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DESCRIPTIONS

OF

NEW SPECIES

OF

Pr MENOPTERA

IN THE
COLLECTION

OF THE

BRITISH MUSEUM.

BY

FREDERICK SMITH,

LATE ASSISTANT KEEPER IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY:

ON

P Te . Dae
AS 20970
« MAR 22 1884
is oe

LONDON:
PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES.

1879.

ALERE } FLAMMAM.

PRINTED BY TAYLOR AND FRANCIS,
RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET,

PREFACE.

Nea

Tue late Mr. Frederick Smith was engaged, at the time of his
death, in the determination and arrangement of the large collection
of foreign Hymenoptera in the British Museum. During the pro-
gress of this work he drew up descriptions of those species which
he recognized as new, with the view of finally submitting the whole
of his manuscript to the Trustees for publication. He was not
permitted to complete this task: after a short illness, Frederick
Smith died on February 16th, 1879.

It seemed to the Trustees to be in the interest of the collection
in the British Museum, as well as of science generally, that such
descriptions as were left by Mr. Smith should be published as soon
as possible. Although they were prepared with great care, and
were apparently ready for the printer, the author, probably, would
have introduced some emendations if he had lived to see his work
through the press. Under the circumstances mentioned, the only
alterations admitted by the Editor were those of some specific names
which were found to be preoccupied for species of the same genus.
The original manuscript will be preserved in the archives of the
Department.

Mr. Smith had also written preliminary diagnoses of a number
of Central-American species presented to the Trustees by Messrs.
Godman and Salvin. These diagnoses, originally destined for the
ereat work on the Fauna of Central America which those gentle-
men are preparing for publication, have been introduced into the

present work with their permission.
a2

1V PREFACE.

The correction and revision of the proof-sheets were entrusted to
Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, who also took great care in verifying the
descriptions with the typical specimens.

Although Frederick Smith had reached the age of 73 years when
he died, his strength and love of work were unimpaired. He
had worked in the service of the Trustees for 29 years; and the
excellent arrangement and condition in which he left the col-
lections of Hymenoptera and other Insects bear ample testimony
to his industry, conscientiousness, and love of order. The study of
Hymenoptera he had made so peculiarly his own, that many years
must elapse before his place among British Entomologists will be
filled again.

ALBERT GUNTHER.

British Museum,
August 29th, 1879.

SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

ANDRENIDZ. Pape

I Se ec aS ig esate, oe wie k
Preenlents, . ks ek we esate anes aan eu ng taue « 1
clay? (oe BPP lOridias. cg weer oe <0. 1
MORICALUA 2. ow ks ss INFGRTCONs sae oe et: : 2
Ti. 64 he MiexaGas Sate owtote a 2
VLict) en 1 SGT GRR Airs. Siem eet 3
[SL ee Rms gee ee aoe eon 3
Slits Ser MPeTIC OF mca es, gers 3
Oe oo LL ES i ec ee 3
LUE rere NEW. Australia. 28s te 3
PLOY 2? re NewHolland: 2.22535... 4
eIAGUS et ess @neonsland.. ... «a2 osteo 38 4
SPOOMUMNANS .. oc seve ws We olustrabiaw oo yties. 3)
es oy RE eae ee 5
MemlienmM -.. i i. 5 5 Sa ape rhe cae cok cles 6

ee eo Se ss oe a ee ee 6
HEETAHUB. 2, . «occ. = 6 ASG rae ee one 6
TLDS oS el eee DWAEUIVED > 2-4 on elas fi
eva oe ee 7
PHMERCONS” Of. ee TS heres 1 Sten 7
PUMEDEIS ©. 400. oe a es (Bir Spee a eee Sere aie 7
BMPR ear) 6 in Drusta yeas sc pea 8
Serre Hig: Ok eG ce Se ep de eee ades 8
MCGANNIGUS! . 2! ss oe AMIS GET ay ssc sce eee ae 8
maples. 20S) ee AMIStP Al.) os ho gia 8
PRICE occ a CORR Queensland? ee ao. 9
MEME. ay. LS We ‘Australias sch. fonccs 4 9
SINT 2 wa ek Be RUS GEA My A og che Rte ce ay 9
MEMICOEMIS . .8b5s)es ees Wey Amstralia 5. seis eta 10
Pamaculatus: ..0)..042 6. SWAnM RIV, Aeon eet crs his 10
TOP te io Skee Wa NIVeI 5. ohana 10
SUPENM AGUA. |... A ek SWE eT VE IS ccs, tt Mon ye 10

Paeeenhrons. ./.. 2/222. Swan River..... Rear anes el

SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

DASYCOLEETES: (. 2... 008. oo bccn ee bo ee 11
INWIMETOSUS 1 226i. See. Melbourne’... . 2 eee 11
VALPELTONS, Cols ce oe wee Swan River. ....) oo.

BURYGLOSSA. (4.'.% foc oa bate dee ee 1
quadrimaculata ........ Queensland ..... . 20 12
Simallimia -<.. veces oe Swan River. ...2 >) eee 12
Ti DIGAbal |. cao smeneees we Swan River... .. eee 12
MTOPA cseox ose evens Maer toes Australia...:..\ os: 13
plana. eee err W.. Australia, °. 2 See 13
\UeMMNda s,s Slsa ele iee Champion Bay ........ 13
TMACUlatas. Yt een eee Swan River... 2.52 13
MUUGiueKOMS, 62. ss te ee Australia): 5.47.50 14
TUbEICatay a. ec wees Swan River... $2 Saeeee 14
Ha VOPICLAy ics si oe ene Champion Bay” 2" eer 14
halictttormis ..0.56 ee: Swan River?) 7) see i
vallosulam ots suka aes Swan River. /) 4 15
EMICOLOT a4). iis Seen Swan River... . (ogee ees

STILPNOSOMA. 2.06505 cee ev aie wis ee 0 we Se 16
lesvicatumy jciycty terete Queensland :. .) ogee 16

PROSOPIS ose in PP cea ee lu) eee 17
obtusata 2 Ee eee Swan River. . ss 17
DUEPUTAGA ke oes ee Adelaide «<3. aoe Bly
Guadriceps +5 2dass 2y2v Australia .:.»...20 sayin 17

cognate: : SP hr us vse eae Champion Bay ........ 18
elongata sic) on ecy erie Adelaide. i: 5 hese 18
bituberetllata ,<......«:. Melbourne: .\.-. 25. 18
honesta? 2% 5.02 eae Tasmania: «4, 2) eee 19
TObUMALCEpS! \ sy Ae Pe Melbourne. .:... 3 eee 19
area, So 5.2 ater.) ete Champion Bay ..... 19
HUSULATIS ne eal usecase Be he Makassar’... ..:c & 0) hee 19
Dlackburmils: ¢4501 0 lets Sandwich Islands ...... 20
PUSCIPENMIS. +. 2%... Js Sandwich Islands ...... 20
PACWIS CH 8s, & veere eh Mae are Sandwich Islands ...... 21
ilanis’ ee ee Ae ee ees Sandwich Islands ...... 21
VOLapIiS:s aciae ie Maven eee Sandwich Islands ...... 21
TUGOSAY = x,3,0 sn we ee St. Paulo... .. sce 22
VASUANIS: ¢ vise Beene Central America . -2-yen 22
maculipennis . 552.30. Mexico, . ....2.4.2 gene 23
trepanda . 04. Weeder Mexico) ......... 5. «coer 23
lateralisizn..5. were W. Australia. : . ogee 23
PEORAMIA }. <a) oheae IE hale W. Australia. .. see 24.
albomaculata .2....¢e... Swan Jtiver... ..i5/s55ee 24
varicolor.....) 2... 2er,> Queensland...) eee 24
pelietrata.< 2. Foe s0.e ae Australia. ...:.°¢)3eeee 25

torrida. Ws.2 se eo eee Queensland |. :.6) eee 95

SYSTEMATIC INDEX,

PROSOPIS (continued). |
mianieatan.. 26 6k. ss. 3 Siam IRIVOR Ja. see oe

PETRY il eee lie Ne JESS GI TLE NA inet eg ra
ST) Moreton Bay”: ..: 5.3...

SMM ee. oa) Sha sishace's eles ww oe 9 88 Gm slags jenge
WSLS ri Trans baikall (5 6. sie
PUMEVEMGETIS .......20.5 Natal’ sateen emesis
SOUEOMS, css ee ee Iona ay nae ss weet:
MOMiaAMUS ss... 1. ee Northern India... 543...
GAGUPENMIS 2... es Northern India ........
PUOSMIIS 2... ee ss IMVORTCOR Wescaky ster ah onan aks
PRsseOMmis, .........- ORD ANT fla: cist ancestors
LES) 0 rere Calleuttay ei. < maucteers motes

Sn eB etre. yee 0 ayes = och on os, eR ae mle Or
SMeraeGINUM .. .. 6. ess Soutn Mexico... cia:
SSCUCIMOSUM ...4..68.- 1 DCE a ee RC od eT
le eei 1) bs AML ci Aya cera ete

Oe UES) ot EIS aes AU ra ae ae 28 I rae er aa
REHeCEOMS: 0 eee ls Bombay sitet st tct eo:
MORBAMS ee ve eee es Covlonye wees eee eres
PMOUS Neate ae se oe els Centon eens co Kangen econ ate
PVORAMAMIS:. 50.86. se es Ne Sapam s ies wears ees
bro ieCa INS a DaI at koe atte arene et
albpo-zotiatus .......-... LER TUaN CONE Oia sos wecne s
RG) IN AERA eainy''s a stoa ot ane
UCC ee Wihate, Nulep:, 3). fascia
albo fasciatus .......6....% Dou ths Adricay i hain sy etetens
PERSO TRUES 5, « s,.sis,0 ss 0s ses Bort Natal. 5 0.) iceee
COMMONS oo ee as omtiAWriCa, +.) .2e)<--tee ae
PMPEUPEMMIS, .) 04-60 vs 8 os WieAcus tralian) en ntey.
WAMMCIMOSUS 64.6.5. ss PRU UES VAL as ores che ols, siaearerer
EOMEPICUUS | .5 5.66505 Acs tralia enh oe cual
TICIIRETS, aS eae rere wal lVers cu. 2 9 essai
GOMVOEXUS = 2. 6k. wee We Waletordahn tis: ti ers eee
APMIS i, oes a's ads eles Champion! Bay. ).y.. ses
TINT ree yvadan IRTVEN’s; .. ...) slelekdanenste
WAACIMAMIS. 46 Gals eviews s Champion Bay ........
UTI sw, lesa blade Champion Bay ........
PUMCtAtUS 2. we Champion, Bay. .../......
TC) en a MGXIC ONT ie)ie 5 a a ode ee
SPPOUIUS a5, 5i)s) 0, 4 a ata id IMIS RICO es tag co ard aes
BMAD eg na 152, (ee aso vo Ose eal Mest COR 5 4255 ox etn
ROGUES a's 5 aj eicpns orhcriees INFSSEI COW gs! wee thos aia. ai cea
GOSOTMS: . oc .5 55s stole eet MOMICOMS sre sis, 4 stor eee
PROVIGENS os, a. uO)! Guatemala ...

placidus

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Page
ACOSO MEA ib cid Salk Ree be eg RRR Sie Cen Se 39
GISCOLOT) 2.7 eras. ta eee Me@XICO. | ....6.4 @ 03) 40
AWCOnMIMAle nce eee Ghali fc ikea 30 «eee 40
ARAL ears te aerate es Brazil: sb s.chsre neo ee 40
mMaromeatiMo¢ ec. ee Chil 0.025% nee 41
qmeuUnduima yg! St: Paulo... 2. eee 4]
AUGOCHDORA: 2 0.5 cic atic ai aiece Saube o ee eee 41
ACigala:. 5. wear ne nee Uruguay...) ee 4]
CTONICE).. 6 5 a. cloves cote Uruguay .... ... seca 42
Callister S440 eee a eae Monte Video /.)...;seaae 42
ACIS ce ei: ake Dies ee eae ee ene Uruguay... 2) .2. eee 43 -
BOTOMOS Oc hoes wees St. Paulo... .\2. 5). eee 43
deidamia 25 c.. emce eee St. Paulo... % <aseeeee 43
FEROMTA Se so 2 ue eke ROR Constancia ;..... 2 3ee8 44
CALVPSON 8. x erohalere at ahaiehate Santarem: : 6 4c. 0 eee 44
CHEYSEIS 5.5.4 eee ee Guatemala >... 0") eee 44
PESUUVED | ais & tence icuereen ne Santarem) « -.:../2 2) ceca 45
Jeeta s:. Gia tie ihe a otene eee Higa. lee 45
BIGVONE "et he tle ses St. Domingo. 73.3. 45
MANA wk Bice meee Santarem.;”: 3.020. eee 46
(OCH Lt: RR eae seme © ee St. Paulo... 5 eee 46
TISCIS 1 See ee ae St. Paulo...........240 eee 46
aapasia "7. Fey sce ee Mexico .......:.)45 eee 47
MeEDESCENS ~.:.9. 4 aes « Amazons.........,. nese 47
SUITOUG: © oats eisieu sweets Mexico. ....... 3 47
MEGALOPTA.\.. yo... ss oath dead hae ee 48
PUK PUTA ee is Meter eset. ie ata yalic'vt-d tenon tone ee 48
nigro-femorata ........ Bg, 2). ccceien tee ee 48
DilOSe ic Chie Pe ee St. Paulo....:.:....4 eee 48
VIVO ora ae Re eee Para > -.. csc. nd a ee 48
CHPFHTONS 5 ice eiaelne ce St.-Paulo......\.ce 8) tee eee 49
OMmatar: 205. vee St: Paulo... eee 49
ANDERENA sic. 2. 20 BROT aieeniclinge ta 50
EOMEUCG). «is, 6a ate nie eee Bombay. ~./<\..:.s.: Geer 50
MOMS TA ns shee Res Bombay: °:. 20.0)... eee 50
COMMUNIS) 72)... eee North India) “232-6 50
VIGO Cun eke Bee North China: :.. . 25.0 51
dentata; \....°. Heck. SE MeRe S. Japan. s.1 1 Pee 7 fol
FAS CUO) cis. eos Ree Me@RIG0 sc siden. ee 51
MISCLCUA (2.5 orcad ss fee: MELO 05 iosieieteneee ee 52
BOGAN ica cs ohcds ME Mexico 10.5.8 8... eee 52
Sim latay.a cutee SA MEXICO. ..).-cic-th rene ee 52
BOULIS eles eens ies Se México). 32.00 1. ee 53
IMOGESUA &. 27 .cMe one teNeee Mexieo: 484.05)... Meee 53
COMMOnS, 2. SHER ey, Canada’ 4; pine. eee 53
flavo-clypeata .. .....: -00) Camadan cia +... eee 54

SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

ANDRENA (continued).

PAPANGG fhe oe See sie ks Cautadavts 22 eee ee ee, tes
Pest) Uy A A Canadarounmcct se cetaret ace
SUD e, «(See ee oe Vancouver’s Island ......
ooo) 0 26) a or Vancouver’s Island ......
SPAPPEMIIR oes cal sia ele wee Vancouver's Island ......
Cache Vancouver’s Island ......
SMURICOMIS, .. os eee ee Vancouver's Island ......
SUB AAMS te. ee SoublvAtricaie . ko ee
DMUs ee AN aiball ae evi. .keiac 5 Aen eee ae
memdetta. i... . 6 ENA eta eins os ty suena eee
PEMEBCDEUA oo ke See te be bib awe eee cleaae
L102 5 oS irri d BDU GOW OY Miata rae oma urea oN
ferminmalis:....s5...... NG eal hia ey gk 5 sa ans Soe nie ae
a DIC TES) SV: age
aaeUl0e, oe PORN ey actos «stan wo ene
tenuimarginata........ NRE SSI CO} nie ye San ean
Clypedlian. 25.5. ee ee we Mle COrg i756 Seek ar Saeed
PRCHOROGA) 6... 1 ee ees Venezuela
APIDZE
SS OIE Ta Lee og GES aR MRSS lhe Se Ute a ea
Gunormis, of. 655....".. Borman 4ies Sees n ns
OE on Oe Ge Tr nee eee a ares ee eee
emmipplata os SUD OTTER ces ape ay teckel Ne
TLS ar re UDOT BO a5) wes ii ae a ate
UMEAUSIS! 5. 6. uc ee 2 S110) 2) 211 PRES el ean pe aa NN
oon AA OUTS LU Eel tA Se ee AT
WMBELC SUA Yi. ss ee kee Cape of Good Hope......
MVAGAIIES ae 2 ka tela ed ia'e te VARTUDT SA eae eri enaNenege SIAC:
BAAN c) ioe oxel arts a erwle Se NC e ee os Gay Ge eet
EOUUTINGGA 5.5 ss sisi eee Sie AtiriGaly .. adie obra
BIMOSECHIS. os < ciel a oss Wehite. Niles. ee
MIMOCES TAM « o6 scoePara lenders ss IWikhite: Nile: s/o) sueanaees
consanguinea.......... Nataly eee as cents arene
GUMOKCULALA. . eels cuss Sierza Leones) 4 owas
FEES) A eee aes eee Queensland) 3.0.) aes
ELSIE Gn eae eee SW AMeVely 0. aay ee
PICLIVEMENIS 6 6 1.5 6 wy Richmond River ........
COTE SS Se ee eee West Australia ........
OMlOM MAS oes ae ew Ales West Australia ........
HNWOWASAHS. occ sn Goarecs MoureseStraits:). <q. wee
SU ATTT KS) aea ee a a Ye NTOVSsh ro} (0 a

x SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

MEGACHILE (continued).
albomarginata ........
seutellata won...) seine
diligens tavaicl. bv shen
Gardens’. Haste a yt. oak
Memecrabangen). heey lek
LEMMOTATAy ant. ks Seis
fulvipennisii. |. saiscGie
POMAG a oi Ss seen eee

MOTIVOUA og) tee eas atic: See eae
determimata ......<..-
barbatulla ja. 256 2 kee
pulchtay. yi. <tr
Optex hi. tet noe
Va ES Sook ok ok eae
CRASSIPCS) 454.2426 siiee
compacta 5. 5.2%. Meek.
nilarish its ele cr teers
SIKEMU Ges As ota as eee
BOTLISR es est meneame
PUDICUNda Wace oe a -

S Moderata <2) 244 6 ees
pull ata, «Bie erates ee ie
PLOpINGa eee any eee
MeMCEAlIS 0 Nae ih ots hen
LUDEVeNtriss.. 40. 5 cer.
LOSSOPIS) oe bate kere ee

PUlOsa Re Seeks whet ee
VAGIAMS renee veo ete
Constructiix. 4... ne.
AM COMOTUA, Vee. eee ele
COPING, aos Sete keho saree ace
anthidioudes 2: .v..2e) ee
sedula ued,
POTUVTAMA YS 4 oe) snerw eo, eee
COMGIMM AL 5.6 caso See
SOlibaria ie 2s. bic, eee ee
elongatiay Vins tess Scunlert
EMMA wees ae re
decepirix 2... ee ee
OLEVAtA a cic se Re
viel nein 0s Ge eee ee
brewluseulayeet hk: ese.
writans .

candida . iE geen hie aes
bipartite wg Seen eee

New Caledonia..........
South-Sea Islands ......

