52 EGYPTIAN AKD 



Antennge dark red beneath. Thorax with two white spots in front 

 and four behind. Abdomen with six narrow white bands and with a 

 white subapical spot; nnder side with four broader white bands; 

 tips red, with two rather long spines and with six smaller spines. 

 Legs with white tomentum ; fore tibise and fore tarsi dark red. 

 Wings cinereous, broadly blackish along the exterior border ; veins 

 and stigma black. Length of the body 3i lines. 



Harkeko. 



Genus MELECTA, Latr. 



258. Melecta PLURiNOTATA, BriilU, Expl. Scl. Moree, Zool. 343. 

 Cairo. 



Inhabits South Europe and West Asia. 



Genus CROCISA, J urine. 



259. Crocisa scutellaris, Nomada scutellaris, Fahr. Ent. Syst. 

 ii. 346. 



Cairo. Harkeko. Mount Sinai. 



Inhabits Europe, Siberia, Ceylon. 



Genus EUCERA, ScopolL 



260. EucERA FULVESCENS. Male. — Black, thickly clothed with 

 ochraceous hairs. Clypeus yellow. Eyes livid. Antennoe some- 

 what shorter than the body. Abdomen with black hairs towards the 

 tip. Legs with tawny and cinereous hairs ; tarsi red beneath. 

 Wings cinereous ; veins black ; stigma piceous. Length of the body 

 6 lines. 



Cairo. 



261. EucERA ciNERAscENS. Male. — Black, with cinereous hairs. 

 Clypeus yellowish white. Eyes livid. Mandibles with a whitish 

 mark near the base. Antennae rather shorter than the body. Thorax 

 and pectus thickly clothed with long hairs. Abdomen with bands of 

 cinereous pubescence on the hind borders of the segments; hind 

 borders of the ventral-segments piceous. Middle femora with gilded 

 tomentum beneath ; tarsi tawny beneath. Wings cinereous ; veins 

 black. Length of the body 6 lines, 



A specimen from Mount Sinai is probably the female of this 

 species. 



Wady Ferran, 



