176 Mr. E. Saunders' Synopsis of 



11. Nomada lateralis, Panz. (PI. VI., figs. 10—106). 



Panz., Faun. Germ., 96, 20, 21 = xanthosticta, Kirb., 

 Smith, Cat. Brit. Hym., 1st eel. (nee 2n.d) =^ Bridgman- 

 iana, Smith, Cat. Brit. Hym., 2nd ed., p. 115. 



Black ; thorax without red vittae in either sex ; tubercles entirely 

 flavous, or flavous in front only ; scape of the antennae in the 3' 

 entirely black. Abdomen brown, with yellow lateral spots or 

 transverse bands, in the J with a round yellow spot on each side 

 of the 2nd segment. 



(7 . Head and thorax black, closely and rugosely punctured, 

 clothed with short grey hairs ; mandibles, except the extreme 

 piceous apex, labrum, clypeus in front, and the sides of the face, 

 flavous ; face below the antennae clothed with long silvery hairs. 

 Antennae with the scape entirely black; the flagellum piceous 

 beneath, black above ; 3rd joint much longer than 2nd. Protliorax 

 with the tubercles widely bordered with yellow in front ; meso- 

 thorax with the tegiilae testaceous ; wings very slightly dusky. 

 Abdomen testaceous-brown, shining, extreme base black; 1st seg- 

 ment unspotted, or with a yellow band ; 2nd and 3rd segments with 

 large lateral yellow spots, sometimes united into ti'ans verse bands ; 

 5th and 6th segments each with a narrow basal yellow band, some- 

 times inteiTupted in the middle ; 7th segment truncate at the apex, 

 the truncature slightly emarginate ; beneath brown, sometimes 

 banded with yellow; 8th segment very narrowly produced, and 

 curved upwards at the apex, the sides of the process finely fringed 

 with hairs ; apex with two strong reflexed spines (for genitalia see 

 PI. VI., figs. 10 — 10 b). Legs black ; femora and tibiae in front pale ; 

 tarsi piceous ; 1st joint more or less black above. 



5 . Head and thorax black, rugosely punctured, clothed with 

 short greyish brown hau's ; mandibles, labrum, and clypeus in 

 front testaceous, the labrum with a darker spot on each side ; face 

 below the antenuEe with scattered bristly hairs. Antennas with the 

 scape black, the flagellum ferruginous, black above at the base ; 

 2nd joint much shorter than 3rd. Prothorax with the tubercles 

 flavous ; mesothorax with the tegiUae piceous ; scutellum with two 

 obscure ferruginous spots. Abdomen pitchy brown, the extreme 

 base black ; apical margin of the basal segment narrowly dark, an 

 ovate yellow spot on each side of the 2nd segment, and often with a 

 smaller one on each side of the 3rd ; sometimes also with a spot on 

 the 5th. Legs with the femora black, except at their extreme 

 apices ; tibiae ferruginous, with a black vitta posteriorly ; posterior 

 tibiae armed outwardly with five rather short piceous spines ; tarsi 



