Hymenoptera aculeata collected in Algeria: the Sphegidae. 95 
v. Dalla Terre and most authors have done, in Latreille’s 
emendation of his first proposed name, and written 
“ Astata” ; but this question I do not wish to argue ; and, 
as I find ‘‘ Astatus ” employed throughout in the MS, list, 
it shall remain so. 
ASTATUS BOOPS, Spin. 
1 #. Constantine, visiting Thapsia garganica, 17. v, 99. 
A. EK. E. 
1 9. Constantine, 17. vi, 98. F. D. M. 
[My ¢ is, I have no doubt, bodps, as determined by Mr. 
Saunders. But it is a remarkably large specimen, and 
has exceedingly dark wings—quite as dark as in /wii- 
pennis, Saunders. | 
ASTATUS MINOR, Kohl 
1 g. Hippone, “eyes [in life] pitch brown, or rufo- 
piceous,” 15, vii, 96. A. EK. E. 
1 3,19. Le Tarf, “on Foeniculum vulgare,” 24, vil, 96. 
A. E. E. 
1 2. Biskra, “5-6.30 pm,” 11. v, 94. A. EK. E. 
1 9. Bone, “along the shore across the Seybouse,” 3. ix, 
96. A. E. E. 
[I took a 9 at Constantine 14. vi, 98, and 2 ff and 1 9 
at Biskra 24. and 25. v, 98 (F. D. M.) which Mr. Saunders 
does not appear to have noticed when he revised the 
collections, but which seem to belong either to this species 
or the next. See below under radialis, Saunders. | 
ASTATUS RADIALIS, Saunders 
Described in Trans. Ent. Soc. 1910, Part. IV. 
12,3 2 2. Le Tarf, on Foeniculum vulgare, 24. and 26. vii, 
OG. ake. BB, 
1 2. Bone, “along the shore across the Seybouse,” 5. 1x, 
96. A. KH. E. 
1 9. Bone, “along the shore across the Seybouse,” on 
Euphorbia paralias, 23. viii, 97. A. E. E. 
[I cannot help feeling a doubt as to the association of 
the above {with the 29. The latter appear certainly 
unlike the 2 2 called by Saunders minor which were 
taken in the same localities with them and (at Le Tarf) 
on the same plant. But except a slight and, as it seems 
to me, hardly specific difference in the truncation of the 
