262 HYMENOPTERA ACULEATA. 



fulvous hairs, more or less interrupted in the middle, 

 Leueath fringed with long fulvous hairs ; legs clothed 

 with pale fulvous hairs, scopse bright fulvous, tarsi 

 testaceous. 



L. 10-12 mm. 



Taken by Mr. P. Smith in the chalk pits at Northfleet 

 iu July, there is no other record of its capture in Britain ; it 

 is easily distinguished by the close, fine puncturation of the 

 abdomen. Dr. Mason has kindly lent me the typical 

 examples to examine. 



A. humilis, Tmhoff. (fulvescens. Smith). — Black, dull, 

 with the surface finely rugulose except at the apices of the 

 abdominal segments in the c? ; head and thorax clothed 

 with dull fulvous hairs, those on the clypeus and under- 

 side of the (J white, clypeus of the (^ white with two small 

 black discal spots, second joint of the antennse in both sexes 

 about as long as the two following together, fourth rather 

 shorter than the fifth ; mesonotum rugosely punctured, 

 wings nearly hyaline, nervures pale, propodeum finely 

 rugulose, with loBg lateral hairs ; abdomen densely and 

 rugosel}^ punctured, clothed wiih erect pale hairs in the (J, 

 almost naked on the disc in the ? , apices of the segments 

 obscurely piceous, and impressed in both sexes, smooth 

 and inipunctate in the S, finely rugulose and sparsely 

 punctured in the ? , apical fringe and sides of the abdomen 

 clothed with pale golden hairs, beneath clothed with long 

 pale hairs ; legs black, clothed with pale golden hairs, 

 Bcopse golden, calcaria pale. 



L. 9-10 ram. 



Local, but common in some localities. Woking ; Chob- 

 bam J Bournemouth; Worthing; Reigate. Freshwater, 

 Isle of Wight; (F. 8. Saunders). Hampstead; Black- 

 water, Hants; Tunbridge Wells; Hastings; (Sitiifli). 

 Oxford; {R. C. L. Perkins). Plymouth; Exeter; (Par- 

 ■fift). Land's End; (Marquand). Gloucestershire; {V. M. 

 J'crkiiis). Lancashire; (Gardner). Maidstone; (/'Vis/)//). 



