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H. rubicundus, Christ. — Black, head ami thorax 

 closely punctured, densely clothed with bright browu hairs, 

 fading to grey after exposure, mandibles simple, apex of 

 the clypeus white in tlie <J, antennaB in that sex reaching 

 to about the scutellum, slightly brownish beneath ; wings 

 nearly hyaline, with a slight apical cloud, propodeum with 

 its basal area enclosed by a slight elevation, finely rugose, 

 the rugosities stronger in the c?, and at the extreme base ; 

 abdomen elongate c?, subelliptic $, very finely punctured, 

 clothed with scattered pale hairs, each segment with a 

 narrow apical band of white pubescence, fifth segment in 

 the ? clothed with bright golden hairs except on the 

 central rima; (^ with the fourth and fifth ventral segments 

 emarginate, armature with the lacinia slightly curved, 

 densely fringed with hairs on the inner margin ; legs witli 

 the femora black in both sexes, c? with the tibia? and tarsi 

 flavous, except a dark spot on the inner side of the former ; 

 $ with all the tarsi, the posterior, and the apex of the 

 intermediate tibiae, clear testaceous, the posterior femora 

 beneath, and the tibiae entirely, clothed with shining golden 

 hairs. 



L. 10 mm. 



Common, and generally distributed. 



The clear yellow posterior tibias of the ? , the simple 

 mandibles and entire abdominal bands of the ^ , distinguish 

 this from our other apically banded species. 



H. quadricinctus, Fab. — Eather duller and more 

 largely puuctund than the precedirg; head and thorax 

 clothed with dull, greyish-brown hairs, ^ with the face 

 elongate, the mandibles dilated at the base beneath, clypeus 

 much produced, yellow at the apex, antennte reaching to 

 the brow of the propodeum, almost entirely testaceous ; 

 wings nearly hyaline ; abdomen in both sexes with the 

 apical white bands of the first and second segments in- 

 terrupted, the rest entire, fifth segment in the $ clothed 

 with pale silvery golden hairs, cj with the fourth and fifth 



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