22 BULLETIN OF THE LIVERPOOL MUSEUMS. 
the wings thickly sprinkled with brown dots. Clypeus obtusely truncated 
at the extremity ; a strong median carina between the antenne. Head, 
thorax, and scutellum thickly punctured ; abdomen more finely, but still 
more thickly. Scutellum very broad, only slightly narrowed at the extremity, 
where it. ends in a point on each side, between which is a concavity which is 
rather obtusely angulated than rounded. Between the sides of this angle 
projects a tuft of rather strong greyish bristles. 
Sokotra : Moukaradia (800 ft., 16. XII. 98) ; Alilo Valley (3000 ft., 11. I.) ; 
Adho Dimellus, (3000-3500 ft., 3-5-7. II. 99) ; seven specimens. 
Podalirius, Latreil/le. 
(21) Podalirius fulvitectus. 
Long. corp. 11-12 mm. ; long. al. ant. 7-9 mm. 
Almost the whole insect thickly clothed with fulvous pubescence, the 
base of the segments of the abdomen and the terminal segment very thinly. 
A broad triangular spot above the clypeus, the clypeus and all the lower 
mouth-parts pale yellow, clypeus with a broad trapezoidal black spot on each 
side, not extending to the extremity, which is cut off straight, and is broader 
than above ; base of labrum with a black dot at each angle, sometimes con- 
nected by a black line. Wings almost hyaline, with brown nervures. 
Antenne rufous. 
Sokotra : Moukaradia, 22. XII. 98 ; West of Dahamis (500 ft., 22. XII. 98) ; 
Jena-agahan (1200 ft., 9. I. 99); Homhil, E. Sokotra (2500 ft., 22. I. 99) ; 
Adho Dimellus (3500-4000 ft., 16-17 II. 99) ; seven specimens. 
(22) Podalirius antennatus. 
Long. corp. 11 mm. ; long. al. ant. 7 mm. 
Female. Black. Head clothed with greyish white hair, inclining to 
tawny on the vertex, clypeus black above, and broadly yellow below, with a 
small triangular projection upwards ; labrum yellow ; clypeus and labrum 
narrowly edged below with rufous; mandibles black. Thorax above with 
light tawny, and below with grey hair ; legs clothed with grey hair, mixed 
with tawny ; hind legs almost entirely tawny ; tarsi rufous. Antenne red, 
black towards the base, and along the outer side. Abdomen thickly 
punctured ; first segment clothed with grey hair at the base, and termi- 
nating in a very narrow orange, yellow, and white line, the white colour 
widened behind on the sides over the base of the second segment, which 
terminates in a narrow orange line. Third segment with a broad white band 
at the base, and a narrow terminal orange line. Fourth segment with white 
bands at the base and extremity, beneath which may be seen the terminal 
orange line. Fifth segment entirely tawny ; sixth black in the middle, and 
tawny on the sides. Wings hyaline, with brown nervures. 
One specimen. Homhil, E. Sokotra (2500 ft., 22. I. 99). 
B. Hymenoptera from Abd-el-Kurv. 
Bembicidz. 
Bembex, Fabricius. 
(23) Bembex dissimilis. 
Long. corp. 14-16 mm. ; long. al. ant. 10-11 mm. 
Female. Head, thorax and abdomen black above. Head clothed with 
whitish pubescence above, hinder orbits narrowly yellow, clypeus yellow, on 

