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A. fulvagO, Christ, (constricta, Smith) — Black, 

 sliining, head and thorax punctured, clothed with fulvous 

 hairs ; face in the (^ clothed with long fulvous hairs, in the 

 ? with short ; antennee in the S with the third joint scarcely 

 longer than the fourth, each joint of the flagellum in front 

 with a narrow basal baud of grey pubescence, ? with the 

 third joint not quite so long as the two following together ; 

 wings slightly dusky, propodeum finely rugose; abdomen 

 subovate, basal segment in the cJ sometimes with a slight 

 apical constriction, deeply and rather largely punctured, 

 sides, and a line at the apex of the segments clothed with 

 pale fulvous hairs, apical fringe in both sexes bright golden, 

 apices of the segments more or less testaceous and im- 

 punctate, segments fringed beneath with golden hairs ; 

 legs clothed with pale hairs ; intermediate tarsi and pos- 

 terior tibiae and tarsi clear testaceous, scopte of ? bright 

 golden, the hairs long and plumose. 



L. 9-10 mm. 



Not common ; occurs in June, July and August. Chob- 

 ham; Hastings. Freshwater, Isle of Wight; (F. S. 

 Saunders); Weybridge ; Blackwater; Bristol; (Smith). 

 Barham ; (Kirhy). Dartmouth ; {R. C. L. Perkins). 

 Plymouth; (Bignell). Exeter; {rarjitt). Yorkshire. 



A. polita, Smith. — Black ; head and thorax clothed 

 with fulvous pubescence, which is paler in the ,^ , in which 

 sex the clypeus is clothed with white hairs, and the third 

 joint of the antennas is considerably longer than the fourth, 

 the fourth being slightly shorter than the fifth, the ? has 

 the third joint as long as the fourth and fifth together; 

 mesonotum finely and distinctly punctured in the (J, very 

 finely so in the ?, wings subhyaline, clouded towards the 

 apex, tegulae testaceous ; abdomen shining, oblong ovate 

 finely and distinctly punctured in the ($ , rather closely so 

 in the ?, apices of the segments in both sexes impressed 

 and more or less testaceous, especially in the ^f, second, 

 third, and fourth segments with a narrow fringe of pale 



