222 Mr. Edward Saunders on 



^ 5, ^ 4. Bone, on Tamarix, 29, vii to 20, viii, 97. 



{A. E. E.) 

 $. „ 17, iii, 96. {A. E. E.) 



$ 3. „ i, V, 96. {A. E. E.) 



$ 1. „ on Salsola kali, 20, viii, 97. {A. E. E.) 



NOMIOIDES SQUAMIGER, n. Sp. 



Caput et thorax viridia pallido pilosa etiamque pubescentia albida 

 (quae tamen facillime deteri potest) vestita. Caput rotundatuiu 

 scutellum et postscutellum flava, abdomen maris nigrum segmentoruiu 

 apicibus flavis, femina:», flavuni segmentis j)rimo et secundo et 

 nonnunquam sequentibus fascia nigra discali ornatis. 



This species is very closely allied to fallax, Hdl., and may prove 

 to be only a variety of it. It however differs in the following 

 characters which appear to me to be more than varietal. 



In both sexes the head and thorax are clothed with deciduous 

 white scale-like pubescence, as well as with short erect pale hairs, 

 this deciduous pubescence is more marked in the 5 and the longer 

 hairs more so in the ^ . The green colour of the surface is of a less 

 bluish tint and in the ^ the surface is duller. The abdomen in the 

 ^ has the apices of the 1st 2nd and 3rd segments broadly, of the 

 4th and 5th narrowly, and the entire 6th and 7th testaceous ; in the 

 5 the whole abdomen is very pale testaceous, the 1st 2nd and 3rd 

 segments beari ng a narrow slightly curved black line across the disc 

 but not reaching either lateral margin, in some specimens the line 

 on the 3rd segment is interrupted in the centre ; the width of these 

 lines varies considerably, and also their length, in some the line on 

 the 3rd segment is absent, and in some there is a line on the 4th, and 

 rarely one on the 5th. 



Long 3^-4 mm. 



^ 1, ^ 3. Biskra, on Avimi visnaga, 18 to 24, v, 93. 



{A. E. E.) 

 ^ 6, $ 4. ,, on a tree with blue flowers in the 



Jardin by Fort St, Germain, 26, v, 



93. {A. E. E.) 

 ^ 2. ,, on Tamarix Irachystylis, 4, iv, 95 and 



iv, 97. {A. E. E.) 

 g 2. „ on Zizyphus lotus, 14 and 15, v, 97. 



{A. E.' E.) 

 ^ 2, $ 2. „ 28, V and 9, vi, 98. {F. D. M.) 

 ^1,^1. Co\ de Sfa, on inconspicuous wiry Unibdliftrm, 



27, V, 93. {A.E.E.) 



