SPHEGID.E. 14; 



shire ; (r»!c7i6nM). Norfolk ; (I? n%ma?i). Cheshire Coast ; 

 (B. Coo'ke). Cambridjre; (Sharp). Rugby; {Motice). 



C. litui'atuS, Panz. {KnUnri, Dnhlh. ; resfitus, Smith). — 

 Very like the preceding, but rather smaller ; both sexes 

 may be known by the rather dark smoky-grey wings, which 

 in iiiterruptus are of a yellow tint, and also by the sculpture 

 of the mesonotam, the transverse strife near the anterior 

 margin being interrupted by two longitudinal carince, 

 leaving a small simply-punctured area between them ; the 

 scutellum and propodeum also are much smoother, and the 

 mesopleurfc somewhat shining, and only superficially 

 striated ; the c? has the intermediate metatarsi simple, and 

 the apical dorsal valve without a central impression. 



L. 10 mm. 



Rare; has been taken by Mr. Billups near Headley, Surrey, 

 and by Mr. Harwood at Colchester, and in Yorkshire by 

 Mr. F. Smith, but I know of no other localities. 



I am glad to be able to settle the position of vrstitus, 

 Smith. When I wrote my Synopsis in 1880, I failed to 

 find the type in Smith's collection; it has, however, since 

 been discovered, and Dr. Mason has sent me the type 

 specimen, which undoubtedly is an individual of this 

 species. 



C. clypeatus, Linn, {vexillatus, V. de Llnd., S,r.). — Head 

 and thorax black, coarsely punctured, the former in the (J 

 very small, triangular, the sides behind the eyes converging 

 rapidly in straight lines to the neck, in the ? the head is 

 large and quadrate ; scape of the antennfe yellow in front, 

 pronotum in the c? subelongate, very narrow in front, 

 widening towards the mesonotum, of ordinary form in the ?, 

 the anterior angles subspinose, tubercles yellow in both 

 sexes, raesopleurte largely and rugosely punctured; abdomen 

 very largely punctured, the first four segments with lar^'e 

 lateral yellow spots, and the rest with continuous bands, apical 

 dorsal valve in the ? very narrowly acuminate and sulcatc, 

 its sides clothed with bristly golden hairs ; legs yellow, the 



