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verse, of moderate size, narrower in front : scutum of the mesothorax 
broad, slightly convex ; parapsides united to the scutum ; axille com- 
plete ; seutellum obconic, prominent, very convex, abruptly declining 
behind the tip: propodeon subquadrate, rather large, declining ; 
podeon extremely short: abdomen slender, lanceolate, depressed, 
black, smooth, shining, compressed towards the tip, rather longer 
and much narrower than the thorax ; metapodeon bright green and 
like the following segments of moderate size: oviduct exserted in 
length nearly equal to one-fourth of the abdomen ; its sheaths black : 
legs slender, yellow, very long; mesotibie and mesotarsi dilated 
and the former armed with very long spines; coxz and metafemora 
green ; profemora and metatibie green, their tips yellow ; mesotibize 
fuscous towards the base ; protarsi fulvous; tips of the tarsi fuscous : 
wings limpid; nervures yellow; humerus much less than half the 
length of the wing; ulna and radius piceous, broad, very short ; cv- 
bitus of moderate length, pointing towards the disc of the wing ; 
stigma very small, 
England. From the collection of the Rev. G. T. Rudd. 
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XX.—Botanical Notices from Spain. By Moritz WittKkomm*. 
(Continued from vol. xvi. p. 252.] 
No. [X. Gipratrar, April 4th, 1845. 
I was unavoidably detained in Cadiz by illness and incessant rains 
until the 18th of March. Meanwhile, in consequence of the warm 
rain, the vegetation was remarkably forward, and promised a richer 
harvest than hitherto. Retama monosperma was quite out of bloom ; 
on the other hand, under the latter, the-sandy soil was covered with 
Anagallis latifolia, L.., and near the church of San José the beautiful 
Celsia sinuata, Cav., in company with Picridium tingitanum, Desf. 
The salt marshy lowlands of Chiclana appeared covered with Cotula 
coronopifolia, L., and looked at a distance quite yellow; near the 
hedges blossomed Cynoglossum pictum, Ait., Euphorbia serrata, L., 
Muscari comosum, Mill.; and on dry grass-plats, [ris Sisyrinchium, L., 
and a form of Ornithogalum umbellatum, L., with large flowers, which 
is common throughout the whole west of Andalusia; and Boissier, 
in his ‘Elenchus’ (No. 181), has described it as a new species 
under the name of O. beticum, but in his ‘Journey’ he places it as 
merely a form of O.umbellatum. On the following day I set out, in 
incessant rain, for Couil, a spot formerly celebrated for its sulphur- 
mines, lying close to the coast, the way to which led over a hilly 
arid highland, in parts covered with pine forests, and in parts with 
low copsewood and arable land. In the copse, the Sarothamnus 
aditanus, B, e, R., was remarkable at a distance from its large golden 
lossoms; less frequent was Calycotome villosa, Lk., which in the 
* Translated from the Botanische Zeitung, Nov. 7, 1845. No. VIII. has 
not yet appeared in the Bot. Zeit. 
