Rev. F. D. Morice on Anclrena tamxaei, etc. 249 

 Saunders botli in his " Synopsis " and his " Hymenoptera 



^ HeiT Friese has sent me the same or a very similar 

 black-faced male from Greece. I think it is possib ^ Jhat 

 the short description in Perez (Melliferes p. 40 ot ^. 

 iniminuta refers to this black-faced form of ^^J^^^' ^ut I 

 have not seen the specimens on which it was founded. 



List of the above Species. 



1 Niqro-olivucea, Dours. 



± Livens, Perez ( = taraxaci ? , Schmied. nee Giraiul). 



3. Truncatilahrls, Moraw. 



4. Ferrugineicrus, Dours. 



5. Giraucli, Dours. 



6. Taraxaci, Giraud. 



7. Curtivalvis, n. sp. , n • \ 



8. Senecioni'^, Perez ( = taraxaci S, Sclinued. nee Gir.). 



9. Stabiana, n. sp. 



10. Humilis, Imli. E. Saunders, vav. fulcescens, Smith. 



Characters possessed in common by ^^\\l^^«„;,^P^f ^^ 

 are-a rather copious fulvous pilosity with fulvous ¥ 

 scop^ and abdominal fimbria; the dorsal segments of 

 the abdomen without definite 'fasciae 'at their apices ; a 

 finely rugulose surface, dull or slightly shmmg, with 

 J^raised" punctures;* along 3rd an tennal joint m both 

 sexes (about as long as the two next together m the $ 

 and the Xee next fn the ? ) ; stipites with Wd-lookmg 

 "processes," and a strongly fnuated apical outline of the 

 lobes making them evidently dentate (Plate V, Fig. ^i) , 

 the ^™ead (mandibles, etc.) always of normal structure ; 

 the propodeum with short stria, at the extreme base, the 

 rest of it slightly rugulose. 



These characters are evidently not ^^1. ^^ ,f^^^^ '^^ 

 importance but when several species share m all of them 

 Tseemriikely that they belong to f^e -me naW 

 <rroun That such a group exists, I have little ciouot, 

 thoZh I am not prepared to fix its precise limits. 

 Probably it embraced besides the above, several othe 

 snecies with which I have not dealt, because they do not 



son) They look rather like the backs ot lioles made by pushing 

 ^in diagonally through a sheet of paper. 



