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widest in front, sides almost straight ; abdomen rugosely 

 punctured, black, with the basal segment, and the base of 

 the second, laterally testaceous-red, each segment at the 

 apex testaceous, with a fringe of pale shining hairs and 

 a few scattered longer hairs on the surface ; legs 

 testaceous-red. Length 5 — 7 mill. 



Hah. — Not very common. Littlehampton, Weybridge, 

 Chobham, Hastings, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Lowestoft, 

 Wakefield, &c. Male on flowers. 



Methoca, Latr. (PI. VH. fig. 11). 

 Hist. Nat. xiii. p. 268. 



c? elongate, entirely black ; antennae long, reaching 

 to the second segment of the abdomen ; wings with 

 three submarginal cells, the first very elongate, and with 

 a slight indication of a divisional nerve on its lower 

 margin, radial cell almost reaching to the apex of the 

 wing ; apex of the last ventral segment produced into a 

 strong upcurved spine. 



? black and red ; head large and round ; thorax 

 much constricted in the middle ; wings wanting ; abdo- 

 men somewhat egg-shaped, acute at the apex, very 

 shining. 



The (? might easily be mistaken in the net for a 

 good -sized ichneumon. 



1. idnieitmonides, Latr. Hist. Nat. xiii. p. 269, ? . Fig. 



Lep. de St. Farg. Hym. pi. xxxvi. f. 2, <? . Smith 



Brit. Foss. Hym. pi. ii. fig. 1 $ . 

 <? black, shining, covered with short greyish white 

 hairs ; head very hairy, strongly punctured, rounded 

 posteriorly, clypeus elevated into a sort of angular spine ; 

 antennae with the basal joint very thick, Hagellum 

 gradually tapering to the apex ; thorax strongly punc- 

 tured, the puncturation of the mesothorax, &c., denser 

 than that of the prothorax ; prothorax truncate in front, 

 sides slightly curved, arcuately emarginate posteriorly ; 

 mesothorax sharply truncate posteriorly ; scutellum very 

 rugosely punctured, rounded posteriorly, and triangularly 

 raised in the middle ; metathorax rounded, gibbous, 

 rugosely punctured ; wings hyaline, with three sub- 

 marginal cells, the third bounded b}' the apex of the 

 wing ; abdomen elongate, 1^ times as long as the thorax, 



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