20 BULLETIN OF THE LIVERPOOL MUSEUMS. 
Vespine. 
Icaria, Saussure. 
(15) Icaria grossepunctata. 
Long. corp. 9 mm. ; long. al. ant. 5 mm. 
Female. Upperside evenly covered with large depressed punctures. 
Head black, antenne red, blackish above beyond the middle, scape yellowish 
beneath in one specimen. Clypeus red, clothed with silvery pile, narrow at 
the upper angles, broader than long at the lateral angles, and obliquely 
sloping below to two well-marked teeth. Prothorax wholly red, except a 
yellow collar in front, mesonotum, mesopleura, front of metapleura, and middle 
of upper part of median segment black. Tegule red, with a yellow spot in 
front. Hinder part of scutellum yellow on the sides, and red in the middle ; 
postscutellum red. Hinder part of thorax, except as already specified, legs, 
and abdomen red. Median segment short, slightly sloping and rounded 
behind ; petiole twice as long as broad, blackish at the base and about one- 
third as broad as the following segment at the extremity. Petiole and 
following segment with a terminal yellow ring. Wings hyaline, with brown 
nervures. 
Sokotra : Goahal Valley, E. Sokotra, 16-26. I. 99 ; two specimens. 
Anthophila. 
Andrenide. 
Halictus, Latreille. 
(16) Habictus flavovittatus. 
Long. corp. 7 mm. ; long al. ant. 6 mm. 
Female. Black, vertex and thorax above thickly and finely punctured, 
the depressed space at the base of the median segment rather less finely. 
Face rather long, sparingly clothed with greyish hair, as also the pectus and 
pleura ; hind femora beneath with woolly whitish yellow down; the short 
hairs of the tarsi inclining to reddish above, and bright fulvous beneath ; hind 
tibie with tawny hairs on the inside. Abdomen black, shining, with four 
yellow transverse bands, one at the end of each segment. Terminal segment 
rufous. Wings iridescent hyaline, clothed with very fine short hairs ; stigma 
testaceous or brown. In the male, the yellow bands of the abdomen are 
obsolete, and the legs are nearly black, the tarsi only being yellowish beneath. 
Sokotra : Adho Dimellus (3500 ft., 3. Il. 99) ; three specimens. 
Apide. 
Megachile, Latreille. 
(17) Megachile punctatissima. 
Long. corp. 16 mm. ; long. al. ant. 12 mm. 
Female. Black ; head and body very thickly and finely punctured, and 
even the mandibles covered with large depressed punctures. Head, thorax, 
and first segment of abdomen clothed with white or greyish white hair ; 
clypeus and mesonotum denuded. First four segments of the abdomen with 
long transverse white spots, shortening hindwards, on each side; fifth 

