226 MAKDIBULATA. HYMEXOPTERA. 



the clypeus, female with the palpi straw-coloured ; antennsE above fuscous, 

 beneath testaceous or fulvous, the 2 basal joints black, yellow beneath in the 

 male, the terminal ones entirely red ; abdomen silky, oblong in the male, 

 ovate-pear-shaped and a little depressed in the female, basal segment black, 

 tip sometimes red, 2nd to 6th red, base of the 2nd occasionally blackish in 

 the male, and the 7th blackish in both sexes ; legs moderate, the posterior 

 femora considerably incrassated, 4 anterior yellow ; of the male, the former 

 more or less black at the base, black in the female, with the extreme tip of 

 the femora and the tibiae red ; in both sexes the hinder femora are red, black 

 at the base, the tibiae black, more or less red at the base ; wings smoky- 

 hyaline ; cellule wanting. 

 Not very uncommon in several parts of the country in June and 



July : taken at Coombe and Darenth woods, in the New Forest, at 



Netley, &c. 



Sp. 42. fuscicornis. Niger, segmentis 1-3, antennis femoribus tibiisque ante- 

 rioribus, nee non basi tibiarum posticarum, rufis. (Long. corp. 4 — 5^ lin. ; 

 Exp. Alar. 7—9 lin.) 



Ich. fuscicornis. Gmelin. — Me. fuscicornis. Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. Gen. 714. 

 42. 



Black : palpi and mandibles, and occasionally a dot on the clypeus rusty 

 or straw-colour, with the base and apex of the mandibles black ; antennae 

 with the basal joint black, slightly rusty beneath at times, the remainder 

 fulvous, sometimes fuscous above ; abdomen pear-shaped, red or chestnut, 

 the 5th segment occasionally with the margin or a dorsal spot black, the 6th 

 and 7th black; ovipositor short, a little bent; legs elongate; 4 anterior 

 red, with the coxae and trochanters black, and the base of the middle femora 

 sometimes blackish; posterior black, tibiae either red, with a black tip, or 

 blackish, with the base reddish ; tarsi dusky, the intermediate joints rusty- 

 or dull whitish: wings somewhat smoky-hyaline; cellule irregularly 

 3-angular, petiolated, sometimes minute. 

 Not uncommon in the vicinity of the metropolis in June ; also 



found at Dover and in Devonshire. 



Sp. 43. seminiger. Niger, segmentis 2-7, pedibus, antennis facieque fiilvis. 

 (Long. corp. 35 — 45 lin.; Exp. Alar. 5 — 71 lin.) 



Me. seminiger. Graven'horst , ii. 93. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. Gen. 714. 43. 



Black : face, cheeks, and mouth fulvous ; tips of the mandibles black; antennae 

 thin, long, rusty or red, sometimes a little dusky above ; abdomen tawny- 

 led or testaceous, the apex truncate and somewhat compressed, the basal 

 segment dusky or black, with its tip fulvous ; legs dull pale red ; wings 

 rather narrow, hyaline ; cellule somewhat 3-angular, or orbicular, slightly 

 petiolated. 

 Taken at Coombe and Darenth woods in June; also in Salop. 



