G14 Mr. F. D. Morice on new Hymenoptera. 
aberraticus in general facies, size, and coloration, has no trace 
of the transverse crest near tlie base of the petiol*, which is 
so conspicuous in aberraticus, and which is generally thought, 
when occurring together with hook-tipped male antenna, to 
mark a species as an Odynerus of the Ancistrocerus group. 
I am unable to follow De Saussure in considering the cha- 
yacters on which he founds Nortonia as generic, and must 
own that, personally, I regard éntermedius, in spite of its 
peculiarities, as a Lionotus. At any rate, I cannot see my 
way to grouping aberraticus with it on the characters by 
which the Eumenide are at present classified. 
In its elongate thorax, quadrate (not transverse) scutellum, 
and depressed scarious margin to the second abdominal 
segment aberraticus shows considerable resemblance to a 
Microdynerus, but none of the latter, I believe, have the base 
of the petiole carinated as in Ancistrocerus. It has some 
likeness also in form and puncturation to certain Symmorphi, 
but from these, ¢nter ala, the hooked male antennz separate 
it instantly. It is utterly unlike any Hwmenes except in the 
proportions of its basal abdominal segments. Altogether 
this is a very singular insect, and it is quite possible that I 
am wrong in assigning it to any of the recognized groups of 
Odynerus, though I feel little doubt as to its claim to a place 
in that genus. 
Savigny has figured an Egyptian species (‘ Planches des In- 
sectes, &c.’ pl. vill. fig. 14) (=pharao, Sauss., according to 
v. Dalla Torre’s Catalogue) which I thought at first might 
be the insect before me. But this cannot he so, if he has 
given correctly the contour of the second ventral abdominal 
segment in his species; for this, in the lateral view which 
he gives of it, is nearly flat, while in aberraticus it is turgid 
and convex (almost semicircularly so) to an extent which I 
have never observed in any other Odynerus. 
Stizus peecilopterus, Handlirsch. @. 
“Goz Abba Goma, 14 ii. ’01.” 
The above name is used by Handlirsch to denote the 
“ Larra fasciata” of Klug, a species of Stczus differing from 
that which Fabricius originally described as ‘ (Bembea) 
fasciata”’ (= Stizus fasciatus, Handl.). 
The male seems to be still undescribed. It closely 
resembles the female as described by Handlirsch, but the 
occiput, disc of mesonotum, and propodeum (segmentum 
mediale, Handl.) are black. The general ground-colour of 
the head and thorax (including antenna, legs, &c.) is ferru- 
ginous red, that of the three apical abdominal seements has 
