Hymeno'ptera aculeata collected in Algeria. 197 



and all the tarsi clear testaceous-yellow, scopro golden. Clypeus 

 finely rugulose, punctured, face above the antennte striate, antennas 

 with the 2nd joint of the flagellum longer than the next two together 

 but not so long as the next three, 3rd and 4th transverse, 5th slightly 

 longer than the 4th, the rest subquadrate. Mesonotum finely rugulose 

 but slightly shining, finely punctured. Wings with a yellowish 

 tinge, nervures testaceous, propodeum finely rugulose with rather 

 close and shallow and very large punctures, abdomen shining very 

 finely and somewhat remotely punctured, segments beneath fringed 

 with ochreous golden hairs. 

 Long. 9 mm. 



^ 2. Constantine, on Sonchus tencrrimui>, 20, v and 1, vi, 

 95. {A. E. E.) 



AnDRENA TUBERCULIFERA, Per. 



$ 1. Le Tarf, 24, vi, 96. {A. E. E.) 



$ 1. Bone, on Diplotams, 6, iv, 90. {A. E. E.) 



^ 1, $ ]. Algiers, 18, iv and 18, iii, 98. {F. D. M.) 



Andrena albocinerea, n, sp. 



^. Niger, albohirtus, antennarum articulo 4*^ et sequentibus 

 subquadratis, 3*°, 4*° et dimidio quinti subasquali. Mesothorace 

 opaco, punctate, abdominis segmentis basi punctatis apicibus im- 

 pressis nitidis, segmento basali pilis longis suberectis, reliquis pilis 

 brevibus adpressis vestitis. 



$ . Black, clothed with long white hairs, those near the orbits of 

 the eyes of a slightly sooty colour, and those of the mesonotum with 

 a greyish tinge, wings hyaline, nervures pale testaceous. Clypeus 

 so densely clothed with snowy-white hairs that its sculpture and 

 form are invisible but regarded anteriorly, with the insect upside- 

 down it is seen to be seniicircularly emaiginate, and the labrum 

 bears a transverse emarginate tubercle. Antennas rather short, the 

 2nd joint of the flagellum almost as long as the 3rd and \ of the 4th 

 together, those from the third upwards subquadrate, if anything 

 appearing a little longer than wide, mesonotum dull, finely and 

 rather closely punctured, the punctures distant from each other 3 

 or 4 of their own diameters, the sculpture, however, is exceedingly 

 difiicult to see as the hairing is so dense ; legs sparingly clothed with 

 white hairs, propodeal area finely rugulose, abdomen shining, 1st 

 segment sparsely clothed with long erect white hairs those of the 

 following short and semi-adpressed, 2nd and following segments 

 closely and finely punctured at the base, their apices widely impressed 