Honolulu
Ceylon ..

eo j¢ 8 @ 6 =e eo ‘o ¢ (6) is) te) 0 ce

8) 10) (4, ie: Gene: ie) fe: iene) el re erue

North India). 4-2 ee

Bomba

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Hong Kong... sae

Idee
St. Paulo
St. Paulo
St. Paulo
St. Paulo
Santarem
Santarem
St. Paulo
St. Paulo

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Santarem
Santarem
St. Paulo
Fonteboa
Paras.

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St, Domingo. 32.) ee
St. Domingo... 3. 4 ae

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St. Domin
Mexico..
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Mexico .

SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

SP PRPRNIMUEN a S rae Ys adC Aba anisole s fe gale ecko a yeve géadi
compachum ...<... hie BOLCERA WCONE ec we 2 3h5,3
Cn re Odi Calalbar py 5 syst sacas sas
eae... es ues Netball; < oss cess aa ceatee ot
MMALOE 6 ks ss wes North! Tmnditag sige eis, ase
SES: Domi ay: 9h) ee ae ceca
OUTS Si Bombay 2:5, tess ee ote. 5
fopenicum ........... aati tec cio as pants toc
Bramawim .. 2.2 ek 1 BOUT eT eee SHEENA er Ng
ipchirymosum.......... Bowabary: 2 Sets) ie at cs) 6
maneplcabum §........ Shea. cuir en tere ss
flavomarginatum ...... ret zal 8 i's Se cic ate cae
Picoloravum :.:..:.... Miondovaies = sence
ROMOnGUTA® S566 oS Mendozasi% sek eae oe
‘clegantulum <::.:..... DAM CATCH setae ane es
SODA 0 are Db. Pamlonces scree sere:
irerineanuine ts ee. S MOXICO. ta. EN ee
EAGT 2. 32 2s aa ee IMOXICO. F028 aie ee tae
2/00 MioxaC OMe te ys, ean re
MeECMUM ee ee ke BOGUS spores tls oath cee eee

MNEs fe trea ey ce tk tite hailed aeoe ae Nas
COMPACLA is. 2.23 622s ss Philippine Islands ......
LE CLI)” Sp oii age North imdity.. sees eee
semmacwlata .......... Hong Kong and Celebes ..
MeMOENUTEXR ©. 2 ws es Burmealys.. ss). 328 ee oe
LET CES 2 eee Makodate 2c!) Via
amimaculata :........- Celebess 225 is t.ho
MWSUTONS 0 2. eee ee Celebre sarge ancl tae Ge
GOMMaba +265 bit. esse Celebes: 25: a aie3% ts 2. see
PMWEKEENS - 2. .. 8 8 AMAZONS 5 2... Bee
POUUMAICEPS: 2... es SATA EA ert con foft'e fac Meenas
THs 0 Ste Paulo eee ae
micolorata .. 6.5.4.5... | DEG Apne ae Cone cami Dace Ore
fompiceps ‘......% Ome 1 DFG otiy taba nA Vere cS ok
CUpPLCIVENtTIS. ..... 65 ©: Ae tes sane sinc APRS
CAN SCS) ae a ar DanivaeMae. Grane asks kee
PZT ee ae MICRACOM Ay far kn whee epee
PULLS) Ree ae MoxdCOW) aes sag eb s
SSS Se ee eae HSA Si eet Scns Soa

Snes 201 2] Beg ISS tr nny We Re gn ae
PAIROAOL ANS Ole Soe. y Sle wails EMD VSS ales, Mes sels aa
ORG Ata c-. <5, 5,5 sahiy oc. e's Cape of Good Hope......
HIE WGA 056 eo, so, shed ae Arp as coisa
PP ERUML OU ao oa kw apis Oma pst ee coi sa lel

NOMADA

SS Ore Paw enren 9) (eb7 meV Oe. Caemisel (a eM eh ¥iy ie, 07 lef Ser sen is) a wale? we iaibel wives weuke) le. te

subpetiolata .......... Bombay

Do CEC th Ce ce Oe ceo

Xil SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

NOMADA (continued).

IMEKECUENS) e0 2. se a ee St. "Pankoro ts.
nigrocincta Arctic America ite
IMGERCOPtA eee se Vaneouver'sal. 22. se
MOGULS. tee atone eres Canada i acento
albofasclata 2. fii. «ae Canadarets259.e, ene
MmOnLEZUMIG -.. 2... 2. Mexico....
AMMOBATES 2 occ ss Shlomo cs st ee ele
rufitarsis Sp aud ye IDORIa ee A.
EHPEOLUS At Bbadeccaare
matalensis . ess... heekee Natal. ic. os eee
PoRVIdMS 305%, 2 alge Bombay... 2 ct
MULE DICUS c.-5% 32 pope ete Mexico |... «cae
favorasciatis) .. eeaeue- IMeGXICO:... 2.5 30. eee
MASTICEPS Fhe; cea 2 wee California and Texas
WANS a aoe ote eee. ea sci 3 oo. oe eee
all bidrons: | Av; «7.0 o Ae Para. cic 6.5 fas eee
CEL LORY 'S 0 oe oc euast 2 eae aes paved e eee
ChY PCR. Wega sea eae Tonanting - 2.04.
AP TAWA: fo i's Aaa eee nines Hea... bow. se pee
OMAN aa. ga eee a ereaehe Gate St. Paulo 3. 40 se ee
VI Ulam ss > Feeyencaeeeiwe. «nae St. Domingo. . gee ee
arcentipes .. 2... 2c se 9) ierra Leone — ol kee
PEMCUTALIEX |. 5 « . tne Natal oo... Ja. cee
MAMUbA ee Bombay...) cheer
CROGISA. 2 a5 22g woe Ge eee ects 3. oes ie cee ee
ClEGANG oh ere siete Bombay —. ..)o3.) eee
lusubris. oo. siete Laie ee Australia’... :.'\ieesenee
quinquefasciata........ Madagascar ©: ¥oce eee
NEEGUSS AS. os cee ee ea ees ees
MINSTOMGS: <0 G cce we oe Mexico . oi o¢.,. Phe
OSDRES 32.556 520. oS ce een. 2 ee
darsatus ene +858 eee Tunanting. 2.455 oe
UCHR es aioe 6 sb dlaae CORN ee ee ee
CeTMINGS ob a eee S. Hirance oi. os6 see
CeCe purIX ia. 5 sewtye * italy S05 Cosa eee
PALES) “4. - s auore ene oe Polish Wkramt.2) eee
TULO RUT OWG 5. oye ne ace hetohedouets Dalmistiai 5 ta Seen
welurtinaytty...b.cee eee RY TIAS 652 ae ae
ASTRA EOIN EAS 2 athe ike oe ee
reversa . pees JU TOO Ati: aS

SYSTEMATIC INDEX,

TETRALONTIA (continued).
semacellicOrmis .........- Moxa Cor, GR ee os at eS
SERIE cs, sce sie sms os ica eg whieh eee eis:
melectoidés .........- Nala INGyatns ete en
20) TELS eg aa a ene Mendoza and Santiago
BeCOlata sic ce ee Oa, <p cae aeons
MM PN Ose cd ce oA EL ES eer Ae a Gh dah d bia. wu aidl hs
TENS oe as i nciaves acs Side aINO! pe seh a tals eee
EMICALA co ee se ea IW iGxaeOie si. ea eee Petia es:
MUMESCENS, 25... ..2..- Wallet Novas /c-0sGrra tua
PamMOrnICa:... 6.6. ed 6a es Calitornigivsioe vec sae eee
SS SUMEBMLEGN ocd 6 dia og 8 Ss Mire xo sek S's ar eae Shave ay
Sn Sh i renee WSS (CO am atlas a are een
BATES Sone paso el elite IMGT CON is: koa tees eau
OROOS NS af Ss ose ore Naltarem 4.) 5.) 7.) ebaoyiad<
2001 20 Memicom sist pee a
[NIRS 02 ore IMrei@ at 5) nie oan eee
PMU 0. hk oo aon se hw eo Bn Reem pe egeus
mucrelophas .......... Madagascan. 2s s5c45 oe
eomemevuUsS .......... IN aSS aye Soh oaerer eee:
EEE NS CUDA eg RN GI GS 2 3lie) ONS Ee en a a ee ae ae ed
montezumia Mrexiconers ss Pea ies
AGIs 5 oe eee MORAG O% 2 ists on @ Bache
bombyformis.:.../.°.... INE XA CO! <t coie os SUT IS aes
Pemmimatde 0.66. le es Maxtor 3 <a
fulva Guatemalan... 2290S
EEE CT a en a
FLTTL aria Siefralieones 255°. ale,
EEE: QU es eae Sierra, Meone: (20.0
“Suir = i er JINN Ee Aa inch eos ae Ais ae
POPE Sees vee es Natio ere ats aot wees ect oe
ROEMIEMALA)....,. . See Nextel eat hae Oo on
TOC GS ee ere Cane- Verdvils,, 5 ae
MeMEMCie 6 eo ARS SSS Re INSASSAY ee, aS eee
POUGELAUA. oh oe has Sle te sro? ied nn ate eee
emda. 6 iba Se we. | GCG We Ss Ona eee ee
SUS gia Rama Get over peat ING Oa Sine? ie gees, bah aE
Riess th le ee Sb, Domingos... vate.
eimengata-« . 2. 2s 8 bk: AuStraihiaie ss os Oe ete
MURS 2 6 Kk Slee Vancouver sl. 082. oaks
cineraria Wamneouvers: bi..5 23. eye.
SON CAO TEL NS eS ar Miner I a ater eee
bomboides . . Formosa

OVE ee taal ed SU fee aC) SS

XiV

SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

EXONVATIOPSIS. : o.oo ubeee Gate ue Sa: eee

UTC NPETNNIS i ecient Uae) oye eds tl oe so eee
plaMiceps’ =... wa. We nde Dunmanbims, 3: oa...
GAGS 1. a Pers, sa hoes Santarem....
AT LORG tes. aes eo cage Paes odd aa a eee
BUMGAESIS, “7 sie ee ae Jamaica 8.72202 2
HOWE weit acini en ee St..Paulo: . 20.4.2
fulvoOrdsclata..o. 0... Bahia’ 0 fos. 52>
HOIVESCENS “10 an se ee Mexico.. f

SURE TRATP EDDA. cscs 0050 4 Re 25 ce wor eo alwaer nc
VOlatwliG o.~.-cs.s.-cndeeehate Constancia. ..... eee
MOL VACLAN cars >.tseseh vege Sopa Constantia, ..... . 2
amplipenmis -...-..-. . 5% AMAZODS ...... . 3.) ee
WaSalign te, sh ace SER Fonteboa.. .... o.. sae
plumipes® 0... APY: Kea-).4 3. ees re
HAVIN EMMIS 5.4 <i Bae... oe eee
Mee VALEOMS, 4,..+.7.<.e0-. ee eie St, Paulo... .56 2032
punctiirons <.->.. ... Santarem . ane

WPICHARIS © 50s 4 bocce enh dlgare «lee ene Se a ee
Taeralisis pice ere Trinidad’. S..... . see

BOMBUS 05 oo. dscdw 24) oe OA ae ee
bellicosus 26-254, oe ee Sumatra or India.... ;
WVOMbIVASUS, eee ere Moolal .:. ...- 4). 3eeeReeeee
SOMES, 9.2 vit ese eee Japan .....24/ oe
DUeelMatOrIS es seen N. India. oc. . s.4355 eee
persomatus .....- «eke N, India»... 2
bicoloratus: cs ieee Formosa %...: |... ees
EY U6 (5) 01S aa ee Are eA Japan. 4.2. 0s Js). ee
UNnifasciabUs 4 ots 0. eos Guatemala .2..6:0 4.37
excellens’ 2s. da. ee ce Venezuela“... 2° 2 eee
OPUS Gabe kee oh ane ae Santiago and Mendoza
laberaliighe. «iva, cen eee koa Guatemala: “1:71.20 eee

EUMENIDE.

ODYNTRUS 9 oc ee Wad SSG eee elt ee
Vocalist so icici .c tices Sandwich Is. _.. 7) ae
MNAUEPUG wo wie a wtiaren an, Foote Sandwich Is...” .. =. 53ee
EWOLUGUNCEUS 4 1.00.7. reine Sandwich. lg:. .:.. 2:
WMUGMG AIMS: » +. ¥,0.+.05 Aa es Sandwich Is.. so... 2. See
COMGEOUS ~a.;.. eee. Sandwich Is... 2). aaeee
Gubiosus \ 5.2.5. eee Sandwich Is: .«.2 Sees
ACTS Ye eo tat aE ee Sandwich lis... . 2222)

CRABRONIDE.

OE BRO eae it EU ROP ER OR oh OR er

affinis es Sandwich ls. 7.) 925) qaeaee

SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

CRABRO (continued).

PAMMTOUIATIS 6 ewe) oie Bamdmeetn TG, igs easats ita cp
denticornis AMC WAE Ny Lge) cil dayerovmaysy aes
LARRID.

PI Se ee rte One Bec es
PEMUpoMMIs, ........5.% Sandwich Test. tee...
MMs ie et es Sandwich Is.

POMPILID.

LS 2 Sea OS i a a Oe a
LOPS 6 ere Pa Pain Cel orc ies arenes rw) oe
Grmampennmis ...... 0... Central A trices 7 i.0s ome
CLL i PM AMG map se se > 6 sie oi
subpetiolatus.......... Gambia, cuktonetpe sien ease
abdominalis ....... Women ects. Tvs bee.
BAMMEUOUES Fcc. | Layne ahaa JAN ESE a Aa ere Eee
Ug en PAN eR a2) diaper 7G Ke cciahe
i 2 INViaSSaie ie! tess haters yee
Ramus .6. 2... ee Gamble... 3. 402 ss eee
PeOMIMatHS .......... Almera ee Oe ecu aters a:
ReMi ran 5 xsi oi, Vs DAU TICR 0: 6 we atarelocs ee
MAGIGTOSUS) . 6... 5. ks INU 6 OR ac het Seated ogee
“UL ee NierraeLeone. | ...\c cee ashi.
PEMAPEMNIS. 2645) 6 cata eia ss Sierra Leone. -.eisosie ex
LUD LGLS) 2 ee eee WPAREIGA 5. . «> Setasieebier.
LIGonS 3 ee Sy Astra Gal. ss, ) cae eens
Sepulehralis, .,..% 0+... Nataly ts hin. erates
(2 ee IN ater Daan tee. 2 eh en eae
PIPESDERMUS! . 20-0 e's wd Nataly ba aticta ater
LL? (eres POLE AT CY ie Wee EOE ean
Re Aes. 2s chutes SUT AETIAN Lon a cic 1s ods aeiae
STD 10S a rrr SuMAAGEAL, 6 havik 2 s)Al prateniee.
ATS 3. 4s a es 2 SUMAtray bes... Stepan
PEGMOSHS . os ses 1G eS Penne Patter ns
EaMyOSNS .. cs vis aes ‘Buna | o's ee eaten eat.
pullatus.... Trebizond’. oy .2 secs lae rad ek:
PMOL > alls seles Oma Ney sit. RMS,
ephippiatus bombayer oo. cheacte ee
MUGEPIGLUS |. jo ies ears Bombay ike Hares ede
SESEONAUS, 200% 8. hoa Bombay ep .-.ae ieee
SOMEMANIS) - 2. gy Oe sone Caleution nvr etsy:
PME ohare ilt, tees PADOIG skirt, e Roedcuciia CREE
PLOPINGUUS ... giles vee. NAR aan ck. . odekasaqeieeers «
elegans .... nda srs 33, 5 Ret beret
BERUICUS 9... eRe ¢ New Hebnidespisis 2 ca=xe-
PolyapeNnMIs... vtlex bist. « OS AMES UT oi) so) was doo aR
PAO e.0%. 2.5 bangehase inet Queengland . vice elon:
COUSMMINS. 0. Shr wiaiseny: Qireensland +. a.c1.qeeeet.

xvi SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

POMPILUS (continued).

PEO peMMIs es) es Adelaide © :,. 0. 2 ee
sanguinolentus ........ Swan River ...0-: 2 ee
PAPUCMSIS yh douse es New,Guinea.. 05.03. ene
BGG Pec. ras eee oe ae Uruguay sf... .u... eee
toperculatusy, ..10. sk Moendoza% .... 10% oa eee
CUD Cabus oe. he cee Peru». cies oe ee
MAUS GS. 6 coe ee meaner Cordova. ....% 225. oe
FEPLEsONtaMs\. eagle ei Uruguay . 2...) yes
LIMITE OLOT W: «. Gis paste ce Guatemala .. . .... eee
COLUSCUS 2.4 a eee Guatemala ..°\... 33
AMP OTIS. c>.te vaeuey aaa Costa. Rica .....,.. aaa
Warnlomtus +4 0) hee Costa Rica ~... .. cee
Havoplcuasa emcee Costa Rica |. 22. 0..eeaeee

IPP SIG - 6 e305. os ee we ath De aie ie aloe 6 er
SOUCATIUS - Mis encore tet Costa. Rica... vacates
OPEMMUS 26 \.)5 che coke Ree Costa Rica ©... 5)

PRIOCNEMIS ©. .: ci 2200). 2h se i er
MeSVIS' sss stale Costa: Rica: . 2 ee

THYNNIDE.

(ETYINNUS....occaaiiet BORE oe ete eer
penebratigia: Aah a. Cee Hunter.River, “7203 aee
MASCALOT vse: Yas caine Adelaide. ........2.). eee
PUfOpLebUS' os ee 5) Me ee. Adelaide... .. 2). J3eeaee
PROLCEVUS i 6 5% cee Adelaide. . ..... .. a eaee
GeCcoratusy.. 225.45 eeu Adelaide ......... 7.2 ree
fulvopilosas. ... 27... 2273. Adelaide....\: >. S200 .aaae
muUliipietus «.... eee Adelaide... . 2. eee
PLOPIMGUUS> Vek bese Adelaide... 25... 2 eee
tuberculitrons ; {..eh a: Swan River’. 22.2
SUSPICKOSUS \,..iaue een Swan: River... 9).
WAN ACUIIG 4 eaatee snc. a tceennes Swan. River... [oe
OPPOSItUS 45... 6s. tances Swan. River .... 20 oeeee
ipregmlanig;. 7... hse Swan River... .2-aeee
OxcoHlensii . 255 f.aeeen Swan. River... 0... eee
INSICHALORE cheese at Swan River ..). 0. ase
aternimus ....+...20.) Swan River .. 9). eee
petploxus £22... ae Swan. River ... .70 ee
petulans ... oft Swan. River... eee
migropectus... 2... 4... tes Swan River 2.2.) Jee
WESOUGCSe ac dala deer ate em 8. Australia... “ose
MMOL ESE 05-20: ers ST S. Australian... 7). eee
Stransulatusiaeeny a. ok S. Australia... 2a
PAVIGUS... Heck Hagen S:; Australia... 222 e ee
nubilipennis ...... Queensland: .. 1... . Same
perelegans.... Queensland ..

fig Se

SYSTEMATIC INDEX. XVil

THYNNUS (continued).

