Hymenoptera aculeata collected in Algeria. 265 



$ 3. Medea, on the north slope of Koudia Sma, 8, 



vii, 93. (A. E, E.) 

 ^ 9, ? 1. Biskra, 16 to 23, v. 98. {F, D. 31.) 



Meliturga pictipes, Mor. 



^ 2. Biskra, 26, iv, 94. {A. E. E.) 



^ 3, $ 1. „ on Ammi visnaga, 23 to 28, v, 97. 



{A. E. E.) 

 ^ 4, $ 9. „ 6 to 27, V, 98. {F. D. M.) 



" The bees sleep at the end of a stick, or dead stem of 

 the spurge, head and thorax downwards, clasping the stem 

 with their legs and mandibles and resting their abdomen 

 on the top of the stem." {A. E. E.) 



Melecta luctuosa, Scop. 



? 3. Algiers, 9, iii to 13, iv, 93. (A. E. E.) 



$ 1. Biskra, entering burrows of AntJwjjhorcc fidvitarsis, 



20, iii, 94. (A. E. E.) 

 $ 2. „ 24, iii, 94 and 26, ii, 97. {A. E. E.) 

 $ 1. Bone, 4, iii, 96. (A. E. E.) 

 ? 1. Algiers, 9, iii, 93. {A. E. E.) 

 ? 6. „ 17, iii to 21, iv. {F. D. M.) 



Melecta plurinotata. 



^ 7. Algiers, 21 and 22, iv, 98, inquiline of Anthophora 

 romandii. (F. D. M.) 



Crocisa major, Mor. 



$ 1, $ 1. Constantine, on Inula viscosa, 4, x, 93. 



(A. E. E.) 

 $ 1. Medea, on Mentha rotundifolia. 19, vii, 97. 



(A. E. E.) 

 ? 1. La Calle, 15. vii, 96. (A. E. E.) 

 $ 1. Biskra, on Ammi, 24, v, 97. {A. E. E.) 

 $ 1. „ " At rest during the passing of a big 

 cloud, holding on to the tip of a dead twig with its 

 mandibles only, and having its legs tucked up, its wings 

 incumbent upon the body and its antennas obliquely 

 porrect and subcontiguous or closely parallel with one 

 another." 17, iv, 97. {A. E. E.) 



Crocisa ramosa, Lep. 



$ 3. Biskra, 1, vi, 93, 24, iv and 13, viii, 97. {A. E. E.) 



