THE ACULEATE HT3TEN0PTERA PEOCVRED AT ADEh'. 11 1 



Family MASARID^. 



75. Celonites fischeri, Spin. 

 Celonites tiscJien, Spin., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (18S8), p. 505. 

 Aden (Col. Yerhury and Capt, Nurse.) 



No specimen in either collection is typical, all being mneh lighter 

 in colour than specimens of this species in the British Museum. One 

 $ taken by Col. Yerbury is exceedingly small, measuring only 5^ mm. 

 Capt, Nurse notes that he bred the insect from cylindrical mud nests. 

 Family COLLETID^. 



76. Prosopis feateena, n. sp. 



Closely allied to and resembling P. adsoluta, Cam. (Mem. Maneb. 

 Lit. & Phil. Soc, XLI, p. 92) ; diffprs in sculpturing and consi- 

 derably in colour and size. 



$. Head, thorax and abdomen finely and closely, median segment 

 coarsely and rugosely punctured, clypeus slightly convex, vertically 

 oval, its anterior margin rounded : space between the antennae smooth 

 and shining, with a very short fine vertical furrow, mesonotnm stronojy 

 convex, with three abbreviated parallel longitudinal furrows on the diso 

 anteriorly; median segment with a smooth and shining Y-shaped furrow; 

 legs slightly pilose ; abdomen about as long as the head and thorax 

 united, the apical margin of the first segment slightly constricted 

 Black, the base of the mandibles, the clypeus, a spot above it, the sides 

 of the fixce, the scape of the antennae in front, a line on the pronotum 

 and the tibia? and tarsi of all the legs pale yellow ; the flagellum of the 

 antennae in front pale, the tubercles and tegulas dark ferruo-inous ; a 

 narrow line of dense grey pubescence on the posterier margin of the 1-4 

 abdominal segments, that on the 1st segment broadly, on the 2nd segment 

 narrowly, interrupted in the middle, ; wings hyaline and iridescent. 

 9 . Length 4. Exp, 9 mm. 

 Aden (Col. Yerhury). 



77. Peosopis scutellata. Spin, 

 Prosopis scutellata^ Spin., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 'ind Ser., i, p. 506. 

 Aden (Col. Yerhury). 



Family APTD^. 

 78. Halictus jucundus, Smith. 

 Halictiia. Jucundus^ Smith, Cat. H^tu. B. M., 1, p. 5G, Qyt, 9 ^ ^ 

 Aden^ Lahej^ Shaikh Othman (Capt, ^urse). 



