I'go HYMENOPTERA ACULEATA. 



in the cJ, shining and very finely and remotely in the ? ; 

 basal segment in both sexes with a very indistinct lateral 

 line of silvery hairs at the apex, third ventral segment in 

 tlie cj bituberculate in the centre, seventh produced at the 

 apex into two very short blunt processes, eighth curved at 

 the sides and apiculate, armature with the stipites rather 

 pointed and hairy towards the apex, the sagittje about 

 equalling them in length ; legs with the base of the postei-ior 

 tibiie in both sexes, and the front of the anterior tibiae, 

 and the basal joint of the intermediate and posterior tarsi 

 in the cJ, white. 



L. 4^-5^ mm. 



Generally distributed in the South of England, but I 

 have received no record of its capture in the North ; like 

 its congeners it frequents bramble flowers, &c. 



P. pictipes, Nyl. {varipes, Smith). — About equal to 

 brevicornis in size, but the (^ is easily distinguished by the 

 elongate face, which is much narrowed towards its apex, by 

 the simple parallel- sided scape of the antenuEe, which has 

 often a narrow yellow streak in front, the yellow tubercles, 

 the much less strongly punctured abdomen, the third 

 segment of which is not tuberculated in the centre beneath, 

 and by having all the tibiaj yellow at the base, and 

 generally also in front ; the seventh ventral segment is 

 formed somewhat as in punetulatissima, the eighth ter- 

 minates in a long process, which is bifid and hairy at its 

 apices. The ? may be distinguished by the two oval 

 yellow spots of the face, which are placed obliquely and do 

 not border the eyes, and the yellow tubercles of the pro- 

 notum, also by the less incrassated vertex, and the 

 narrower less dull mesonotum. 



L. 4|-5^ mm. 



Rarer than brevicornis, occurring in similar localities. 



Chobham; Reigate ; Bromley; Heme Bay ; Hay ling Is- 

 land ; Colchester, "burrowing in oW posts; [Earwood). 

 Sidmouth; (B. C. L. Perkins). Bristol; (Thwaites). Has- 



