AXDRENIDj-E. 28s 



N. Roberjeotiana, Panz. — ITead and thorax very 

 slightly shining, deeply and closely punctured, clothed 

 with short pale hairs iu the <J) almost glabrous in the ?, 

 mandibles, except at the extreme apex, labrum, clypeus, 

 and sides of the face below the antenna) flavous in the c?, 

 ferruginous in the ? , in which sex the clypeus is black 

 except at the extreme apex, antennae fulvous, narrowly 

 black posteriorly, scape of the ^J flavous in front, second 

 joint visible in both sexes, third and fourth subequal ; pro- 

 thoracic collar and tubercles as well as the tegulaj flavous in 

 the (J, ferruginous in the $, wings dusky, clearer in the 

 region of the submarginal cells, scutellum very slightly 

 raised, ferruginous, metathorax in the ? with the post- 

 scutellum ferruginous, propodeum shining, except on its 

 basal area ; abdomen bright ferruginous, the base of 

 the first segment, a spot on each side of the base of the 

 second, and the base of each of the following segments 

 black, the second and third in both sexes, and the 

 fourth in the (J, with a cream coloured spot on each 

 side, the fifth and sixth in the c? with a transverse line, 

 the fifth in the ? with a quadrate spot of the same colour, 

 seventh segment in the ^ somewhat truncate, beneath 

 ferruginous, black towards the apex, second and third seg- 

 ments sometimes with pale spots in the J, sixth densely 

 clothed with somewhat cui-led pale hairs, eighth with the 

 apical process very short and wide, broadly rounded at 

 the apex, fringed with pale spines at the sides, with a 

 long thick piceous spine on each side of the apex, genital 

 armature closely resembling that of the preceding species, 

 legs ferruginous, femora at the base black, and often a 

 cloud on the posterior tibia3 dark. 



L. 6-7 mm. 



Rare. Occurs in July and August. Woking ; Chobham ; 

 Black water, Hants; [Sinilh), Hilnest ; Parley Heath; 

 Elwington "Wood; (Dale). 



N. SOlidaginis, Panz. (picti, Kirhi/, ru/opicia, Kirhi/). 

 — Black, head and thorax largely and closely punctured 



