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narrower in tlae $■, in which sex the apical ventral 

 valve terminates in an elongate process ; the pygidial area 

 in the ? is clearly defined ; tibiae more or less spinose 

 outwardly. Kohl gives seven European species, of which 

 three have been recorded from this country ; these burrow 

 in banks, and provision their nests with ApMdes. 



(2) 1. Mandibles flavona MIXUIUS. 



(I) 2. Mandibles black. 



(4) 3. Tubercles black in both seies ; transverse im- 

 pression in front of the soutellum simple . luperus. 



(3) 4. Tubercles partly pale in the $ ; transverse 



impression in front of the scutellum crossed 



by longitudinal costsa trisiis. 



D. minutus, Fab. — Black ; mandibles, underside of the 

 antennse in the $ , tegula3, tubercles, apes of the femora, 

 base of the tibiiB, and the entire anterior tibiee and tarsi, 

 except a posterior streak, and in the $ the intermediate 

 and posterior tarsi, and often the entire tibias, palo yellow 

 or testaceous ; the markings in the $ brighter and paler 

 than in the ? . Head and thorax dull, very finely rugulose, 

 punctured, the latter less closely than the former, impression 

 in front of the scutellum simple, propodeum clathrately 

 rugose ; abdomen shining, exceediugly finely punctured, 

 posterior segments clothed with short greyish pubescence, 

 apical dorsal valve in the ? with very large remote 

 punctures, c? with the apex of the abdomen more or less 

 pale ; tibiae very slightly and ii-regularly dentate in the ? , 

 with spinose hairs in the $, anterior and intermediate 

 metatarsi in the $ curved, the latter angularly produced 

 beneath. 



L. 4-6 mm. 



Common, burrowing in sandy banks ; occurs from May 

 to the end of the season. 



D, luperus, Shick. — Head, thorax, and abdomen entirely 

 black iu both sexes ; legs with the base and apex of all the 

 tibiae, and the front of the anterior pair, and all the tarsi 

 in the <? more or less pale, the palo colour brighter and 



