266 HYMEKOPTERA ACULEATA. 



less intermixed with darker ones on the third and fourth, 

 and base of the fifth, apex of the fifth, the sixth and 

 seventh, with pale, fulvous hairs ; in the ? almost 

 glabrous, basal segment with a few fulvous hairs laterally, 

 apices of the segments in both sexes pale, that of the 

 second, third, and fourth with a streak of white or pale 

 fulvous hairs on each side, those on the fourth uniting into 

 a complete band in the ?, apical fringe golden browu, 

 beneath punctured, clothed with pale hairs ; legs clothed 

 with pale fulvous hairs, posterior tarsi in both broods, 

 and all the tarsi iu the $ , and the apices of the posterior 

 tibite in both sexes of the autumn brood, clear testaceous, 

 the pale colour in the ? sometimes extending over nearly 

 the whole joint, scopce pale golden brown, with silvery 

 reflections. 



L. 9-11 mm. 



Local ; on Sallows in spring, and flowers of Blackberry 

 and Bryony in July and August. Woking; Chobham ; 

 Southwold ; Bournemouth. Colchester; {Rarwood). Nor- 

 wich; {Bridgman). Sidmouth ; (7?. C, L. Perkins). 

 Exeter; {Pnrfitt). 



A. similis, Smith, {Wilkella, Saund. Si/n. nee Kirhy). — 

 Much more robust than the preceding, black, head and 

 thorax closely punctured, densely clothed with rich, 

 fulvous hairs above, face and underside with white hairs, 

 third joint of the antennte in the S slightly longer tban 

 the fourth ; wings slightly clouded, nervures pale, post 

 scutellum densely clothed with rich, fulvous hairs like 

 those of the mesonotum, propodeum finely rugose, its sides 

 clothed with pale fulvous hairs ; abdomen slightly shining, 

 ovate, finely rugulose, closely and distinctly punctured in 

 the (J, very finely and sliallowly punctured in the ?, 

 clothed in the c?, with pale hairs on the basal segments, 

 and with very short, inconspicuous dark hairs on the 

 others, in the ? nearly glabrous, second, third and fourth 

 segments with a lateral apical band of white hairs, con- 



