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A. proxima, Kirhy [ColUnsonana, Kirbij, diyitalis, 

 Kirbtj). — Black, Lead aud thorax dull, finely rugulose, and 

 rather closely punctured, the puncturation larger iu the ? , 

 clothed with greyish brown hairs, which are rather deeper 

 iu colour in the ? , third joint of the antennaj in the c? 

 about equal in length to the fourth, in the ? rather shorter 

 than the fourth and fifth together; wings rather dusky, 

 propodeum somewhat clathrately rugose, and clothed with 

 long hairs, basal area ill defined ; abdomen shining iu the 

 c? almost smooth, finely and very remotely punctured, in 

 the ? exceedingly finely rugulose, with a very shallow, 

 fine, scarcely noticeable puncturation, apices of the seg- 

 ments widely impressed, and impunctate in both sexes, 

 sides of the second, third, and fourth segments with short 

 apical bands of white hairs, sixth and seventh in the cj 

 clothed with white hairs, fifth and sixth in the ? with 

 golden hairs, beneath punctured, Begments pale at the 

 apex, and fringed with long hairs ; legs black, clothed 

 with pale hairs, scoppQ silvery, with a slight brownish 

 tinge, tarsi piceous at the apex. 



L. 9-10 mm. 



Very rare. Occurs in June. Weybridge ; Blackwater, 

 Hants; Hastings; Bristol; (Smith). Sidmoutli ; [Parjitt). 

 Norfolk; (Bridymaii) ; Land's End ; (Marqunnd). 



A. dorsata., Kirhy (comhinata, Kirb., nudiufcula, 

 Kirb. ? LeirineUa, Kirb. ? connectens, Kirb. ?). — Black, 

 head and thorax dull, finely rugulose, punctured, clothed 

 with bright fulvous hairs above, especially on the post 

 scutellum, with paler hairs on the face and beneath. 

 Antennae in the S with the third joint short, hardly 

 longer than its apical width; wings slightly clouded at the 

 apex, nervures pale, testaceous ; propodeum rugose ; its 

 basal area well defined, its sides, especially in the ? , each 

 with a dense tuft of pale, fulvous hairs ; abdomen shining, 

 finely rugulose in the ?, scarcely so in the S, very closely 

 punctured, clothed in the J with pale hairs, more or 



