eo 
92 Rey. F. D. Morice on 
1 @. Near Azazga, on Eryngium tricuspidatum, 1. ix, 93. 
A. E. E. 
1 gf. Forest of Yakouren, on Lryngium tricuspidatum, 
19..1x, 93. | A, E. EE. 
1 ¢. Le Tarf, on Foeniculum vulgare, 26. vii, 96. A. E. E. 
1 g. Biskra, on Foeniculum vulgare, 15. v, 97. A. E. E. 
329. Biskra, on Amini visnaga, 24. v and 3. vi, 93. 
tAg ie E. 
1 g. Bone, on Tamarix (2), 25. vii, 97. A. E. E. 
19. Médéa, on Eryngium triquetrum, 27. vi, 93. A. E. E. 
CERCERIS LATICINCTA, Lep. 
This identification I owe to Herr Kohl. 
My specimen is a very darkly-coloured insect, the body 
being entirely black except a small yellow spot above the 
base of the clypeus, a very broad orange fascia (covering 
the whole of the 2nd and 8rd abd. segments both dorsal 
and ventral!), and the tegulae, legs (except the coxae), 
and the base of the mandibles, which are also orange (but 
this colour on the mandibles is very obscure—perhaps 
darkened by cyanide 2). 
The constrictions between the abdominal segments 
appear to me slighter than is usual in Cerceris. The 
cordiform area is dull, somewhat coriaceously rugulose all 
over without distinct striations. The mesopleurae are 
strongly toothed or tuberculated in the middle as in 
capito, etc. The clypeus in my specimen has unfortu- 
nately been damaged (probably by a needle employed to 
open the mandibles), and I cannot describe its form in 
detail, but the apex appears to have been narrowly pro- 
duced (porrect ?) and perhaps incised in the middle (?). 
The eyes are divergent. The mandibles simple (7. e. un- 
toothed within) and blunt at the apex. The surface of the 
body in general is rather shining, its puncturation neither 
very close nor coarse. ‘The pygidial area is barrel-shaped, 
slightly narrowing to its apex, and coarsely rugulose. The 
broad petiole and the segments following are distinctly 
impressed before their apices in the middle. The length 
of the insect about 15 mm. 
ee Biskras28. wv, 98. FB. De NM: 
CERCERIS SCHMIEDEKNECHTII, Kohl 
1 2,2 29. Biskra, on Ammi visnaga, 18. v, 93. A. E. 
12,12. Biskra, on Ammi visnaga, 28. v, 94. A. EK 
