202 HYMENOPTERA ACULEATA. 



margin extending along and beneath tlie inner margin of 

 the stipes, stipes widely grooved at the base to about half 

 its length. 



? with the mesonotum shining, finely but more sparsely 

 punctured than in the <S , alar hooks 6, area of dorsal valve 

 shining, testaceous, its centre raised, second and third 

 abdominal segments finely and clearly punctured at the base, 

 third without black lateral fovese. 

 L. 6-7 mm. 



Wotton-under-Edge ; (F. B. Perkins). Sidmouth ; 

 Oxford; (B. G. L. Perkms). Colchester; {Harivood). 

 Kugby ; (Morice). Scotland ; (Service). 



S. hyalinatus, ScJiench. — Very like the preceding, but 

 smaller. 



S differing in the paler red of the markings, the pale 

 colour of the anterior tibiiB in front, and the form of the 

 lacinite which are broader at the base than mferruginatux, 

 so that their thickened portion is more or less triangular. 



? like a small ferruginatus, but with the base of the 

 second abdominal segment very shallowly and indefinitely 

 punctured, third segment rarely with a lateral fovea. 

 L. 5-6 mm. 



Wotton-under-Edge; (V. B. Perkinit). Sidmouth; 

 Oxford ; [B. C. L. Perkins). 



S. \SiTieg3itViS, V. Hag. [var. divisus v. Hag.?). — c?,an- 

 tennte with a narrow pubescent band at the base of each of 

 the joints of the flagellum ; mesonotum finely but not very 

 closely punctured, wings with the second submarginal cell 

 sometimes exceedingly narrow, [divisus v. Hag.) ; all the 

 segments of the abdomen banded with black, armature 

 with the groove of the stipes almost extending to the apex ; 

 anterior tibiae pale in front. 



? very difficult to determine with certainty, as it 

 resembles that of affmis most closely ; it may be known from 

 any other by the very shining mesonotum, which is very 

 finely and remotely punctured, and the anteriorly pale front 



