Hymenoptera acideata collected in Algeria, 231 



reliquis latitudine longioribus, tibiis posticis feminse, apice tri-vel 

 quatuorspinosis, spinis pallidis. 



(J 9 • Head and thorax black, the mouth parts including the 

 apex of the clypeus and the sides of the face along the orbits of the 

 eyes and the antennas testaceous. The scape of the antennoe above is 

 black in the ^ and has a black stain near the apex in the $ , and in 

 one (J the first 5 joints of the flagellum are black above. Tlie 

 tubercles and tegulsc are ferrugineous in both sexes and there is 

 sometirues a small spot of that colour on the scutellum of the ,$ , 

 wings slightly infuscate, nervures testaceous, the abdomen with the 

 exception of the extreme base and a small black spot at the base of 

 the 2nd segment laterally is entirely clear testaceous, legs testaceous, 

 the COX0D in both sexes and the intermediate and hind femora 

 beneath in the ^ black. ^. Head and thorax dull very closely 

 punctured and rather densely clothed with ochraceous hairs, labrum 

 simple, clothed with long hairs, its anterior margin slightly angulated 

 in the centre, mandibles acute, antenna? with tlie 2nd joint of the 

 flagellum once and a half as long as the 3rd which is nearly twice 

 as long as wide, the rest are distinctly longer than wide ; propodeum 

 densely punctured and hairy at the sides, its area finely clathrate. 

 Abdomen finely and closely punctured, with a fine but incon- 

 spicuous ochreous pubescence, apical dorsal valve narrowly notched at 

 the apex ; posterior tibias with 3 or 4 pale apical spines intermixed 

 with pale hairs. $ . Very like the (J but head aiid thorax much 

 less hairy, labrum simple, nearly glabrous, antennas with the 2nd 

 and 3rd joints of the flagellum subequal, the rest slightly longer 

 than wide, abdomen more shining and less closely punctured, apices 

 of the segments widely smooth and shining, impunctate, apical 

 fimbria of 5th segment whitish; apex of the posterior tibire with 

 two very short pale spines. 



Long. 8-9 mm. 



Apparently a very distinct species of which I can find no descrip- 

 tion, its long antennae and the clear pale testaceous colour of the 

 abdomen and legs give it a rather unusual appearance. 



$ 1. Bone, Route de I'Edougli at the beginning of the 

 ascent, 7, iii, 96. (A. E. R) 



^ 1. „ by the railway near Hippone, 16, ii, 96. 

 (A. K E.) 



$ 1. „ by the Bone-Guelma railway, opposite Fernie 

 Laccombe, 23, iv, 96. (A. E. E.) 



NOMADA MULTISPINOSA, n, sp. 



Polyacanthai Per. afRnis, sed mesonoto crebre punctato, et tibiis 



