HYMENOPTERA. 29/ 



Sect. 2. Abdomen black. 



7. Tachytes Etrusca. B.M. 



Andrena Etrusca, Rossi, Faun. Etrus. ii. 98. 900. t. 6. f. 11. 

 Lyrops Etrusca, Illiff. Ed. Faun. Etrus. ii. 161. 900. 



Latr. Gen. Crust, et Ins. iv. 71. 

 Tachytes Etrusca, Va7i d. hind, Obs. ii. 19. 1. 



St. Farg. Hijm. iii. 244. 5. 



Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 134. 



Lucas, Explo. Sc. Alger, iii. 248. 



Hab. Italy; Albania; Algeria. 



8. Tachytes unicolor. B.M. 



Larra unicolor, Panz. Faun. Germ. 106. 16 $ . 



Dahlb. Exercit. Hym. 55. 6. 

 Tachytes unicolor. Shuck. Foss. Hym. 89. 1. 



Dahlb. Disp. Meth. Sp. Hym. 11. 44; Hym. Europ. i. 129. 



Bridle, Hist, Nat. II. Canar. 91. 54. 



St. Farg. Hym. iii. 240. 1. 



Lucas, Explo. Sc. Alger, iii. 246. 

 Tachytes pompiliformis. Van d. Lind, Obs. ii. 21. 5. (var.) 



Wesm. Hym. Foss. Belg. 71. 1. 

 Larra Jurinii, Drapiez,Ann. Gen. Sc. Phys. Briix. i. 54 . t. 4. f. 7 (? ? 

 Tachytes Jurinii, Van d. Lind, Obs. ii. 24. 8? 



Hab. Britain; France; Italy; Germany; Scandinavia. 



9. Tachytes argentata. B.M. 



Tachytes argentata, Brulle, Exped. Sc. de Mor^e, iii. 372. 822 3 . 



Hab. The Morea ; Albania. 



This is probably the male of T. Etrusca : females received in 

 company with T. argentata, undoubtedly T. Etrusca, have the 

 apical segment covered with golden pubescence; T. argentata 

 is described as having the apical segment clothed with silvery 

 pubescence. 



Species of Asia. 



Sect. 1. Abdomen red and black. 



10. Tachytes tarsatus. 



Female. Length 6 lines. — Head and thorax black ; the face 

 covered with pale golden pubescence ; the mandibles and palpi 

 ferruginous, tips of the former black ; the thorax and legs covered 

 with a silveiy downy pubescence, most dense on the sides of the 



