404 Mr. E. Saunders on 



Pterochilus grandis, Lep. 



£ Medea, about a mile along the road to Lodi 12.30 to 

 2.30 p.m., on Eryngium triguetrum, 28, vi, 93. (A. E. E.) 



£ 1, hill north of railway station, alt. 3,000 feet, 10, 

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



^ 1, ravines, near Mount Ben Omar, on Eryngium 

 triguetrum, alt. 2,730-3,130 ft., 11, vii, 93. (A. E. E) 



$ 1, on Koudia Sma, a hill to the east, of an altitude of 

 about 2,700 ft., about 4 p.m., 15, vii, 93. {A. E. E.) 



Pterochilus coccineus, Andre. 



£ 1. Fontaine Chaude, near Biskra, on the dunes near 

 the stream among Limoniastrum guyonianum, 3 to 5 p.m., 

 16, v, 94. 



Pterochilus linguarius, n. sp. 



Niger albo et ferrugineo variegatus, lingua longissima ad apicem 

 abdominis extensa, abdominis segmento primo cupuliformi apice 

 elevato, ^secundo margine posteriore membranaceo, ad basin seri- 

 atim punctato-impresso. 



Black with white and ferrugineous markings. Head black, shin- 

 ing and strongly punctured, mandibles, scape of the antenna? and 

 the flagellum beneath, testaceous, the latter darker on its upper-side ; 

 Clypeus in the male flavous, in the $ sometimes with a testaceous 

 spot, semicircularly emarginate in the $ , in the $ with its free sides 

 reflexed, face densely clothed with silvery hairs in the <$ , sparsely 

 so in the $ . Tongue very long reaching in repose to the apex of the 

 abdomen, labial palpi slightly flattened and plumose in the $ , nearly 

 simple in the £ : behind the eye in both sexes is a very small whitish 

 spot, antennae in the £ with a sharp reflexed apical joint thorax 

 black, shining, rather remotely punctured pronotum except at its 

 extreme basal angles, tegulse, a spot on the mesopleura, scutellum 

 except a triangular patch at its base and post-scutellum, ivory white ; 

 prothorax truncate in front, its angles nearly rectangular, legs tes- 

 taceous, the femora darker at the extreme base, propodeum clothed 

 with silvery white hairs, excavated posteriorly and with a long sharp 

 spine at each side of its extreme apex especially in the $ ; on each 

 side there is a testaceous spot of variable size ; abdomen sparsely 

 clothed with silvery hairs, largely and remotely punctured especially 

 on the basal segment which is campanulate in form, its apical margin 

 raised and rounded, entirely testaceous or with its base more or less 

 suffused with black, the raised apical ring ivory white, 2nd segment 

 black with its apical margin flavous the colour spreading at the sides 



