230 Mr. Edward Saunders on 



$ 1. Medea, hill north of railway-station, on Eryngium 

 triquetrum, 29, vi, 93. {A. E. E.) 



? 1. „ North of the town; alt. about 3,000 ft., 1, 

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



NOMADA BREVIS, n. sp. 



Brevis, abdomine subgloboso thoraci longitudine gequali. Capite 

 tboraceque nigris, rufo Lirsutis, labro, antennis, tegulis, tuberculis, 

 scutelloque rufis, abdomine ferrugine, tibiis posticis apice pallide et 

 obtuse 3-spinosis. 



5 . A short compact species whose abdomen is about as long as 

 the thorax and quite of a short oval form ; head and thorax black, 

 mandibles except their apices, labium, antennae, tubercles, tegulse, 

 and scutellum ferruginous, abdomen entirely and legs ferrugineous 

 except the coxse and trochanters of the 2nd and 3rd pair which are 

 black. Labium very closely and lugosely punctured, transversely 

 concave towards the apex, no visible tooth or tubercle, face clothed 

 with biownish-ied hairs, antenn;e with all the joints of the flagellum 

 subequal with the exception of the diminutive 1st. Vertex and 

 thorax dull, very closely and rugosely punctured and clothed with 

 biownish-ied hairs, scutellum scarcely raised, a little less dull than 

 the rest of the mesonotum, wings smoky, nervures dark brown, pro- 

 podeum dull, clothed like the thorax, largely and closely punctured, 

 its aiea very finely lugulose. Abdomen shining, basal segment im- 

 punctate, the otheis finely and rathei closely punctured on the basal 

 half, theii apices widely impunctate ; 5th clothed at the apex with 

 whitish haiis, posteiioi tibiai armed exteriorly at the apex with 3 

 short pale obtuse spines. 



Long. 6 mm. 



$ 1. Biskra, in the i^arden of Chateau Landon, 15, iv, 

 94. {A. E. E.) 



NOMADA, sp. 



This $ is allied to rhennna, it has the labrum red with a small 

 central tubercle, the 2nd and 3rd joints of the flagellum subequal 

 and the apex of the hind tibise with 5 rather unequal shaip pale 

 spines. As I have only seen this single female which has no veiy 

 pionounced characteristics I refrain from describing it. 



? 1. Biskra, 27, ii, 97. (A. E. E.) 



NOMADA PR^STANS, n. sp. 

 Capite thoraceque nigris ochraceo pilosis, abdomine Ifete testaceo, 

 ^ntennis longis, flagelli articulo secundo tertio sesquilongiore, 



