OXYBELUS BIPUNCTATUS. 167 



Abdomen delicately punctured, the first segment with a large 

 ovate spot on each side, and a transverse line on each side of 

 the three following, yellow. 



The Male has the face more silvery, the inside of the anterior 

 tibiae at their apex ferruginous, and the inside of the interme- 

 diate and posterior pair with a piceous spot at their apex, nearly 

 forming a ring. Abdomen : the margins of the segments con- 

 stricted, and from the second less marked with yellow. 



Hob. Not known. Type in the British Museum. 



7. Oxybelus bipnnctatus. 



0. niger, flavo pictus ; mucrone metathoracis acuto ; abdomine 

 nitente seneo irradiante. 



Oxybelus bipunctatus, Oliv. Encycl. Meth. viii. 597. 16. 



Van d. Lind. Obs. ii. 38. 14 ? 



St.Farg. Hym. Hi. 220. 11. 



Wesm. Hym. Foss. Belg. 160. 5. 

 Oxybelus nigro-aeneus, Shuck. Foss. Hym. 113. 8. 



Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 272. 170 ? 



Male. Length 2-2 lines. Black ; the head and thorax deeply 

 punctured ; the face covered with silvery pubescence ; antennas 

 from the fifth joint fulvous beneath ; the mandibles testaceous, 

 with their apex ferruginous. Thorax : the margin of the 

 squamae and the apex of the scutellum pale ; the mucro at the 

 base of the metathorax short, thick, and slightly curved ; the 

 wings hyaline and iridescent, their nervures brown, the tegulfe 

 piceous; the outside of the anterior and intermediate tibiae, 

 the posterior pair within, and the basal half exteriorly, yellow ; 

 the anterior tarsi testaceous, and the intermediate and posterior 

 pairs rufo-piceous. Abdomen delicately punctured, shining, 

 with an aeneous reflexion; a bright-yellow transverse ovate 

 spot on each side of the two basal segments, and a minute spot 

 on each side of the third. 



Locality not known. Type in British Museum. 

 Genus 4. SPILOMENA. 



Stigraus, pt., Van d. Lind. Obs. ii. 74 (1829). 



Celia, Shuck. Foss. Hym. 182 (nee Zimm. Col.} (1837). 



Spilomena, ShucJc. Trans. Ent. Soc. ii. 79 (1840). 



Head transverse, as wide as the thorax; the ocelli in an equi- 

 lateral triangle on the vertex ; the eyes ovate ; antennae in- 



