SPHEGIDJE. 1 1 1 



yellow in both sexes ; angle at the base of the second 

 ventral segment of the abdomen more obtuse, and slightly 

 more rounded at its apex. 



L. 7-9 mm. 



Rare. Bishop's Wood, Hampstead ; Highgate ; {Smith). 

 Compton Pathfields, Plymouth ; bred from decayed wood ; 

 Liskeard, Cornwall ; {Bignell). Bournemouth; N.Forest; 

 {Bale). 



N. trimaculatus, Boss!. — Shorter and broader than 

 either of the preceding ; black, a band on the pronotum, 

 the tubercles, sometimes a line on the scutellum, a spot at 

 each side of the first, second, and third abdominal segments, 

 yellow, knees and apex of tibife brown ; head and meso- 

 notum largely and rugosely punctured, face clothed with 

 silvery hairs, especially in the S, penultimate joint of 

 antennfe in ^ much larger than the apical and shorter, the 

 latter slightly curved ; propodeum with the basal area 

 shining, longitudinally costate, sides beyond the area 

 clothed with silvery hairs, spines short; wings slightly 

 smoky, neuration of hind wings as noted in the table 

 of species ; abdomen shoi't, very pointed in the ? , 

 shining, largely punctured especially towards its base, 

 apical segment bidentate in the cJ, pygidial area in the 

 ? very finely and closely punctured, second segment much 

 produced ventvally, and strongly angulated at the base. 



L. 7-9 mm. 



Rare. Battersea ; Southgate ; near Colney Hatch ; Wey- 

 bridge ; (S»n'</!.) . Shauglibridge, Bickleigh, Devon ; {Blg- 

 nell). Rugby; {Morice). Norfolk; {Brtdgman). It is 

 often taken by beating bushes, &c. It feigns death, and 

 falls to the ground when alarmed. 



N. dimidiatus, /'"•. (gutta(ii.o, Skucl-). — The smallest 

 species of the genus. Black, tubercles of pronotum pale ; 

 base of the abdomen brown, the rest black, second and 

 third segments with a pale spot on each side, tibiaj and 

 tarsi brown ; head and mesonotum rugosely punctured, 



