APID.E. 339 



0. spinulosa, Kirby. — Black, head and tliorrtx clothed 

 with pule brown hairs, soon fading to grey, very closely 

 and finely punctured in the <}, the mesonotuui in the ? 

 largely punctured, antenuio in the c? not quite rea,ching to 

 the tegute ; wings smoky, nervures dark, scutellum sharply 

 dentate at the sides, propodeal area slightly shining ; 

 abdomen largely and closely punctured, rather shining, 

 sparingly clothed on the disc, and more densely at the 

 sides, with very short pale hairs, each segment with a short 

 lateral streak of pale hairs at the apex, fourth and fifth in 

 the ^ with an entire band, sixth denticulate along the 

 apical margin, seventh terminating in a sharp point, first 

 ventral segment with a strong erect central spine, second 

 sometimes with a narrow short sub-apical spine, third 

 visible only at the sides, fourth and fifth entire ; sagittis of 

 the armature narrow, with the apices convergent and 

 pointed, nearly meeting, $ , apex of abdomen simple, ventral 

 Ecopa orange red ; legs clothed with pale hairs, calcaria pale. 



L. 7-8 mm. 



Common in some localities ; Reigate ; Hastings ; 

 Deal. Luccombe Chine, Isle of Wight; Croydon; {S^niik). 

 Portland ; {Enocli) Lulworth ; [Dale). Colchester ; 

 (Harwood). Dover and Charing, Kent ; [Mar.«h.aU). Sid- 

 mouth ; {R. C. L. Perkins). Norfolk; (Bridgman). Glou- 

 cester; {Perkins). Bury St. Edmunds; {Tuck). 



STELIS, Panz. 



Closely allied to the foWow'mg genus, Ant/iidinm, althoiigli 

 in the British species uo similarity would suggest itself be- 

 tween them. On the Continent, species of cacli genus occur 

 which are even hard to separate ppccificaliy. The number 

 of joints of the maxillary palpi vary from two to three, the 

 labial palpi are four-jointed, wings with two sub-marginal 

 cells, abdomen with the apex simple in the J', five ventral 

 segments exposed, sixth rounded at the apes, seventh very 



