286 MANDIBULATA.— HYMENOPTEEA. 



latter fuscous ; palpi dull rusty or ochreous, sometimes an oblique black 

 line on each side of the face ; antennae porrect, nearly as long as the body^ 

 the basal joint whitish beneath ; thorax, with the upper and lateral margins 

 of the neck, a line before and another beneath the wings, and sometimes one 

 beneath the posterior wings ochreous ; scutellum entirely or at the tip alone 

 ochreous ; abdomen a little cylindric, rather compressed towards the apex, 

 red, the basal segment black, somewhat linear, the tip red, the back of the 

 3 terminal segments sometimes fuscescent; legs elongate, 4 anterior red, 

 coxae and trochanters black, whitish or spotted with white beneath ; posterior 

 with the coxse and trochanters black, the femora red at the base, and more 

 or less black at the tip ; tibiae blackish ; tarsi dull white, with the 5th joint 

 and base of the 1st blackish; wings smoky -hyaline ; cellule 5-angular; 

 interior cubital areolet with a rudimentary divisional nervure. 

 Found near London and in Salop, in June. 



Sp. 26. leucostictus. Niger, segmentis 2-7 rufis, femoribus rujis, posticis bast 

 nigra, iibiis rufis, posticis apice nigro, puncto infra alas, annulo tarsorum 

 posticorum, picturis facie etcoxarum anticarum albis. (Long. corp. 3| — 4 lin. ; 

 Exp. Alar. 5 — 7 lin.) 



Cry. leucostictus. Gravenhorst, ii. 538. — Steph, Nomen. 2d edit. Gen. 721. 26. 



Black : palpi pitchy ; inner and part of the external orbits, a dot on the face, 

 the clypeus, and the mandibles white, the base and apex of the last black ; 

 antennae with the basal joint beneath white; thorax with the upper margins 

 of the neck and a spot beneath the wings white ; apex of the scutellum also 

 white ; abdomen red, the basal segment black, the tip more or less distinctly 

 red; legs red, coxae and trochanters black, anterior pair white beneath; 

 posterior femora, and sometimes also the 4 anterior, black at the base; 

 hinder tibiae black, rusty towards the base, 4 anterior tarsi testaceous, 

 posterior black, 2nd to 4th joints white, base of the former sometimes black; 

 wings smoky-hyaline; cellule 3-angular, inner cubital areolet with the 

 rudiment of the divisional nervure. 

 Taken at Coombe wood in June, and in other places near London. 



Sp.27, pygoleucus. Niger, abdominis medio, tibiis anterioribus,femoribusque 

 rufis, horum posticis apice nigro, macula anali, nee non tibiarum posticorum 

 basi, albis. (Long. corp. 3 lin.; Exp. Alar. 5^ lin.) 



Cry. pygoleucus. Gravenhorst, ii. 540. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. Gen. 721. 27. 



Black : antennae scarcely shorter than the body ; thorax with a streak beneath 

 the scutellum, and frequently another below the wings white ; scutellum 

 white at the tip ; abdomen slender, the basal segment black, whitish at the 

 tip, 2nd black, red at the tip, 3rd and 4th red, frequently black at the base, 

 remainder black, the 7th with a white or testaceous spot on the back ; legs 

 moderate, 4 anterior tawny, coxae and trochanters black, the apex of the last 

 whitish, posterior black, femora red towards the base, tibiae white at the 

 base; wings smoky-hyaline ; cellule somewhat 4-angular. 

 Found near London and in Salop, in June. 



