Hymenoptera aculeata collected in Algeria. 539 



especially at the bases and apices of the segments ; legs clothed with 

 long white hairs, inner posterior calcaria very long, slightly dilated, 

 and diagonally truncate at the apex ; outer ones short, more or less 

 blunt. 



Long. 15 m.m. 



Biskra, on umbelliferous flowers. F. D. M. 



SCOLIA (Dielis) THORACICA. 



$ 6, $ 1. Biskra, sand slopes on north side of ridge 



backing the Mont de Sable, " $ basking on the 



sand and poking about at the roots of clumps 



of grass," 15 and 19. i. 95. A. E. E. 

 $ 1. Biskra, visiting Amber ooa lippii. 11. iv. 95. 



A. E. E. 

 $ 2. Biskra, visiting Ammi visnaga, 25. v. 97. 



A. E. E. 

 $ 1. Biskra, 23. v. 93. A. E. E. 

 ¥ 1. Biskra, on Peganum harmala, 3. v. 94. A. E. E. 

 $ 1. Sidi Ferruch, near Algiers, on Centaurea 



seridis, 8. v. 93. A. E. E. 

 $ 5, $ 2. Bone ; visits Inula crithmoides, or failing 



that Koniga maritima, 28. xii. 95 to 3. i. 96, 



and until beginning of February if weather is 



fine. A. E. E. 

 Eyes of the $ in life indistinctly streaked with 



bronze green and peacock blue. A. E. E. 

 $ 6, ? 5. Biskra. F. D. M. 

 $ 6. Alger, Apl. 1898. F. D. M. 



Scolia (Dielis) ciliata, Fab. 



$ 2. El Biar, on Echium, 25. iii. 93. A. E. E. 



$ 1. Telergma,on Asphodelus microcarpits, 16. v. 93. 



A. E. E. 

 t 3. Bone, 15. ii. and 2. iii. 96. A. E. E. 

 Also from Constantine, Algiers, and Biskra. A. E. E. 



and F. D. M. 



Sapyga eatoni, n. sp. 



$ Nigra, flavo variegata, subnitens, punctata, subpilosa, anten- 

 narum articulis intermediis latitudine longioribus, clypeo antice 

 bidentato, prothorace truncato angulis lateralibus rectis, abdomine 

 fasciis quinque flavis ornato. 



9 Head and thorax black, clothed with pale hairs, the former very 

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