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margins of tlie segments widely piceous and impressed, 

 usually black in both sexes, but in the ? rarely with the first 

 and second segments, and the apical margin of the third 

 ferruginous red. I have never seen a coloured cJ. Second, 

 third, and fourth segments in the ? with a narrow streak of 

 white hairs at the apex laterally, apical fimbria in both 

 sexes bright golden, segrnents beneath fringed with 

 golden hairs ; leg-s clothed with pale golden hairs, those of 

 the scopte long and plumose, tarsi more or less testaceous. 



L. 14-16 mm. 



Occurs in July and August on Scabiosa and Knaufia. 

 Between Walmer and Kingsdowa ; not rare. Ventnor ; 

 (Rothney). Erith ; Darenth ; Birchwood ; Teignmouth and 

 Dawlish, Devon; (SmUh) Sidmouth; {R. C. L. P<?rkinf<}. 

 Ogbeare, near Tavistock ; [Swale). Land's End ; (Mnr- 

 qiiand). Colchester; [Harwood). Eaton and Worsted; 

 Norfolk ; ( Jirhhjman) . 



A. Cetii, Schranh. (SeJiranl-eUa, K!rh., affinis, Kirh.). — 

 Black, head and thorax clothed above with pale greyish hairs, 

 with nearly white beneath, ^ with the vertex quadrately 

 produced behind the eyes, the clypeus white, its margins 

 and two small discal spots black, its anterior margin 

 emarginate, with dentate lateral angles, anterior margin of 

 the labrum rounded, filling up the emargination of the 

 clypeus, clypeus deeply punctured in both sexes ; mesono- 

 tuin shining, rather finely punctured, wings nearly hyaline, 

 propodeum very hairy, and finely rugose; abdomen sub- 

 elliptic, the basal segment remotely punctured in both sexes, 

 the rest finely punctured, pitchy black and shining in the c?, 

 dull and very finely and closely punctured in the ? , all the 

 segments in both sexes with their apical margins piceous ; 

 in the ? , with the exception of the black basal segment, 

 the abdomen is either entirely pale yellow or testaceous, 

 or brown with only the apices of the segments, and some- 

 times the bases testaceous, segments at the apex with a 

 more or less distiuct fringe of pale hairs, apical fimbria 



