212. HYMENOPTERA ACULEATA. 



wliite hairs, the anteuntB short, reaching only to about the 

 insertion of the wings, clypeus with a white spot; thorax 

 clothed with pale greyish brown hairs, mesonotum rather 

 strongly and closely punctured, wings nearly hyaline, 

 postscutellum in the ? densely villosc, propodeum 

 truncate, its basal area triangular and longitudinally ru- 

 gose, clathrate beyond it; abdomen closely and finely 

 punctured, especially in the $ , which has the basal seg- 

 ment finely and closely punctured all over ; second, third 

 and fourth segments in both sexes with a white basal band, 

 narrowed in the centre in the ^ , fifth segment in the ? 

 clothed with golden hairs on each side of the rima, beneath 

 in both sexes densely clothed with pale hairs, ^ armature 

 with the lacinite narrow and simply curved at the apex ; 

 legs black, clothed with greyish hairs in the $ , golden in 

 the ? , intermediate and posterior metatai-si in the ^ palo 

 at the base. 



L. 8-10 mm. 



Common and generally distributed. 



H. zonulus, Smith. — (J and ? of nearly equal size, ^ 

 easily known from that of the preceding by its larger 

 broader form, large quadrate head, its wide abdomen 

 almost as wide as that of the ? , its nearly vertical seventh 

 dorsal segment, with, the apex truncate, the curious tuft of 

 golden .pubescence in the centre of the sixth venti-al 

 segment, and the entirely black tarsi. 



5 very like leucozonius but more shining, propodeal 

 area semicircular, not triangular, abdomen with its basal 

 segment very shining, its disc nearly impuuctate. 



L. 9-10 mm. 



Probably often mistaken for the preceding, but apparently 

 widely distributed ; it has been taken as far west as 

 llfracombe, and also occurs in Scotland. 



H. quadrinotatus, Kirh. — Smaller than either of the 

 preceding; the S maybe known from leucozonius, Yi}\\ch. 

 it most resembles, by the short round face and by the pro- 



