jo8 HYMENOPTERA ACULEATA. 



than in the preceding species; pronotum with a yellow 

 band, mesonotum finely punctured, scutellai* impression 

 crenate, scutellum with a yellow band in the ? ; wings with 

 the nervures pale, anterior pair with a smoky spot over the 

 region of the marginal and second sub-marginal cell, pos- 

 terior wings with the nervure connecting the posterior and 

 medianuervures joining thelatter beyond its bifurcation, pro- 

 podeum clathrately rugose, longitudinally costate within the 

 basal area ; basal segment of the abdomen rather remotely 

 punctured, the rest very finely, with a yellow band on the first 

 four segments, that of the second not wider than the first ; 

 femora black, apices testaceous, front pair flavous beneath 

 in the ? , tibiae testaceous, posteriorly black towards the 

 apex in the $ ; only slightly clouded in the ? , tarsi 

 testaceous, posterior pair brownish at the apex in the $ . 



L. 11-12 mm. 



Local, but apparently common where it occurs. 



Batfcersea Fields, July ; Birchwood, August ; {ShucJcard) . 

 Rugby; (ilorice). Norfolk; (Bridgman). Hastings. Col- 

 chester ; [Harwood). Bi'istol ; {Dale). 



G. laticinctus, LeiJ. — Very like quadrifasciatus, but 

 larger, the antennas in both sexes rather longer, the clypeus 

 in the ? entirely yellow, the sides of the face with a broad 

 yellow spot, and the antennas beneath pale nearly to the 

 apex ; basal area of the propodeum clathrate in both sexes, 

 not longitudinally rugose as in A-fasciatus ; the second 

 abdominal band much wider than the first, occupying nearly 

 the apical half of the segment ; tibise in the ? black 

 inwardly towards the apex, ^ with the black colour 

 reaching almost to the base. 



L. 12-13 mm. 



Rare. I have a c? and ? from Shuckard's collection, 

 taken in the New Forest, as recorded in his " Fossorial 

 Hymenoptera," and Smith says that this is the only locality 

 known. I have received no notes of its capture recently. 



G. bicinctus, Rossi. — Coloured nearly as in the pre- 



