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Species as Morawitz has remarked, much resembles the Algerian blanchardianus, 
specially in the peculiar carinated base of the lst abdominal tergite (the carina 
distinctly interrupted in the middle !) 
14. Nortonia deceptrix, n. sp.—4 4, April; 1 @, 28th May ; 1 2, 14th May, 
Amara (M). 
In many respects, and especially in the form of its Ist and 2nd abdominal 
segments, this species much resembles one which I described from several ¢ @ 
taken on February 12th, 1901, at Abba Eiland, by the Swedish Expedition to 
Egypt and the White Nile (See Ann. and Mag. N. H., December 1903).* This 
no doubt was also a Nortonia, but I wrongly referred it to ‘‘ Odynerus (Ancis- 
trocerus ?)”’ and called it aberraticus. 
The Mesopotamian species however seems to be certainly different from the 
Egyptian in several characters of specific value. (a) The scutellum is transverse 
and not almost quadrate, (b) the excision of the strongly bidentate @ clypeus is 
not triangular, but semi-circular, (c) the lateral angles of the pronotum are 
distinctly subspinose, (d) the coste at the base of the 2nd ventral segments 
are fairly long, (e) the mandibles of the & appear to be simply acuminate 
and not tridentate. 
T notice also that the very coarse rugosities of the mesonotum, when viewed 
from behind, appear as definite longitudinal strigz. I do not remember that 
the specimens I examined in 1903 shewed any such character, and I find no 
mention of it in the description of Kohl’s N. moricei. 
The scutellum and postscutellum are both entirely yellow in deceptrix: the 
former in the Egyptian species is black, and the latter only shews two small spots 
of yellow. The colour of the abdomen varies to some extent in the specimens 
now before me, but in most of them there is certainly more yellow and less 
black than in the types of “‘ aberraticus.” 
The accompanying sketches (Fi- 
gures 9 and 10) representing the Ist and 
2nd segments (viewed A laterally and B 
dorsally) in the brightest of the dd, 
will give an idea of this. In the only 
2 there is a larger black triangle on 
the disc of segment 1, but on its 2nd 
segments there is more yellow still, the 
yellow lateral macule at its base being 
all but actually confluent ! 
Fig. 9 A. 
First and second segments in N. deceptria. 
The lateral margins of the propodeum are very spinulose throughout, as is 
also the crest of the postscutellum which resembles those of O. blanchardianus 
and transitorius. 
List 4. CHRYSIDS. 
1. Hedychrum rutilans, Vahlb.—1l 3, Kazvin (P), 17th July. 
2. Hedychridium hilare, n. sp.—l ¢, Amara (M), 25th June. 
At first sight this might be taken for an extreme variety or aberration of the 
common H. rosewm. The colour of the abdomen much resembles that which 
characterizes the latter, and contrasts in the same way with the prevailing green- 
ness of the head and thorax. But the postscutellum and propodeum (except 
Us es eg ee ee eee SS 
* One of the same specimens, or one taken at the same place and on the same day, was des- 
ceribed three years later by Kohl in his admirable work on Hymenoptera from South Arabia and 
Socotra, Wien, 1906, as Nortonia moricei, Nn. sp. He accredits the capture to me, but I never 
visited Abba Hiland, and was not in Egypt at allin 1901. 
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