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bank (Smith). I have specimens from Shuckard's Collection 

 without note of locality ; the only recent examples I 

 know of are a S taken by Mr. Harwood at Colchester, 

 and a specimen taken at A.borgavenny by Dr. Algernon 

 Chapman. 



0. gracilis, Bndle, [elegans Wes7ii.). — Much smaller and 

 more elongate than the preceding, the yellow colour brighter 

 and paler, and the mesopleurtB punctured. Black, clothed 

 with very short brownish-yellow pubescence, anterior 

 margin of the pronotum slightly rounded in the centre, its 

 angles produced, a spot on each side extending to the angle 

 iu the ? yellow, mesonotum strongly punctured, with 

 four distinct longitudinal impressions, the two central ones 

 extending along its entire length, the two outer ones 

 extending from the base to about the middle, scut ell um 

 with two yellow spots, mesopleursB shining, each with a 

 yellow spot, surrounded posteriorly by a clearly defined 

 crenate impression, surface within the impression rather 

 closely, and regularly and finely punctured, outside it 

 coarsely and irregularly, propodeum very rugose, wings 

 slightly smoky, especially anteriorly ; abdomen with five 

 somewhat sinuous yellow bands in the (J, four in the ?, 

 basal segment verj' largely and rugosely punctured, its 

 apical band generally narrowest in the centre, with a deep 

 longitudinal fovea near its apex, rest of the abdomen more 

 finely punctured ; legs with the femora black, pale at the 

 extreme apex, tibiee yellow, with a black mark on their 

 inner margin, tarsi dusky, their base paler. 



L. 8-11 mm. 



Chobham. Gucstling, near Hastings; (Frishy). Nor- 

 folk; [BrUhjinmi). Colchester; [Hanuood). Yorkshire. 

 Gloucestershire ; (Perkins). Cornworthy ; (Marshall). 

 Christow, Devon; {Parfitt). Land's End; (Marquand). 

 Lundy I. ; {Smith). 



0. sinuatus, Fuh. [hifasciatus, Tre«?H.). — Very like the 

 preceding, but easily distinguished by having only three 



