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witli longer hairs in the <?, and the apical bands are formed 

 of longer less decumbent hairs ; in the ? the basal segment 

 is more closely punctured than in fulvicrus, and its apical 

 band in very fresh examples is pale fulvous, all the other 

 bands are pure white and are composed of longer less ad- 

 pressed hairs than in that species, underside with white 

 fringes, stipites of the male armature not sinuate out- 

 wardly towards the apex as in fulvlcrus ; femora in the ? 

 clothed with white hairs, tibife with golden falvous hairs. 



L. 10-12 mm. 



Bare. Occurs in April. Hastings ; Canterbury ; Tun- 

 bridge Wells. Maidstone ; {Frishij). Dovercourt ; {Rar- 

 wood). Perth ; {McGregor). 



A. ferox, Sinilh. — Black, head and thorax dull, finely and 

 irregularly punctured, clothed with brownish hairs, which 

 are paler in the c? , in which sex the head is very large, some- 

 times exceedingly so, and the mandibles angulated, and 

 sometimes spinoseatthe base outwardly, the antennae long, 

 with the third joint slightly shorter than the fourth, in the 

 9 about equal to the fourth and fifth together ; man- 

 dibles in the ? widely membranous beneath ; wings sub- 

 hyaline, nervures very pale, propodeum with the basal area 

 somewhat shining, its sides rugulose ; abdomen sparingly 

 clothed with pale hairs, shining in the ,^ , very remotely punc- 

 tured, with the apex of the first and second, aud sometimes the 

 base of the second and third segments widely testaceous, 

 dull in the ? , with the apical margins only of the segments, 

 paler, fringed with pale hairs at the sides, apical fringe brown, 

 segments beneath fringed with pale hairs, base of the abdo- 

 men testaceous in the S ', legs piceous, clothed with pale 

 hairs, the apices of the anterior and intermediate tibiaj, the 

 posterior tibiae, and all the tarsi in the fj , the posterior tibiiB 

 aud tarsi only in the ? clear testaceous, scopaj golden. 



L. 9-12 mm. 



Very rare. Bristol; (Walcott). Windsor; {Dcsvignes). 

 Guestliug, near Hastings; {E. N. Bloomfcld). 



