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(2) 1. Large, 12 — 15 mill, long ; abdomen in the ^ steel- 

 blue, with silvery bands ; basal segment in the 

 2 without a dorsal sjiot . . , . . . . . Europcea. 



(1) 2. Small, 5 — 8 mill, long ; abdomen in ^ black, with 

 silvery bands; basal segment in J with a round 

 dorsal spot . . , . . . . . . . . . rufipes. 



1. Enropcea, Linn. Syst. Nat. eel. x. vol. i. p. 583. Fig. 



Panz. Faun. Germ. 76—20(3', Donov. Brit. Ins. 

 pi. 212. 



3- head dark steel-blue, coarsely punctured ; pro- 

 thorax black ; mesothorax red, deeply punctured, with 

 the sides black ; scutellum and post-scutellum red ; 

 metathorax rugose, black, sometimes with the base red ; 

 wings fuscous ; abdomen hairy, steel-blue, deeply punc- 

 tured, with a band of pale hairs on the 1st, 2nd, and 

 3rd segments, those of the 2nd and 3rd slightly inter- 

 rupted. 



? head black, rugosely punctured, covered with 

 black hairs ; thorax red, quadrangular, rugose ; j^ro- 

 thorax alone black, surface covered with bristly black 

 hairs ; abdomen black, deeply and rugosely punctured, 

 clothed with long bristly black hairs ; 1st, 2nd, and 3rd 

 segments with an apical band of golden hairs, that of 

 the 2nd and 3rd interrupted in the middle, that of the 

 3rd extending almost to the base of the segment ; legs 

 densely hairy ; tibi^ spinose. 

 Length 12—15 mill. 



Hah. — Sandy lanes, Kent ; Darenth and Birch Woods ; 

 Hampshire ; &c. Often found in the nests of the species 

 of Bomhus. 



2. rufipes, Latr. Act. Soc. Hist. Nat. i. p. 9 (1792) 



= epMppium, Fab. Ent. Syst. ii. p. 370, <? (1793). 

 Fig. Curtis Brit. Ent. ii. pi. Ixxvii. 



Largely and deeply punctured, covered with long 

 projecting hairs. 



S' with the head black and very rugosely punctured, 

 with a deep longitudinal incision on the vertex ; pro- 

 thorax, mesothorax, and scutellum red, the first black in 

 its centre ; wings slightly dusky ; metathorax black, 

 shining, largely and clathrately rugose ; abdomen black, 

 shining, largely punctured and clothed with silvery hairs, 

 the 1st and 2nd segments with an apical band of silvery 



