214 HYMEXOPTERA ACULEATA. 



L. 8-9 mm. 



This very distinct species is rare. It has occurred at 

 Reigate ; Ilfracombe. Shiere; (Capron). Shipley, Sus- 

 sex; (Gorham). Greenwich; Charlton; Ventnor ; Bristol ; 

 Scotland ; (Sviith). Moreton Hampstead ; (i?. C. L. 

 Perl-ins). Fordlands, Exeter; [Parfitt). Land's End; 

 Skye ; Holyhead; {Bale). 



H. sexnotatus, Kirh. — Large, black ; head and thorax 

 very closely and finely punctured, clothed with ashy grey 

 hairs, face about as long as wide across the eyes, clypeus in 

 the S rather narrow, white at the apex, antenna in that 

 sex reaching to about the middle of the propodeum ; wings 

 dusky, postscutellum densely villose, propodeum rounded, 

 its area finely rugose with a slightly raised central line ; 

 abdomen shining, finely punctured, puncturation remoter 

 on the basal segment, which is clothed with grey hairs at 

 the base, second and third with lateral basal spots of white 

 pubescence, fifth in the ? with brownish hairs, ventral 

 segments in the S clothed with adpressed hairs, in the ? 

 with long, erect, grey hairs, sagittae of S armature with a 

 tuft of hairs on their outer margin ; legs entirely black in 

 both sexes. 



L. 10-12 mm. 



Very distinct by its ashy grey pubescence ; rare. Chob- 

 ham ; Woking, on Scrophularia and Bryony. Weybridge, 

 on Bramble; [Smith). Barham, Norfolk; (Kirhy). 

 Land's End; [Marquaiid). Croxton ; {Dale}. Exmouth ; 

 Sidmouth; {Parfitt). Colchester; {Harivood). Ireland; 

 [IJaliday). Lancashire; (^Gardner). 



H. prasinus, Smith. — Black, head and thorax very 

 finely aud closely punctured, clothed with greyish brown 

 hairs, in the ? with a greenish tinge ; face elongate in 

 both sexes, below the anteunte clothed with white hairs in 

 the c?, the antennae in that sex reaching to the post- 

 scutellum and the clypeus much produced, often white 

 at the apex ; propodeum not truncate, its area rounded 



