200 [September, 



ACULEATE HYMENOPTERA COLLECTED IN TENERIFE 



MY THE REV. A. E. EATON, M.A., IN THE SPRING OF lOOt, 



WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 



BY EDWARD SAUNDERS, P.R.S., &c. 



A list of the species of the above fa,Qiily captured by Mr. Eaton 

 in Tcnerife in the spring o£ 1902 appeared in the Transactions of the 

 Entomological Society of London for 1903, pp. 207 et seq. During 

 last spring Mr. Eaton revisited this Island, and has again kindly 

 placed the specimens he secured at my disposal. In the following 

 pages I have given a list of the species taken, and descriptions of 

 those which appear to me to be new. 



The occurrence of the genus Soleriella in the island is of interest, 

 as hitherto (see v. Dalla Torre's Catalogue) it has only been recorded 

 from Europe (2 species), the United States (1 species), Chili (4 

 species). Another intei-esting capture is the ^ of Andirna hipartita, 

 Brulle, which does not appear to have been previously described or 

 noticed, and whose identity would hardly have been determined had 

 not both sexes occurred in the same locality apart from any allied 

 species. 



1. ScoLiA (DiELis) ELEGANS, Brulle. 1 ?, Giiimar, 600-800 ft. alb. "In the 



vicinity of dwellings or cellai's excavated in a light coloured stratum of rock 

 near a tract of slate coloured sand ; frequenting some small weed-grown 

 enclosures bordering the road." 22.iii.04. Apparently considerably worn ; 

 abdomen showing testaceous colour only near the apices of the 2nd and 3rd 

 segments. 



2. POMPILUS GUIMARENSIS, sp. nOV. 



Niger, abdominis segmentis trihus hasalihvs rujis, tertio apice nigra, 

 capite thoraceque nigro-pilosis ; <? . valvula ventrali valde carinata, sub- 

 compressa marginibus lateraUbus breviter setosis. ? . pectine metatarsali 

 trispinoso, capitis vertice lato, ant ice subconvexo. 



In general aspect resembling unguicidaris, Tlionis., black, with the 1st, 2nd and 

 base of the 3rd abdominal segments red in both sexes, the 1st and 2nd segments 

 slightly darkened towards the apex. 



<J . Head, thorax, and coxae clothed with grey pruinose pubescence, vertex very 

 hairy, the hairs about as long or a little longer than the scape of tlie antennae, 

 clypeus clothed with hairs very similar to those of the vertex, its anterior margin 

 slightly and very widely emarginate, mandibles bifid and clothed with long curved 

 hairs. Antennae with the 3rd, 4th, and 5th joints subequal and about as long as the 

 scape, 2nd joint about a third the length of any of these, prothoracic emargination 

 angular, but rather obtusely so, disc of pronotum with a few shorter hairs than 

 those of the head, prosternum and anterior coxae with long hairs, disc of mesonotum 



