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less dull, antonato fulvous except at the base above, $ wiih 

 joints eight to twelve produced beneath and subtuberculate, 

 their lower margins dentate at the apex ; pale markings 

 white, not yellow, abdomen smooth, shining, surface not 

 rugulose, punctured, second and third segments each with 

 a transverse lateral white spot, those of the second some- 

 times wanting in the $, fifth in the ? , sixth in the c?j with 

 a transverse white spot or band ; legs fulvous, not yellow 

 as in arvensis, 



L. 8-13 mm. 



Lowestoft; Southwold. Norfolk; (Bridgman). Christ- 

 church, Hants ; {Dossetor). Newcastle ; {Rewltson). Not- 

 tingham ; {Allen). Milford; {Marshall). F. Smith found 

 it in profusion at Lowestoft in August, on Wild Carrot 

 and the males on the leaves of Coltsfoot. 



PHILANTHUS, Fab. 



Broad, black with yellow markings, strongly punctured, 

 head wider than the thorax, clypeus trilobate, wide in 

 front, its centre produced posteriorly nearly to the insertion 

 of the antennae, which are much thicker in the ? than in 

 the (^, eyes sinuate on their inner margins; pronotum 

 very short and collar-like, wings with three submarginal 

 cells, the second not petiolated, propodeum rounded, basal 

 area ill-defined ; abdomen ovate, segments not strongly 

 constricted at the base and apex, basal segment not much 

 narrower than the second, pygidial area in the ? indefinite ; 

 anterior tarsi with a distinct pecten in both sexes, tibiae 

 spinose, intermediate pair with only one calcar. There is 

 only one British species, which provisions its nests with 

 other Aculeate Hi/menoptera. F. Smith has observed it 

 with Apis mellijica, Andrena fulvicrus, and Ilalictus 

 zonulus. 



P. triangulum, Fa7(.— Head black, clothed with short 

 hairs, very finely and closely punctured, more coarsely on 

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