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apical margins are pale testaceous, second and tbird sojt- 

 uieots with basal spots of white pubescence at the sides 

 often united into bauds, fifth segment in the ? with p^lo 

 Lairs at the apex, ventral segments clothed with white 

 hairs, armature of the $ with the iacinia emittiug a ribbou- 

 like appendage which lies under the stipes; legs black, 

 clothed with pale hairs, in both sexes. 



L. Q-&\ mm. 



Common and generally distributed. 



H. morio, Fah. {xratus Kirh.). — Head and thorax 

 bronzy green, the former very closely and finely punctured, 

 anteuna9 in the (J pale beneath, reaching to about the apex 

 of the propodeum, clypeus considerably produced ; ? face 

 as long as wide across the e3'es ; mesonotuui dull, finely 

 ruorulose between the punctures, propodeum rugose at the 

 base, somewhat rounded at the apex ; abdomen black, seg- 

 ments scarcely impressed at the base, rather strongly punc- 

 tured except at the apex in the S , finely in the ? , the basal 

 segment almost irapunctate, the following clothed with 

 pale pubescence, second and third in both sexes with a 

 basal lateral spot of white pubescence, pubescence easily 

 rubbed oS ; ventral segments in the S sparsely, in the $ 

 densely, clothed with whitish hairs ; legs entirely bUak 

 in both sexes, clothed with silvery hairs. 



L. 6-7 mm. 



Very common and generally distributed. 



H. leucoptlS, Kirh. — $ abundantly distinct from our 

 other bronzy species by the pale flavous mandibles and 

 labrum, the short antenna;, which do not quite reach to the 

 scutellum, the shorter abdomen, and the colour of the legs 

 which have the base and apex of the tibiaj and the whole of 

 the tarsi pale flavous; ? very difficult to distinguisli from 

 murio, but it has a broader, rounder face, the mesonotum is 

 more shining, its puncturation being rather larger and more 

 remote, and the intervals less rugulose, the propodeum is 

 more widely and truncately rounded posteriorly, and tho 



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