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of the abdomen as in the $ , segments without pale, apical 

 lines of pubescence, and with only very shallow, transverse 

 basal impressions, scopa beneath dark orange-red, black 

 on the apical and penultimate segments. 



L. 12-14 mm. 



Not rare, but local ; occurs in June, July, and August 

 (last year, 1893, the S occurred as early as April !) on 

 sandy commons, burrowing in banks, &c., usually lining its 

 burrows with rose leaves. I take it commonly at Chobbam 

 and Woking. Hampshire commons; (iS'mi7/i). Colchester; 

 (Harwuod). Parley Heath ; (Dale). Rugby, in willow 

 trunks; (Morice). Tor Cross; Slapton ; [Bignell). Lan- 

 cashire and Cheshire ; (Gardner). Perth ; [McGrrgor). 

 Norfolk; {Bnihjman). 



M. ligniseca, Kirhy. — Black, head and thorax finely and 

 closely punctured, clothed above with dull fulvous brown 

 hairs, mixed with black on the vertex and the disc of the 

 thorax, with paler hairs beneath ; face with brighter more 

 golden pubescence, especially in the S , apical joints of the 

 antennae not dilated, ? with the mandibles flattened so as 

 to be on the same plane with the clypeus only near their 

 cutting edge; wings slightly dusky; abdomen finely punc- 

 tured, sparingly clothed with pale hairs on the first three 

 segments, with black on the rest, pubescence of the apex of 

 the third in the ^ also black, the segments deeply impressed 

 transversely in both sexes and with a more or less distinct 

 apical fringe of paler' hairs, c? with the apical crest of the 

 sixth segment deeply and widely emarginate, the base of 

 the segment on each side with an unciform tooth, seventh 

 segment with its apex narrowly emarginate, visible ventral 

 segments clothed with pale whitish hairs in the ^ , scopa in 

 the ? ochraceous, black at the apex, sixth ventral segment 

 iu the S without an apical wing, stipites of the armature 

 straight, shorter than the sagittse, their apices with a lateral 

 tuft of long hairs ; legs clothed with greyish-fulvous hairs, 

 anterior coxae and tarsi simple in both sexes, base of the 

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