Page
SIMEON «2 oe eee et Champion: Bay. 28005), 167
RIMOSUS ke vee = Championcbayrys 0. 2000 168
MAOMOSHS oe ek Champion Bay: .....2).'.4 168
POOIONS Champion Bay.......... 168
MeeeMOr cee ee. Champion Bay 2. ..).0 5.4. 169
MOGISHMMCLUS 66. ee Wi ausoralia. .. erecent 169
(6103 er (Austhalliam a nenen oho 170
flavovariegatus ........ Australians. .sc2uvudel 70
PAGUOBUS 66205 se Australia. (05; oe ee: 170
TLDS! Goel se Masmianmiane ss ce poe ee 171
Sametans 2... ee Morty Island’: 28) 326s liga
SEMEMUUMS 6 cee ee Chilean ne seater 171
Memncerimug foe Chili... eae 172
MUIOMIMENNIS ©... ee ws. Ola rG Sac eee 172
memetomiuer ..;...<.06- Chili... iss Beare 172
imtamematUs: ... 6. Ghali ss ee es Cah eae ee 173
albofasciatus.......... Chiles 6 eee aa 173
poeenmus ss... 1s ' N; Patagonia «2... 00006: 173

MES i. ie ee ne a ee ee OR OS 174
SMM CMU: oi. Queensland: 2... 2) fees 174

So wel SS GUA eRe irae a a 174
Ci TS ala SeoAneniGat eis. 2 5 ae ene 174
SMBeMMGGA << 2s. eee ee brava gs dea, 48d, cane eka eee = 174
2010) 0) ee ee Champion’ Bay. -2.00.. lao

MPP ONUE I oe ce edhe kc dee ee ne wens 175
GMAW a ss ee oe es WAiclelaidey shia Os ies 175
fuscipennis ......... eo Queensland ys. 62 LO
MMSORIS oe es mG elaidonne ine rucre noe ee 176
Peas. -..2..... Champion Bay... .. 0.5. 176
SpeAbeeMe ss. te AMISETAlA 2). cov sla ce, LTT

MMO A EVAL oe eis sige ob es ce cae cu we he te LAT
CarwoMalla.......5 6... Rioidedanciro ) 223. 2 Ty

SCOLIIDZ.

CEASE C5) - oy ci iB eae a a a ge aa 17
PUMTCORMIS- 2 i. va. oe SUCH Vie ttle Ao eee: 178
GUIGVUEONS: | 6c ei pe SCI ee... ee, 178
ICITOC Ea Ae Gambia) 2s (Re as: 178
PISMARIS! 9 soe asc oka ee Madagascan: 2:34.98) 050+ 178
Eommpusta «sa. eS Unga aah se eB Ose, 17g)
Penidane ou. ees UN We Dade vhs Se ee, 179
omencalis.....5..<./0.. - Beloochistan. . 2.90.00). 179
Simalama; 3 ee ea SE Paulo. ee eae, 180
WUCUMMa . 5 eee ee. Sty Paullor-o. . cst Seaeees 180
alpomaculata. “255.700 ATM AZOMS Es 5 cas a 181

XVlli

MYZINE (continued).

iridipennis......

coniusa. .. 4:

ARAB Ge. 5. TEE
PICINELA, 1. Ae Bees eee

fallax

Hayicornis.....1eeon

_ SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

Page

Ce Higa... Or
lana 2 gas Bue lao rn 182
“eeu Rigae Nicaragua ..... 4-96
Brazil? 4... eee 182

Mexico:. . 0... «ss ee
Chil... : ..40.... wee

EDP Ato 5: De haat hia e RON Aki od Veeder
fulyapennis |... Speed Albania ....... ao.
consueta «) Ceylon . 0. ..0)) 4 184
natalensis. .....jvegik aden Natal... 0... 2 184
Pu Osa ey, ee eee Filo . 185 mmm
penetramix) Jo: eee Sierra Leone . 185
solitaria.... it ene 185
parallela Eiga ..). 00 tee 185
Salutatrix ..0 6.05... sf ee Ae 186
ammpaniilas cue anaes. Lc ret 186
oblonga... . 2 abexn Columbia . ......3ee 187
clyneatamen. Mer ekme las. Mexico’. .;-\) 4 32 187
subspinosa. . Mexico.......... 0... eee
intricata S., Mexico. ...: eee 188

DIMORPHOPTERA ceivbald. Ja.s 0) ee
cognata . aaa so 0) SWan River > 5). 188
LS) G0) 00 ala ree ee S. Australia... <j gjuueane ee

SCOLIA wb i pa dhe ss tn yeidone 5 9 eh thee rrr!
alpoumbriata,.. 2... Costa Rica . 22255 pee

MUTILLIDA.
MUTT AR eos 2b ak SO, Re ee rr 189
African Species,
OGUSON TGR eke eae te Cape of Good Hope...... 189
anoulata. satin we woe Cape of Good Hope...... 190
PUT UMALA.. sc iets ere Natal ).0.5 24). 43.5 190
dolosawte.s.. Vic aeons Natal «vv a see 190
eomupatatan vedas ee Natal: 2s... .5 re 191
PrEeM aK, “a seas, Sovkeyeretane Natal... i, .. eee 191
INCONSPICUA, 24. cee Natal <> 2.0.7.2 oe 191
stimulatrix S. Africa: .....,. i932 192
petulans W.. Africa... 45 @heeee 192
hormday),.%.... Agemmebe Zambesi 5... sae 192
OULU A AIS. Aoat 4p leoe one Madagastar .... senienen 193
penetrate,’ .....epay ee Madagascar ...:..<25 he 193
Geciplens win), “wacmiaecee Natal? i0.... shee 193
SECHIS 0 ile. St eae neo Bee Natal’: oo fo... 3; eee 194
speculainixes. & atria. - Natal 0... ae 194
crudelis( i ne ae A a ee. eee 194

7 4

SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

MUTILLA (continued).

PGRIEAIIIS: 8 cove it. 1 a ty, de at
POM dg hw ws see KO PN allies rere, gins HA ne
PPIEIICW A... =... 55 2 Hs Danira Hand... .,. s02%es*
M8... ea Lake Neamt. .....0)) saci.
“2/0 MANEHeRE oo ees. os). KR
Reem Oe sd) 0.0: PUNO. ace a a i SRN
Pueatemorata ...:.....- AV eRe CAN yy oa, ch eeteanters
~ S02 Die a pes Ke OM Meo AL A oa 3
(S027? ar Teale: Nyassa: |...) etaster

Asiatic Species.

ALS re BOM payne. 52, ee ieee
BEM. .-..>-...4+-+. Bombay

MOMAGESIS, 0... . seen es RAD ate 8 Seon ss see ara: os
argenteomaculata ...... PSO TMD Vie coe Beleney evevees
Litiii. [2 ROMANE wus done Ae
Simameulata 2.055 ees UNE @hitiay sh a0 4 oye, eae
ee eS ier os Celebes.) Soe Folens ae
285 te AE WER oc a hay eae
DSi 2 ere ee Chima hie Sw” itn ete

Australian Species.

2G ee Australia ... eee
30201) wan quiver ..\.. Aghwee
PaNGICOrMIs ......'. 2+. New South Wales ......
J?2 8: | 9 Aa eine Champion Bay.......:.

LER) Champions Day’. oocgcnon 7
i re Pdlelaide ste). ye cote
Loc! Champion Bay u2...55..6) x.
(cine Champion Bay) ii. aan
AEONOSA: 2. ee le Champion Bay..........
LIC Magma nia: (60. 3. eapawlacee
emp lMeATA) oe os. s wee Champion Bay. 44... sou
CODD Champion Bay.....<...-.
S02 ere Champion. Bay =.) ae:}eon-
TUES MG eIAIMG) ere ey ara
DOU a Melbourne’: 4.08 ake:
bicolorata ..... Hy suewenias Nicboriare it nite case) sae
SPUCTUOSA . «owns wees os Moreton Bay. ~is:i4).<4 05%
ROAR Fh eo ss, 2c Sie io Champion) Bay... .<.s4uen,
RMeMOIdS os se nde New Guinea... casey:

South-American Species.

BEASSICORMIS |. jus feats < RN IMAAOMS : bres heats acy evk as
SEUIOUS ot. ss wyemlenr : DP Yig eC 11121.0) 1 ane a eee
2721 TNS MAME Ste es 72 Nae ae
MAVESISALLIK 5... », ieals5 04 O20 leg See Cree are?
ME MRACE A es ooo fiiptizskaulo .:>,

PIN PR oo sy ess Chas arate de) dure

AP Baers; 0) e: GB |p Dive. uke 6) my wet (renee

XxX SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

MUTILLA (continued). Base
VAIN CLO ROS U ew, Sec, eae alae Gay iG) a. 210
VemablIX 25s) Wa eee PIE aise ae vss oe 210
GIUSCUMSA sci. co eeenee cara Para. ee. eis 15 210
CR ATTEN OV ea erases A ead Brazil sia i 210
IMSICUOSS, = a0. se eee Ee fee. ac uats Soe 211
pectoralis:-. vee Rio de Janeiro...) 2a 211
crenulata i. = ee ee Venezuela: ... 0-52 211
auromacilata ©. ssn. Venezuela. v.. 2.0 (eee 212
PertiMam <6... Hates he Mendoza \..:.3 0.) eee 212
TVAMSUCEA, oho ae the oe ee Bea co. oh. i 212
PALASUPICR Wei). cS Braz... oe 213
SpuMbtera 7) Stack eae Para 213
simulatrix cl. on ke Ea oe 213
Solitaria)... sae ee Obydos «0-0... 214
vacabunda is 56 cee: Santarem 2.) 214
SD Aba ele es Ge erie te Hea ois eer 214
diligens: 034s ee Venezuela... J 2 eae 214
perhidioga, <.-. ey Venezuela’ ........4 4a 215
Societe’ aco ee Neuador .4:..0:.:) ee 215
albomaculata.......... Chilt....0.4 0.552 0.5 216
OLTAGICA eicnn ick ce soe Mendoza *......23.. ee 216
rufoscutellata: 2.0... - Parana .. 4... 02 oe 216
BOrdidula 245s Wee Mendoza ‘.:.-.-.... eee 21h
fascinata. if... 2.08. Oko Pert oe 5 217
Marginipenmis) 2:2... ©: Patan! 5 fee 217
femMUis ls DOE | Sie: eR CA A 2 297
wrresularis i: Ci. de yet S. America -......) ose 218
OTe 6.) atesetech wee aR Villa Nova... 0520 218
maculipennis.......... Higa 3602. 219
excellons 02, 2 is Kiga? 219
Gentaba wee Pe ee St: Paulo :.-3.5, 03 eee 219
Malina. oo... ee ee E884 ce 220
AMIPOE TIONS .:. feos ee ee Para ee oo 8. Pee ee 220
G02. Re ge Sine a ae Para: dc eee 220
PEORIA |. cule Mis sarees Pardee ob oe Ri See ee 220
WMIGAS ose ere Oe ae Para. ee ee 221
mandibularis.:......... BGO ac sds eel 221
heemarioides-..-...2.. 2. Uruguay <2... 7 eee 221
eracilescens ...- 0:4... Uruguay ¢..:..: 2.8 eee 222
pubescens>.+. i wn ee Mendoza -. 0.00.) 222
WOCAMA§ 1.4.06h. loess Mendoza ......:.:.. oh See 222

Species from St. Domingo and Central America.

melancholica:.:.-..... >. St. Domingo... 7472 eee 223
araneoides . ccs. ee ee Nicaracua: >...) cee 223
macrocephala -........ Orizaba.s 20.3 so on eee 223
MUMIA 44 ere ee ee Mexico ..0 2 Ate 223
ducalis +4... cA ee + Orizaba.- cee. 3) 224

Taxuriosa se ee i Mieco] eee 2 oa 7 ee D4.

MUTILLA (continued).
TULUT Sar MeMIeO a Ate ™ Ca See
LA ee NICO Sop See Ss, ak
Grmmianta) ...- 6 ee a Wieser ys hece oti es
morOriigia .....-..-.-- MiGxdGONe 2 Sed SEL or
URS kn IMeraiGor Oey tiers oat se es
(20 Central America ........
PORPMSIMOA .. ts. TU eps (CO ee ee
Pet MnAPEEX oe ek MiexICOY s Gants ple ce
SEMEL ce ks se IMioxacOic sn rt sous as
Pruning... ee MERI COM TS 2 let ei ers

Ee ee ae a ee
MUPRIEEDS) 5 we es Brazilly, knew amorrstatoiates
ROMMNIICEA 2665.6 es ess TOE Rates dee caer apne eae an

PONERIDZ.

SL aN yasaks Nira ee ae GRE

GMEATIS| 2 ww ee Sandwich Islands........
ICHNEUMONIDA.

ok. neo tb oA
JC Waste RiGatn or «is: cries cescs,
CRT er Costarivica s,s a. a
CRUG: ¢ i Costachteas ja. 58
Jae, ¢ an Costar Rica, We kn vos oo

MCE Ses ee ek ok Re cela calelginle wleieie e e@eves
WRGROSUS eo . . ace es os Costauhicar 5 65s an ee
premeipalis\.. .......+.. Costaehica ats 8.

LE Sa UE ete
feRMUPINeUS .......-.- Costa: Ricai: . 2. een 2:
Tein re Costar Ricay os ish ee. ais

Do Epc SUNS GIRS clipes nls ANS eae a
MISCIMUS .... 2... Costamiticae ost 70 ee ee

intrudens .

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SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

UL STHS Aon oe

variolosa
pulchripennis

Slemantula 2. 26. nods.

modesta

levis

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Wy Oliv 8) GMa) (Cree 8. Cw oe) ome

ees ese eer eae ee ee

CostaciwiCan ss ee

Costar Rica <2 80.8. ee
Wostaniicay. 6 os Gili gc
Costa-Ricae .. ou... odes
@ostaviieas- eka. ee

COstarivicao). so.) 6. eos

OCOsGa PINCH) 52 oc, ss ale an

NEW SPECIES

OF

mae MENOPTERA.

ANDRENID, Leach.

COLLETES, Latr.

1. Colletes perplexus.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Black ; the thorax with fulvous pubes-
cence above; the abdomen with white pubescent fascie; the
pubescence on the face whitish, as well as that on the cheeks, on
the vertex it inclines to fulvous; the flagellum of the antenne ful-
vous beneath. Thorax with short dense fulvous pubescence, long
and pale at the sides of the metathorax, also beneath and on the
legs ; the floccus on the posterior femora beneath white, the scopa
pale fulvous; wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures black, the
tegule pale rufo-testaceous. Abdomen shining, the basal segment
with fine punctures, which are somewhat distant in the middle; the
other segments very closely and finely punctured ; all the segments
with white pubescent fascie.

Hab. Mexico, Orizaba.

2. Colletes nitidus. =

Female. Length 5 lines.—Black; the pubescence white; that on

the thorax above slightly tinged with yellow; the abdomen very

bright, smooth, and shining. The clypeus strongly punctured ; the
B

2 ANDRENID &.

flagellum of the antenne fulvous beneath towards the apex. Thorax
shining and punctured; wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures
fusco-ferruginous. Abdomen impunctate at the base, and very finely
punctured towards the apex ; the apical margin of each segment,
except the basal one, with a white pubescent fascia.

Male. A little smaller than the female, of the same jet-black
colour, with similar white pubescence, and the same bright polished
abdomen; the latter is oblong-ovate in the male, and of a conical
shape in the female, the apex being pointed.

Hab. East Florida.

3. Colletes intricatus.

Female. Length 53 lines.—Black ; the thorax clothed with fulvous
pubescence; the abdomen shining, and closely and finely punc-
tured, the base most strongly so. The head shining, punctured,
the clypeus coarsely so; the face with dark griseous pubescence.
Thorax with the pubescence beneath the wings fuscous, that on
the legs beneath paler, the floccus on the posterior femora beneath
of a dirty white; the scopa on the posterior tibie fuscous; wings
subhyaline, the nervures fusco-ferruginous, the tegule testaceous.
Abdomen with a little pale fulvous pubescence at the base.

Male. Length 4-44 lines.—The face with pale fulvous pubescence,
on the vertex and thorax above it is fulvous; wings as in the
female. Abdomen shining, closely punctured; the margins of the
first and second segments depressed, all the apical margins with
pale pubescent fascie.

Hab. Mexico, Orizaba.

4. Colletes griseus.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Black ; the abdomen shining, the pubes-
cence griseous. Head—the pubescence griseous, that on the cly-
peus, which is strongly punctured, whitish, as it is also on the
cheeks. Thorax strongly punctured, and clothed with erect gri-
seous pubescence; the floccus on the posterior femora beneath
nearly white; the scopa on the tibiee fuscous above and whitish
within and beneath; wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures
black. The apical margins of the segments of the abdomen with
very narrow white pubescent fascize, which are usually more or
less interrupted on the first and second segments.

Male. Length 47 lines.—Very closely resembles the female, but
has the antenne nearly as long as the thorax; the abdomen very
bright and shining and more oblong, the segments narrowly bor-
dered with white above and beneath.

Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.

PARACOLLETES. 3

5. Colletes rufipes.

Female. Length 43 lines——Black; the face with white pubescence,
that on the disk of the thorax fulvous ; the abdomen with a short
fulvous pile. The labrum, and the mandibles in the middle, rufo-
piceous ; the cheeks with white pubescence. The thorax densely
pubescent, pale fulvous on the sides and beneath; wings hyaline
and iridescent, the nervures ferruginous; legs ferruginous; the
floceus on the posterior femora at their base white. Abdomen
conical, the apical margins of the segments pale testaceous.

Hab. Bahia.
6. Colletes senilis.

Female. Length 4—44 lines.—Black ; the pubescence on the face pale
fulvous, the rest griseous. The head closely punctured; the fla-
gellum of the antenne, except two or three of the basal joints, ful-
vous beneath; the mandibles rufo-piceous in the middle. Thorax
above more strongly punctured than the head, but not so closely,
and haying a mixture of black and white pubescence; that on the
scutellum entirely black; wings hyaline and iridescent, the ner-
vures black ; the pubescence beneath cinereous; the floccus on the
posterior femora at their base beneath dense, long, and white; the
scopa on the outside of the posterior tibize fuscous. Abdomen
smooth, shining, and impunctate; the apical margins of the seg-
ments with whitish pubescent fascie.

Male. Very closely resembles the female, but the pubescence on the

thorax above is entirely griseous. In both sexes the claw-joint of
the tarsi is rufo-piceous.

Hab. Para; Petropolis (Brazil).

7. Colletes bicolor.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Head and thorax black, the abdomen dark
metallic blue, shining and impunctate. The head with black pubes-
eence. The thorax densely clothed with short fulvo-ferruginous
pubescence; wings hyaline and slightly iridescent, the nervures
black; the legs black and with black pubescence, the claw-joint of
the posterior tarsi ferruginous.

Hab. Mendoza.

PARACOLLETES, Smith.

