164 Mr. E. Saunders' Synopsis of 



valve narrow and pale at the apex; beneath shining, punctured 

 (for genitalia see PL V., figs. 4 — 4 c). Legs clothed vs^ith pale hairs ; 

 calcaria pale. 



J . Something like a very small Panurgus in shape. Head 

 rather closely punctured ; clypeus w^ith a few very large shallow 

 punctures, fi-inged in front with golden hairs ; mandibles pitchy 

 red. Thorax above very shining and almost glabrous, very remotely 

 punctured, more hairy round the sides ; wings as in the ^ ; meta- 

 thorax finely rugose. Abdomen somewhat depressed and sub- 

 elliptic, the segments sparsely punctured and clothed with pale 

 hairs at the base, very shining and glabrous, and somewhat piceous 

 and impressed at the apex ; apical fringe brown ; 6th dorsal valve 

 piceous ; beneath with the segments punctured at their apex, and 

 clothed with pale hairs, their apical margins pale ; 5th with a 

 transverse carina ; 6tli testaceous. Legs with pale hairs. Length, 

 6 — 7 mm. 



Hah. Undercliff near Cliewton, Hants. One <y , Aug. 

 12tli, 1879, Sir S. S. Saunders ; Woking, Aug. 1st, 1881, 

 one ? , Mr. T. E. Billups, who has very generously pre- 

 sented me with the specimen. These are the only 

 recorded captures of this species in England. 



NoMADA, Fahr. 

 Fabr., Syst. Ent., p. 388. 



Wings with three submarginal cells ; labial palpi 4-jointed ; 

 maxillary palpi 6-jointed ; ^ with the clypeus densely hairy, and 

 with the 8th abdominal ventral segment produced at the apex into 

 a somewhat elongate ciu-ved process, spinose or hairy at the sides, 

 and generally terminating in two recurved teeth or spines ; 7th 

 ventral, shaped like the 6th ; only six ventral segments exposed ; 

 genital armature with the cardo very large, and with the apices of 

 the lacinise generally very densely tufted with hairs ; J with the 

 6th ventral segment flat and truncate, armed at each side of the 

 truncature with several thick curved spines. 



A genus of elegantly-shaped bees, generally banded on 

 the abdomen with yellow and brown or black, so as 

 somewhat to resemble a wasp. The species, so far as we 

 know, are all parasitic on other Hymenoptera. 



(32) 1. Labrum pale, or with only slightly darker spots ; 



species not very small. 

 (3) 2. Metathorax posteriorly bright and shining at the 



sides . . . . . . . . . . . . Eoherjeotiana. 



