252 HYMENOPTERA ACULEATA. 



on Thistles, Bryony, Senecio, &c., in July and August. 

 Chobham ; Woking ; Southwold ; Hastings. Bournemouth ; 

 Carlisle ; Southend ; Sidmouth ; Hele, near Ilfracombe j 

 (Smith). Exeter; {Farfitt). Perth; {McGregor). Col- 

 chester ; {Harwuod). 



A. fulvicrus, Kirh. (var. extricata, Smith). — Black, face 

 clothed with fulvous brown hairs, surrounded by and in the 

 male more or less intermixed with black, labrum transverse, 

 simple, antennte with the third joint in the cJ about as long 

 as the fourth and fifth together, in the ? as long as the 

 fourth, fifth, and sixth ; thorax clothed with brownish hairs, 

 densely at the sides of the propodeum, mesonotum rather 

 sparsely so, dull and somewhat closely punctured, except 

 the scutellum, which is shining and remotely punctured, 

 propodeum finely rugulose ; abdomen slightly shining, in- 

 definitely and rugosely punctured in the ^, very closely 

 and finely punctured in the ? , first three segments in the 

 (J clothed with pale greyish-brown hairs, the others with 

 black, each segment with an apical band of paler hairs, ? 

 with the segments, except the basal one, almost glabrous 

 on the disc, each with a well-defined apical band of pale 

 fulvous hairs, fading to white, that of the basal segment 

 often absent, apical fringe black, segments beneath fringed 

 at the apex with fulvous hairs ; legs clothed with pale hairs 

 in the c? J with fulvous-brown hairs in the ?, the scopse 

 bright fulvous. 



L. 10-12 mm. 



Generally distributed, and common in many localities. 

 It appears in April, and sometimes again in July and 

 August. The bands on the abdomen of the $ are some- 

 times quite white. This variety is the extricata of Smith, 

 which is quite distinct from the following species. 



A. fasciata, Nyl. — Somewhat like the preceding, but 

 easily distiuguishable by the following characters : — The 

 pubescence of the face and of the sides and underneath of 

 the thorax is white in both sexes, the abdomen is clothed 



