92 HYMENOPTERA ACULEATA. 



defined, cljpeus in the ? emargiDate, or pro- 

 duced and raised at the apex. 



(7) 6. Mesonotum less strongly punctured, ? with 

 the clypeus produced in the centre and 

 slightly raised shuckardi. 



(6) 7. Mesonotum more strongly punctured, ? with 



the clypeus deeply emarginate . . . wesmaeli. 



(1) 8. Face between the antennje with a blunt pro- 

 cess (Subg. Ceratophorus, Shuck.) . . moeio. 



(Sdbg. PEMPHREDON.) 



P. lugubris, Latr. — Entirelj'^ black, very variable in 

 size; head rugosely punctured, clothed with long hairs, 

 especially in the ^, vertex subquadrate, slightly narrowed 

 behind in the J , clypeus rounded in front in the J 

 and very largely punctured, in the c? densely clothed 

 with silvery hairs, mesonotum clothed with long hairs, 

 rugose, or very rugosely punctured, wings slightly 

 dusky (J, more strongly so 9, first and second submar- 

 ginal cells each receiving a recurrent nervure, pro- 

 podeum clothed with silvery hairs, rugose, with a dull 

 finely rugose lunulate elevation posteriorly ; petiole of the 

 abdomen cui'ved, rugose, hairy above and below, rest of 

 the abdomen shining, clothed with fine hairs in the (J, 

 but in the ? hairy only near the apex and beneath, apical 

 dorsal valve in the ? with two raised parallel lines ; 

 posterior tibise in the ? with a few short spines. 



L. 9-12 mm. 



Var. luduosa, Shuck., of which I possess the type, is only 

 a variety of this species, with the raised portion of the 

 propodeum more or less shining and smooth. 



Very common ; found usually basking in the sun on 

 leaves, ; makes its nest in wooden posts, &c. 



(Subg. CEMONUS.) 



P. ShMckSLXdi, Moraw. [unicolor, Thorns., unicolor pars 

 Shuck., Smith, Saund.). — Usually smaller than lugubris, and 

 dififering from it in the arrangement of the nervures of the 

 wing, the first submarginal cell receiving both recurrent 



