332 HYMENOPTERA ACULEATA. 



clothed with black hairs, vertex and thorax with bright 

 fulvous brown ; antennje in the $ long, reaching to the 

 propodeum, fringed beneath with fine hairs ; wings slightly 

 dusky, nervures brown, basal area of the propodeum dull ; 

 abdomen rather shining, closely and rugosely punctured, 

 clothed in the $ with greyish hairs, with a more or less 

 fulvous tint towards the apex, in the ? with fulvous hairs on 

 the first and second segments, and with black on the others, 

 posterior margins of the segments bright and impunctate 

 in the $ , finely rugulose in the ? , sixth segment sharply 

 emarginate in the c?, seventh very deeply so ; beneath, with 

 the second segment very long, slightly concave, its apical 

 margin much produced in the centre, where there is a 

 slight emargination, third visible only at the sides, fourth 

 somewhat truncate at the apex, its disc clothed with hairs, 

 which have their apices hook shaped, armature with the 

 stipites narrowed and convergent at the apex, with no 

 lateral dilatation, the sides of the narrowed portion fringed 

 with hairs, sagitt© very narrow, much shorter than the 

 stipites ; ? with the scopa black ; legs clothed with grey 

 hairs in the $ , with black in the ? , posterior metatarsi of 

 the (J widened at the apex inwardly, of the ? simple, 

 about twice as long as wide. 



L. 9-10 mm. 



Local ; Guestling near Hastings on Ficmia; Leigh Woods, 

 Durdham Downs, Bristol; Birchwood, Kentj (Smit/i). 

 Colchester; (Harwood). Oxford and Chippenham ; {R. C. 

 L. PerMns). Shirley; {Bofhney). Wotton-under-Edge ; 

 {V. H. Perkins). Lowestoft; Devon; {Parjitt). Norfolk; 

 (Bridgman). Perth. This species, according to Mr. R. C. 

 L. Perkins' observations, makes its burrows in dead wood. 



0. xanthomelana, Kirb, (jtfricapUla, Curt. ; tunensis, 

 Kirh. c? only.) — Larger than thepreceding, head and thorax 

 closely punctured, densly clothed above with bright fulvous 

 hairs, face and underside of the ? with black, face of the 

 S below the antennsD with nearly white hairs, antennai of 



