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beariug an augulated carina, ventral segments in the J 

 flat, glabrous, posterior margins nearly straight, apex of 

 the sixth rounded, ? with the segments clothed with pale 

 hairs ; legs clothed Tvith yellowish grey hairs, c? with the 

 tarsi and sometimes the knees and apices of the tibiae 

 pale. 



L. 6-8 mm. 



Not a very common species, but generally distributed ; 

 recorded from Ireland, and very common in Scotland. 



The long antennte of the c? and the sharply truncate 

 propodeum of the $ distinguish this from the other small 

 species. 



H. villosulus, Kirh. (? puncfuJatus, Eirb.). — Black; 

 head and thorax sparingly clothed with long brownish 

 grey hairs, the former very closely punctured, antenuee in 

 the <J reaching to the postscutellum, pale beneath ; meso- 

 notum very shining, remotely and shallowly punctured, 

 especially on the disc, propodeum rounded in the cJ, some- 

 what truncate in the ? , radiately rugose at the base ; 

 abdomen in the (J rather short and subelliptic, shining, 

 all the segments finely punctured, sides and apex clothed 

 with grey hairs ; in the ? the basal segment is nearly 

 impunctate, the rest finely punctured and clothed with 

 grey hairs, segmental margins nari'owly testaceous, ventral 

 segments in both sexes clothed with long greyish hairs ; 

 legs with greyish hairs, tarsi in the c? pale, at least at the 

 base. 



L. 6-7 mm. 



Very common; often abounds on yellow Cumpositse, 

 Crfipis, &c. 



H. puncticollis, Mor. — Very like the preceding, but 

 slightly larger, face longer and narrower, especially in the 

 (J, which has the antennae entirely black, the labrum and 

 mandibles pale, the mesonotum less shining, more closely 

 and largely punctured, propodeum much more rugose, 

 its basal area clearly defined. 



