258 HYMENOPTERA ACULEATA. 



localities. It frequents the flowers of Erica. Cliobbam ; 

 Bournemouth. Sandhurst; Weybridge ; {F. Smith). 

 Ascot; {8. 8. Saunders). 



A. chrysOSCeles, Kirhij.—B]a.ck, head and thorax 

 finely rugulose and shallowly punctured, clothed sparingly 

 with very pale fulvous hairs, soon fading to grey; clypeua 

 in the ^J white, with two round discal black spots and 

 clothed with long white hairs, face wide and transverse iu 

 both sexes; wings with a yellowish tinge, nervures pale 

 testaceous, propodeum finely rugose ; abdomen shining, 

 finely and closely punctured, the basal segment more 

 remotely, the second, third, and fourth segments with an 

 apical band of white hairs at the sides, that of the fourth 

 entire in the ? , in which sex all the bands are wider and 

 more conspicuous, iu the J they are exceedingly narrow, 

 apical fringe in both sexes golden, segments beneath 

 clothed in the fj with loug pale hairs, and the apices of the 

 third, fourth, and fifth densely fringed with shorter golden 

 hairs, in the ? the segments are fringed with long hairs; 

 legs clothed with pale hairs, all the tarsi in both sexes, and 

 the posterior tibiae, clear testaceous, the latter in the tS with 

 a dark central spot or band. 



L. 9-10 mm. 



Local J occurs on Umbelliferm, and appears in May. 

 Chobham ; Eeigate ; Hampstead ; Worthing ; Hastings. 

 Bury St. Edmunds; [Tuck). Colchester; (Harwood). 

 Rugby; (Morice). Norfolk; (Bridgvian). Wotton-under- 

 Edge; (F. E. PcrMiis). Oxford; {E. C. L. Perkins). 

 Glanvilles Wootton ; (Dale). 



A. analis, Punz. — Deep black, shining; head and 

 thorax punctured, clothed with greyish hairs inter- 

 mixed with black above, with white beneath ; clypeus 

 in the ^ white, its margins and two discal spots black, 

 face at the sides of the clypeus black, third joint of the 

 antennse in the cJ as long as the following two together, 

 in the ? as long as the following three ; raesonotum very 



