( 69 ) 



X. Descriptions of some new Aculeate Hymenoptera from 

 Epirus. By S. S. Saunders, Esq. 



[Read June 3rd, 1850.] 



Fam. MUTILLID.E, Leach. 

 Genus Myrmosa, Latr. 



M. nigriceps* (PI. VI. fig. 1.) 



Nigra, thorace rufo, antice recte truncato, angulis acutis; ab- 

 dominis segmentis pilis albidis postice fimbriatis ; alis ob- 

 scuris ; antennis pedibusque nigris. Mas. 



Long. corp. -^ — f unc. 



Exp. alar. 1 unc. 



Habitat Nicopolin, prope Sinum Ambracicum, mense Junio 

 capta. 



Four specimens of this fine species were captured at intervals 

 upon flowers in the same locality, towards the middle or end of 

 June. 



Fam. SCOLIADiE, Leach. 



Genus Pseudomeria,-j- S. S. Saunders. 



Alee brevissimce, thoraci fere longitudine cocequales ad volandum 

 ineptce ; anticarum margine apicali profundi sinuato, disci usque 

 medium incisce ; cellulcc alarum orisque structura ut in genere 

 Paramerid Guerin {delineante Savignio) ; pedes mediocres, 

 tibiarum calcaribus rectis, acutis. 



* Editor's Note. The name of this species should have heen nigripes, but 

 owing to a typographical error it appeared in the report of the proceedings of the 

 June meeting, in the Zoologist, p. 2861, as nigriceps, which name, according to 

 the laws of nomenclature, must be retained. 



t In the original memoir upon this insect communicated to the Entomological 

 Society, (an abstract of which has been published in the Proceedings for June, 

 1850, p. 16,) it was referred to the genus Parameria of Guerin ; a more extended 

 examination of the allied species than I had then had an opportunity of making 

 has however rendered necessary the establishment of a new genus for its recep- 

 tion. 



