222 Mr. E. Saunders' Synopsis of 



segments clothed with brown velvety pubescence ; 7th segment 

 with two apical projections ; 8th truncate, with a slight central 

 emargination (for genitalia, &c., see PI. XI., figs. 2 — 2 6). Legs 

 simple, clothed with brown hairs. 



2 . Like the ^ in general colour and shape, but with the labrum 

 and clypeus black, the 4th segment of the abdomen only clothed 

 with black hairs, the 5th and 6th with bright golden hairs ; dorsal 

 valve of the 6th segment very narrow and pointed, with the centre 

 carinated and the sides reflexed ; beneath with the apical margins 

 of the segments piceous, and clothed with golden hairs. Length, 

 11 — 12 mm. 



Hab. Not very common. London District, Norwich, 

 Southwold, Deal, Littlehampton, Hastings, Cliobham, 

 Devonshire, &c. ; July and August. 



4. AntJiophora quadrimaculata, Panz. (PL XL, 

 figs. 3—3 b). 



Panz., Faun. Germ., 55, 7 ; Smith, Cat. Brit. Hym., 

 2nd ed., p. 192. 



Black, clothed with pale hairs ; <? with two large black spots at 

 the base of the clypeus. Abdomen in both sexes with distinct con- 

 tinuous pale bands of hahs at the apex of the segments. Legs 

 simple in both sexes, but the intermediate and posterior femora of 

 the (? thickened. 



^ . Shining black, clothed with ochreous-brown hairs, mixed 

 with black on the thorax. Head punctured ; clypeus, labrum, sides 

 of the face, a spot near the base of each mandible, and a transverse 

 line across the top of the clypeus, white ; a large spot on each side 

 of the clypeus at the base, and a small one on each side of the base 

 of the labrum, also the apical margins of both clypeus and labrum, 

 black ; face clothed below the antennae with silvery hairs, scape 

 with a white line in front. Thorax rather remotely punctured on 

 the disk, closely on the sides ; wings scarcely clouded ; scutellum 

 shining, impunctate at the base. Abdomen shining ; basal seg- 

 ment clothed with pale hairs, the others with black, each segment 

 having an apical band of pale hairs ; 7th largely punctured, 

 bidentate at the apex ; beneath clothed with pale hairs, finely pun- 

 tured ; 6th segment somewhat membranous at the apex, and with 

 a central apical slit (for 7th and 8th segments and genitalia see 

 PL XI., figs. 3 — 3&). Legs clothed with pale hairs; mtermediate 

 femora much dilated ; posterior femora slightly so. 



$ . Differs from the ^ in being less shining and clothed with 

 brighter pubescence ; face entirely black ; apical fringe of the 5th 

 abdominal segment black ; dorsal valve of the 6th segment narrow 



