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60. Notogonia sculpturata,'Koh\. — 3 ^S> Amara (M), 17th. September on 



Zizyphus ; 1 9, Resht (P), 18th February 



61. Notogonia suhtessellata. Smith. — 1 $ , Amara (M), 17th September; 2 $ $ , 



Amara (M), 23rd March and 23rd Oct. 



62. Notogonia nigrita, Lep. — 1 $ taken by Lieut. Harwood. 



63. Tachytes dichroa. Smith. — 1 ^,5 $ $, Amara (M), 12th June to 19th 



July. 



64. Tachytes freygessneri. Kohl. — 1 $ , Amara (M), 17th September. 



65. Tachytes tricolor, R— 1 $. Amara (M), 15th June; 1 9, Amara (M), 



26th June. 

 The 2 seems to me certainly tricolor F. according to Kohl's diagnosis in his 

 Gattungen (etc.) der Larriden ; and I think the ^ belongs to it, though its hind 

 femora are largely black. 



66. Tachytes ambidens. Kohl. — 6 $ (^, Amara (M), June 14-21, some (perhaps 



all?) visiting Acacia -,2^$, Amara, July 20tli : 1 ^, Amara (visiting 

 Zizyphus), September 17th. Ambidens $ was described from Sarepta, 

 I have not seen Kohl's Type, but have a $ named hy that author 

 from Biskra, and a ^ which, I think belongs to it. Captain Buxton's 

 Mesopotamian specimens are all much smaller than the latter, but 

 I see no other difference between them and my own $, and both 

 have certainly the chief characteristic of ambidens cJ — namely an 

 excavation near the base of the front femur somewhat like that of a 

 Tachysphex ^ . The pygidium in all of them is pilose, as in normal 

 Tachytes spp. ; and the distance bet%veen their eyes on the vertex, 

 and the measurements of their antennal joints seem to agree with 

 Kohl's statements as to his $ from Sarepta. 



67. Tachysphex gtacus. Kohl. — 1 ^, Amara (M), June 14th. 



68. Oxybelus lamellatus, OIW. — 14 (^(^,4 $$, Amara (M), September, 



mostly on Zizyphus ; 1 5 , Baghdad (M), 

 10th September. 



69. Oxybelus U—notatus, Jar.— 3 $ $, Qazvin (P), 17th to 24th July. 



70. Oxybelus pugnax, Oliv. — 2$ $, Amara (M); 17th Septem.ber. 



71. Oxybelus, sp. ?— 2 $ $, Amara, 9th September. 



A very small species, with whitish, translucent, straight and parallel-sided 

 mucro, red mandibles, and eburneous (nearly confluent) lateral markings on 

 segments 1 and 2 of the abdomen. (I have something very like it, unnamed 

 from Egypt.) 



72. Crabro {Entomognathus) sp ? Qazvin (P), 17th July. 



The specimen is broken, but I think it is a variety of C. brevis which has been 

 recorded by Kohl from Egypt, with the collar, scutellum, knees, tibiae, and tarsi 

 yellow. The p3'gidium is of the normal width, so it is not schmiedeknechti. Kohl. 



List 2. Bees 



1. Colletes nanus, Friese— 2 2 $ , Amara (M), 28th May. 



2. Hyloeus* damascenus, Magretti. — 2 5 2 » Shahroban (M), 31st July. 



3. H ylceus scutellaris, Movawitz. — 1 ^ and 1 9 , Qazvin (P), 17th July. 

 The 9 seems to me to have all the characters enumerated in Morawitz's 



description of scutellaris $ . It is however a trifle smaller (about 6 mm. long, 

 not 7,) and in addition to the yellow markings there mentioned has also the lower 

 part of the frontal area, and a longitudinal streak bisecting the clypeus, yellow. 

 In this it resembles damascenus 2 ; hut the ground colour of the clypeus is 

 black, not red ; and it differs also from normal examples of damascenus in 

 having a black postscutellum, and entirely yeUow tibiae. 



• Hylacus, F= Prosopis, Jnv. 



