212 Mr. Edward Saunders on Hymenoptcra acukata 



Odynerus cruentatus, Brulle. 



$ and $. Orotava, Tenerife, westward of the port. 



Odynerus h.ematodes, Brulle. 



^ 1. La Laguna, Tenerife. Hillside to left of main 

 road to Tejina along a terrace of volcanic rock. 

 Altitude about 2200 feet, 15. iii. 02. 



$ 1. Sauzal. Altitude about 900 feet, 4. iv. 02. 



^1^2. Madeira. T.V.W. 



Prosopis, sp. ? 



Madeira. T.V.W. 



Carded and marked in collection as n. sp. allied to 



sigjiata. 



Prosopis atra, n. sp. 



Omnino nigra, facie maris flava, antennarum utroqne sexu 

 flagello stibtus testaceo exceptis, genis brevissimis, abdominis seg- 

 mento basali remote punctato, ruguloso, in femina micruscopice, 

 apice linea laterali pilorum albidorum ornato. 



Entirely black in the $ ; ^ with the face and a spot on the 

 anterior side of the front tibiae yellow, fiagellum of the antenntie in 

 both sexes more or less testaceous beneath, wings hyaline, the 

 nervures brownish-black. 



(J Head and thorax and first joint of the antennae clothed with 

 long pale hairs, face yellow, of the same colour as in communis, the 

 colour not or rarely extending above the insertion of the antennae, 

 clypeus black at the apex, mandibles black, antennae with the first 

 joint curved but scarcely dilated, cheeks linear, vertex strongly and 

 closely punctured, thorax strongly punctured, but less closely than 

 the head, the intervals microscopically rugose, propodeal area 

 reticulate, abdomen somewhat dull, rugulose, punctured, punctura- 

 tion of the first segment fine and remote, that of the others, 

 closer and less definite, apex of the 1st segment with a very 

 ill-defined fringe of white hairs at the sides, and 8th ventral 

 segment formed much as in pictipes, Nyl., but the apical wings of 

 the 7th are narrower and longer, and are twisted downwards at 

 an angle of about 60 degrees from the horizontal basal plates, and 

 are in this respect quite unlike those of any species I know — armature 

 with the stipites more or less pointed, with very long apical hairs. 

 SagittiB wide, paler, and slightly longer than the stipites, each 

 gradually narrowing to a rather blunt apex. 



9 punctured and sculptured much as the (J , but the abdomen more 



