286 Mr. E. Saunders' Si/nojisis of British ■ 



and Mr. C. W. Dale has sent me a 3' and ? for exami- 

 nation, taken in Dorsetshire. 



9. gondf/er, St. Farg. Ann. Soc. Ent. Franc, iii. p. 785. 



= amhigiiKS, Dhlb. Hym. Eur. p. 336. 



Blacli. ; anterior tibias paler at the apex and anterior 

 margin ; 1st and 2nd joints of the anterior and inter- 

 mediate tarsi white ; the basal joint of the anterior tarsi 

 with three black spots ; posterior tibife narrowly pale at 

 the base ; all the calcaria pale. 



3 shining ; head and thorax finely and somewhat 

 remotely punctured ; metathorax with a shining enclosure 

 at the base, surrounded by a wide crenate sulcature, and 

 divided down the middle by a narrow crenate line ; 

 metathorax below the enclosure irregularly rugose; 

 abdomen finely punctured, and covered with fine very 

 short hairs, which are only observable under a high 

 power ; anterior tarsi with the basal joint widely scutate, 

 pale, with three round black spots ; the 2nd, 3rd, and 

 4th joints also dilated and pale, each smaller than the 

 one preceding it ; the 2nd and 3rd each with a small 

 black spot in front ; posterior tibiaG irregularly spinose 

 on their exterior margin. 



? with the anterior tarsi simple ; the scape of the 

 antennae, the anterior tibiae in front, and the posterior 

 tibiae widely at the base, pale ; apical segment of the 

 abdomen canaliculated. 



Length 6 — 7 mill. 



I have only seen the 3" of this species, of which Mr. 

 Vincent Perkins has had the good fortune to take several 

 in Gloucestershire, to whom I am indebted for the 

 specimen described. 



10. jxilntdriiis, Schreb. Naturf. xx. p. 100, pi. ii. fig. 9, 



<? (1784) = scutatiis, Fab., Dahlb., Smith, &c. 



Black ; mandibles, clypeus, scape of the antennae in 

 front, a line on the prothorax, and the post-scutellum 

 yellow in both sexes ; the <? has also the cheeks just 

 above the mandibles and on their imder side, the 

 tubercles, and the under side of the prothorax, and the 

 scutellum yellow ; anterior and intermediate legs in 

 the 3 yellow ; the femora beneath, an irregular spot at 

 the apex of the dilated anterior tibiae, and the 1st joint of 

 the tarsi posteriorly black ; intermediate tilnic black 



