240 HYMENOPTERA ACULEATA. 



clothed with pale hairs, intermixed with black ou the third 

 and following segments of the $, in the ? sub-glabrous, 

 the sides of the segments with patches of pale hairs, the 

 fourth with a few black hairs, apical fringe black, that of 

 the $ fulvous, beneath with the segments fringed with 

 whitish hairs in both sexes ; legs clothed in the $ with 

 pale brownish hairs, in the ? with dai'ker brown, those of 

 the coxjB, trochanters, and femora beneath, white in both 

 sexes, scopee in the ? paler beneath. 



L. 12-14 mm. 



Common in the spring in some localities ; as a rule fre- 

 quenting Dandelions ; generally distributed, but local. 

 Wandsworth; Hastings; Woking. Norfolk; {Bridgman). 

 Colchester ; {Harwood). Bury St. Edmunds; (TmcA:). Clap- 

 ton Marshes; Kent; (Marshall). Gloucestershire; {Perhins). 

 Lancashire and Cheshire; [Gardner). Exeter; {Parfitf). 

 Land's End; [Marquand). Ireland; (Haliday). Rarely 

 stylopized. 



Conswiilis Smith is a beautiful variety with fulvous 

 anal fimbria and scopffi, possibly the effect of stylopization. 



A. cineraria, Linn. — Blue black, head and thorax 

 densely clothed with ashy grey hairs, the latter in the ? 

 with a broad central band of black hairs, hairs of the face 

 white in the (^ , antennae extending to about the scutellum ; 

 wings subhyaline, with a clouded apical band ; abdomen 

 shining, finely punctured, segments, especially in the cJ, 

 impressed at the apex, in this sex the 1st and 2nd segments 

 are clothed with long greyish white hairs, and the apical 

 segments are fringed with similar hairs, those of the 6th 

 being darker ; in the $ the dorsal surface of the abdomen 

 is nearly glabrous, the few existing hairs and the anal 

 fringe being black, segments beneath fringed with white 

 hairs in the S, with black in the ? , legs with black hairs 

 in both sexes, except the femora in the cJ and the front 

 femora in the ? which are fringed with white, scopas black. 



L. 1 1-14 mm. 



