3o6 HYMENOPTERA ACULEATA. 



margins of the segments testaceous in the Si fii'st segment 

 with a lateral transverse spot of pale pubescence at the base 

 and apex sometimes united at the side, the following seg- 

 ments each with four apical ti'ansverse oval spots, rarely 

 more or less confluent, apical dorsal valve narrow in the c?, 

 rounded at the apexj its sides subparallel, beneath dull 

 and closely punctured in the S , second and third seg- 

 ments paler at the apex and clothed with silvery hairs, 

 fourth and fifth emarginate, densely fringed with curved 

 brown hairs, somewhat shining in the ? , second segment 

 largely and distinctly punctured, third and fourth with a 

 pubescent apical band, apical segment narrowly rounded, 

 sixth truncate, lateral processes, narrow, long, and spathu- 

 late, denticulate at the sides; legs ferruginous in the S, 

 with the femora black, fulvous red in the ? , posterior 

 and intermediate femora black above. 



L. 8-10 mm. 



Littlehampton ; Hayling Island ; Woking ; Hastings. 

 Land's End ; Lulworth ; Sandown; {Bale). Bollin Valley 

 and Sale; {J. It. Hardy). Charing, Kent; Weybridge ; 

 (Marshall). Colchester; {Harivood). Lowestoft; (Morice). 

 Saunton, North Devon ; (Swale). 



E. rufipes, Thorns, (variegatus, pars, Smith.) — Exceed- 

 ingly like the preceding, but distinguishable by the 

 following characters : — 



Labrum with its apical margin simple not tridentate, the 

 discal tubercles situated considerably below the middle. 

 The puncturatiou of the thorax is rather less coarse, and 

 the scutellum less raised. The spots on the abdomen are 

 more transverse, and have a greater tendency to become 

 confluent, the apical dorsal valve in the ^ is more narrowed 

 to the apex, beneath the abdomen is dull, more rufescent, 

 and the second segment in the $ is closely and finely punc- 

 tured, the apical segment is very largely and widely rounded, 

 the processes of the sixth segment are wider in the stalk, 

 so that they are less spathulate, and their apices are 

 scarcely denticulate. The legs in the ? are entirely red. 



