^4 EGYPTIAN AND 



femora interruptedly black above ; middle femora wholly black above ; 

 middle tarsi black. Wings blackish ; veins black. Length of the 

 body 3 lines. 



Harkeko. 



114. Tachytes brevis. Female. — Black, broad, short, with 

 cinereous tomentum. Head as broad as the thorax, with silvery 

 tomentum about the sockets of the antennae. Antennae piceous, red 

 beneath. Scutellum ferruginous. Petiole very short. Abdomen 

 tawny, oval, longer than the thorax, with three black bands ; first 

 band basal ; second near the base ; third before the middle. Legs 

 piceous. with whitish tomentum. Wings cinereous, dark cinereous 

 about the tips ; veins black. Length of the body 2^ Unes. 



Tajura. 



Fam. BEMBECID^. 

 Genus BEMBEX, Fair. 



115. Bembex trepanda, Dahlb. Hym. Eur. i. 181. 

 Tajura. Wady Genneh. Wady Ferran. 



Inhabits Hindostan. 



116. Bembex sulphurescens, Dalilh. Hym. Eur. i. 180. 

 Wady Ferran. 



Inhabits Hindostan. 



117. Bembex repanda, Latr. Gen. Ins. iv. 98. 

 Tajura. 



Inhabits South Europe. 



118. Bembex oculata, Jur. Hym. 175, pi. 10. 

 Hor Tamanib. Tajura. Mount Sinai. 

 Inhabits South Europe. 



119. Bembex olivacea, Fahr. Mant. Ins. i. 285. 

 Hor Tamanib. Tor. 



Inhabits South Europe and North Africa. 



• Fam. NYSSONID^. 

 Genus LAURA, Klug. 



120. Larra zonata, Khig, Symb. Phys. pi. 46, f. 2. 

 Wady Ferran. 



