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podeal area not boinj^ bouniled poetoriorlj by a raised ati- 

 gulated ridge, also by the entirely pale tarsi of all the legs. 



? with the face as broad as long, the postscutellum not 

 villose, the propodeum rounded posteriorly ; abdomen 

 shining, irregularly punctured, second and third segments 

 with lateral, white, pubescent, basal spots, fourth clothed 

 with grey hairs, fifth with golden. 



L. 7-8 mm. 



Not rare; generally distributed in the South, and hslS 

 been recorded from Wales and Scotland, so that it' ii 

 probably generally distributed over Britaia. 



H. Isevigatus, Kirh. {Iwjuhrh, Kirh). — Black, shining, 

 head and thorax clothed with bright brown hairs, paler in 

 the S ; head closely and rugosely punctured, face in the S 

 wider across the eyes than long, clothed with white hairs 

 below the antennje, clypeus unspotted, antennee entirely 

 black, reaching to the apex of the propodeum ; mesonotum 

 rather strongly punctured, dull and closely in the ^ , 

 shining and. remotely in the ? , postscutellum densely 

 hairy in both sexes, propodeum shining, sharply truncate, 

 basal area subtriangular (J, or semicircular ?, strongly 

 rugose longitudinally, clathrate beyond the area ; abdomen 

 very shining, finely punctured in the J, rather coarsely, 

 somewhat remotely, and irregularly in the ? ; first segment 

 with erect basal hairs, second, third and fourth each with a 

 basal band of hairs, white and rather feeble in the c?, 

 ochreous and dense in the $ , especially laterally ; the 

 segments posteriorly clothed with scattered hairs, fifth in 

 the ? densely clothed with golden hairs, S with the ven- 

 tral segments nearly glabrous, fifth depressed, largely 

 eniarginate, with a slightly raised dorsal line, armature 

 with the laciniae narrow, emitting a long ribbon-like process 

 which lies under the stipites ; ? abdomen beneath densely 

 clothed with brown hairs; legs black, extreme base and 

 apex of the posterior tibiaj and all the tarsi iu the J 

 whitish. 



