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finely and diagonally rugose, in the ? smooth, in both sexes 

 ■with a narrow impressed central line; abdomen shining, 

 elongate iu the ■J', suboval in the ?, with the apical seg- 

 ment acuminate and excavated, clothed at the sides with 

 erect hairs, extreme apex piceous ; front tibiiB in the cJ dilated 

 and widely rounded on their outer margin, which is pale, 

 somewhat membranous and ciliated, front metatarsi also 

 dilated and pale outwardly, intermediate metatarsi pale, 

 posterior tibiiB in both sexes with irregular spines. 



L. 7-8 mm. 



The ? closely resembles that of leucostomns, but the 

 abdomen is shorter and more ovate, and the central im- 

 pression of the propodeum is narrower and less distinctly 

 excavated. 



Rare ; London district ; Weybridge ; Bristol ; Laner- 

 cost, Northumberland; (Smith). Shiere ; {Capfon). 

 Glanvilles Wooton ; (£)aZe). Tavistock; (SwaZe). Gloucester- 

 shire; {V.B. Perlcins). Bishops Teiguton ; Cornworthy ; 

 Bridgenorth; (Marshall). 



C. CapitOSUS, Shucl: — Black, shining, head and thorax 

 very finely and remotelj' punctured, clypeus produced in the 

 centre ; propodeum with a crenate line across the base, other- 

 wise smooth and rounded, slightly wrinkled posteriorly at 

 the sides, with a fine central channel ; abdomen shininj', 

 almost impunctate, widest behind the middle, apical seg- 

 ment shining in both sexes, in the ? slightly impressed, 

 its sides raised and carinated, and fringed with long hairs ; 

 anterior tibite in front, the anterior and intermediate tarsi 

 and the extreme base of the posterior tibite whitish, posterior 

 tibise very clavate, without spines. 



L. 8 mm. 



Rare, but generally distributed. G. A. J. Rothney has 

 bred it from bramble stems. 



C. podagricus, V. d. Lind. — Black, head and thorax 

 rather dull, the puncturation so fine as to be only observable 

 under a strong lens, scape of the antennas in front yellow ; 

 K 2 



