352 HYMENOPTERA ACULEATA. 



pale hairs, seventh segment in the S emai-ginato, sixth in 

 the 9 with an arrow dorsal area, raised in its centre ; ven- 

 tral segments fringed with long pale hairs in both sexes, 

 sixth in the $ somewhat membranous at the apex, with a 

 central apical slit, seventh with its apical plate somewhat 

 five sided, the apex truncate, eighth narrowed towards the 

 apex, and slightly emarginate, armature of the $ with the 

 stipites much narrowed towards the apex, emitting an 

 angular tooth outwardly, and terminating in two narrow 

 processes, legs simple in both sexes, clothed with pale 

 hairs which are nearly white outwardly, intermediate 

 femora of the $ dilated. 



L. 10-11 mm. 



I have only met with this species at Blackheath, but 

 Smith says it is not uncommon in the London district, 

 frequenting the Dead Nettle, Lamiuni imrpureum, aud 

 making its burrows in banks, sandy cliffs, etc. Parley 

 Heath; Bournemouth; Dawlish; {Dale). Exmouth ; (Par- 

 fitt). Gloucestershire J (Perkins). 



SAROFODA, Latr. 



It seems to me very doubtful whether this should be 

 retained as a distinct genus from AntJwjjhora, it is only 

 distinguishable by the four-jointed maxillary palpi, and the 

 absence of the cylindrical divergent joints of the labial 

 palpi, which so far as I can see are only two-jointed. There 

 is only one British species. 



S. bimaculata, Panz. {rotundata, Kirb.). — Black, head 

 and thorax closely punctured, clothed with bright fulvous 

 hairs in the cJ , with sooty-brown hairs in the ? , those of 

 the underside in both sexes, and of the face in the ? paler, 

 entire face below the antenniB in the ^J , a central line at 

 the base of the clypeus, a wide band at its apex and the 

 labrum in the ? , whitish, mandibles also white except at 

 the apex in both sexes, scape of the antennas in the (J 

 white in front, eyes in life of a bright opalescent green, 



