820 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Tol. XXVII. 



is called ' red ' in nigra, ' cinereous ' in thoracica. Still the ' type ' of the latter 

 may have been a faded specimen.) The Catalog us sinks both nigra, F., and 

 thoracica, F., as synonyms of alhicollis, Chr., and, as aforesaid, makes eriophora, 

 Kl, a var. of the same species. All this appears to me to be rather conjectural ! 

 Nothing is known as to the ' habitat ' of either alhicollis, or nigra, and that 

 given by Fabricius for thoracica is " the coasts of Malabar." Personally I am 

 inclined to await further evidence, and in the meantime acquiesce in eriophora^ 

 Kl., as the oldest name which is known for certain to have been applied to the 

 Egyptian and Mesopotamian species. A 5 very like that of eriophora 

 (=^" vestita ") is common in Algeria, but its J seems to be always black-bodied, 

 whereas all my Egyptian eriophora J d are coloured as in Klug's figure (i.e., 

 with the abdomen for the most part orange.) This Algerian form was recorded 

 by Saunders in Tr. Ent. Soc, Lond., 1901, and referred to thoracica, F. Whether 

 they are really the Fabrician thoracica, and whether or not they are identical 

 with eriophora, KL, seem to me questions deserving further investigation. 



20. Tiphia femorata, F.— 1 S , Enzeli, 28th May. 



21. Psammochares (=Pom,pilus aucit.) melas,!^. — 1 $, Amara (M), 20th 



September. 



22. Psammochares cingulatus, Kl. — 1 2 , Amara (M), 10th June. 



23. Psammochares rutilus, Kl. — 1 S , Amara (M), 10th June. 



[1 6 , Tanooma (M), October 1918— Lieut. 

 Harwood.] 



24. Psammochares modestus, Kl. — 1 c? , Amara (M). 10th June, 2 ? $ , 



Amara (M), 13th June and 19th July. 



The 2 2 agree with that described and figured in Symb. Phys. from Ambukohl 

 in all important characters (size, general coloration, neuration and clouding of 

 wings, unidentate claws, etc.), but the propodeum and posterior coxae are 

 darker, (not bright red throughout like the mesonotum and scutellum,) but 

 only a little rufescent in parts, and elsewhere black like the breast and abdomen. 



The c5" seems to be still undescribed. The present specimen was taken three 

 days before one of the $ $ , and in the same locality. It is coloured much like 

 the 2 , except that the propodeum and coxae are black entirely, the last dorsal 

 segment of the abdomen white and fringed Avith short silvery hairs at the apex, 

 the last ventral segment testaceous, the head black (except the mandibles, 

 sides of the face, and orbits of the eyes narrowly, these parts remaining red), 

 and the greater part of the antennse (from about the 4th joint to the apex) black. 

 The body is clothed (much as in plumbeus) with a very short whitish pubescence 

 only visible in certain lights. This particular specimen is much smaller than 

 either of the 2 2 . (only about 6 mm. long.) but it is well known that individual 

 specimens of Psammocharidce — S cf especially- — often vary much in size. 

 (In this specimen the abdomen is very strongly compressed laterally — perhaps 

 this is accidental, but it may possibly be a real character, so I mention it.) 



25. Psammochares {Platyderes) orchesicus. Kohl. — 1 2 » Amara (M), 19th July. 



26. Psammochares (Platyderes) dentictdatus, Tasch. — 1 2 > Amara (M), 1st 



Jiine. 

 I took a very similar specimen on Roda Island in the Nile, near Cairo, in 1896 

 [27. Psammochares {Anoplius) luctigerus, Costa (?) — 1 2 > "nearRuz, N. E. of 



Baghdad," 24th Novem. 

 ber 1918. — Captain Evans. 

 This 2 is an Anoplius according to Sustera's tabulation of the Psammo- 

 charidce (1912). It is entirely black with dark wings, much larger than nigerrimus 

 (which is the nearest to it among British species). The propodeum has no 

 remarkable features, and is almost without sculpture of any kind. All the 

 unguiculi are toothed pretty strongly near their bases. The spines of the tarsal 

 pecten are sharp and long, on which account I suspect it to be luctigerus, but 

 I know that species only from Costa's description.] 



