92 MANDIBULATA. HYMEXOPTEllA. 



which are black, bright luteous-yellow ; legs the same, with the apex of 

 the hinder tibiae and the tarsi dusky ; wings hyaline, yellowish at the base, 

 with the nervures fuscous, stigma pale fuscous. There is sometimes a pale 

 testaceous streak between the eyes, on each side. 



Not uncommon, in June and July, in hedges and woods within 

 the metropolitan district. 



'f'Sp. 13. cereus. Niger, nitidus , abdomine pleuris pedlbus alarumque squamis 



flavis. (Long. corp. 4 lin.; Exp. Alar. 8§lin.) 

 Te. (Em.^) cerea. Klug.—Steph. Catal. 339. No. 3956. 

 Black, shining : head with an obscure testaceous line on each side between 



the eyes ; pleurae and wing scales yellow ; metathoracic tubercles pale ; 



abdomen with the 1st and base of the 2nd segment black, the rest yellow ; 



legs yellow, the base of the hinder trochanters black ; the hinder tibiae and 



tarsi black at the apex ; wings hyaline, with the nervures and stigma 



brown. 



Rare : found in Devonshire in July. 



Sp. 14. immersus. Niger, abdomine itirinque macularum grisearum serie, 

 pedibus luteis. (Long. corp. 2h — 3 lin.; Exp. Alar. Sg — 6 lin.) 



Te. (Em.) immersus. Klug.—Steph. Catal. 339. No. 3960. 



Black: collar on its margins and wing scales yellowish; metathoracic 

 tubercles pale ; abdomen with 2 griseous spots on each of the 4 basal 

 segments, forming a row on both sides ; legs reddish-yellow, Avith black 

 coxae and trochanters; wings hyaline, pale, with the nervures and stigma 

 pale brownish. 

 i\lso scarce ; taken in the vicinity of London in June. 



Sp. 15. irapressus. Niger, nitidus, abdominis singulo seg?nento puncio ntrinque 



cinereo subimpresso. (Long. corp. 3 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 5\ lin.) 

 Te. (All.) impressa. Klug. — Em. impressus. Steph. Catal. 339. No. 3961. 

 Black : mouth pale ; collar white on the margins ; abdomen long, each 



segment with an ashy dot of a rounded form and somewhat impressed; legs 



black, the anterior with the tibiae pale, hinder pair with the knees only pale ; 



wings hyaline, with the nervures, stigma, and a dot on the basal areolet 



black. 

 In my specimen the right wing has 4 submarginal areolets and the left only 3, 



the nervure forming the 4th is, however, very pale. 



Taken in Norfolk : apparently rare. 



Sp. 16. pallimaculatus ? Niger, abdomine utrinque ynacularum pallidai'um serie, 

 pedibus nigris. (Long. corp. 2f lin.; Exp. Alar. 5^ lin.) 



Dol.pallimacula. St. Fargeau Mon. 117} — Em, pallimaculatus. Steph. Nomen. 

 2d. edit. Appendix. 



Black : collar and metathoracic tubercles pale ; abdomen on each side with 



