610 Mr. F. D. Morice on new Hymenoptera. 
LXII.—New Hymenoptera Aculeata taken by the Swedish 
Zoological Hxpedition to Egypt and the White Nile in the 
Spring of 1901. By F. D. Morics, M.A., F.E.S. 
Nomia tegulata, Smith. ¢. 
Femine similis; sed abdomine ecrassius punctato ; scutello utrinque 
in spinam magnam compressam acutam (scapo antennee fere equi- 
longam) producto. Pedes simplices. 
Long. circ. 7 mill. 
“ Abba Hiland, 12 i. ’01.” 
This is not the male doubtfully assigned by M. Vachal 
(Miscell. Entomol. 1897) to tegulata, Smith, which has a 
simple scutellum, dilated leg-joints, &c., and is also differently 
coloured from the present insect. But I feel little doubt as 
to the determination of the latter. It was taken along with 
three females which exactly agree with Smith’s types of 
tegulata in the South Kensington Museum, and the only 
characters by which it differs from them appear to me to be 
merely sexual. ‘These typesare all females; the author did 
not know the male, and it has not, I believe, been described 
till now. 
The flagellum, mandibles, tegule (except their membranous 
apices), knees, extreme apex of hind tibiz, and tarsi are 
rufescent, as are also more or less (but obscurely) the extreme 
base and sides of the abdomen and the extreme apices of its 
segments. The face is wide, with strongly converging eyes, 
which reach close to the bases of the mandibles. The head, 
mesonotum, and scutellum, viewed dorsally, are dull, finely 
rugulose, and with shallow scattered punctures. The face, 
pronotum above, extreme basal and apical margins of the 
mesonotum, and the whole postscutellum are clothed with a 
very dense short whitish pubescence. The scutellum is 
naked and its lateral margins are produced into a pair of long, 
compressed, sharply pointed thorns (much as in Myrmica 
ruginodis), which rise gradually above the level of the rest of 
the scutellum, commencing at its base, and extend far beyond 
it in the apical direction. Their whole length is about two 
thirds that of the tegule, and of this length about one half 
projects over the postscutellum &c., the other half formimg a 
lateral border to the scutellum itself. The propodeum has a 
short costate sulcature along its basal margin; its “ area 
trigona” is not definitely separated from the lateral areas 
except by being perfectly smooth and very shining, while 
