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(?, black in the ? , with only its extreme apical margin 

 piceous, antennse fulvous, black posteriorly in the ^ as 

 far as the eighth joint, and with the scape yellow in front, in 

 the ? entirely fulvous, third and fourth joints subequal 

 in both sexes ; thorax with two spots on the collar, the 

 tubercles, tegulas, two spots on the scutellum, which are 

 larger in the ? and sometimes absent in the c?, yellow, 

 the S has also the anterior margin of the mesopleurjB 

 yellow, and the ? often has two spots on the propodeum 

 and occasionallj' a spot on the postscutellum yellow, wings 

 slightly smoky, nervures testaceous ; abdomen finely 

 punctured, basal segment with an interrupted, very rarely 

 entire, each of the others with an entire, transverse baud, 

 yellow, apical dorsal valve in the S deeply emarginate, 

 segments beneath banded with yellow, sixth in the ^ with 

 its apical margin yellow, eighth with a long narrow apical 

 process, recurved dorsally and armed on each side with 

 long spines, those near the apex longest, armature with the 

 stipites converging at their apices, clothed with very long 

 hairs ; sixth segment in the ? formed much as in the 

 other species; legs fulvous yellow in the S , fulvous in 

 the ? , the femora beneath more or less black, anterior 

 and intermediate coxas and trochanters and all the 

 legs anteriorly, more or less flavous, posterior trochanters 

 densely hairy beneath, apex of the posterior tibias in the ? 

 armed outwardly with two short teeth, the outer one 

 curved inwards. 



L. 11-13 mm. 



Generally distributed and common; appears in April. 



N. lineola, Pam. {caprece, Kirh., suhcornuta, Kirh., 

 corniyera, Kirh., 6-cincta, Kiib.). Very like the pre- 

 ceding in colour, but with the second and usually also the 

 third abdominal pale bands interrupted ; this character 

 alone will serve to distinguish them apart, but the following 

 structural characters are more reliable : the antenna) aro 

 long as in that species with the joints of the flagcllum 



