210 Mr. Edward Saunders on Hymenoptera aculeata 



diagonally strigose, and clothed with very short inconspicuous pale 

 golden hairs, abdomen black, finely punctured and microscopically 

 rugose between the punctures, posterior margins of the segments 

 slightly piceous, and with a very insignificant fringe of white hairs 

 at the sides, beneath finely and closely punctured, the posterior 

 margins with a few long exserted hairs. 

 Long. 5 mm. 



Of this very distinct species, one specimen was taken at 

 Orotava, Tenerife, on waste ground near the road beyond 

 the Cemetery gate — 21. iii. 02. 



Ammophila {Psammoijlhila) tydei, Guill. 



$ 1. Laguna. Hill-side east of the city, about 2000 

 feet altitude, 15. iii. 02. 

 Orotava. " Common, provisions its nest with the 

 larva of a Noctuid moth." 



Ammophila (Psamonophih) hirsuta. Scop. 



^ 2 $ 2. T. V. W. These were named by F. Smith, 

 " Ifaderce, Dhb.," but are I thiuk referable to 

 the var. of Mrsuta, which has pale hairs on 

 the propodeum ; I have taken similar speci- 

 mens in Jersey and at St. Briac in Brittany. 



SCELIPHRON TTJBIFEX, Latr. 



^ 1 $ 3. Madeira. T. V. W. All these have the 

 pedicel of the abdomen black. 



OXYBELUS TEGULARIS, sp. n. 



Niger, abdomine flavomaculato, propodei mucrone apice dilatato 

 emarginato, tegulis nervisque basalibus alarum la^te testaceis, pedibus 

 nigris, testaceo flavoque variegatis. 



This species resembles latro, Dahlb., in the widened 

 emarginate propodeal spine, but differs widely from it in 

 other characters and is specially recognizable by the 

 bright testaceous tegul^e. 



Black, without any bronzj' tinge, head and thorax densely, 

 rugosely and closely punctured, mandibles red in the centre, 

 flagellum of the antennas red towards the apex, clypeus tridentate at 

 the apex in both sexes, with a strong central keel iu the ^ which 

 projects beyond the anterior margin on to the central tooth, and a 

 short angular keel in the $ abbreviated before it reaches the anterior 

 margin, which is smooth and shining ; face clothed with glittering 



