Hymcnoptera aculcata collected in Ahjcria. 265 



$ 3. Mudea, on the north slope of Koudia Siua, 8, 



vii, 93. {A. E. E.) 

 ^ 9, ? 1. Biskra, 16 to 23, v. 98. {F. J). 3f.) 



Meliturga pictipes, Mor. 



^ 2. Biskra, 26, iv, 94. {A. E. E.) 



^ 3, $ 1. „ on Ammi visimya, 23 to 28, v, 97. 



{A. E. E.) 

 ^ 4, $ 9. „ 6 to 27, V, 98. {F. D. M.) 



" The bees sleep at tiie end of a stick, or dead stem of 

 the spurge, head and thorax downwards, clasping the stem 

 with their legs and mandibles and resting tiieir abdomen 

 on the top of the stem." {A. E. E.) 



Melecta luctuosa, Scop. 



? 3. Algiers, 9, iii to 13, iv, yS. (.4. E. E.) 



$ 1. Biskra, entering burrows of Anthopliora fuhitarsis, 



20,' iii, 94. {A.E.E.) 

 ? 2. „ 24, iii, 94 and 26, ii, 97. {A. E. E.) 

 % 1. Bone, 4, iii, 96. {A.E.E) 

 % 1. Algiers, 9, iii, 93. (.4. E. E.) 

 % 6. „ 17, iii to 21, iv. {F. D. J/.) 



Melecta plurinotata. 



$ 7. Algiers, 21 and 22, iv, 98, iuquiline of Anthopliora 

 Tomandii. {F. D. M.) 



Crocisa major, Mor. 



$ 1, $ 1. Constantine, on Inida viscosa, 4, x, 93. 



{A. E. E) 

 $ 1. Medea, on Mentha rotundifolia. 19, vii, 97. 



{A. E. E.) 

 ? 1. La Calle, 15, vii, 96. {A. E. E.) 

 $ 1. Biskra, on Ammi, 24, v, 97. (A.E.E.) 

 ^ 1. „ " At rest during the passing of a big- 

 cloud, holding on to the tip of a dead twig with its 

 mandibles only, and having its legs tucked up, its wings 

 incumbent upon the body and its antennae obliquely 

 porrect and subcoutiguous or closely parallel with one 

 another." 17, iv, 97. (A. E. E.) 



Crocisa ra:\iosa, Lep. 



$ 3. Biskra, 1, vi, 93, 24, iv and 13, viii, 97. {A.E.E.) 