1. Paracolletes nitidus.

Female. Length 7 lines.—Head and thorax nigro-zneous, with
violet tints on the mesothorax ; the abdomen dark metallic green.
The face with a short hoary pubescence; the vertex closely and

B2

4 ANDRENIDZ.

finely punctured, the flagellum fulvous beneath; the mandibles
bidentate, their apex rufo-piceous. Thorax with more or less
thin hoary pubescence above and beneath ; the pubescence on the
legs is similar, that on the posterior tibiee and tarsi is silvery white
exteriorly, within it is fuscous; wings hyaline, with a fuscous
cloud beyond the stigma ; the mesothorax and scutellum not very
closely punctured. Abdomen oblong-ovate and finely punctured ;
the apical margin of each segment with a narrow pubescent
white fascia; the apical segment with dark fuscous pubescence ;
beneath, the segments have a fringe of long silvery white pu-
bescence.

Hab. N.W. coast of Australia.

2. Paracolletes fervidus.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Black, with fulvous pubescence; the pos-
terior legs incrassate. Head with pale fulvous pubescence, on the
cheeks it is longer and paler; the flagellum of the antenne fulvous
beneath. The thorax with fulvous pubescence above, on the sides
and beneath it is paler; the tibie and tarsi rufo-piceous, the tarsi
brightest ; the femora fringed beneath with long pale pubescence,
on the tibiz outside it is short and fusco-ferruginous, on the pos-
terior tibize and tarsi within it is bright rufo-fulyous; wings hya-
line, faintly clouded at their apex, the nervures rufo-testaceous.
Abdomen with a slight nigro-zneous tint; ovate, with the base
truncate; the apical margins of the segments rufo-piceous and
thinly fringed with fulvous pubescence, that at the base of the
abdomen is pale; the margins of the segments beneath with a
thick fringe of pale pubescence.

Hab. New Holland.

3. Paracolletes marginatus.

Female. Length 7 lines.—Black; thorax and legs densely pubes-
cent; the abdomen with a narrow white pubescent fascia on the _
apical margin of each segment; in the male the margins them-

- selves are pale yellowish white. The sides of the face and ~
the cheeks with white pubescence, that on the latter long and
ragged, on the vertex it is ochraceous; the labrum and mandibles
pale ferruginous, the latter black at their tips; the flagellum of
the antenne fulvous beneath beyond the second joint; the cly-
peus shining and punctured. Thorax above clothed with fulvo-
ochraceous pubescence, on the sides and beneath it is longer and _
paler ; the legs stout; the anterior femora and tibie in front and
the tarsi ferruginous; the posterior femora have a dense white
curled floccus beneath; the tibize have the scopa white beneath
and inclining to fulvous above, very bright and glittering; wings
subhyaline, the nervures fusco-ferruginous, the tegule rufo-testa-

MYDROSOMA. 5

ceous. The abdomen very finely and closely punctured; the anal
fimbria fuscous ; beneath, the segments have a pubescent marginal
fringe, which is white towards the sides and fulvous in the middle.

Male. Length 63-7 lines.—Black, smooth, and shining. The face,
cheeks, and thorax with fulvous pubescence; the scape of the
antenne and four or five of the basal joints of the flagellum be-
neath ferruginous; the anterior margin of the clypeus, the labrum,
and mandibles reddish yellow, the tips of the latter black. The
tibie, tarsi, and tips of the femora pale ferruginous ; wings fulvo-
hyaline, the nervures ferruginous. Abdomen oblong-ovate; all
the segments with their apical margins narrowly white or yel-
lowish white.

Hab. Queensland.

4. Paracolletes abdominalis.

Female. Length 52 lines.—Head and thorax black, abdomen fer-
ruginous. The face clothed with white pubescence, the clypeus
shining and coarsely punctured ; the flagellum of the antenne, ex-
cept two or three of the basal joints, bright fulvous beneath; the
mandibles ferruginous in the middle. Thorax with pale fulvous
pubescence above, beneath it is whitish; the tibiz and tarsi ferru-
ginous, and with pale glittering pubescence; the posterior femora
with a dense fringe of white pubescence, the scopa on the posterior
tibie white; wings hyaline, with the nervures ferruginous, the
tegule rufo-testaceous. Abdomen oblong-ovate, truncate at the
base; the margins of the segments thinly fringed with pale pubes-
cence; that on the apical segment fulvous; beneath, the segments
are fringed with white pubescence.

Hab. Western Australia (Champion Bay).

MYDROSOMA, Smith.

Head not so wide as the thorax; ocelli in a slight curve on the
vertex ; antenne slightly clavate, the basal joint of the flagellum
only a little longer than the second joint, the third and following
joints slightly increasing in length to the apical one; the ludzal
palpi 4-jointed, the joints short, each in succession decreasing in
length ; the maxillary palpi 6-jointed ; the tongue short, obtuse at
the apex, and emarginate. The anterior wings with one elongate
marginal cell, its apex truncate; three submarginal cells, the first as
long as the two following united, the second subquadrate, slightly
narrowed towards the marginal cell, the third a little shorter than
the second and oblique; the first recurrent nervure uniting with
the first, and the second uniting with the third transverse nervure.
Abdomen ovate.

This genus has nearly the same neuration of the anterior wings

6 ANDRENIDZ.

as the genus Ptiloglossa, but it has a subquadrate second submar-
ginal cell; the antenne are different in construction ; and the tongue
is differently formed, being blunt, in Péiloglossa it is acute.

1. Mydrosoma metallicum.

Female. Length 63 lines—Head and thorax black; abdomen of a
metallic-green lustre above, beneath pale rufo-testaceous. Head
shining above and sparingly punctured, the clypeus with strong
punctures, its anterior margin ciliated ; the labrum and mandibles
in the middle rufo-testaceous ; the flagellum bright fulvous, but
slightly fuscous above; at the sides of the face and above the antennze
there is a little ochraceous pubescence. The thorax above densely
clothed with short pubescence of the same colour, that on the sides
and beneath is much paler; the posterior femora with a dense
floccus of long whitish pubescence beneath, that on the tibia and
tarsi is black, as it is also on the anterior and intermediate legs
above; the claw-joint of all the tarsi ferruginous, with the tips of
the claws black; wings hyaline, with the nervures rufo-testaceous,
the tegule ferruginous. Abdomen of a changeable lustre, metallic
green, with a pale ferruginous transverse fascia in the middle of the
first segment; similar fasciz are observable on the other segments
when viewed laterally; beneath, the segments are fringed with
white pubescence, and the second and following segments haye at
their lateral margins a tuft of black pubescence.

Male. Length 6 lines.—The general colouring is that of the female ;
but the abdomen is more elongate and convex, narrowing from the
base to the apex, which is rounded; at the extreme base it is fer-
ruginous, as is also the middle of the two apical segments beneath ;
from the apical segment two small pale lamelle project; the pos-
terior tibize are curved inwardly, and considerably widened at their
apex; the anterior and intermediate tarsi, as well as the articula-
tions of the legs, are rufo-testaceous.

Hab. Ega, on the Amazon (coll. by Mr. Bates).

LIOPROCTUS, Smith.

1. Lioproctus fimbriatus.

Female. Length 5-6 lines.—Head and thorax black, abdomen fer-
ruginous. The face with white pubescence; the clypeus strongly
punctured ; the flagellum of the antenne fulvous beneath; the
mandibles ferruginous at their apex and bidentate. Thorax clothed
above with whitish pubescence, on the sides and beneath it is
longer ; the legs ferruginous and pubescent, that on the posterior
tibia and tarsi long, dense, and silvery white ; wings hyaline, the

“ 4 Par i ».
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CAUPOLICANA. 7
nervures fusco-ferruginous, the tegule rufo-piceous. Abdomen
delicately and closely punctured; the fifth segment clothed with
long, black pubescence, which forms a dense fringe to the apex ;
the terminal segment with a central naked space, which is mar-
gined laterally ; beneath, the segments with a pale marginal fringe.

2. Lioproctus vigilans.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Head and thorax black, the latter with
a violet tinge above; the abdomen olive-green. The face with
white pubescence ; the flagellum of the antenne fulvous beneath.
Thorax with fuscous pubescence above, at the sides and beneath it
is yellowish white; the legs with black pubescence above, the scopa
on the posterior tibie white beneath; wings subhyaline, their
apical margins clouded, the nervures black. Abdomen shining, the
basal segment with scattered punctures, the other segments closely
punctured ; the apical halt of the segments depressed and impunc-
tate, and thinly fringed with pale pubescence; at the base of the
second segment laterally there is a small floccus of white pubescence ;
the apical fimbria dark fuscous.

Hab. Swan River.

CAUPOLICANA, Spin.

1. Caupolicana pubescens.

Male. Length 8 lines.—Black, and densely clothed with fulvous
pubescence, that on the thorax above richest in colour; beneath
with long dense pubescence ; the fringe on the apical margins of
the segments of the abdomen pale fulvous; on the tarsi beneath it
is short and bright fulvo-ferruginous ; wings hyaline, the nervures
ferruginous.

Hab. Chili.

The pubescence of this species would be brighter in recent ex-
amples; the two in the Collection are both old and faded from
exposure, the wings being ragged at the edges.

2. Caupolicana funebris.

Female. Length 83 lines.— Black; the pubescence black, except
that on the face, which is white. The pubescence on the thorax
above is dense and short, that on the metathorax is long and sooty
black ; wings hyaline at the base, and clouded from the marginal
cell to the apex; the tarsi have fulvous pubescence beneath.
Abdomen slightly shining, the apical margins of the segments
bordered with sooty black pubescence ; the anal fimbria black ;
the apical segment with a naked, shining, triangular, pale fulvous

8 ANDRENIDZ.

space in the middle; at the extreme lateral margins of the third
and fourth segments are tufts of white pubescence.

Hab. Chili.

3. Caupolicana lugubris.

Female. Length 74-8 lines.—Coal-black ; the head and the thorax
above, as far as the tegule, densely clothed with white pubescence,
that on the thorax faintly ochraceous; the white pubescence occa-
sionally extends a little beyond the tegule ; the second, third, and
fourth segments of the abdomen with white pubescent fasciz on
their apical margins; beneath, the pubescence is entirely black:
wings hyaline, with a slight fuscous cloud beyond the third sub-
marginal cell; the anterior and intermediate femora fringed
beneath with griseous pubescence, that on the posterior femora
sooty black.

Hab. Uruguay.

LAMPROCOLLETES, Smith.

1. Lamprocolletes metallicus.

Male. Length 3 lines.—Brassy green, with the metathorax blue-
green. The head closely punctured, the face with glittering
whitish pubescence, that on the vertex fuscous, on the cheeks it
is dense and white. Thorax shining, the disk with strong punc-
tures, intermixed with finer ones; above with a thin yellowish-
white pubescence; on the sides and beneath it is white, as it is
also on the legs; the apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous ; wings
hyaline and iridescent, the nervures rufo-testaceous. Abdomen
subovate, and very delicately and closely punctured, sparingly
pubescent; the apical margins of the segments very narrowly
testaceous.

Hab. Australia.

2. Lamprocolletes providus.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Head and thorax black, abdomen blue-
green. Head closely punctured, the clypeus most strongly so, and
shining ; the face with a thin griseous pubescence; the anterior
margin of the clypeus ciliated with short fulvous hairs; tips of the
mandibles rufo-piceous ; the flagellum of the antenna obscure
fulvous beneath. Thorax shining above, finely and sparingly
punctured; on the sides, beneath, and on the femora the pubescence
is whitish, on the latter forming a long floccus ; the scopa on the
posterior tibize white; wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures
rufo-testaceuus. Abdomen subovate, shining, and closely and

LAMPROCOLLETES. 9

finely punctured; the apical segment with black pubescence ; the
apical margins of the segments narrowly rufo-testaceous.

Hab. Australia.

3. Lamprocolletes fulvus. -

Female. Length 6 lnes.—Clothed with short fulvous pubescence.
Head and thorax black ; the face with a sparing whitish pubescence,
inclining to fulvous above the antenne; the flagellum of the latter
and the apical joints fulvous; the mandibles ferruginous in the
middle. ‘The pubescence beneath the thorax and on the femora is
eriseous ; the legs ferruginous; the scopa on the posterior tibiz pale
fulyous within and slightly fuscous exteriorly ; wings hyaline and
iridescent, the nervures rufo-testaceous. Abdomen ferruginous
beneath and fusco-ferruginous above, the apical margins of the
segments pale testaceous.

Hab. Queensland.

4. Lamprocolletes nanus.

Female. Length 3 lines.—Black and shining. ‘The face and cheeks
with a thin griseous pubescence; the flagellum fulvous beneath ;
the head finely punctured. Thorax with fine scattered punctures on
the disk; the base of the metathorax smooth and shining; wings
hyaline and iridescent, the nervures and tegule rufo-testaceous ;
legs rufo-piceous, their pubescence white; the scopa on the
posterior tibize fuscous outside and white within. Abdomen
ovate, with a slight griseous pubescence; the apical margins of
the segments pale testaceous and slightly depressed ; the apical
segment with black pubescence.

Hab. Western Australia.

5. Lamprocolletes amabilis.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Green. The face with a thin griseous
pubescence ; the clypeus strongly punctured and of a violet colour ;
the flagellum fulvous beneath, the vertex with a little fulvous
pubescence. Thorax thinly clothed above with short fulvous
pubescence and closely punctured ; wings hyaline, their nervures
ferruginous ; legs rufo-piceous, the pubescence on the posterior coxe
and the fringe on the femora white; the scopa on the posterior
tibisze fuscous above and white beneath. Abdomen shining, the
apical margins of the segments depressed ; the apical segment with
black pubescence ; the apical margins of the segments beneath are
fringed with white pubescence.

Hab. Australia.

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6. Lamprocolletes ruficornis.

Female. Length 43 lines.—Black ; the scape of the antennee black,
the flagellum bright rufo-fulvous. The head and thorax densely
clothed with bright fulvous pubescence; the tarsi, tibie, and tips of
the femora rufo-fulvous ; wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures
rufo-testaceous ; an enclosed space at the base of the metathorax
transversely striated. Abdomen pubescent, densely so at the base ;
the apical margin of the segments testaceous.

Hab. Western Australia.

7. Lamprocolletes bimaculatus.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Head and thorax black, the abdomen
ferruginous. The face with fulvous pubescence, the cheeks bearded
with white ; the clypeus shining and with a, few scattered punc-
tures ; the flagellum obscure fulvous beneath. Thorax with a thin
short fulvous pubescence above, on the sides and beneath it is
hoary ; the tibie, tarsi, and tips of the femora ferruginous ; the
scopa on the posterior tibie is white beneath and fuscous above ;
wings hyaline and iridescent, their apical margins slightly clouded,
the nervures ferruginous, the tegule rufo-piceous. Abdomen ovate
and somewhat depressed ; the second segment with an ovate black
macula laterally ; the apical segments more or less fusco-ferrugi-
nous; beneath, the segments are fringed with white pubescence.

Hab. Swan River.

8. Lamprocolletes bicolor.

Female. Length 4 lines—Head and thorax green, abdomen dark
blue. The face thinly covered with hoary pubescence, on the
cheeks it is dense and white ; the clypeus with strong punctures.
Thorax thinly clothed above with pale fuscous pubescence, beneath
and on the legs it is whitish ; the mesothorax with strong scattered
punctures; the tibiz in front and the tarsi rufo-fulyous ; wings
hyaline and iridescent, the nervures dark fuscous. Abdomen
shining blue, with a little pale pubescence at its base. The legs
sometimes entirely rufo-piceous.

Male. Length 33 lines.—Closely resembling the female, but the
head and thorax black or very obscurely nigro-zneous; the legs
black, the posterior pair above and the tarsi and tibie rufo-
fulvous.

Hab. Swan River.

9. Lamprocolletes antennatus.

Male. Length 43 lines.—Black: the antenne with the flagellum
fulvous, above more or less fuscous; the apical joint black, com-

DASYCOLLETES. mM

pressed, dilated, with the apex truncate ; the face and cheeks with
long white pubescence. Thorax shining, finely punctured and
thinly covered with pale fuscous pubescence, on the sides and be-
neath it is white; the tips of the femora, the tibiz, and tarsi fer-
ruginous ; the intermediate and posterior tibie slightly fuscous
above ; wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures ferruginous.
Abdomen closely punctured; the apical margins of the segments
depressed, testaceous, bordered with white pubescence laterally.

Hab. Swan River. ©

10. Lamprocolletes argentifrons.

Male. Length 5 lines.—Black ; the pubescence white, except that
on the vertex of the head and disk of the thorax, which is fuscous.
The face and cheeks with dense silvery-white pubescence ; the apex
of the flagellum of the antenn rufo-testaceous. The anterior tibie
and tarsi, and the claw-joint of the intermediate and posterior
pairs, ferruginous ; the wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures
ferruginous. Abdomen shining ; the apical margins of the segments
slightly depressed, the basal segment pubescent, and the basal mar-
gins of the second and third segments with fine short downy
pubescence ; the two apical segments with a little fuscous pubes-
cence; beneath, the margins of the segments fringed with white
pubescence.

Hab. Swan River.

DASYCOLLETES, Smith.

1. Dasycolletes humerosus.

Female. Length 43 lines.—Black, with a bright yellow patch of
short dense pile on the mesothorax over the tegule. The head
above the antennz very finely longitudinally rugulose, below the
antenne smooth and shining, with scattered punctures. Thorax
very finely and closely punctured above; legs obscurely rufo-
piceous; the floccus on the posterior femora beneath white; the
scopa on the tibiz dark fuscous above, and beneath white ; wings
subhyaline. Abdomen ovate, smooth, and slightly shining.

Hab. Melbourne.

2. Dasycolletes vitrifrons.

Male. Length 33 lines.—Olive-green, with the face brassy, and below
the antenne covered with glittering white pubescence. The vertex
of the head and the thorax above with pale fulvous pubescence ; on
the metathorax, the sides, and beneath it is hoary ; the flagellum of
the antenne fulvous beneath; the tibize and tarsi ferruginous ; the

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wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures ferruginous. Abdomen
oblong, slightly pubescent, at the base with some long hoary
pubescence ; the apical segment ferruginous.

Hab. Swan River.

EURYGLOSSA, Smith.

1. Euryglossa quadrimaculata.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Black, with yellow markings, four being
on the abdomen. Head before the antenne yellow; the tips of
the mandibles and the flagellum ferruginous, the latter slightly
fuscous above. The sides of the mesothorax before the wings
and the scutellum and postscutellum yellow; wings hyaline and
splendidly iridescent ; the legs more or less obscurely rufo-piceous,
the anterior tibiz in front and the apical joints of the tarsi paler.
Abdomen impunctate ; at the basal margin of the second and third
segments there is laterally a semicircular yellow macula.

Hab. Queensland.

2. Euryglossa simillima.

Female. Length 34 lines.—Head and thorax black, abdomen fer-
ruginous. Head opaque, covered with confluent punctures ; the
clypeus shining and with scattered punctures; the face with short
eriseous pubescence ; the flagellum of the antenne fulvous beneath.
Thorax opaque, truncate posteriorly ; on the sides and beneath a
little thin griseous pubescence ; wings hyaline ; the apical joints of
the tarsi rufo-testaceous ; the scopa on the posterior tibia white
beneath and slightly fuscous above. Abdomen oblong-ovate ; the
two apical segments blue-black, the apical one with black pubescence,
the extreme lateral margins of the segments blackish.

