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in front, and the seventh, eighth and sometimes tlie 

 ninth joints with a black spot above, unicolorous through- 

 out in the $ ; thorax with two spots on the collar, the 

 pronotal tubercles, the tegulas, a spot on the mesopleura3 in 

 front, and a single spot on the scutellum flavous, wings 

 with the nervures testaceous, propodeum dull, finely rugose ; 

 abdomen finely punctured basal segment with a broad 

 brownish red band across its centre, each of the others with 

 a yellow band, slightly constricted in the middle, apical 

 dorsal valve in the $ deeply emarginate at the apex ; be- 

 neath punctured, banded with yellow, sixth segment in the 

 $ densely ciliated at the apex, seventh flattened and 

 narrowed to the apex which is truncate, eighth with a 

 narrow, ventrally raised, elongate process, which is armed 

 along its sides with long spines which point backwards, and 

 near its base has a few short fine spines pointing forwards, 

 fifth segment in the ? with an apical fringe of thick re- 

 curved hairs, sixth flat, truncate, its sides near the apex 

 with thick curved testaceous spines ; legs testaceous, 

 femora black at the base. 



L. 10-12 mm. 



Eare. HoUington, near Hastings, with ^jicZreii a /"MZy/fjMs, 

 August, 1879. Eastbourne; Saudown, Isle of Wight; 

 Kemp Town, Brighton; Darenth ; {Smith), who says it is 

 parasitic on Halictus ruhicundus and leucozonius, which for 

 reasons given above seems doubtful. Lulworth ; Char- 

 mouth ; Ambleside; Maidstone; {Frishy). 



N. sezfasciata, Panz. {Schxfferella, Kirhij, counea-a, 

 Kirhy). — Black, head and thorax closely and rugosely 

 punctured, clothed rather densely with brownish grey hairs 

 in the cJ, more sparingly with fulvous golden hairs in the 

 $ , clypeus produced and rather raised, and the cheeks 

 rather unusually long, so that the head has a rostrate form, 

 mandibles pointed, flavous, remote from the eyes, their 

 apices piceous, labrum, clypeus, except a triangular basal 

 spot in front, and sides of the face below the antennie. 



