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N. jacobaese, Punz. {faropicta, Kiih.). — Very like tlie 

 two preceding in coloration, but shorter and more compact. 

 Head and thorax nearly glabrous in both sexes, but the 

 face below the antennai in the c? clothed with silvery hairs ; 

 antennas with the flagellum almost entirely black or picoous 

 in both sexes, its joints short, as wide, or almost as wide, as 

 long, third and fourth joints of the antenna subequal in 

 the (J, third distinctly longer than the fourth in the ?, 

 cheeks at the side of the clypeus flavous in the $ ; thorax 

 with the tubercles, tegulae and scutellar prominences very 

 pronounced and flavous, wings smoky, a round spot on 

 the mesopleui'Ee yellow, propodeum, with a yellow spot on 

 each side in the ? ; abdomen with the second and third 

 abdominal bands widely interrupted in both sexes, apical 

 dorsal valve black in the ^, piceous in the ?, segments 

 beneath banded with yellow, sixth in the S densely hairy 

 in the centre of its apical margin, central process of the 

 eighth very long, not dilated at the apex, which bears two 

 strong somewhat recurved spines, the sides of the process 

 fringed with hairs, genital armature with long terminal 

 hairs on the stipites ; ? , fifth segment densely clothed 

 with hairs at the apes laterally ; legs clear orange testa- 

 ceous, coxa3, trochanters and base of posterior femora black, 

 apices of tibife without spines or teeth outwardly. 



L. 10-12 mm. 



Local but not rare ; it occurs in July and August on 

 Senecio. Smith says he found it entering the burrows 

 of A. fithicrus at Littlehampton. Sidraouth ; Hastings ; 

 Bournemouth; Swanage ; {Dale). Tavistock; (Svjtilr). 

 Yorkshire; Norwich; [Bridijman). Lancashire and 

 Cheshire; [Gardner). Colchester; {Ilanvood). 



X. Lathburiana, Eirbi/ {nijivenfri^, Kirh.). — Head 

 and thorax black, closely and rugosely punctured, clothed 

 with ochreous hairs in the S , with bright fulvous in the $ , 

 mandibles except their piceous apices, labrum, clj'pous, a 

 spot above it, and sides of the face yellow in the ^, 

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