Hymenoptera aculeata collected in Algeria. 259 



mentorum abdominalium apicibus concoloribus et fasciis angustoribus 

 ornatis, distincta. 



Apparently allied to tricinda, Ev. on account of the white apical 

 bands of the abdominal segments, but it is a smaller and darker 

 species and the apices of the segments are black. 



^ . Face, clypeus and labrum entirely black, antennte reaching to 

 about the apex of the 2nd abdominal segment, vertex and mesonotum 

 clothed with ochreous-brown hairs, wings slightly clouded, thorax 

 beneath and propodeum clothed with paler whitish hairs. Abdomen 

 dull, very closely punctured, basal segment clothed especially at the 

 base with ochreous-white hairs, 2nd and following segments each 

 with a rather narrow apical band of white hairs, apical dorsal valve 

 punctured at the base and clothed with golden hairs towards the 

 apex which is rounded, 6th segment with an angular tooth on each 

 side at the apex, segments beneath shining, punctured, their posterior 

 margins rather widely piceous, legs simple, clothed with white hairs. 



5 . Face clothed with white hairs, 1st joint of the flagellum about 

 equal in length to the 2 following together, mesonotum clothed with 

 rather l:)right brown hairs, thorax beneath and propodeum clothed 

 with nearly white ones, abdomen closely punctured, basal segment 

 clothed with ochreous hairs on its anterior half, its apical margin 

 smooth and shining, 2nd and following segments with a narrow apical 

 band of white hairs, that of the 5th golden in the centre, and the 

 2nd also with a line of white hairs on each side at the base, apical 

 dorsal valve small, finely and transversely rugulose, legs clothed 

 with white hairs. 



Long. 11-12 mm. 



^ 1, $ 1. La Calle, 19, vii, 96. (A. E. K) 

 $ 1, Tizi Ouzou, Mount Beloua, alt. about 1,700 



ft., on Calamintha, 15, vi, 98. {A. E. E.) 



EuCERA {MacTOcera) brachycera, Grib. 



^ 1. Biskra, visiting Antirrhinnm ramosissinium, 21, iii, 

 97. (A. E. E.) 



This $ agrees well with Gribodo's description. Friese 

 when he wrote his monograph of the Palaearctic species 

 did not know it. 



EucERA (Macrocera) dentata, Klug. 



$ 1. Biskra, visiting Limoniastrum giiyoniamun, 6, v, 97. 



{A. E. E.) 

 $1. „ 23, V, 98. {F.D.M) 



