254 Mr. E. Saunders' Synojms of British 



1. tnu/lodi/tcs, V. de Lind. Nouv. Mem. Acad. Brux. 

 V. p. 76. 



(? black ; legs, antennas, clyiDeus, mandibles, a spot on 

 each side of the face, and the tegulte, yellow ; head and 

 thorax dull, finely and closely punctured ; metathorax 

 transversely rugose, sharply truncate posteriorly, its 

 sides and apical margin slightly raised, its disk with two 

 longitudinal raised lines ; wings with the stigma very 

 large and semicircular ; abdomen bright and shining. 



? differs in having the clypeus black, the face un- 

 spotted, and the antennse and mandibles piceous ; the 

 legs and tegulge also piceous ; the femora nearly black. 



Length 2^—3 mill. 



Ilah. — London district ; Charlton, Kent, burrowing in 

 hard white sand, F. Smith ; Charlwood, Surrey, &c. 



Stigmus, Jnrine. (PI. VIL fig. 24). 



Nouv. Meth. Hym. p. 139, pi. iii. 



Like the preceding genus in most of its characters, 

 but differs in having the abdomen petiolated, and the 

 recurrent nervure received in the middle of the 2nd 

 submarginal cell. 



1. ijendulus, Panz. Faun. Germ. 86, 7. 



(? and ? black ; antennae, mandibles, tegulas, anterior 

 and intermediate tibiae and base and apex of posterior 

 tibiae, all the tarsi, and the extreme apex of the femora, 

 pale testaceous. Head rather wider than the thorax, 

 vertex nearly square in the ? ; clypeus and face below the 

 antennae, covered with silvery hairs in the S , the apical 

 margin of the former in the ^ simple, in the ? deeply 

 notched ; prothorax longitudinally sulcate, with its angles 

 prominent ; mesothorax in front with two raised smooth 

 longitudinal lines, its surface exceedingly finely and 

 longitudinally striate (this can only be seen under a 

 very strong lens), its lateral margins rellexed, the 

 division between the mesothorax and scutellum crenate, 

 as also the lateral reflexion ; metathorax largely and 

 clathrately rugose, with a raised central longitudinal line 

 and two others on each side of it, the inner ones of which 

 are divided into two at the base ; wings with the stigma 



