270 MANDIBULATA. HYMENOPTEUA. 



to 14th joints whitish, fuscous beneath ; thorax with a white dot before and 

 benealli the wings^ or a streak in front, one or other at times deficient ; 

 scutellum whitish ; abdomen blackish, the basal segment in the male mostly 

 with an interrupted white edge, and in the female with 2 white dots on the 

 angles, the edge of the 3rd occasionally reddish and of the 3th and 6th 

 whitish, the 7th, in both sexes, either with a longitudinal or oval white 

 patch ; legs slenderish, black, 4 anterior of the male ochreous^white beneath, 

 the hinder trochanters and tibiee the same, the tip of the latter more or less 

 black ; of the female the tibise and tarsi are fuscescent, with the base of the 

 femora sometimes reddish ; wings smoky-hyaline ; cellule 3-angular, faintly 

 p etiolated. 

 Not very abundant : found occasionally in June at Darentli, and 



other places within the metropolitan district ; also in Devonshire, the 



New Forest, Salop, Norfolk, &c. 



Sp. 2. lutorius. Testaceus, capite thoraceque nigro rufoqtie pictis, scuteUo et lineti 

 ante alas flavis, ahdomine pedibusque testaceo-fulvis, coxis posticis plerumque 

 basi nigris, antennis nigris, basin versus rufis. (Long. corp. ,* 10 — 12 lin.; 

 9 7^—10 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 15—18 lin.) 



Ic. lutorius. Fabricius.— Steph. Catal. 3i9. A'b. 4423. 



Testaceous : head black, with the mouth and face yellow, the outer and vertical 

 orbits red, or red with the crown and eyes black ; antennae of the male porrect, 

 the basal joint rusty, fuscous above, 4 or 5 of the following totally red, or 

 fuscous above and red beneath, the remainder always fuscous or black 

 above; of the female curved, with about the 20 basal joints red or tawny, 

 the remainder black : thorax black, with 2 longitudinal reddish lines, or red, 

 with 3 black longitudinal lines, the central one mostly short, the upper part 

 of the neck, a line before and a streak beneath, and another below the sctE- 

 tellum testaceous ; scutellum yellow ; abdomen testaceous, sometimes with 

 a dusky or blackish spot at the base of the 5th and 6th segments ; legs gene- 

 rally testaceous, anterior coxse pale, posterior black, with the tip testaceous; 

 hinder femora sometimes with a fuscous or blackish dot towards the apex ; 

 wings pale tawny-hyaline ; cellule 3-angular. 



An extremely variable species : in some examples the thorax is nearly black, 

 with some faint reddish markings; in others it is red, with a few remote 

 black streaks ; the abdomen is occasionally wholly testaceous, and at times 

 has 1 or more of the terminal segments black at the base : the legs also vary ; 

 in some examples all the coxae are pale, in others 1, or more, pair is spotted 

 with black ; the hinder femora are sometimes immaculate, at others spotted, 

 &c. 

 Not very common : taken occasionally in the vicinity of London, 



in gardens, woods, &c. towards the end of June and beginning of 



July. 



