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A. labialis, T^iih. {separata, Sm. = stijlopized S)- — 

 Black, somewhat dull ; head and tliorax punctured, finely 

 in the cf, more coarsely in the ?, clothed in both sexes 

 with greyish fulvous hairs, which are rather brighter in 

 the ? , clypeus in the cJ and cheeks at its sides extending 

 about half way up the eye, white, the former with the 

 usual discal spots; third joint of the autennte not quite 

 so long as the following two together in the J, of the 

 following three in the $ , in which sex the pubescence of 

 the orbital impressions is very conspicuous ; wings slightly 

 dusky, clouded at the apex, nervures testaceous, propodeum 

 with a distinctly enclosed, clathrate, basal area, much as 

 in the earliest species of the genus, its sides rugulose and 

 hairy ; abdomen slightly shining, densely clothed with very 

 short, erect, pale hairs, very closely punctured all over the 

 segments, their apices scarcely impressed, basal segment 

 more remotely and largely punctured, second, third, and 

 fourth segments with short lateral bands of pale hairs at 

 the apex, apical fimbria golden, beneath densely punctured, 

 clothed with pale hairs, fifth segment in the (J verj' densely 

 friuged, apical ventral valve longitudinally curved, and 

 looked at sideways, bilobed, the shorter, wider lobe veutral, 

 the longer, narrower one recurved dorsally, legs with pale, 

 golden hairs, scopte golden, tarsi testaceous at the apex. 

 L. 11-14 mm. 



Common in many places. Woking; Chobham ; Hastings; 

 Deal ; Reigate ; Worthing and Dover ; Bromley. Bourne- 

 mouth ; Isle of Wight J Eastbourne; (Smith). Bury St. 

 Edmunds; [TucTc). Colchester; (H<iru-ood) Norfolk; 

 (Bridgman). Maidstone ; Southend ; [Frishy). Gloucester- 

 shire ; {Perl;ins). Cornwall [Swale), 



A. minutula, Kirby (jmn-ula, Kirh. = spring Irood). — 

 Small, black, head and thorax dull, finely rugulose and 

 punctured, sparingly clothed with pale hairs, face in the 

 (J of the spring brood with longer black hairs, third joint 

 of the antennas in the J longer than the fourth, but very 