Hab. Swan River.
The general aspect of this, species is that of a Sphecodes.

3. Euryglossa rubricata.

Female. Length 33 lines.—The head and thorax beneath black ;
the abdomen ferruginous, with the apex blue. The antenne
and mandibles ferruginous, the flagellum fuscous above, and the
mandibles black at their tips. Thorax shining and with fine scat-
tered punctures; the metathorax black; wings hyaline, the
nervures and tegule pale testaceous. The extreme base of the
abdomen and the fifth and sixth segments, with the apical margin
of the fourth, blue-black.

Hab. Swan River.

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4. EKuryglossa nigra.

Female. Length 33 lines.—Black; the abdomen depressed and
having a silky gloss. The ninth, tenth, and eleventh joints of the
antennee reddish yellow, the apical joint compressed ; the anterior
tibiz and tarsi pale ferruginous; the wings fulvo-hyaline, the
nervures and tegule rufo-testaceous ; the intermediate and posterior
tarsi pale ferruginous. Abdomen with the apical margins of the
segments narrowly testaceous.

Hab. Australia.

5. Euryglossa blanda.

Female. Length 3 lines.—Head and thorax black; abdomen
yellow. Antenne fulvous beneath towards the apex; the tibic
and tarsi yellow, as well as the tips of the femora, the latter
obscurely rufo-piceous ; the wings hyaline, the nervures pale rufo-
testaceous. Abdomen sulphur-yellow, with a triangular black
macula at the base. _

Hab. Western Australia.

6. Euryglossa jucunda.

Female. Length 32 lines.—Head and thorax black; the abdomen
blue or blue-green. Head sometimes nigro-gneous; the vertex
closely and finely punctured ; the clypeus shining, convex, and with
scattered punctures; the flagellum of the antenne bright fulvous
beneath ; the mandibles ferruginous in the middle; a little white
pubescence at the sides of the face. The mesothorax and scutellum
shining, and with fine distant punctures; the metathorax smooth
and shining ; wings hyaline, the nervures and tegule pale testa-
ceous ; the legs obscure rufo-piceous, with the tarsi pale. Abdomen
with the apical margins of the segments more or less narrowly
obscure rufo-piceous.

Hab. Champion-Bay district and Swan River.

This species might be taken for a small form of ZH. depressa, but is
at once distinguished by having the underside of the flagellum fulvous.

7. Euryglossa maculata.

Female. Length 22 lines—Head and thorax black; abdomen
brownish black, with yellow macule laterally; the flagellum
fulvous beneath ; a little thin hoary pubescence on the face and
cheeks. Thorax smooth and slightly shining; the legs yellow;
wings hyaline and splendidly iridescent, the nervures and tegulz
yellow. The second, third, and fourth segments of the abdomen
with a large yellow macula laterally, which is almost the width of

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the segment ; the fifth and sixth SelM entirely yellow ; beneath
of a reddish yellow.

Hab. Swan River.

8. Euryglossa nitidifrons.

Female. Length 24 lines.—Shining black; the abdomen with
yellow macule laterally. Head with scattered fine punctures on
the vertex ; the clypeus shining and haying scattered strong punc-
tures; the mandibles yellow, with their tips rufo-piceous ; the
flagellum fulvous beneath. The anterior tibiz and tarsi pale ferru-
ginous, as well as the intermediate tibiee in front and the apical
joints of the tarsi; the wings hyaline and iridescent, the tegule
and nervures pale testaceous. The second, third, and fourth seg-
ments of the abdomen with a large yellow macula laterally, their
form being an elongated triangle, the fifth and sixth segments en-
tirely yellow ; the abdomen yellow beneath.

Hab. Australia.

This species somewhat resembles EL. maculata, but is readily
distinguished from it by its yellow mandibles and by the form of its
abdomen, which is broader and much more rounded; the macule
are also of a different form.

9. EKuryglossa rubricata.

Female. Length 22 lines——Head and thorax nigro-zneous, the
abdomen ferruginous. Head with a little pale fulvous pubescence
on the vertex ; the flagellum of the antenne fulvous beneath ; the
mandibles ferruginous at their apex. Thorax above with short
dense fulyous pubescence ; the wings hyaline and iridescent, their
nervures and tegulee pale rufo-testaceous ; the anterior and inter-
mediate tibize and tarsi pale ferruginous ; the scopa on the posterior
tibiz glittering white. The abdomen oblong-ovate, pointed at the
base and apex; the second, third, and fourth segments with a
fuscous macula at their extreme lateral margins.

Hab. Swan River.

10. Euryglossa flavopicta.

Female. Length 3 lines.—Head and thorax yellow, with black
markings; abdomen yellow at the base; the eyes and a narrow
line crossing the vertex at their summit and enclosing the ocelli
black ; two narrow black lines emanate from the line and pass
down the face to the insertion of the antenne; the flagellum
fulvous beneath. Three longitudinal lines on the mesothorax, a
transverse line on the scutellum, and a triangular spot beneath
the postscutellum black; the tibie and tarsi more or less rufo-
fuscous above. Abdomen with a transverse line, attenuated in the

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middle, on the basal segment, its apical margin, that of the second
segment, and all the following segments piceous; the extreme
apical margins of these segments narrowly black ; beneath yellow,
with the margins of the segments ferruginous.

Hab. Champion Bay.

11. Euryglossa halictiformis.

Female. Length 24 lines.—Black, with the base of the abdomen
obscure reddish brown. The face with a thin griseous pubescence ;
the elypeus strongly punctured ; the flagellum fulvous beneath ; the
tips of the mandibles ferruginous. Thorax opaque, very closely
and finely punctured above; the metathorax shining; the tibie
and tarsi pale ferruginous, the former more or less fuscous above ;
the scopa on the posterior tibiz white ; wings hyaline and splen-
didly iridescent, the nervures and tegule pale testaceous. Abdo-
men oblong-ovate, shining, with three basal segments reddish
brown, with their apical margins palest; the segments beneath
fringed with long white pubescence.

Hab. Swan River.
This species much resembles the European Halictus nitidiusculus.

12. Eurygilossa villosula.

Male. Length 33 lines.—Black ; the head and thorax with long,
erect pubescence, the abdomen with yellow macule; the flagellum
fulvous beneath. The legs yellow, with the coxe black; wings
clear hyaline and splendidly iridescent. Abdomen ovate, with a
silky lustre ; the second, third, and fourth segments with a yellow
macula at their extreme lateral margins.

Hab. Swan River.

13. Euryglossa tricolor.

Female. Length 34 lines.—Head and thorax black; base of the
abdomen red, the apex blue. The head very closely punctured on
the vertex ; the clypeus convex, shining, and with distant punc-
tures, the margin with pale ciliz; the flagellum of the antennz
fulvous beneath ; tips of the mandibles rufo-piceous. The meso-
thorax and scutellum shining and with fine distant punctures ; the
metathorax shining, rounded, and impunctate ; wings hyaline and
iridescent, the nervures ferruginous ; the apical joints of the tarsi
pale rufo-testaceous. Abdomen with the three basal segments fer-
ruginous, with a dark macula in the middle of one or more of the
segments, the two apical ones blue.

Hab. Swan River.

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STILPNOSOMA, Smith.

Head as wide as the thorax, the vertex very convex ; the ocelli
in a curve; the mentum more than twice the length of the labium ;
the labium broadly obtuse at the apex; the paraglosse rounded at

their apex and as long as the labium; the labial palpi 4-jointed, ©

the basal joint rather longer than the second, the third and fourth
of about equal length, the apical joint cylindrical, the joints short
and stout; the maaillary palpi 6-jointed, the three basal ones stout
and of nearly the same length, the three apical ones much more
slender and clavate, the apical one pointed at the apex; the man-
dibles bidentate. Thorax ovate; the anterior wings with one mar-
ginal and two submarginal cells; the marginal as long as the two
submarginals ; the first submarginal twice as long as the second,
which is subquadrate, slightly widened to the apex, and receiving
both the recurrent nervures, the first at its base, the second a little
before the apex. Abdomen ovate. The insect almost destitute of
pubescence.

In this genus the neuration of the wings is nearly that of the
second division of Prosopis, but the large subglobose head and the
form of the labium distinguish it from that genus; the tongue in
the genus Lzoproctus is very similar, but that genus has three sub-
marginal cells in the anterior wings.

1. Stilpnosoma levigatum.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Head and thorax bright green, the abdo-
men dark blue-green, highly polished, smooth, and shining. Head
with very fine scattered punctures; the clypeus convex; the fla-
gellum fulvous beneath, the apical joint entirely so. Thorax with
very fine scattered punctures above, beneath more closely and
strongly punctured; the legs dark obscure blue or blue-green,
tinted more or less with obscure rufo-piceous ; the legs with a thin,
short, white pubescence, most dense on the tarsi, the apical joints
rufo-testaceous ; the posterior tibie serrated at their base above,
the calcaria pale testaceous. Abdomen impunctate above, the
fourth and fifth segments with a few scattered shallow punctures ;
beneath punctured, with the margins of the segments impunctate,
smooth, and shining.

Hab. Queensland.

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PROSOPIS, Fabr.

Diy. 1. The first recurrent nervure not entering the second submarginal
cell. (Sp. 1-19.)

1. Prosopis obtusata.

Female. Length 43 lines.—Head and thorax black, with yellow

_ spots, the abdomen obscurely blue-black. The head orbiculate and
truncate anteriorly, closely punctured; a large triangular yellow
macula on each side of the face, the inner angle of each reaching
the insertion of the antenna. Thorax closely punctured, truncate
behind, the truncation somewhat concave; a large yellow spot
before the wings, on the tubercles; the scutellum and post-
scutellum yellow, the anterior margin of the former rounded in the
middle; the wings hyaline and iridescent. Abdomen shining and
finely and closely punctured.

Hab. Swan River.

2. Prosopis purpurata.

Male. Length 33 lines——Head and thorax black and variegated
with yellow; the abdomen purple. Head oblong-ovate, somewhat
narrowed anteriorly; the face below the antenne and on each
side, close to the eyes a little above their insertion, as well as
the scape of the antennz in front, bright yellow; the mandibles
ferruginous; the flagellum fulvous and slightly fuscous above.
Thorax truncate behind, with the enclosed space at its base above
coarsely rugose; an interrupted line on the collar, the tubercles,
scutellum, and postscutellum yellow; wings clear hyaline and
brightly iridescent; the anterior tibis in front and the femora

~ beneath yellow ; the legs rufo-piceous, posterior pair obscurely so ;
the tarsi pale ferruginous.

Hab. Adelaide.

3. Prosopis quadriceps.

Female. Length 3 lines.—Black and elongate; the head quadrate
and a little wider than the thorax; the entire insect closely and
finely punctured and subopaque; the face with a large yellow
subangular spot on each side, the flagellum fulvous beneath.
Thorax with the tubercles yellow, the metathorax smooth and shin-
ing ; the tibiz and tarsi obscurely rufo-piceous, the anterior pair

_ being palest, the posterior tibie yellow at their base; the wings
hyaline and iridescent. The abdomen oblong.

Hab. Australia.

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4, Prosopis cognata.

Female, Length 33-4 lines.—Head and thorax black, with yellow
spots; the abdomen dark blue. Head closely punctured ; the clypeus
slightly produced and anteriorly truncate ; on each side of the face
there is a large crescent-shaped yellow spot, extending upwards
above the insertion of the antenne; the flagellum fulvous beneath.
Thorax closely punctured ; the tubercles and a spot on the scu-
tellum and on the postscutellum yellow, that on the scutellum
semicircular; the metathorax truncate; legs black. Abdomen
shining and with fine punctures.

Male. Length 33 lines.—Closely resembling the female, but with the
face entirely yellow as high as the antenne ; the flagellum fulvous
beneath. Thorax as in the female; the anterior tibiz and first
joint of the tarsi in front, the femora beneath at their apex, and
the intermediate tibie in front yellow ; wings and som as in
the female.

Hab. Champion Bay ; Swan River.

This species closely resembles P. obtusata, but differs from it in
the form of the head, the clypeus being produced.

5. Prosopis elongata.

Male. Length 4 lines.—Black, and with yellow markings; the
abdomen one third longer than the head and thorax. The head
subrotundate, only a little longer than broad; the face as high as
the antenne yellow; the flagellum fulvous beneath. Thorax very
finely and closely punctured; the tubercles, scutellum, and post-
scutellum yellow; the metathorax truncate, opaque, and with a
thin griseous pubescence ; the anterior tibise and tarsi ferruginous,
the former fuscous behind. Abdomen shining, very finely and
closely punctured ; the margins of the first and second segments
slightly constricted.

Hab. Adelaide.

6. Prosopis bituberculata.

Male. Length 3 lines.—Black, variegated with yellow; the third
ventral segment of the abdomen produced laterally into a large,
subtriangular, compressed tubercle. Head rotundate ; the face as
high as the antenne bright yellow; the scape dilated, the flagellum
fulvous beneath. Thorax very closely and finely punctured ; the
tubercles and a slightly interrupted line on the collar yellow ; the
anterior tibize in front, the intermediate pair with a line in front,
and the basal joint of the tarsi, the posterior tibize at their base,
and the first joint of the tarsi yellow; wings hyaline and irides-

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cent. Abdomen shining and delicately punctured; beneath not so
finely and more distantly punctured than above.

Hab. Melbourne.

7. Prosopis honesta.

Male. Length 4 lines.—Black, with yellow markings ; the abdomen
obscurely purple. ‘The clypeus and the face on each side of it,
nearly as high as the antenne, yellow; the flagellum very obscurely
fulvous beneath. Thorax closely punctured; the scutellum and
postscutellum each with a semicircular yellow spot; the tubercles,
anterior and intermediate tibie in front, and the basal joint of the
anterior tarsi yellow; wings hyaline and iridescent. Abdomen
shining and closely punctured.

Hab. Tasmania.

8. Prosopis rotundiceps.

Female. Length 42 lines.—Black, with yellow markings; the head
rotundate, anteriorly truncate. A large ovate macula on each side
of the face, nearly as high as the insertion of the antenne; the
flagellum fulvous beneath. Thorax closely punctured; the scu-
tellum and postscutellum, as well as the tubercles, yellow ; legs
obscure rufo-piceous; wings hyaline and iridescent. Abdomen
shining and very finely punctured, and having a purple tint in
certain lights.

Hab. Melbourne.

9. Prosopis amicula.

Female. Length 23 lines.—Black, with yellow markings. Head
very closely and finely punctured; an oblong angulated spot on
each side of the face, extending a little above the antenne; the
clypeus with a fine irregular striation; the flagellum fulvous
beneath. Thorax very finely and closely punctured; the collar
and tubercles yellow, the colouring uniting; the anterior tibic
rufo-piceous in front, and with a minute yellow spot at their base ;
the claw-joint of the tarsi rufo-testaceous ; the metathorax trun-
cate, the enclosed space at the base rugose ; wings hyaline and
iridescent. Abdomen shining, and closely and delicately punc-
tured.

Hab. Champion Bay.

10. Prosopis insularis.

Female. Length 33 lines.—Black, with cream-coloured markings.
Head rotundate; a line on each side of the face along the orbits
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of the eyes, terminating a little above the insertion of the antenne,
and an ovate spot at the anterior margin of the clypeus cream-
coloured ; the head closely punctured. Thorax with a line on the
collar attenuated in the middle, the tubercles, and a spot on the
tegule in front cream-coloured, and the basal half of the tibie
of the same colour outside ; a similar coloured spot at the extreme
base of the posterior tarsi; wings hyaline and iridescent; the
mesothorax and scutellum shining and closely punctured; the
metathorax truncate, the enclosed semicircular space at its base
rugose. Abdomen shining and finely punctured, pilose towards
the apex, rounded at the base and gradually narrowing to the
apex, which is pointed.

Hab. Makassar.

11. Prosopis blackburni.

Female. Length 3 lines.—Black ; and closely resembling the female
of P. facilis, but has the flagellum of the antenne fulvous beneath.
The metathorax with a few short strie at the base; wings sub-
hyaline and iridescent, the recurrent nervures uniting with the
transverse nervures of the second submarginal cell, as in P. facilis.
The abdomen smooth, shining, and impunctate.

Male. The size of the female; the front of the head, as high as the
antennse, yellow, the scape with a yellow line in front, the flagellum
fulvous beneath. The tibie and tarsi yellow, with a small black
spot on the tibis behind, and the apical joint of the intermediate
and posterior tarsi fusco-ferruginous; wings and abdomen as in
the female.

Hab. Sandwich Islands, island of Maui.

It will be seen that the male of this species differs greatly in
colouring from the same sex of P. facilis, although the females have
little specific distinction.

12. Prosopis fuscipennis.

Male. Length 4} lines.—Black. The head and thorax semiopaque;
the abdomen smooth, very finely punctured, sparsely so at the
base, bright and shining; wings fuscous, inclining to fulvous, and
brightly iridescent. The head closely and finely punctured; the
clypeus somewhat produced, and truncate anteriorly ; the scape of
the antennz compressed, its lower margin narrowly white. The
margin of the prothorax white; the mesothorax and scutellum
closely punctured ; the metathorax rugose; the anterior tibize and
tips of the femora fulvous within, the four apical joints of the
tarsi rufo-testaceous.

Hab. Sandwich Islands.

PROSOPIS. OT

This species occurs rarely on the mountains of Oahu. The
Rey. T. Blackburn has found a single female, which differs from
the male in having the body shorter and stouter, with the ter-
minal ventral segments pointed, and the basal joint of the antennx
narrow and cylindrical.

13. Prosopis facilis.

Female. Length 33 lines.—Black ; the head and thorax very closely

and finely punctured; abdomen shining and impunctate. Head
suborbiculate; the clypeus coriaceous, with some large shallow
punctures here and there. The mesothorax: with a short im-
pressed line over the tegule; the metathorax with short longi-
‘tudinal striz at the base, the sides haying a little white pubes-
cence; the wings fusco-hyaline, hyaline at their base, and brightly
iridescent. Abdomen smooth, shining, and impunctate.

Male. Very like the female, but more slender; the clypeus and «
line at its lateral margins, on the face, yellow; the scape of the
antenn swollen, but black. The anterior tibiz and tarsi in front,
and also the apex of the femora yellow; the wings paler than in
the female; the base of the intermediate and posterior tibiz rufo-
testaceous. Abdomen oblong-ovate, smooth, shining, and im-
punctate.

Hab. Island of Maui.

14. Prosopis hilaris.

Male. Length 3 lines.—Head and thorax black, the two basal seg-
ments and the base of the third ferruginous. Head with the front
as high as the antenne, and on each side, along the margin of the
eyes, a little above them, yellow; the scape of the antennx and the
mandibles yellow, the latter ferruginous at their tips; the scape
dilated ; the flagellum ferruginous. The legs ferruginous, with the
coxee and femora towards their base black; wings hyaline and
iridescent, their apex faintly clouded; the metathorax subrugose.
Abdomen smooth and shining.

Hab. Occurs rarely on flowers in the island of Maui,

15, Prosopis volatilis.

