256 HYMENOPTERA ACULEATA. 



golden, segments beneath fringed with pale hairs, the 

 fringes in the $ very regular and dense, shorter towards 

 the middle of the segments ; legs clothed' with pale hairs, 

 the tibije and tarsi in the ? with brown, scoptis brown, but 

 the hairs of the inner side of the posterior tibite long and 

 white. 



L. 9-10 mm. 



Local and usually rare ; occurs on Scahiosa in July and 

 August, Chobham. Parley Heath, Hants; Kingsdown, near 

 Deal; Croydon; Dartford ; Lewes ; Coombe Martin, North 

 Devon; (Smith). Sidmouth ; (R. C. L. Perkins). Col- 

 chester; [llarwooil). Eaton, near Norwich ; {Bridgman). 



A. cingulata, Fnh. — Black, head and thorax sparingly 

 clothed with whitish hairs, face with longer hairs in the ^ , 

 in which sex the clypeus and the apices of the cheeks are 

 white, the former with two discal black spots, antennae 

 ferruginous beneath, mesonotum shining, finely punctured, 

 wings slightly dusky, propodeum finely rugose ; abdomen 

 finely and closely punctured, black, with a broad central red 

 band, usually occupying the whole of the second and third 

 segments, and the extreme apex of the first, sometimes, 

 however, the apex of the third is more or less black in the 

 centre, and the sides of the fourth more or less red, apical 

 fringe golden in the ^J, golden brown in the $ ; hairs of 

 the legs white in the ^ , very pale golden with a brownish 

 tinge in the ? , scopaj brown outwardly. 



L. 8-9 mm. 



A very distinct species occurring on Veronica chmnsedrys 

 in May and June ; it is far from rare, and is generally 

 distributed. 



A. albicrus, Kirb. {harUlabris, Kirhj). — Black, head and 

 thorax dull, largely and shallowly punctured, clothed in 

 the (J with greyish hairs, except on the scutellum, where, 

 in fresh examples, they are brown, and on the clypeus, 

 where they are white ; in the ? with fulvous brown hairs, 

 wings nearly hyaline, propodeum finely rugose ; abdomen 



