] andkenid.t:. 



tlagelluin fulvous beneath, except one or two of the basal joints ; a 

 spot on the tegulte, and sometimes an interrupted line on the collar, 

 white ; the posterior tibiae have a ring at their base and the 

 extreme base of the anterior and posterior tibiae yellowish white, 

 the claw-joints of the tarsi ferruginous ; the wings hyaline, their 

 nervures testaceous ; abdomen oblong-ovate, very bright and 

 shining. B.M. 



Mule. Length 3 lines. — Black : the antennae pale yellow, having a 

 fusco-ferruginous line above ; the front above the clypeus is raised, 

 and the antennae inserted on each side of the prominence : a spot 

 on the tegulaB in front and sometimes an interrupted line on the 

 collar white : the wings hyaline, having a slight fulvous stain, and 

 their base yellowish ; the anterior tibia) in front, and the interme- 

 diate and posterior pairs at their base, pale yellow ; all the tarsi of 

 that colour, with the claw-joint ferruginous ; the basal joint of the 

 intermediate tarsi dilated in front ; the abdomen elongate-ovate, 

 slightly pubescent at the apex ; beneath, in the middle of the apical 

 margin of the second segment, is a depression clothed with short 

 fulvous pubescence. 



There is a specimen of the female of this species in Mr. Kirby's 

 type collection without a name ; but in his own interleaved copy of 

 the ' Monographia ' it is named comuta, which name I have adopted. 

 Both sexes were taken on Cove Common, near Blackwater, Hants, 

 and described as distinct species. Since that time the species has 

 been bred from the stem of the common dock ; the sexes are there- 

 lore united as constituting one species. 



4. Prosopis punctulatissima. 



P. nigra, tibiis flavo annulatis, abdomine segmentis punctulatis- 

 simis. 



Elylaeus punctulatissimus, Smith, Trans. JEnt. Sue. Loud. iv. 33 J §; 

 Zool. vi. 2205 ; Bees Great Brit. 11 S 2 • 



Female. Length 3 lines. — Black ; the head and thorax strongly and 

 closely punctured ; the inner orbits of the eyes have a broad yellow 

 stripe as high as the insertion of the antenna 1 ; the tubercles, a spot 

 on each side of the collar and another in front of the tcgulae palo 

 yellow : wings subhyaline, the anterior and intermediate tibiae at 

 their extreme base and a ring at the base of the posterior pair pale 

 yellow ; the abdomen shining and strongly punctured, and having 

 on each side of its apical margin a line of white pubescence ; the 

 rest of the abdomen is more finely punctured, and has a short 

 silvery pile, observable in certain lights. 



Male. Length 3 lines. — Black ; the face and the scape in front yel- 

 lowish white : the apical half of the flagellum testaceous ; a yellow 

 line on the mandibles ; the thorax punctured as in the female ; a 

 spot on the tegulae, the anterior tibiae in front, the intermediate 



