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verse, of moderate size, narrower in front : scutum of the mesothorax 

 broad, slightly convex ; parapsides united to the scutum ; axillae com- 

 plete ; scutellum obconic, prominent, very convex, abruptly declining 

 behind the tip : propodeon subquadrate, rather large, declining ; 

 podeon extremely short : abdomen slender, lanceolate, depressed, 

 black, smooth, shining, compressed towards the tip, rather longer 

 and much narrov^^er than the thorax ; metapodeon bright green and 

 like the following segments of moderate size : oviduct exserted in 

 length nearly equal to one- fourth of the abdomen ; its sheaths black : 

 legs slender, yellow, very long ; mesotibise and mesotarsi dilated 

 and the former armed with very long spines ; coxae and metafemora 

 green ; profemora and metatibise green, their tips yellow ; mesotibise 

 fuscous towards the base ; protarsi fulvous ; tips of the tarsi fuscous : 

 wings limpid ; nervures yellow ; humerus much less than half the 

 length of the wing; ulna and radius piceous, broad, very short ; cu- 

 bitus of moderate length, pointing towards the disc of the wing ; 

 stigma very small. 



fiigland. From the collection of the Rev. G. T. Rudd. 



[To be continued.] 



XX. — Botanical Notices from Spain. By Moritz Willkomm*. 



[Continued from vol. xvi. p. 252.] 



No. IX. Gibraltar, April 4th, 1845. 



I WAS unavoidably detained in Cadiz by illness and incessant rains 

 until the 18th of March. Meanwhile, in consequence of the warm 

 rain, the vegetation was remarkably forward, and promised a richer 

 harvest than hitherto. Retama monosperma was quite out of bloom ; 

 on the other hand, under the latter, the sandy soil was covered with 

 Anagallis latifolia, L., and near the church of San Jos6 the beautiful 

 Celsia sinuata, Cav., in company with Picridium tingitanum, Desf. 

 The salt marshy lowlands of Chiclana appeared covered with Cotula 

 coronopifolia, L., and looked at a distance quite yellow ; near the 

 hedges blossomed Cynoglossum pictum. Ait., Euphorbia serrata, L., 

 Muscari comosum, Mill. ; and on dry grass-plats, /ns Sisyrinchium, L., 

 and a form of Ornithogalum umbellatum, L., with large flowers, which 

 is common throughout the whole west of Andalusia ; and Boissier, 

 in his 'Elenchus' (No. 181), has described it as a new species 

 under the name of 0. hceticum, but in his 'Journey ' he places it as 

 merely a form of 0. umbellatum. On the following day I set out, in 

 incessant rain, for Couil, a spot formerly celebrated for its sulphur- 

 mines, lying close to the coast, the way to which led over a hilly 

 arid highland, in parts covered with pine forests, and in parts with 

 low copsewood and arable land. In the copse, the Sarothamnus 

 gaditanus, B. e. R., was remarkable at a distance from its large golden 

 blossoms ; less frequent was Calycotome villosa, Lk., which in the 



* Translated from the Botanische Zeitung, Nov. 7, 1845. No. VIII. has 

 not yet appeared in the Bot. Zeit. 



