244 HYMENOPTERA ACULEATA. 



brownish in the autumn brood ; segments beneath fringed 

 with pale or sooty brown hairs in the $, with black, or 

 brown in the autumn brood, in the ? ; legs clothed with 

 pale brown hairs in the $ , with black in the ? , except the 

 scopfB, of which the hairs are bright fulvous. 



L. 9-10 mm. 



Very common in the spring on Sallows and Dmdelions, 

 the second brood is not so abundant. I have taken both 

 broods from the same bank near St. Leonards, so that I 

 have no doubt of their identity. Stylopized examples are 

 rare ; I have one taken at Worthing on the 20i;h October, 

 1877. 



A. angustior, Klrh. — About the same size as Gwi/nniia 

 but differing from it in having the face clothed with nearly 

 white hairs in the c? and with pale fulvous in the $ , in 

 having the third joint of the antennas in the c? as long as 

 and in the ? much longer than the next two together ; in 

 having the thorax clothed with very pale fulvous hairs, t]\e 

 abdomen shining with the apices of the segments testaceous, 

 and with pale lateral fringes ; all the legs in both sexes 

 clothed with golden hairs, posterior tibite and inter- 

 mediate and posterior metatarsi in the ? more or less 

 testaceous. 



L. 9-10 mm. 



Occurs in April and May. llfracombe, not uncommonly 

 on Hicracium j^nlosella ; Chobham ; Woking and 

 Bromley on Banunculus ; Wandsworth ; lleigate. Wotton- 

 under-Edge on Allium ursinum; (F. B. Perkins). Wilt- 

 shire ; Oxfordshire ; Dartmouth ; {R. C. L. Ferkiiis). 

 Glanvilles Wootton ; Dorchester ; {Dale). Rugby ; 

 (Morice). Shaugh bridge ; {Biijnell). Land's End ; {Mar- 

 quand). Norfolk; (Briclgman). Cheshire; {B. Cooke). 

 Colchester; {Harwood). Maidstone; (Frisby). Hastings. 



A. apicata. Smith (lapponica, Smith. Saund. Sfc. nee 

 Zctt.). — Black ; clothed in the ^ with greyish brown, in 

 the ? with pale brown hairs, clypeus and centre of the 



