2IO HYMENOPTERA ACULEATA. 



ventral segments impressed, emarginate at the apex and 

 fringed ■with short golden hairs, armature with the lacinia 

 elongate, somewhat twisted, subparallel-sided, with two 

 long apical tufts of hairs ; legs in the c? with the apices of 

 the femora, the anterior and intermediate pair in front, and 

 all the tibia} and tarsi flavous, the posterior tarsi with a 

 black spot on each side, legs in the ? entirely black, 

 except the tarsi towards the apex, posterior tibiae clothed 

 with pale golden hairs. 



L. 9 mm. 



Very rare. London District ; Blakenham Parvum ; 

 [Kirhij). Isle of Portland ; (Bale). On the Brighton 

 Downs, near Falmer; [S. S. Saunders). Seaford ; 

 [RauLsden) . 



H. maculatus, Smith. — Black ; c? dull, ? shining ; 

 head closely punctured, its vertex subquadrate, wider than 

 the thorax in both sexes, face in the c? densely clothed 

 with white hairs, clypeus with a white apical spot, mandi- 

 bles simple, and the antennas in that sex reaching to about 

 the scutellum, brown beneath ; mesonotum shining, less 

 closely punctured than the head, with a scattered pale 

 pubescence, wings smoky, basal area of propodeum finely 

 rugose; abdomen closely punctured in the Sj finely and 

 more remotely in the $ , c? with a narrow line, ? with a 

 spot, of silvery white hairs on the sides of the apex of the 

 first four segments, abdomen in the ? narrower and more 

 parallel-sided than usual in this sex, its fifth segment with 

 pale golden hairs on each side of the rima, c? with the 

 ventral segments flat, fourth and fifth not emarginate at 

 the apex, surface punctured, nearly glabrous, armature 

 with the lacinia narrow and parallel-sided, fringed with 

 hairs along the inner margin, ? beneath densely clothed 

 with golden hairs ; ^ with the front tibiaj anteriorly, inter- 

 mediate and posterior tibiae at the base and apex, and all 

 the tarsi yellow, ? with the legs black, scopaj pale golden. 



L. 9 mm. 



