Mr. R. E. Turner on Fossorial Hymenoptera, 303 



dorsal abdominal segments and on ventral segments 2-7, 

 often enclosing a brown spot on each side on the ventral 

 segments, yellow ; legs light ferruginous marked with 

 yellow. Wings hyalinej nervures black, the stigu^a pale 

 ferruginous. 



Length 11-16 mm. 



Hub. Mogador, S.W. Morocco {Escalera). JNIarcli. 



In the pointed angles of the seventh dorsal segment this 

 species resembles lacteipennis, E. Saund., from Algeria. 

 From the date of capture and the locality I consider that it 

 is probably the male of Pseudomeria dakarensis, but it would 

 be unjustitiable to place them together without more con- 

 clusive evidence, in some specimens the third abscissa of 

 the radius is much shorter than the second ; the details of 

 neuration in Myzine cannot be relied upon for specific 

 characters, slight dillerences often occurring on the dillereut 

 sides of the same specimen. 1 do not look ou Pseudomeria 

 as of more than subgeneric importance. 



Myzine oraniensis, Luc. 



Myzine oraniensis, Luc. Explor. sc. Alg6rie, Zool. iii. p. 284 (1840). J . 



Hab. Morocco City [Escalera). April, 1 (J. 



The specimen differs from an Algerian specimen in the 

 British Museum in having a black spot at the apex of the 

 clypeus, the punctures on the abdomen not quite as distinct, 

 and the third abscissa of the radius more distinctly shorter 

 than the second, especially on the left anterior wing. 



Myzine fasciculat a, E. Saund. 



Myzine fusciculata, E. Sauud. Trrais. Eut. Soc. London, p. 533 

 (1901). 6- 



Two specimens from Morocco City differ from the type in 

 having the anteunse black, the base and sides of the clypeus 

 only yellow, a yellow spot on each side above the antennae, 

 the apex and sides of the seventh dorsal segment narrowly 

 margined with yellow, the radial cell shorter and the stigma 

 shorter and broader and of a darker colour, there is also a 

 large yellow spot on the mesopleur?e. 



These probably represent a subspecies, but longer series 

 of both forms are required as well as the opposite sex. 



Elis (Mesa) ruficeps, Sra. 

 Myzine ruficeps, Sin. Cat. Hym. B. M. iii. p. 75 (1855). 



This species may be divided into several subspecies, 



