SPHEGID.E. 133 



L. 7 mm. 



Very rare. I possess the type of Shuckard's Walheri, 

 to which he assigns no locality ; the only other records I have 

 for it are Cromer ; {Smith). Heme, Hants ; (Dale). 



C. gonager, Lep. (amhiguus, Dahlh.). — Black, shining^ 

 head and mesoaotum finely and somewhat remotely punc- 

 tured, ? with the mandibles at the base, and the scape of 

 the antennas beneath pale, clypeus in the ? with two small 

 teeth on its apical margin, cheeks beneath, in both sexes, 

 with the occipital margin raised and somewhat toothed in 

 front, face deeply channelled between the eyes, with a small 

 tooth between the antennse in the ? ; basal area of the pro- 

 podeum shining, surrounded and divided down the middle 

 by crenate sulcatures ; abdomen exceedingly finely punctured 

 and clothed with very short hairs, only noticeable under a 

 high power, apical dorsal valve in the ? channelled, shining 

 and largely punctured ; anterior tibite in the <? dilated, pale 

 in front and at the apex, metatarsi scutate, white, with 

 three black spots, the second, third, and fourth joints of the 

 tarsi also dilated and pale, the second and third black 

 towards the apex anteriorly, anterior tibiae in the ? pale in 

 front only, posterior tibiaa in both sexes pale at the base, 

 spinose. 



L. 6-7 mm. 



Rare. Wotton-under-Edge ; {F. B.&ndB. G. L. PeiMns). 

 Worcester ; (/. E. Fletcher). Near Allington Locks, Maid- 

 stone ; (W. H. Benvett). 



(S0BQ. CROSSOCERUS.) 



C. palmarius, Schreb. {scutafus, Fab., ^r.). — Black, shin- 

 ing ; head finely punctured, clypeus, scape of the antennas 

 in front, and in the c? the cheeks just above the mandibles 

 and beneath flavous, clypeus and face below the antenute 

 clothed with brilliant silvery hairs in both sexes; thorax less 

 finely punctured than the head, pronotum with a transverse ' 



