HYMENOPTERA. 206 



and have a ferruginous spot in the middle ; the margin of the 

 scutellum broadly yellow and quadrilobate ; the metathorax and 

 breast black, legs yellow, the tibiae having an oblong black stain 

 beneath ; the femora are also more or less black in front, the 

 apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous; wings fusco-hyaline, darkest 

 towards their anterior margins. Abdomen, each segment has a 

 very broad yellow band, the first and second interrupted, the 

 third, fourth and fifth notched above ; beneath densely clothed 

 with yellow pubescence. 



Male. — Closely resembling the female, but the disk of the 

 thorax is sometimes entirely black, the margins only being bor- 

 dered with yellow ; or having indistinct yellow or ferruginous 

 lines, that portion of the abdomen which is black in the female 

 is more or less ferruginous in the male ; the apical segment has 

 a single stout spine in the centre, rounded at its apex and bright 

 ferruginous. 



Hab. Albania. 



3r2. Anthidium binominatum. 



Anthidium rufiventre. Bridle, Exped. So. Moree, iii. 339. 752. 



pi. 48. f. 7 (not of Latr.). 



Hab. Morea. 



33. Anthidium sulphureum. 



Anthidium sulphureum, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 367- 13 c? . 

 Hab. Sicily. 



34. Anthidium laterale. 



Anthidium laterale, Latr. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. xiii. 209. 2 $ . 

 t. 1. f. 2. 



St. Farg. Hym. ii. 400. 45. 



Hab. Barbary. 



35. Anthidium flavum. 



Anthidium flavum, Latr. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. xiii. 225. 1 7 . pi. I . f • 6- 

 St. Farg. Hym. ii. 397. 42. 



Hab. Barbary, 



36. Anthidium subspinosum. 



Anthidium subspinosum, iik5',S'3/m6.P%s. Dec. iii.no. 2. t. 28. f. 2. 

 Hab. Syria. 