Male. Length 3 lines.—Head and thorax black, the two basal seg-
ments of the abdomen ferruginous. Head with the front, below
the antenn, yellow; the flagellum fulvous, and more or less fus-
cous above; the scape has a fulvous line in front; the mandibles
ferruginous towards their apex. The anterior tibia, tarsi, and tips
of the femora ferruginous ; the metathorax finely rugulose, opaque,

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and with a few short strive at the base; wings subhyaline, and
iridescent, faintly clouded at their apex. Abdomen smooth and
shining; the apical margin of the second segment and the follow-
ing segments black.

Hab. Island of Kauai.

“Taken sparingly on flowers ” (Rev. 7. Blackburn).

16. Prosopis rugosa.

Male. Length 2? lines.—Black, and with pale yellow markings ;
the thorax coarsely rugose. Head below the antenne and a
little above them at the margin of the eyes, the scape in front,
and first joint of the flagellum, the labinum, and mandibles pale
yellow ; the flagellum fulvous beneath. Thorax with a line on the
collar, the tubercles, a minute spot on the tegule, the tibie and
tarsi, as well as the scutellum, yellow; the coxex, trochanters, and
femora, as well as the apical half of the posterior tibix, rufo-
piceous ; the metathorax truncate and covered with fine hoary
pubescence, the enclosed space at the base shining and longitu-
dinally deeply sculptured ; wings hyaline and iridescent. Abdomen
shining, and with a few scattered fine punctures at its base; the
base rounded, thence gradually narrowing to a point at its apex;
on the apical margins of the two basal segments, laterally, there
is a narrow line of white pubescence.

Hab. Brazil, St. Paulo.

17. Prosopis vigilans.

Female. Length 3 lines.—Bleck, with yellow markings ; the thorax
strongly punctured. Head with a broad stripe along the inner
orbits of the eyes, running upwards nearly to their summit, and
a broad line down the middle of the clypeus yellow ; the flagellum
fulvous beneath. Thorax with the collar, the tubercles, a spot
on the tegule in front, the scutellum, and a small ovate spot
at each of its anterior angles, the anterior tibixw outside, and the
intermediate and posterior pairs at their base yellow; the tarsi
fusco-ferruginous ; the mesothorax with a black velvety texture
anteriorly ; the metathorax concayely truncate, and with a fine
hoary pilosity; the enclosed space at the base longitudinally
grooved ; wings subhyaline and iridescent. Abdomen shining and
impunctate, rounded at the base, and narrowing gradually to a
point at its apex; a little white pubescence on the apical margins
of the two basal segments laterally.

Hab, Val de Fuego, Central America,

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18. Prosopis maculipennis.

Male. Length 23 lines.—Black, with yellow markings; the wings
hyaline and iridescent, a fuscous cloud occupying the marginal cell
and extending beyond to the apex of the wing. The face below
the antenna yellow; the antenne fulvous beneath. Thorax
closely punctured ; a line on the collar, the tubercles, a spot on
the tegulz in front, the tibia and tarsi yellow; the tips of the
intermediate and posterior tibiz black; the metathorax truncate
and with hoary pubescence, the enclosed space at its base coarsely
rugose. Abdomen with the basal segment rather strongly punctured,
the following segments more closely and finely so; the apical mar-
gins of the second and following segments with fascize of white
pubescence.

Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.

19. Prosopis trepanda.

Female. Length 3 lines.—Black, with yellow markings; the head
and thorax opaque, the abdomen shining. The face on each side
of the clypeus, and a line running up nearly to the summit of the
eyes, and a line down the middle of the clypeus yellow; the flagel-
lum fulvyous beneath. Thorax coarsely punctured ; the collar, tuber-
cles, a spot on the tegule in front, the scutellum and a spot at each
of its anterior angles, the anterior tibie in front, and the inter-
mediate and posterior pair at their base yellow ; the apical joints
of the tarsi ferruginous ; wings subhyaline and iridescent. Abdo-
men impunctate; the base rounded, thence gradually narrowing
to a point at the apex; an elongated patch of white pubescence
on the basal segment laterally, a little before the apical margin,
also a line on the apical margin of the second segment laterally.

Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.

Div. Il. The first recurrent nervure entering the second submarginal
cell. (Sp. 20-23.)

20. Prosopis lateralis.

Female. Length 3 lines.—Tile-coloured red, with the head and
metathorax black. The clypeus, labrum, and mandibles red; the
antennee also red; a narrow white line at the inner orbits of the
eyes. The sternum black; the cox, trochanters, and femora
blackish, with their articulations reddish ; the legs otherwise red ;
wings hyaline and iridescent. Abdomen very convex and sub-
globose.

- Hab. Western Australia, Champion Bay.

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21. Prosopis proxima.

Female. Length 24 lines.—Black, with the mesothorax above and
the two basal segments of the abdomen red. The antenna, clypeus,
labrum, and mandibles red; a narrow white line on each side of
the face, close to the eyes, white, the line not running higher than
the antenne ; the anterior and intermediate tibizw and tarsi red, the
latter tibize fuscous above ; the articulations of the posterior legs
reddish ; wings hyaline and iridescent. Abdomen shining.

Hab. Western Australia, Champion Bay.

This species resembles P. lateritia, but, independent of the differ-
ence in size, the colouring of the abdomen must indicate more than
a variety.

22. Prosopis albomaculata.

Female. Length 23 lines.—Black, with white mankings. ‘The face
with a large angulated white macula on each side, that extends a
little above the antenne ; the anterior margin of the clypeus, the
labrum, and tips of the mandibles ferruginous; the mandibles
white ; the antenne fulvous beneath. Thorax finely and closely
punctured ; an interrupted line on the collar, the tubercles, tegule,
anterior tibis, and the base of the intermediate and posterior pairs
white ; the tarsi pale rufo-testaceous ; the metathorax rounded ;
the wings hyaline and iridescent. Abdomen with a rufo-testaceous
spot at its extreme base, and the apical margins of the segments
narrowly testaceous.

Hab. Swan River.

23. Prosopis varicolor.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Varied in colour, with shades of blue,
green, and purple. A white stripe at the inner orbits of the eyes,
not reaching their summit; the head and thorax closely punctured ;
between the antennz a minute white spot; the margin of the pro-
thorax bordered with white ; the enclosed space at the base of the
metathorax smooth, shining green ; wings hyaline, with dark ner-
vures; the claw-joint of the tarsi pale ferruginous. Abdomen
with very fine shallow punctures, bright and shining, with rich
shades of purple-green and blue above; beneath bright green.

Hab. Queensland, Port Bowen.

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Diy. Ill. Both the recurrent nervures entering the second submarginal
cell, (Sp. 24-28.)

24. Prosopis penetrata.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Black, shining, and with the apical seg-
ments of the abdomen thinly covered with hoary pubescence. Head
truncate anteriorly ; a white longitudinal stripe on the clypeus, and
a spot above it between the antennz, white ; the antenne inserted
in a cavity on each side of the face, and ferruginous beneath.
Thorax with an interrupted line on the collar, the tubercles, a trian-
eular spot on the scutellum, and a minute one at its anterior or
lateral angles white; sometimes a minute white spot on the post-
scutellum; the mesothorax evenly punctured; the tarsi with a
hoary pubescence, and the claw-joint ferruginous; the wings hya-
line and iridescent ; the metathorax truncate, with the enclosed
space at its base smooth and shining. Abdomen very finely punc-
tured at the base, more strongly so towards the apex.

Hab. Australia.

25. Prosopis torrida.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Black, with the head, mesothorax above,
and the abdomen more or less red. Head closely punctured, the
eyes black. Thorax with a narrow fringe of white pubescence
on the collar ; the tubercles, a spot on the tegule in front, the hinder
margin of the scutellum, and the postscutellum white ; the enclosed
space at the base of the metathorax longitudinally striated; the
wings hyaline and iridescent. Abdomen closely punctured, and
usually more or less black towards the base.

Hab. Queensland.

This conspicuous species varies in the markings on the scutellum
and postscutellum : sometimes the former has a broad white margin,
the latter having only a short white line. Probably a series of spe-
cimens would show many variations in these markings.

26. Prosopis rubricata.

Female. Length 4-4} lines. Red, with yellow markings ; the scu-
tellum, metathorax, pectus, and legs black. Antenne red; the
tubercles, and a patch behind but united with them in colour, a
large macula on the scutellum, and the postscutelium yellow ; the
tibize and tarsi more or less obscurely red; wings hyaline and iri-
descent, the nervures ferruginous; the mesothorax closely punc-
tured. Abdomen finely punctured; beneath more or less black
towards the base.

Hab. Swan River.

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27. Prosopis morosa.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Black, with yellow markings. The
clypeus with an oblong macula as wide as the clypeus above, and
tapering to an obtuse point near to the anterior margin; the fla-
gellum fulvous beneath. Thorax closely punctured ; the tubercles,
scutellum, and postscutellum yellow ; the enclosed space at the
base of the metathorax smooth. Abdomen closely and finely punc-
tured; the apical margins of the segments very narrowly rufo-
piceous.

Hab. Australia.
28. Prosopis simillima.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Black, with yellow markings. The head
closely punctured; the face on each side of the clypeus yellow ; the
flagellum of the antenne fulvous beneath. Thorax subopaque,
closely and finely punctured ; the tubercles, scutellum, and post-
scutellum yellow ; wings hyaline and iridescent; the metathorax
truncate, the enclosed space at its baserugose. Abdomen shining,
very closely and finely punctured.

Hab. Moreton Bay.

This species is from the same locality as P. confusa, Smith, and,
excepting in the colour of the abdomen, very closely resembles
it; but the head of P. stmzllima is much narrower anteriorly, the
insect is smaller, and the thorax much more finely punctured.

SPHECODES, Latr.

1. Sphecodes volatilis.

Male. Length 33 lines.—Black, the abdomen shining. Head very
closely punctured, opaque ; the face densely covered with silvery-
white pubescence, also a thin pale pubescence on the vertex and
cheeks ; tips of the mandibles ferruginous ; antenne submoniliform.
Thorax strongly and closely punctured above, the metathorax
coarsely rugose at the base ; wings hyaline and iridescent, the ner-
vures pale rufo-testaceous ; the apical joints of the tarsi ferrugi-
nous. Abdomen very finely punctured ; the apical margin of the
first segment bright rufo-piceous.

Hab. Trans-Baikal.

2. Sphecodes rufiventris.

Female. Length 4} lines.—Head and thorax black, wings fuscous,
abdomen red. The head closely punctured ; the face before the
antenna densely covered with white pubescence; the clypeus

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coarsely punctured, the mandibles ferruginous. Thorax strongly
punctured ; the metathorax truncate and rugose at the base ; wings
fuscous, with a violet iridescence ; legs and abdomen ferruginous,
the latter shining and finely punctured, the apical margins of the
segments narrowly impunctate.

Hab. Natal. -

3. Sphecodes albifrons.

Male. Length 5 lines.—Head and thorax black ; the face below the
antenne densely covered with short white downy pubescence ; the
abdomen ferruginous. The antenne submoniliform; the head and
thorax very strongly punctured: the metathorax truncate and
rugose at the base; wings fuscous, palest at their base; the legs
with a glittering hoary pile; the apical joints of the tarsi ferrugi-
nous. Abdomen ferruginous, shining, and finely punctured.

Hab. Bombay district.

4. Sphecodes montanus.

Female. Length 33 lines.—Head and thorax black ; abdomen red,
with the apex black. Head transverse, very closely punctured ;
antenne obscurely fulyous towards their apex. Thorax strongly
punctured, the punctures confluent on the sides and beneath; the
metathorax truncate, the enclosed space at its base longitudinally
rugose ; wings subhyaline and iridescent. Abdomen with the three
basal segments red, the apical margin of the third, and the follow-
ing segments entirely, black; base of the abdomen smooth and
shining, impunctate; the second and third segments with a few
fine punctures at their base.

Male. The size of the female.—Head wider than the thorax, the
face with short white pubescence; the antenne submoniliform,
rufo-piceous beneath. The thorax above with strong distant punc-
tures ; on the sides, beneath, and on the metathorax the punctures
are confluent ; wings as in the female ; legs obscurely rufo-piceous ;
the metathorax truncate, the truncation coarsely rugose. Abdo-
men with the three basal segments red, shining, and with fine
distant punctures.

Hab. Northern India, Masuri, at an elevation of 7000 feet.

5. Sphecodes iridipennis.

Female. Length 23 lines.—Head and thorax black ; the first, second,
and the base of the third segment of the abdomen red; the other
segments black. Head subglobose, shining, and very finely pune-

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tured ; the antenne rufo-piceous. The mesothorax shining, and |
with fine distant punctures, the sides closely and strongly pune-
tured ; the metathorax rugose, the enclosed space at its base with
longitudinal grooves ; the wings clear hyaline and splendidly iri-
descent; the nervures and tegulz rufo-testaceous. Abdomen im-
punctate.

Hab. Northern India.

6. Sphecodes pilosulus.

Female, Length 43 lines.—Head and thorax black: abdomen red,
with the extreme base and apex black; a fine hoary pile on the
segments beyond the basal one. Head opaque, very closely and finely
punctured; the face and cheeks with short white pubescence.
Thorax closely punctured, clothed on the sides and beneath with
white pubescence ; the enclosed space at the base of the meta-
thorax longitudially grooved ; wings subhyaline and iridescent.
Abdomen shining, impunctate at the base and very delicately so
beyond ; a black macula at the extreme base and a second in the
middle of the segment ; beneath black, with the apical margins of
the segments red,

Male, Closely resembles the female, but has the abdomen more
elongate ; the basal segment has three black macule on the first
segment, probably sometimes forming a transverse band, leaving
the extreme base red; the extreme apex of the abdomen is also
red; beneath red, with the base and apex black.

Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.

7. Sphecodes crassicornis.

Male. Length 23 lines.—Head, thorax, and the base and apex of
the abdomen black, the intermediate portion red. Head trans-
verse, rather wider than the thorax, closely punctured; the
face covered with white pubescence; the antennz incrassate,
obscurely rufo-piceous beneath, and submoniliform. Thorax
strongly punctured, the metathorax rugose, the sides and beneath
covered with hoary pubescence, the legs with hoary pile; the
apical joints of the tarsi rufo-testaceous ; wings hyaline and iri-
descent, the nervures and tegule rufo-testaceous, Abdomen closely
punctured, the basal segment most strongly so.

Hab. Bombay district.

8. Sphecodes sodalis.

Male. Length 24 lines.—Head, thorax, and the base and apex of
the abdomen black, the apex of the first segment, the second and

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third, and the base of the fourth red. The head closely and strongly
punctured; the face with white pubescence ; the antennze sub-
moniliform and rufo-piceous beneath. Thorax very strongly punc-
tured, and having a thin, short, hoary pubescence at the sides; wings
hyaline and iridescent, the nervures ferruginous, the tegule pale
rufo-testaceous; the legs with a hoary pile, the apical joints of the
tarsi pale ferruginous. Abdomen closely and finely punctured.

Hab. Calcutta.

TEMNOSOMA, Smith.

1. Temnosoma smaragdinum.

Male. Length 34-4 lines.—Green, with tints of blue ; coarsely
punctured. Head quadrangular; the antenne black, the anterior
margin of the clypeus truncate. The disk of the thorax usually
with more or less of a brassy tint; the metathorax at the base with
a semicircular space longitudinally striated, the strice coarse ;
beyond the striated space is a small smooth shining one; this has
sometimes a few transverse fine striz, these are more or less ob-
solete in different examples; the other parts of the metathorax
coarsely punctured ; wings subhyaline and iridescent, the nervures
black, the tegule green and punctured ; legs blue, usually more or
less tinted with green. Abdomen with the first and second seg-
ments constricted ; the apical margins of the segments narrowly
blue, smooth, and shining; beneath green, and more finely punc-
tured than above.

Hab. South Mexico.

2. Temnosoma eruginosum.

Female. Length 42 lines.—Head and thorax green, with shades of
blue; abdomen blue, with tints of green in certain lights. Head
strongly punctured; the vertex with blue tints; the antennee
black. Thorax strongly punctured, the punctures confluent at the
sides of the mesothorax above, which has a central strongly im-
pressed longitudinal line ; at the base of the metathorax are a few
broad striz that radiate laterally, the striated portion enclosed by
a smooth shining space, beyond which the metathorax is strongly
punctured ; wings subhyaline, clear at their base, the tegule green
and strongly punctured, the nervures black ; legs blue, the tarsi
densely covered with short whitish pubescence. Abdomen oblong,
strongly punctured, the margins of the two basal segments con-
stricted ; the fourth and fifth segments with a thin pale pubescence,
the sixth with fuscous pubescence ; beneath bright green, and more
finely punctured than above.

Hab. Ega, on the Amazons,

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This species is distinguished from the typical one, 7. metallicum,
by the different sculpturing of the metathorax.

3. Temnosoma levigatum.

Female. Length 3 lines.—Head and thorax green, strongly punc-
tured, with shades of blue on the vertex; abdomen blue-green,
smooth, shining, and impunctate. Head subquadrate, with the
antenne black. ‘The metathorax with a few strong divergent
strie, which are enclosed by a smooth impunctate shining space,
beyond which it is punctured; wings hyaline and iridescent,
slightly clouded towards their apical margins, the nervures black,
the tegule impunctate, smooth, and shining green ; the legs green.
Abdomen, the two basal segments with their margins slightly
constricted.

Hab. St. Paulo, on the Amazons.

HALICTUS, Latr.

1. Halictus senescens.

Female. Length 34 lines.—Black, with hoary pubescence. The —
head pubescent, most dense on the face and cheeks; the flagellum
fulvous beneath. Thorax sparingly pubescent on the disk, which
is finely punctured ; the postscutellum thickly covered with a downy

white pubescence, on the sides and beneath thinly pubescent; the —

legs rufo-piceous and pubescent, very bright and glittering on the
tarsi; wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures and tegule rufo-
testaceous. Abdomen ovate, the base pubescent; at the basal
margin of the second and third segments there is a narrow fascia
of fine short pubescence, and a broader fascia on the apical
margins of the third and fourth ; on the apical segment the pubes-
cence is pale fulvous; beneath, the segments are fringed with long
pubescence.

Hab. Bombay district.

2. Halictus vernalis.

Female. Length 22 lines.—Bright metallic green. The head very
closely and finely punctured, somewhat rounded, with the clypeus
slightly produced, its apical portion shining, of a purple colour, and
with a few strong punctures ; the flagellum fulvous beneath; the
sides of the face with short pale pubescence. Thorax shining, —
finely punctured ; the metathorax finely rugulose at the base, and —
with a smooth shining space beyond; wings hyaline and iridescent,
the nervures and tegule pale testaceous; the legs pale ferruginous,

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the femora darkest. Abdomen ovate, the apical margins of the
segments depressed, and with fasciz of pale fulvous pubescence.

Hab. Ceylon.

3. Halictus timidus.

Female. Length 2} lines.—Black, with the base of the abdomen
rufo-testaceous. Head orbiculate, the face covered with short
downy white pubescence; the mandibles ferruginous ; the antennee
rufo-piceous. Thorax thinly pubescent above, on the sides, beneath,
and on the legs cinereous, and very bright and glittering on the
tibize and tarsi, the legs being pale ferruginous; wings hyaline and
iridescent, the nervures and tegule rufo-testaceous, the post-
scutellum with white pubescence. Abdomen with the three basal
segments rufo-testaceous, the following segments obscure rufo-
fuscous; the apical margins of the third, fourth, and fifth seg-
ments pale testaceous and fringed with pale pubesceiice, as are
also the margins of the ventral segments.

