British Hijmenoptera. 287 



2. Cilissa Icporina, Panz. 



Panz., Faun. Germ., 63, 21 ; Smith, Cat. Brit. Hym., 

 2nd ed., p. 77. 



Black, clothed with pale fulvo-ochraceous hairs. Abdo- 

 men with pale apical bands to the segments ; anal fimbria 

 black; scopse of ? pale ochreous-grey. Wings nearly 

 clear. 



<? . Head and thorax punctured, clothed with very 

 pale ochreous hairs, intermixed with black on the disk of 

 the mesothorax. Antennae slightly piceous beneath, 

 apical joint diagonally truncate. Metathorax finely 

 rugose. Abdomen rugosely punctured ; 1st and 2nd 

 segments densely clothed with pale hairs, 3rd and follow- 

 ing segments with black hairs at the base and a band of 

 pale hairs at the apex ; beneath with pale hairs ; apical 

 ventral valve dilated at the apex and truncate, the 

 truncature nearly circular ; (for 6th, 7th and 8th ventral 

 segments and genitalia see pi. xi., figs. 2, 2a, 26). 

 Legs clothed with pale hairs ; tarsi testaceous towards 

 the apex. 



2 . With the pubescence rather darker and browner 

 than that of the <? . Head and thorax punctured, &c., 

 as in that sex. Abdomen wider, the pubescence shorter ; 

 1st and 2nd segments clothed all over with pale hairs, 

 3rd and 4th with black hairs at the base and a well- 

 marked band of pale hairs at the apex, 5th and 6th 

 clothed with black hairs, the 5th with a tuft of pale ones 

 on each side, beneath clothed with pale ; 5th and 6th 

 segments with black-brown hairs. Legs with pale hairs ; 

 tarsi at the apex testaceous, and clothed beneath with 

 fulvous hairs. Length 12 — 14 mm. 



Hah. Not rare in July and August, I have taken it 

 at Hastings, Littlehampton, Bournemouth, and Chob- 

 ham ; and it has also occurred at Hampstead, Gravesend, 

 Erith, Deal, and Norwich. 



