246 HYMENOPTERA ACULEATA. 



blunter and broader mandibulai' toothy and the emarginate 

 apical ventral valve of the abdomen. The ? may be dis- 

 tinguished by its usually more densely hairy abdomen, the 

 pubescence of which is more brightly i'ulvous towards tlie 

 base and tends more to form transverse bands, and by the 

 shorter third joint of the antenna, which is about equal to 

 the second and third together. 



L. 8-10 mm. 



An early spring species, but apparently local. Chobhnm ; 

 Woking ; Hastings ; Canterbury. Wimbledon ; Wey- 

 bridge ; (Smith). Oxford; [IL C. L. Perkins). Colchester; 

 (Harwood). Norwich; [Bridijvian). Maidstone; {Frishy), 

 Bury St. Edmunds ; [Tnck). 



Rarely stylopized. I have one in this condition sent to 

 me from Oxford by Mr. E. C. L. Perkins. 



A. varians, L'ossi, — Black ; head in the t? with the 

 vertex much produced posteriorly, especially at the lateral 

 angles, face clothed with white hairs, vertex with fulvous, 

 mandibles simple, third joint of the antenna much longer 

 than the fourth, which is slightly shorter than the fiflh ; 

 5 with the head of normal shape, clypeus largely punc- 

 tured, face clothed with black hairs, third joint of the 

 antennte as long as the fourth and fifth together, fourth 

 shorter than fifth ; thorax clothed in both sexes with fulvous 

 hairs, those on its sides and underneath paler; abdomen 

 rather shining and finely punctured in the ^, dull, 

 rugulose, and closely punctured in the ? ; clothed sparingly 

 on the first two segments in the (J with pale hairs, with short 

 black hairs on the rest, intermixed at the sides and on the 

 apical segments with longer brown ones ; in the $ with 

 fulvous hairs on the first two and with black on the rest ; 

 segments beneath clothed with pale hairs in the t?) with 

 black in the ? ; apical ventral valve in the S subtruncate; 

 legs clothed with pale hairs in the c?, with black in the ? ; 

 floccus, and scopa beneath pale. 



L. 9-11 mm. 



