snii/h). 

 Plympton ; Horrabridge ; Bickleigh, bred from bramble 

 stems, 6th June; [Bignell). Oxford; (7?. C, L. Perkins). 

 Glanvilles Wootton ; Portland; in fiow era (Dale). Rugby; 

 (ilorice). Minton ; Bridgenorth ; Botusfleniing ; (Mar- 

 shall). 



STIGMTTS, Jur. 



Closely allied to Spilomcna in form, but larger, the 

 anterior wings having like it two submarginal cells, and 

 only one recurrent nervure, but this latter is received into 

 the first submarginal at a considerable distance from its 

 apex ; the stigma is very large ; the abdomen is more longly 

 petiolated than in Sinlomcna, and in the S the apical ventral 

 valve has a pale straight process. There is only one 

 recorded British species, which is clearly referable to 

 Sul^liiji of Morawitz, and not to penchdus of Panzer as 

 hitherto supposed. It seems doubtful whether Stigmus is 

 a parasitic genus, or whether, like its allies, it provisions 

 its nest with Aphides. 



S. Solskyi, Moraw. [pendulus, Smith, Shuck., Saund., 

 &-C.). — Black, antennee, mandibles, tubercles, tegulse, apices 

 of the femora, anterior and intermediate tibise, and the base 

 and apex of the posterior tibiaj and all the tarsi testaceous ; 

 face clothed with silvery hairs in the ^, clypeus produced 

 in the centre and notched in the ? ; pronotum short, 

 longitudinally striate, mesonotum microscopically strigose 

 longitudinally, with two short impressed lines in front, 

 transverse impression in front of the scutellum crenate, 