Hab. Ceylon.

4, Halictus proximatus.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Black ; head and thorax subopaque, abdo-
men shining. Head rotundate, very closely and finely punctured,
the clypeus with a few strong punctures. The thorax closely punc-
tured, the pubescence cinereous ; that on the tibie and tarsi slightly
fulvous, very bright; the posterior femora with a dense fimbria of
white pubescence ; the wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures
and stigma fusco-ferruginous; the enclosed space at the base of
the metathorax rugose. Abdomen very bright, the puncturing
very fine, scarcely perceptible on the basal segment; on the basal
margin of the second and third segments laterally there is a
little white tomentum; the apical segment with griseous pubes-
cence, that on the margins of the anal rima faintly fulvous.

_ Hab. Hakodaté, Japan.

This species is extremely like Halictus leucozonius of Europe: it
differs from it in having the head orbiculate ; in the European insect
the clypeus is produced.

5. Halictus familiaris.

Female. Length 33 lines.—Black, the head and thorax closely and
finely punctured, slightly shining; abdomen ovate, very smooth
and shining. ‘The clypeus produced and shining, finely punc-
tured, the apex sparingly so; the flagellum of the antennz ob-
scurely fulvous beneath. The pubescence on the sides of the thorax,
beneath, and on the legs very pale fulvous, brightest on the tibiz
and tarsi; the wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures pale tes-

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taceous; the enclosed space at the base of the metathorax rugose.
Abdomen with a narrow pubescent fascia at the basal margins of —
the second and third segments, and a slight one on the apical
margins of the two following segments; the anal rima margin with
pale fulvous pubescence.

Hab. Hakodate.
This species closely resembles H. albipes of Europe.

6. Halictus albo-zonatus.

Female. Length 33 lmes.—Black ; head and thorax very finely punc- —
tured ; abdomen smooth and shining. The clypeus slightly pro-
duced, shining, and strongly punctured ; the face with a thin
griseous pubescence; the flagellum of the antennz fulvous beneath.
Thorax shining; the postscutellum covered with white tomentum ;
the metathorax with coarse strie at the base, the rest smooth
and shining; the legs rufo-testaceous, their pubescence white,
and the apical joints of the tarsi pale ferruginous ; wings hyaline
and iridescent, the nervures ferruginous. Abdomen with the basal
margins of the segments with snow-white pubescent fascie.

Hab. Punjab.

7. Halictus torridus.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Black, with the basal and apical margins
of the first and second segments of the abdomen ferruginous ; the
apical margins of the following segments pale testaceous. Head
oblong, the clypeus much produced, shining, and strongly punc-
tured, the apex usually rufo-piceous ; the sides of the face with
short pale fulvous pubescence ; the flagellum bright fulvous towards
the apex beneath. Thorax with fulvous pubescence at the sides
and beneath, also on the legs, which are rufo-piceous; wings fulvo-
hyaline, their apical margins fuscous, the nervures ferruginous.
Abdomen with a thin pale pubescence, that on the apical segment
black.

Hab. Natal.

8. Halictus niloticus.

Female. Length 3 lines.—Bright green. The head wider than the
thorax, the vertex wide, rounded laterally, and emarginate behind ;
the antennz, margin of the clypeus, and the mandibles yellow, the
latter ferruginous at their apex; the flagellum pale fulvons
beneath. The femora rufo-piceous, the tibize and tarsi pale yellow,
with a fuscous stain on the former beneath ; wings hyaline and
iridescent, the nervures and tegule yellow-testaceous. Abdomen

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with the margins of the first and second segments constricted ; the
apical margins of the segments with pale fulvous fascie.

Hab. White Nile.

9. Halictus albo-fasciatus.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Black, pubescent; the first and three fol-
lowing abdominal segments with their apical margins white, not
pubescent. Head rotundate, the face thickly covered with pale
fulvous pubescence, that on the cheeks nearly white. The thorax
thickly clothed above with fulvous pubescence, on the sides and
beneath it is paler; the legs rufo-piceous, the tarsi and posterior tibize
palest, clothed with short glittering pubescence ; wings subhyaline,
the nervures and tegule rufo-testaceous. Abdomen smooth, slightly
shining, and with a thin scattered pale pubescence, that on the
apical segment black.

Hab. South Africa, Burghersdorp.

10. Halictus diversus.

Female. Length 33 lines.—Black. The face and cheeks with thin cine-
reous pubescence ; the clypeus produced and strongly punctured, the
flagellum obscurely fulvous beneath. The mesothorax and scu-
tellum closely punctured; the postscutellum with white tomen-
tum, also a little white tomentum at the insertion of the posterior
wings ; the wings subhyaline and iridescent, the tegule and ner-
vures dark rufo-piceous ; the legs also dark rufo-piceous, the tarsi
pale ferruginous. Abdomen smooth and shining; a band of white
tomentum at the basal margins of the second and three following
segments ; the apical segment with sooty black pubescence ; be-
neath, the segments fringed with pale pubescence.

Hab. Port Natal.

11. Halictus communis.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Black, with the legs and abdomen rufo-
piceous. Head rotundate; the clypeus very slightly produced ; the
sides of the face with a little hoary pubescence ; the flagellum ob-
securely fulvous beneath, closely and finely punctured. The meso-
thorax, the scutellum, and postscutellum not so closely punctured
as the head; the metathorax truncate, its base longitudinally
striated, the margin of the truncation smooth and shining ; the
wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures and tegule rufo-testa-
ceous. Abdomen oblong-ovate, shining, and finely punctured, the
extreme base impunctate; the apical margins of the three basal

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segments depressed, rufo-testaceous, and with white pubescent
fasciee, usually much interrupted, that on the fourth usually entire ;
the anal rima fringed with fulvous pubescence.

Hab. South Africa.

12. Halictus vitripennis.

Female. Length 24 lines.—Head and thorax green, abdomen fer-
ruginous. ‘The head very finely and closely punctured ; the flagel-
lum of the antenne bright fulvous beneath; mandibles pale fer-
ruginous, with their tips black. Thorax shining above, and with
very delicate puncturing ; legs pale ferruginous ; wings colourless
and splendidly iridescent. Abdomen ferruginous, with the extreme
base black.

Var. The thorax rugose above, probably the result of imperfect
development.

Hab. Western Australia, Champion Bay.

13. Halictus lanuginosus.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Black, and covered with a downy cinere-
ous pubescence, which is thinnest on the disk of the thorax and on
the abdomen. The head and thorax closely punctured ; the anterior
margin of the clypeus white. The base of the metathorax finely
rugulose ; the legs more or less obscurely rufo-piceous ; wings hya-
line and iridescent; the nervures rufo-testaceous; the tarsi, or
sometimes only the apical joints, ferruginous. At the basal
margin of the second segment of the abdomen, laterally, there is
sometimes a little white tomentum.

Male. Length 33 lines.—Very like the female, the abdomen a little
more elongate, thinly covered with pubescence, as in the other
sex, the head a little more elongate, and the apex of the clypeus
white.

Hab. Australia.

14. Halictus conspicuus.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Black, shining, and with six white ma-
cule on the abdomen. Head closely punctured, rotundate, the
clypeus slightly produced, with its anterior margin broadly trun-
cate; the flagellum of the antennz fulvous beneath and rufo-piceous
above. Thorax strongly punctured; wings fulvo-hyaline, the
nervures and tegule rufo-testaceous; legs rufo-ferruginous, the
femora darkest. Abdomen very finely and closely punctured ; at
the basal margins of the second, third, and fourth segments, later- _
ally, there is a triangular patch of snow-white pubescence.

HTab. Australia.

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HALICTUS.

15. Halictus oblitus.

Female. Length 33 lines.—Black, shining, and punctured. The
head very closely punctured; the face with thin pale ochraceous
pubescence ; the clypeus very slightly produced, with strong punc-
tures, and truncate anteriorly ; the mandibles rufo-piceous at their
tips; the flagellum of the antenne obscurely fulvous beneath.
Thorax closely punctured ; the postscutellum with fine pale to-
mentum ; the metathorax truncate, its base finely rugulose, the
margin of the truncation narrowly smooth and shining; wings hya-
line, the nervures black ; the apical joints of the tarsi rufo-testaccous.
Abdomen ovate, very finely punctured; at the base of the second
and third segments, laterally, there is a little whitish tomentum.

Hab. Swan River.

16. Halictus convexus.

Female. Length 3 lines.—Black, very finely and closely punctured ;
abdomen shining and delicately punctured, ovate, and very convex.
Head rotundate; the clypeus truncate, slightly produced, shining,
and with a few strong punctures; the flagellum obscurely fulvous
beneath. Thorax slightly shining; wings hyaline and iridescent,
the nervures testaceous ; metathorax truncate, finely rugulose at
the base. Abdomen with a thin cinereous pubescence, shining at
the base; at the basal margins of the second and third segments,
there is laterally, a little white tomentum ; on the basal margin of
the fourth segment a continuous band of tomentum.

Hab. Nieturia.

17. Halictus urbanus.

Female. Length 23 lines.—Head and thorax green, abdomen
brownish black. Head dark olive-green, with a fine longitudinal
striation ; the mandibles ferruginous at their apex; the flagellum
fulvous beneath. Thorax of a much brighter green than the head,
not shining, of a fine coriaceous texture; the metathorax rugose at
the base; wings hyaline and splendidly iridescent, the nervures
rufo-testaceous; legs rufo-piceous, their pubescence cinereous.
Abdomen shining and impunctate, the margins of the segments
rufo-piceous; beneath, the segments have a long white pubescent
marginal fringe.

Hab. Champion Bay.

18. Halictus vividus.

Female. Length 2 lines.—Green, with pale ferruginous tibie and
tarsi, the posterior tibiz more or less fuscous beneath. Head very
finely and very closely punctured ; mandibles ferruginous: the fla-

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36 ANDRENID.2.

gellum bright fulvous beneath. Thorax very finely punctured
and shining; the scutellum impunctate and highly polished; the
metathorax very finely rugulose at the base ; wings clear hyaline
and iridescent, the nervures and tegule pale rufo-testaceous. Ab-
domen shining, very delicately punctured, with the apical margins
of the segments impunctate. A floccus of white pubescence on the
posterior femora beneath.

Male. Rather smaller than the female. The head and thorax green ;
the abdomen dark reddish brown, darkest towards the apex; the
clypeus and mandibles white, the flagellum of the antenne fulvous,
the head delicately punctured. The thorax highly polished above ;
wings as in the female; legs pale rufo-testaceous. Abdomen
smooth and shining.

Hab. Swan River.

19. Halictus inclinans.

Female, Length 22 lines.—Black, with the mesothorax green. The
face and cheeks with thin hoary pubescence; the anterior margin
of the clypeus and the mandibles rufo-piceous ; the flagellum ful-
vous beneath. The mesothorax very finely and closely punctured ;
the base of the metathorax finely rugulose ; the sides of the thorax,

beneath, and the legs with a fine cinereous pubescence; the legs

ferruginous ; wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures and tegule
pale rufo-testaceous. Abdomen with a thin cinereous pile, with
cinereous hairs towards the apex; the margins of the segments
rufo-piceous ; beneath, the segments fringed with cinereous pubes-
cence.

Hab, Champion Bay.

20. Halictus humilis.

Female. Length 2 lines.—Black, with the mesothorax dark shining
green. Head rotundate, very finely and very closely punctured ;
mandibles ferruginous; the flagellum obscurely fulvous beneath
towards the apex. The mesothorax with very fine distant punc-
tures; the metathorax finely rugulose at the base, the margin of
the truncation smooth and shining, the sides with hoary pubes-
cence; the anterior legs, with the knees and apical joints of the
tarsi, rufo-testaceous; wings hyaline and iridescent. Abdomen
smooth, shining, and impunctate ; the margins of the ventral seg-
ments fringed with long white pubescence.

Hab, Champion Bay.

21. Halictus punctatus.

Female. Length 2? lines.—Head black, the metathorax green and
coarsely punctured; abdomen ferruginous, with black markings.

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Head with a longitudinal striation above the antenne ; the clypeus
shining, and with a few strong punctures; mandibles rufo-piceous,
with their tips black ; the flagellum of the antenne fulvous beneath.
Thorax black at the sides and beneath; wings hyaline and irides-
cent, the nervyures and tegule rufo-testaceous ; legs pale ferrugi-
nous. Abdomen dark rufo-piceous in the middle, the sides bright
ferruginous, smooth, and shining; the apical segment pale ferrugi-
nous, and with pale pubescence.

Hab. Champion Bay.

22. Halictus agilis.

Male. Length 34-4 lines.—Brassy green. The head very finely and
closely punctured; the face with pale pubescence, that on the
cheeks white; the head as wide as the thorax and rounded, with
the clypeus produced moderately, its anterior margin narrowly
yellow ; the flagellum, except one or two of the apical joints, ful-
vous beneath. The mesothorax and scutellum finely punctured ;

- the base of the metathorax with irregular striation; wings clear
hyaline, the nervures and tegule pale rufo-testaceous; all the
tarsi and tibiz, as well as the anterior and intermediate femora,
pale ferruginous; the coxe, trochanters, and posterior femora
black or rufo-piceous, with an eneous tinge. Abdomen ovate,
shining and finely punctured, the basal margin of the second
segment and the apical margin of the following with pale pube-
scent fascie.

_ Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.

23. Halictus exiguus.

Female. Length 2 lines.—Head and thorax dark green; abdomen
black, with the margins of the segments rufo-piceous. Head
rather large, shining and finely punctured, rounded, with the man-
dibles ferruginous and the flagellum fulvous beneath. The meso-
thorax shining and finely punctured; the base of the metathorax
smooth and shining, with a few faint, short striz at the extreme
base; wings hyaline and iridescent, the tegule and nervures pale
testaceous; the anterior tibiz and all the tarsi rufo-testaceous,
with a little pale fulvous pubescence. Abdomen shining, and very
delicately punctured beyond the basal segment.

Hab. Mexico.

24, Halictus vagans..

Female. Length 3 lines.—Shining brassy green, the abdomen ob-
scurely so beyond the basal segment. The head closely and finely
punctured, rounded, with the clypeus slightly produced and of a
purple colour, the face thickly covered with short pale ochraceous

38 ANDRENID 2.

pubescence ; the mandibles ferruginous ; the flagellum of the an-
tenne fulvous beneath. ‘Thorax closely punctured; the meta-
thorax finely rugulose at the base, the margin of the truncation
smooth and shining; wings hyaline, the tegule and nervures pale

rufo-testaceous ; legs rufo-piceous, with the tarsi rufo-testaceous.

Abdomen with a short pale pubescence, the apical margins of the
segments pale testaceous.

Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.
This species closely resembles H. tumulorwm of Europe.

25. Halictus politus.

Female. Length 43 lines.—Black; head and thorax opaque, ab-
domen shining. Head very closely punctured and thinly covered
with hoary pubescence; tips of the mandibles rufo-piceous. The
mesothorax and scutellum very closely punctured; the postscu-
tellum and sides of the metathorax with pale ochraceous pubes-
cence; the base of the metathorax irregularly longitudinally
striated and posteriorly truncate; wings pale fulvo-hyaline, the
nervures pale rufo-testaceous ; the legs with dark fuscous pubes-
cence. Abdomen obscure reddish brown, with a band of pale
tomentum on the basal margins of the second, third, and fourth
segments.

Male. Has a close resemblance to the female: the apex of the
clypeus yellow, the head and thorax opaque, the wings with a
fuscous cloud at their apex; the abdomen banded as in the female,

Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.

26. Halictus desertus.

Female. Length 3? lines.—Black; head and thorax opaque, ab-
domen shining. Head rotundate, the clypeus very slightly pro-
jected; very closely and finely punctured; the face and cheeks
with thin hoary pubescence. Thorax closely and finely punctured,
having thin hoary pubescence; the base of the metathorax very
finely rugulose; wings subhyaline, the nervures testaceous, the
tegulz shining black; the tibiz and tarsi with pale fulvous pubes-
cence. Abdomen shining and very finely and very closely punc-
tured; the basal margins of the second, third, and fourth segments
with bands of whitish tomentum.

Male. About the same length as the female, but more slender ;
the head opaque; the apical half of the clypeus white, smooth, and
shining. Thorax closely punctured, slightly shining; the meta-
thorax with irregular fine strie; wings hyaline and iridescent,
slightly clouded at their apical margins. Abdomen oblong, and
banded as in the female.

Hab, Mexico, Oajaca.

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27. Halictus providens.

Female. Length 3 lines.—Black, with the abdomen towards the
apex very pubescent. Head obovate, the face very finely punc-
tured, the vertex sparingly so and shining, the face with a thin
hoary pubescence. ‘he mesothorax smooth and shining, sparingly
punctured, and with a longitudinal central impressed line in front
extending to the disk; the postscutellum with pale downy to-
mentum; the metathorax truncate, the truncation smooth and
shining, the base of the metathorax with radiating strie; the
wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures and tegule pale testa-
ceous; the legs with whitish pubescence, the apical joints of the
tarsi testaceous. Abdomen impunctate, the base very smooth and
shining; the sides of the second, and the third, fourth, and follow-
ing segments covered entirely with thin pale pubescence, that at
the sides of the anal rima pale fulvous; beneath, the segments are
fringed with long pale pubescence.

Hab. Guatemala.

28. Halictus placidus.

Female. Length 4} lines.—Head and thorax blue, abdomen ferru-
ginous. Head subopaque, the clypeus slightly produced, truncate,
and with a few large punctures; the flagellum fulvous beneath ;
the face thinly covered with pale fulvous pubescence. Thorax
slightly shining; the metathorax truncate, its base smooth and
shining ; wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures pale testaceous ;
lees black, the apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous; the tarsi with
bright fulvous pubescence within. Abdomen shining, its extreme
base black.

Hab. Chili.

CACOSOMA, Smith.

Head about the same width as the thorax; eyes subreniform,
the ocelli in a triangle on the vertex; the scape of the antenne two
thirds of the length of the flagellum, which is subclavate; tongue
very short, not longer than the paraglosse ; the labial palpi 4-jointed,
the first joint subclavate and as long as the two following united,
the second and third joints short, stout, and clavate, the apical joint
much narrower and filiform; the maaillary palpi 6-jointed, the
three basal joints short, stout, and clavate, the fourth and fifth joints
slender and slightly thickened at the apex, the apical joint about
the same length as the fifth joint, and slightly attenuated towards
the apex, which is blunt. The anterior wings with one marginal and
three submarginal cells: the first submarginal cell a little longer
than the second and third united, the second narrow and very
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of the second, and much narrower towards the marginal. Adaomen
petiolate in both sexes, in the males clavate.

Of this genus three species are at present known, but the female
of the Mexican one only is described ; the form of the palpi separates
them from the genera previously established; the maxillary palpi
are remarkable in having three stout joints and three slender ones.
In the neuration of the wings they agree with many other Halicti ;
but the clavate form of the abdomen at once distinguishes them.

