224 HYMEXOPTERA ACULEAT.l. 



the cJ sliining, rather remotely punctured, the segmeuta 

 much impressed at the base and sh'ghtly at the apex, which 

 is discoloured and impunctate, each with a slight indication 

 of an apical, and the second and third also of a basal 

 pubescent band ; in the ? dull, very closely punctured, and 

 clothed with yellowish hairs, intermixed with darker ones, 

 each segment with a well-defined, paler, apical band, fifth and 

 sixth clothed with golden hairs, glabrous area of the sixth 

 narrow and testaceous, with a central basal carina, fifth 

 ventral segment in the c? rather deeply emarginate, sixth 

 subtruncate, with a small basal fovea, armature with the 

 lacinia concave, subfoliaceous, dilated at the apex, ? with 

 the ventral segments clothed with pale hairs ; legs yellow 

 in the ^ . 



L. 7 mm. 



Common and generally distributed. 



H. gramineus, Smith. — Easily distinguished from the 

 preceding by the short antenniB of the ^ , which only reach 

 to the middle of the propodeum, and the bronzy femora ; in 

 the ? by the denser, almost fulvous, pubescence, by the 

 pale yellow tegulas and nervures at the base of the wings, 

 and by the anterior tibife in front being flavous, the others 

 at the base, and the tarsi, being of the same colour. 



L. 6-7 mm. 



Very rare, only recorded for certain from Cove Common, 

 Hants; [Smith). 



H. Smeathmanellus, KirL — Bronzy or bluish green, 

 sparingly clothed with whitish hairs, shining; head finely 

 and closely punctured, cJ with a white spot on the clypeus, 

 and the antennce reaching to the apex of the propodeum, 

 fulvous beneath, face in the ? rather long ; mesonotum 

 shining, rather irregularly punctured, the interstices bright 

 and smooth, propodeum rugose, especially in the (J, some- 

 what rounded posteriorly; abdomen black, shining, the 

 segments punctured at the base, with greenish reflections 

 in the c?, more distinctly green in the ?, in which sex the 



