2i8 HYMENOPTERA ACULEATA. 



segment, and the more sLining less closely punctured 

 following ones. 



? more like one of the nitidiusculus group ; black, head 

 very finely punctured, mesonotum more remotely so than 

 any of the preceding, somewhat shining, and with a strongly 

 marked dorsal line; wings with testaceous nervures, pro- 

 podeum clathrately rugose up to its brow, which is slightly 

 rounded, but below the brow there is a slightly raised 

 lateral ridge which in certain positions makes the propodeum 

 look truncate ; abdomen with the apical margins of the 

 segments widely testaceous, basal segments very shining, 

 nearly impunctate, the remainder dull, very finely punc- 

 tured, their apices and the fourth and fifth segments 

 clothed with pale hairs, second with a small lateral basal 

 spot of white pubescence, legs and underside clothed with 

 pale hairs. 



L. 5-6 mm. 



Not common, but probably overlooked. Hastings ; 

 Charlwood, Surrey. Shiere ; {Gapron). Glanvilles Wootton ; 

 Portland; {Dale). 



H. SubfaSCiatUS, Nyl. {Imvis, Thom^. nee Kirh., fulvi- 

 cornis c?, Kivh.). — Black; head and thorax exceedingly 

 finely and closely punctured, clothed with pale hairs ; 

 antennae in the c? reaching to the third abdominal seg- 

 ment, bright fulvous beneath, clypeus in that sex yellow 

 at the apex, face below the antennas silvery-haired, and 

 mandibles piceous; wings with piceous nervures, pro- 

 podeum sharply truncate, its angles prominent, its base 

 rather longitudinally and clathrately rugose ; rugosities in 

 the cj much stronger, closer, and more shining than in the ? ; 

 abdomen very shining, segments testaceous at the apex, 

 punctured at the base in the S , almost impunctate in the 

 ? , second and third with a basal spot of white pubescence 

 on each side, easily rubbed ofi', sometimes united into a 

 band in the (J, third and following segments in the ¥ clothed 

 with fine yellowish grey hairs, seventh segment in the c? 



