26o HVMENOPTERA ACULEATA. 



apical fimbria in the $ pale golden, in the 5 golden brown, 

 segments beneath fringed with long pale hairs, legs 

 entirely black, clothed with pale hairs, those of the 8Cop» 

 of the ? with a brownish tinge. 



L. 8-9 mm. 



Not rare ; on bramble flowers, July and August. Chob- 

 ham ; Lowestoft ; Southwold ; Littlehampton ; Bourne- 

 mouth. Yorkshire; Cumberland; Walmer; Cromer; 

 (Smith). Colchester; (Harivood). Eugby; (Morice). 

 Exeter ; [Parfitt). Land's End ; (Marquand). Norfolk ; 

 (Bridgman). Gloucester; (Perkins). Perth; {Mc 

 Gregor) . 



A. lucens, Tmhoff. — Very like Coitana in general 

 appearance, but easily distinguished by the following 

 characters : — 



1^ with the clypeus black, head and thorax, especially 

 the face, much more hairy, mesonotum less shining, very 

 finely rugulose, the scutellum nearly impunctate, abdomen 

 slightly more ovate and convex, segments beneath clothed 

 with short pale hairs and very densely fringed at the apex 

 with short, somewhat curved golden hairs, shortest near 

 the middle of the segments ; tarsi clear testaceous. 



$ with the head wider than in Coitana, face clothed with 

 pale hairs, pubescence of the orbital impressions incon- 

 spicuous, mesonotum less closely punctured, the scutellum 

 almost impunctate, or with only a few very remote 

 punctures ; abdomen wider at the base, subovate, the sides 

 of the second segment subparallel, not diverging to the 

 apex as in Coitana, white apical bands rather more pro- 

 nounced, apical fimbria golden, legs clothed with pale hairs, 

 scopie pale whitish. 



L. 8-9 mm. 



Rare. Chobham, on the Common, the $ flying about 

 over the heather, the ? at bramble flowers in a hedge 

 close by. Shipley, near Horsham; {Gorham). Bramble 

 flowers, Boxhill ; {Ramsden). 



