ARABIAN HYMENOPTERA. 49 



bordered with blackish ; veins black, tawny towards the base ; veins 

 tawny. Length of the body 3i — 5 lines. 

 Wady Genneh. Wady Ferran. 



Genus CHALCEODOMA. St. Farg. 



241. Chalceodoma sicula. Apis sicula, Bossi, Mant. Fn. Etr. 

 App, ii. 139, pi. 4, f. D. 



Cairo. Heliopolis. 



Inhabits South Europe and the Canary Isles. 



" Constructs long mud nests." — Lord. 



Genus DIOXYS, St. Farg. 

 249. DioxYS CHALCEODA, Lucus, Expl. Sci. Alg. iii. 207, pi. 7, f. 6. 

 Heliopolis. 

 Inhabits Algeria. 



Genus STELIS, Panz. 



243. Stelis minutus, St. Farg. Enc. Meth. x. 481. 

 Cairo. 



Inhabits Europe. 



244. Stelis dimidiatus. Male and female. — Black. Head and 

 thorax thickly clothed with short cinereous hairs. Mouth much more 

 than half the length of the body. Abdomen red. Legs with cinereous 

 hairs. Wings cinereous ; veins black ; stigma piceous. Female. — 

 Abdomen above with black spots on each side and with a subapical 

 black band, beneath with interrupted black bands. Wings cinereous ; 

 veins black ; stigma piceous. Length of the body 3i lines. 



Hor Tamanib. 



Genus ANTHIDIUM, Fabr. 



245. Anthidium tessellatum, Klug, Symb. Phys. iii. pi. 28, f. 4. 

 Wady Hebran. Mount Sinai. 



246. Anthidium pdlchellum, Klug, Symb. Phys. iii. pi. 28, f. 11. 

 Wady Ferran. Wady Hebran. Mount Sinai. 



247. Anthidium subocheaceum. Male. — Tawny. Head with 

 white hairs, yellow in front ; vertex blaek. Mandibles with black tips. 



