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and grooved round the margin ; beneath with the head and thorax 

 clothed with white hairs, abdomen with dull ochreous-grey hairs. 

 Legs clothed with white hairs on their outer margins. Length, 

 10—12 mm. 



Hab. Of this species F. Smith says: — "Appears 

 about the end of June, and constructs its nest in banks, 

 sandy cHfifs, &c. ; it frequents the dead-nettle (Lamium 

 purpureum), and is not uncommon in the vicinity of 

 London." I have never taken it myself, but have 

 received it from Mr. Vincent R. Perkins from Gloucester- 

 shire ; and Mr. Parfitt records it from Exmouth, Devon. 



Sakopoda, Latr. 



Latr., Gen. Crust, et Ins., iv., p. 177. 



Differs from Anthopliora in having only four joints to 

 the maxillary palpi. 



1. Saropoda himaculata, Panz. (PI. XI., figs. 1 — 1 h). 



Panz., Faun. Germ., 55, 17 ; Smith, Cat. Brit. Hym., 

 2nd ed., p. 186. 



Short and broad; head and thorax clothed with bright brown 

 hairs in the $ , sooty brown in the ? ; face of the ^ white ; labrum, 

 apes of clypeus, and a central line, white in the ? . Abdomen with 

 continuous pale bands. 



$ . Head clothed with bright pale brown hairs ; vertex black, 

 mandibles, except the piceous apices, labrum, clypeus, and face 

 below the antennae, white ; scape of antenna white in front, the 

 rest black. Thorax black, densely clothed with rather darker hairs 

 than the head ; wings almost clear. Abdomen short and sub- 

 rotundate, black ; basal segment clothed with long pale hairs, the 

 others with shorter erect black ones, the apex of each with a 

 narrow band of adpressed pale hairs ; 7th segment with a central 

 carina, branching at the apex, and forming two teeth ; segments 

 beneath fringed with long hairs at the apex, 7th and 8th truncate 

 at the apex (for which and genitalia see PI. XI., figs. 1 — 1 b). Legs 

 clothed with brown hairs; posterior femora and tibiae slightly 

 thickened ; posterior metatarsi as long as the tibiae ; calcaria pale. 



? . Like the $ in shape, but duller in the colour of the pube- 

 scence ; mandibles, labrum, apex of the clypeus, and a line down 

 the middle of the base, white ; antennae entirely black. Disk of 

 the thorax with sooty brown hairs, those round the margins 

 brighter and paler. Abdomen as in the $ ; 5th and 6th segments 



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