246 ^Ir. Edward Saunders (m 



OSMIA TARFENSIS, n, sp. 



0. vidux aflinis, nigra, vertice et mesonoto fiilvo hirtis, thorace infra 

 pallide hirto, abdominis segmentorum niarginibus posticis fasciis 

 HTif^'Ustis albo pubescentibns ornatis, scopa ventrali nigra. 



$ . Black, vertex and thorax above clothed with fulvous hairs, 

 face with a triangular patch of white hairs on each side, sides of the 

 propodeum and thorax beneath clothed with very pale ochreous 

 hairs, abdomen with a spot on each side of the basal segment almost 

 meeting along the posterior margin and a narrow apical band on 

 the next 4 segments, clothed with pale ochreous pubescence, 6th 

 entirely clothed with whitish hairs, ventral brush black, legs clothed 

 with pale hairs, calcaria dark pitchy, nearly black. ^Mandibles tri- 

 dentato, more or less clothed, outwardly with golden pubescence, 

 clypeus regularly and closely punctured, rounded at the sides and 

 more or less truncate in front, with a very slightly projecting angle 

 where the sides meet the truncature. AntennPR with the 2nd joint 

 of the flagellum nearly as long as the two following together, and 

 about half as long again as the 1st, the rest of the joints sub- 

 quadrate, looking rather longer than wide, mesonotum dull, very 

 closely punctured, propodeal area shining, wings slightly brownish, 

 abdomen slightly shining, closely and evenly punctured. 



Long. 8 mm. 



A small compact species, allied to vidua but quite 

 different in the close puncturation, entire bands, etc. 

 ^ 7. Le Tarf, on Cipiara cKrdunculus, 22 and 24, vii, 9G, 

 {A. K E) ' 



OSMIA DECEMSIGNATA, Rad. 



$ 1. Biskra, on Gcntanrca, 3, v, 94. {A. E. E.) 



^1. „ on Avilirrhoa lippii, 8, iv, 95. {A. E. E.) 



^ 1. Medea, about to cut a leaf of Ci/tisus, 10, vii, 93. 



(A. E. E.) 

 ^ 2. „ on Gc7itavrea ealcitrapa, 12, vii, 93. 



{A. E. E.) 

 % 1. „ ou dead herbage, 29, vii, 93. {A. E. E.) 

 ^ 1. Constantino on M'cid, visitinc^ Gardims ytcracaii- 



/has, !), v, 95. (A. E. E.) 

 ? 2. Algiers, 19, iv, 98. (7^'. JJ. M.) 

 $ 1. Constantino, 18, vi, 98. (E. I). M.) 



OSMIA NOTATA, F. 



^ 2, $ 2. Mustapha Superieur, amongst Ocntaurea ficridis, 

 Ecliiuiii and a Labiate, 4, v, 93. {A. E. E.) 



