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the middle, and distant from each other throughout their 

 length, each terminates in a spine, and is densely fringed 

 with hairs above it; in the ? and 5 the abdomen is rather 

 shorter than in sylvestris, and there is usually a certain 

 amount of rufous colouring on the sides of the first and 

 second segments, all the black bands are produced 

 posteriorly near the sides into a spot-like enlargement, and 

 occasionally the spot is distinct from the band ; the tibiae 

 hare long exserted hairs in both sexes. 



L. 14-15 mm., ? 17-18 mm., ^ 12-14 mm. 



This species is widely distributed in the West and North, 

 but rarer in the South-East. It generally builds in goose- 

 berry, currant, or other bushes. It has been recorded from 

 Maidstone; {Frisbij). Sittingbourne ; {Chittij). Hastings. 

 Wilton, Norfolk; [Bridgman) . Colchester; [Hanvood). 

 Shirley; {Eothneij). Saltash; Egg Buckland ; Alphing- 

 ton, near Exeter ; Ponsanooth, St. Austell, Tre- 

 varrick, Grampound, Gunnislake, Cornwall ; (Big/idl). 

 Tavistock; Morthoe; (Swale). Yorkshire; (Fowler). Lan- 

 cashire and Cheshire ; (Gardner). Scotland, abundant 

 (Smith). Ireland; (Smith). 



Mr. Bignell in a letter mentions a nest of this species in 

 a horse-chestnut tree, forty feet from the ground, and also 

 s:iy8 that a nest he found near Saltash " was re-built to all 

 outward appearance in seven days." Mr. Newstead records 

 a nest of this species in the corner of an old window. 



EUMENIDiE. 



Species not social ; nest made by only one ? ; eyes 

 deeply sinuate on their inner margin, mandibles elongate, 

 deeply grooved longitudinally, antcnnno in the ^J often 

 spirally rolled, or hooked at the apex ; pronotum very 

 deeply emarginate posteriorly, the side pieces overlapping 

 the mesonotum, and extending to the insertion of the wings, 

 wings with three tubjiarginal cells, posterior pair with a 



