524 Mr. E. Sai^lers on Hymcnoptcra Acidcata: 
pale spots. Another striking character is the form of the 
intermediate metatarsus. This is slightly bent and pro¬ 
duced at the apex anteriorly into a spine-like process 
which bears at its extremity a short white spine. The 
posterior metatarsi also are slightly bent at the base. In 
disposition of pubescence this $ closely resembles its 
[Biskra. Several and A. E. E. and F. D. M.] • 
8. TaCHYSPHEX PHILIPPI, n. sp. 
5 T. nitido affinis : puncturatione minutiore, tibiis anticis antice 
palliclis tegulis que testaceis distinctus. 
9 Black, clothed with a very short, inconspicuous grey pubes¬ 
cence ; front tibiae on their inner side, and the apical joints of all 
the tarsi, testaceous ; mandibles piceous-red near the base, tegulae 
testaceous. Head and thorax slightly shining ; the former (with 
the face) closely punctured on a finely rugulose surface ; the latter 
finely and rather closely punctured on an almost smooth surface. 
Vertex between the eyes about equal to the 1st and 2nd joints of the 
tlagelluin together ; wings slightly dusky ; mesopleurae punctured 
on a slightly and very finely rugulose surface ; propodeum rather 
unusually finely rugose, its area indefinite, its posterior declivity 
transversely strigose, and its sides diagonally so. Comb of anterior 
metatarsus composed of thin testaceous bristles, abdomen dull, 
exceedingly finely and microscopically rugulose, without evident 
puncturation. Segments 1, 2 and .3 with a lateral apical band of 
silvery pubescence [visible] only in certain positions. Apical 
dorsal valve elongate (as in iKctinipes., etc.) and irregularly 
punctured. 
Long. 8 mm. 
Easily separated from nitidus, etc., by its fine punctura¬ 
tion, (inwardly) pale front tibiae, and testaceous tegulae, 
combined with the elongate form of the dorsal valve 
(this last character distinguishing it at once from the black 
form of lativalvis). The specimen bears a ticket in F, F. 
Kohl’s handwriting “ sp. ? a T’. nitido diversa.” 
[1 9 Philippeville, 21. vi, 98. F. D. M. Type in Coll. 
F. D. Morice.] 
9. Tachysphex piagetioides, n. sp. 
[Mr. Saunders appears to have described this species in 
English only, leaving a blank space for a Latin diagnosis 
to be added afterwards.] 
