Hymen&ptera aculeata collected in Algeria. 557 



segment excised in the centre ; 6th compressed and carin- 

 ated, its sides concave somewhat as in fumipennis, Dahlb. 

 Long. 5 — 6 m.m. 



$ 5. Biskra, 4. v. 98. F. D. M. 



Possibly the $ of No. 1, but see remarks on that form. 



Salius eatoni, n. sp. 



Niger ferrugineo pictus, mas prothorace transverse* postice angula- 

 tim emarginato, propodei apice semicirculariter strigoso. Abdominis 

 segmentis 2do 3tio que ferrugineo bimaculatis, foemina capite et 

 prothorace ferrugineis, mesosterno, metapleuris, metasternoque 

 fortiter strigosis, propodeo glabro, rugoso transverse striato, abdominis 

 segmento secundo bimaculato. 



£ Elongate and narrow with the pronotum as long as the mesono- 

 tum ; head about as long as the pronotum, brownish-yellow ; antenna? 

 fulvo-testaceous ; clypeus, except near the posterior angles and a some- 

 what triangular spot on the face, widest in the region of the ocelli, 

 piceous ; sides of the face palest along the margins of the eyes. 

 Clypeus clothed with a fine golden pubescence at the base, head 

 posteriorly wider than across the eyes, its lateral angles rounded, its 

 base slightly emarginate ; pronotum rather darker than the head, 

 angularly emarginate posteriorly, its anterior margin black (the dark 

 colour produced in the centre and forming a dark dorsal line), base 

 very narrowly dark, mesonotum black, a spot towards its apex 

 produced on to the scutellum testaceous-brown. Wings luteous 

 with an ill-defined dark apical band, clouding the marginal, 3rd sub- 

 marginal and more or less of the 3rd discoidal cell ; superior nerve of 

 the 3rd submarginal cell about half as long as the inferior ; propodeum 

 smooth, dull, slightly longer than wide, its apical declivity with a 

 series of semi-circular, somewhat concentric ridges ; pleura? dull, 

 very finely shagreened, and very remotely, finely and shallowly 

 punctured ; abdomen dull, clothed with a fine inconspicuous greyish 

 pile, the 2nd and 3rd segments each with a bilobed testaceous spot 

 at the base, 6th ventral segment flat, somewhat angularly emargin- 

 ate at the apex, with a curved hook at each lateral angle of the seg- 

 ment as in bicolor and other species, 8th rounded at the apex and 

 fringed with broad flattened spine-like hairs. Legs with the coxae, 

 trochanters and femora black, the apices of these last, the tibiae and 

 tarsi fulvo-testaceous. 



The 9 found with the male has the head entirely testaceous, except 

 just in the region of the ocelli, the post ocular region much wider than 

 the head across the eyes ; pronotum testaceous, angulated posteriorly, 

 clothed with short hairs, prosternum and coxae with long hairs, 



