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finely punctured, face very elongate, much longer than 

 wide, cJ with the apox of the clypeus, mandibles, and 

 labvum pale yellow, its antennte pale beneath, reaching to 

 the postscutellum : mesonotum dull, strongly and dis- 

 tinctly punctured, propodeum somewhat rounded, longi- 

 tudinally rugose at the base; abdomen in the S dull, finely 

 but distinctly punctured on the first three segments, 

 indistinctly on the rest ; in the ? with the basal segment 

 shining, finely punctured on its apical half, following 

 segments closely punctured and clothed with grey hairs, 

 ventral segments in the ^ with a few erect pale hairs near 

 the centre of each, in the ? rather densely fringed with 

 grey hairs ; legs clothed with grey hairs, c? with the metatarsi 

 generally, and the extreme apex of the femora pale. 

 L. 6-7 mm. 



Woking ; Chobham ; Wandsworth ; Reigate ; South- 

 wold ; Bournemouth ; Hayling Island ; Deal ; Hastings ; 

 Sidmouth, var. of S with black tarsi ; (i?. C. L. Perkins). 

 Colchester; {Harwood). Lowestoft; (Morice). Norfolk; 

 (Bridgmaii). Gloucestershire; [Perkins). Land's End; 

 [Marquand). llaidstone ; [Fvisbij). 



I have taken it at Chobham, burrowing at the roots of 

 heath. 



H. nitidiusculus, Kirh. — Black, with a slight bronzy 

 tinge in some lights, face much shorter than in the preced- 

 ing, the mesonotum much more finely punctured, mouth 

 parts of the ^ similarly coloured, but antennaj longer, 

 testaceous beneath ; propodeum finely rugose at the base ; 

 abdomen shiDing, finely punctured on all the segments, 

 and closely on ail except the basal segment of the ? , very 

 elongate in the ,$ , their apices in the ? widely testaceous, 

 ventral segments shining and somewhat concave in the c?, 

 with long lateral tufts of white hairs, in the ? fringed 

 with grey hairs ; cJ with the front of the anterior tibiae and 

 the base and apex of all the pairs as well as the tarsi pale 

 yellow. 