1. Cacosoma discolor.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Black, with tints of green on the thorax,
and with the basal segment of the abdomen rufo-piceous. Head
with a thin hoary pile on the face ; opaque, with the clypeus shining
and having a few seattered punctures ; the apex of the flagellum
of the antennee fulvous. Thorax opaque, with the collar produced
laterally into an acute angular projection, which is bright green ;
the posterior margin of the mesothorax narrowly, and the base of
the metathorax bright metallic green, the latter with fine divergent
striae ; the wings hyaline, iridescent, and with the anterior margin
of the fore wings bordered with fuscous; legs rufo-piceous, their
pubescence pale and glittering. Abdomen opaque and subpetiolate;
the basal segment with a black band in the middle, and the pos-
terior margin narrowly black; the basal margin of the third seg-
ment narrowly green; the margins of the segments beneath fringed
with pale pubescence.

Male. Length 4 lines.—More slender than the female. The sides
of the face and the clypeus green; antenne fulvous, slightly fus-
cous above. Thorax, legs, and wings as in the female, the fuscous
border of the latter commencing in the marginal cell. Abdomen
with the two basal segments 1ufo-testaceous; the basal margin of
the third slightly green.

Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.

2. Cacosoma abdominale.

Male. Length 43 lines.—Head and thorax brassy green, abdomen
ferruginous. ‘The face with pale fulvous pubescence; the clypeus
produced; the flagellum of the antenne fulvous beneath, above
fuscous, the joints subarcuate. The mesothorax of a brassy green ;
the metathorax dark green, and rugose at the base; the pubes-
cence pale fulvous; wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures
pale ferruginous; the tips of the femora, the tibiz, and tarsi pale
ferruginous. Abdomen smooth, shining, and ferruginous.

Hab. Chili.
3. Cacosoma agile.

Male. Length 42 lines.-—-Head and thorax green; abdomen pitchy

AUGOCHLORA, 41

black, with the base rufo-piceous. Head very finely and very
closely punctured; the vertex dark olive-green, the clypeus pro-
duced, convex, shining, and with strong punctures; the antennz
fulvous beneath, fuscous above. The mesothorax closely punc-
tured; the metathorax with a series of short deep striz at the base,
rather strongly punctured beyond, and with a deeply impressed
central longitudinal line; wings subhyaline; legs rufo-piceous, the
femora and tibiz tinged with green. Abdomen tinged with green
on the two basal segments, the base of the first rufo-piceous; ob-
long, clavate.

Hab. Brazil.

4, Cacosoma marginatum.

Male. Length 5 lines.—Head and thorax olive-green ; abdomen
black, with pale marginal fascie, and having a sericeous gloss.
The elypeus produced, the front with pale fulvous pubescence; the
mandibles pale testaceous; antenne a little longer than the thorax,
fulvous, slightly fuscous above, the joints subarcuate. Thorax
opaque above; the basal margin of the postscutellum with a narrow
line of pale tomentum ; wings pale fulvo-hyaline, the nervures and
stigma pale ferruginous; the tips of the femora, the tibie, and
tarsi pale ferruginous. Abdomen clavate, the apical margins of
the segments bordered with shining whitish pubescence, the basal
margin of this border shining golden.

Hab. Chili.

5. Cacosoma jucundum.

Male. Length 3-33 lines.—Head, thorax, and base of the abdomen
more or less bright green, with brassy tints. The head and thorax
with fine close punctures ; the clypeus produced, and with stronger
punctures ; the antenne obscurely rufo-piceous. The base of the
metathorax with rugulose striz ; wings subhyaline and iridescent,
slightly clouded at their apical margins; legs rufo-piceous, the
femora and tibie tinted with green, the tarsi pale rufo-testaceous.
Abdomen black, shining, and clavate; the base of the three basal
segments more or less green.

Hab. St. Paulo, on the Amazons.

AUGOCHLORA, Smith.

1. Augochlora acidalia.
Female. Length 44 lines.—Head and thorax blue-green, sometimes
green, opaque; abdomen bright coppery red, varying in some ex-
amples to brassy green. The head above the antenne very closely

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punctured, more strongly so below their insertion, the clypeus pro-
duced and coarsely punctured, and fringed with fulvous pubescence,
the face thinly sprinkled with fulvous; the flagellum fulvous
beneath. The mesothorax with strong confluent punctures, the
scutellum and metathorax with finer punctures; at the base of the
latter there is a small finely rugulose space, surrounded by a smooth
shining margin; wings fusco-hyaline, the nervures dark fuscous;
legs of different shades of green, and with obscure fulvous pubes-
cence. Abdomen with fine shallow punctures.

Hab. Uruguay.

The colouring of this species is the same as that of A. egnita, de-
scribed in the ‘ Journal of Entomology ;’ but the insect is larger, and
the abdomen, instead of being rather strongly punctured, is very
finely so.

2. Augochlora berenice.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Green, with tints of blue in different
lights. Head very closely punctured, most strongly so below the
insertion of the antenne ; the clypeus with strong punctures and
purple at its apex; the flagellum fulvous beneath. The mesotho-
rax with confluent punctures; the metathorax with an enclosed
space at its base longitudinally rugulose, truncate, with the sides
closely punctured ; wings hyaline, the nervures and tegule rufo-
piceous ; legs green, the tarsi rufo-piceous, with pale pubescence.
Abdomen pubescent, shining, with fine shallow punctures; the
apical margins of the second and following segments with a thin
fringe of white pubescence.

Hab. Uruguay.

3. Augochlora callisto.

Male. Length 4 lines.—-Blue, with tints of green in certain lights.
Head very closely punctured, the clypeus coarsely so; the flagellum
of the antennze fulvous towards the apex beneath. Thorax more
strongly punctured than the head, the scutellum with larger deep
punctures ; the base of the metathorax longitudinally finely rugu-
lose, a smooth shining area surrounding the striated one; the
apex truncate ; wings hyaline, the nervures and stigma testaceous ;
legs blue, with green tints and covered with pale pubescence ; the
apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous. Abdomen finely punctured,
not very closely so, and with a thin pale pubescence ; the basal
margins of the second and third segments with narrow fascie of
pale fulvous pubescence.

Hab. Monte Video.

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4. Augochlora acis.

Male. Length 33 lines——Bright green. Head with very close
more or less confluent punctures ; the clypeus with strong punc-
tures, and usually more or less purple at the apex, the apical
margin fringed with glittering white hairs; the flagellum obscurely
fulyous beneath. Thorax punctured in the same manner as the
head ; the enclosed space at the base of the metathorax irregularly
striated ; the truncation coarsely punctured ; wings hyaline, the
neryures and stigma pale testaceous; the tegule sometimes green,
but occasionally more or less obscure rufo-testaceous; legs green or
sometimes blue. Abdomen shining, with fine shallow punctures,
and thinly covered with pale pubescence, the second and third seg-
ments with a narrow band of pale pubescence at their basal mar-
gins; the following segments with a fringe of pale pubescence on
their apical margins.

Hab. Uruguay and Monte Video.

This is a species that varies in colouring from blue to bright
green: the blue variety has the apical margins of the abdomen
usually green; the bands at the basal margins of the second and
third segments are frequently obliterated.

5. Augochlora atropos.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Head, thorax, and base of the abdomen
with more or less of a purple tint, the rest of the abdomen brassy
green. The head with rather fine confluent punctures ; the clypeus
produced, very convex, shining, and with a few large deep punctures,
its apical margin fringed with pale fulvous hairs. Thorax closely
punctured, the disk less closely so; the enclosed space at the base
of the metathorax with short longitudinal striz, surrounded by a
smooth shining space ; the truncation smooth and shining and with
a deep central depression; wings subhyaline; legs black, with
fuscous pubescence ; the posterior femora fringed with white pu-
bescence beneath. Abdomen closely punctured at the base, with
shallow punctures towards the apex, and thinly covered with pale
pubescence.

Hab. Brazil, St. Paulo.

6. Augochlora deidamia.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Green, the head, thorax, and legs brassy ;
the mesothorax coppery red. The head closely and finely punc-
tured; the clypeus slightly produced, convex, and with a few strong
punctures. Thorax shining above, punctured, the punctures fine
and distant on the disk and also on the scutellum ; at the base of
the metathorax, which is truncate, there are a few short strie en-
closed by a.shining smooth ridge; wings hyaline and iridescent,

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the tegule posteriorly and the nervures rufo-piceous; the legs
green, their pubescence pale, the apical joints of the tarsi pale fer-
ruginous; the posterior femora fringed with white pubescence
beneath. Abdomen shining, evenly and finely punctured at the
base, but with shallow punctures beyond the second segment ; be-
neath, the segments are fringed with pale fulvous pubescence.

Hab. Brazil, St. Paulo.

7. Augochlora feronia.

Female. Length 3? lines.—Head and thorax green, legs black, ab-
domen obscurely green. Head and thorax with fine confluent
punctures ; the clypeus produced, and with a few strong punctures,
fringed at the apex with a few fulvous hairs. The metathorax
with the enclosed space at its base with short radiating strie,
beyond very finely and very closely punctured ; wings subhyaline,
with dark nervures, and faintly clouded at their apex; the cox
beneath tinted with green ; the legs with black pubescence. Ab-
domen black at the base, and with tints of green in different
lights; the third and fourth segments green, with their apical
margins more or less black, the apex black; beneath black, with
the margins of the segments rufo-piceous.

Hab. Brazil, Constancia.

8. Augochlora calypso.

Female. Length 4} lines.—Bright green, the segments of the ab-
domen with a narrow pale fulvous marginal fringe. The face with
very fine confluent punctures above the antennz, below their in-
sertion the puncturing is stronger; the clypeus slightly produced,
with strong punctures, its apex usually dark purple; antenne
rufo-piceous ; the mandibles ferruginous in the middle. Thorax
closely punctured; the metathorax truncate, the truncation very
bright and shining, and having a few fine shallow punctures; the
base of the metathorax with short radiating strive enclosed by a
sharp shining ridge ; wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures and tegule
rufo-testaceous ; the legs with pale fulvous pubescence; the tarsi
rufo-testaceous. Abdomen shining, with very fine punctures on
the basal segment; the first and second segments with a narrow
pale fulvous marginal fringe, on the following segments the fringe
is paler and less even.

Hab. Santarem.

2). Augochlora chryseis.

Female. Length 33 lines.—Head and thorax blue, abdomen olive-
green. Head rotundate, very finely punctured, the clypeus slightly
produced and coarsely punctured at the apex, which is black.

AUGOCHLORA. ; 45

Thorax not so finely punctured as the head; the metathorax trun-
cate, its base with longitudinal striz enclosed by a sharp elevated
ridge ; wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures dark ferruginous,
the tegule shining black; the legs with a glittering pale pubes-
cence; on the posterior tibie outside it is fuscous. Abdomen
smooth, shining, and impunctate ; covered thinly towards the apex
with short pubescence ; beneath, the margins of the segments with
a fringe of whitish pubescence.

Hab. Guatemala.
10. Augochlora festiva.

Male. Length 33 lines.—Head and thorax bright green; abdomen
pale ferruginous, with the apex green, and the margins of the seg-
ments at the apex blackish. The clypeus slightly produced, convex,
with the apex yellow; the mandibles and scape of the antenne
yellow. Thorax impunctate, truncate posteriorly ; the truncation
deeply impressed in the centre; the sides of the metathorax with
thick downy pubescence; wings clear hyaline and iridescent, the
neryures testaceous ; the legs pale yellow-ferruginous. Abdomen
impunctate ; the margins of the segments with fuscous bands.

Hab. Santarem.

11. Augochlora leta.

Female. Length 3 lines.—Shining green. Head very closely and
finely punctured ; the clypeus slightly produced, convex, and having
a few scattered punctures; mandibles and antenne ruto-piceous.
The mesothorax closely but not so finely punctured as the head ;
at the base of the metathorax the space enclosed by a sharp ridge
is longitudinally striated ; wings hyaline and iridescent, the tegulex
and nervures pale testaceous ; the legs pale ferruginous. Abdomen
finely punctured, and with a thin pale pubescence ; beneath rufo-
testaceous.

Hab. Amazons, Ega.

12. Augochlora alcyone.

Female. Length 34 lines.—Green, with tints of blue on the abdo-
men. The head finely shagreened, rotundate; the clypeus slightly
produced and strongly punctured; the flagellum fulvous beneath.
The base of the metathorax with radiating strie, surrounded by a
sharp ridge ; wings hyaline and iridescent, faintly clouded at their
apex ; legs blue-green; the apical joints of the tarsi rufo-testaceous,
their pubescence whitish. Abdomen oblong-ovate, slightly pilose
at the sides, the apex with fuscous pubescence; beneath blue with
purple tints.

Hab. St. Domingo.

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13. Augochlora nana.

Female. Length 14 lines.—Head and thorax brassy green, abdomen
pale ferruginous. Head rotundate, very finely and closely punc-
tured ; the mandibles, apical margin of the clypeus, and the an-
tenne pale ferruginous, the latter slightly fuscous above. Thorax
very finely punctured ; the base of the metathorax finely rugulose,
surrounded by a smooth shining space; wings clear hyaline and
splendidly iridescent, nervures and tegule pale rufo-testaceous ;
legs the colour of the abdomen, which is smooth, shining, and im-
punctate.

Hab. Santarem.

14. Augochlora thalia.

Female. Length 3-31 lines.—Brassy green, with, usually, coppery
tints on the thorax and abdomen. Head minutely and very closely
punctured ; the clypeus strongly so, its anterior margin black ; the
mandibles ferruginous; the flagellum of the antenne fulvous be-
neath. ‘Thorax finely punctured; the base of the metathorax with
radiating strie, the sides with white pubescence ; wings fulvo-
hyaline, the nervures dark fuscous, the tegulz rufo-piceous; the
tibie and tarsi ferruginous, more or less fuscous above ; the femora
and coxee obscure rufo-piceous. Abdomen very bright and shining
at the base, more or less covered with fine hoary pilosity ; beneath
blackish.

Male. Smaller than the female, but of the same colour; the
clypeus more produced, and its anterior margin narrowly yellowish ;
the antennze longer and stouter; the legs, except the coxe, pale
ferruginous ; the abdomen narrower than in the female, but pubes-
cent and similarly coloured.

Hab. St. Paulo and Villa Nova.

15. Augochlora briseis.

Female. Length 34 lines.—Head green, thorax and abdomen ob-
scurely purple. Head shining brassy green, finely and closely
punctured, the clypeus with a few strong punctures; mandibles
ferruginous; flagellum of the antennze fulvous beneath. The
thorax coarsely punctured above, of a bright purple colour, with
an abbreviated impressed line over each tegula; the metathorax
smooth and shining; wings hyaline and iridescent, and faintly
clouded at their apex; legs rufo-piceous. The abdomen sub-
clavate, the basal segment rather strongly punctured ; the basal
half of the second more finely so, the following segments shining
and impunctate.

Hab. Amazons, St. Paulo.

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16. Augochlora aspasia.

Female. Length 3 lines.—Head and thorax black, and densely
covered with short fulvous pubescence; abdomen ferruginous.
Mandibles ferruginous at their apex; the flagellum of the antenne
obscurely fulvous beneath. Thorax punctured beneath, not pubes-
cent ; the legs rufo-piceous, with thin pale fulvous pubescence,
bright fulvous on the tarsi within; wings fulvo-hyaline, the ner-
vures and tegule pale rufo-testaceous ; a space at the base of the
metathorax, enclosed by a sharp ridge, longitudinally striated.
Abdomen with short fulvous pubescence towards the apex ; the
basal margins of the third and following segments more or less
fuscous.

Hab. Mexico. .
17. Augochlora hebescens.

Female. Length 5 lines.—The face coppery; the vertex and disk of
the thorax obscure olive-green ; the scutellum and postscutellum
bright green ; the abdomen dark olive-green, in some examples in-
clining to blue. The head with pale pubescence, longest and most
dense on the cheeks; the clypeus fringed with bright pale fulvous
hairs. The thorax closely punctured, the metathorax truncate,
smooth, shining, and impunctate; the wings hyaline, with the
anterior margin of the front wings clouded with fuscous; legs
black and with black pubescence; the apical joints of the tarsi
rufo-piceous ; the femora fringed beneath with pale pubescence.
Abdomen convex and ovate; the basal segment punctured and
covered thinly with short glittering pale hairs.

Male. Closely resembles the female, and is similarly coloured, but
has the abdomen more elongate and the two basal segments
punctured ; the legs are tinted with green, and have the tarsi pale
ferruginous and thickly covered with short white pubescence; the
general pubescence of the legs is hoary.

Hab. Amazons, Ega, St. Paulo, and Para.

18. Augochlora aurora.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Head blue-green ; abdomen brassy, and
with a dense short fulvous pubescence beyond the basal segment,
which is shining and finely punctured. Head with confluent punc-
tures; antennze black. The mesothorax coarsely punctured in
front, the punctures confluent, more finely punctured beyond the
insertion of the wings, as is also the scutellum; the base of the
metathorax irregularly longitudinally striated; wings hyaline,
faintly clouded at their apex; legs black, with dark fuscous pubes-
cence, that on the posterior pair paler beneath. Abdomen finely
and closely punctured.

Hab. Mexico.

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MEGALOPTA, Smith.

1. Megalopta purpurata.

Male. Length 6 lines.—Purple, brightest on the abdomen, and |
covered with thin short pale pubescence, whichis most denseonthe |
thorax beneath and on the sides of the metathorax. Head closely
and finely punctured; the clypeus shining and with scattered
punctures ; the mandibles rufo-piceous; the flagellum of the an-
tenn obscurely fulvous beneath. Thorax with minute shallow
punctures above; wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures rufo-testaceous ;
the metathorax smooth and shining; the legs rufo-piceous, with
the tarsi pale rufo-testaceous. Abdomen oblong-ovate, delicately
punctured at the base, beneath rufo-piceous.

Hab. Amazons, Ega.

2. Megalopta nigro-femorata.

Female. Length 43 lines.—Pale ferruginous, with the head, meso-
thorax above, and the pectus more or less brassy green. The
anterior margin of the clypeus, the labrum, and mandibles pale
ferruginous, the latter black at their tips ; the antenne ferruginous.
The wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures and tegule pale ferruginous ;
the legs ferruginous, with the apex of the intermediate tibiz, the
posterior tibiz, and the basal joint of the intermediate and posterior
tarsi black, and with black pubescence. Abdomen subglobose, the
apical margins of the second, third, and the following segments
slightly rnfo-fuscous.

Hab. Ega.

3. Megalopta pilosa.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Brassy green, and covered with short
fulvous pubescence. The clypeus naked, shining, and strongly
punctured ; the labrum pale ferruginous ; the mandibles ferruginous,
with their tips rufo-piceous; the scape and one or two of the basal
joints of the flagellum pale ferruginous, the rest of the joints black.
The base of the metathorax with longitudinal strie; the wings
hyaline, the nervures and stigma pale testaceous; a fuscous cloud
in the marginal cell, passing beyond to the apex of the wing; legs
pale ferruginous, with fulvous pubescence. The basal segment of
the abdomen strongly punctured.

Hab. St. Paulo, Amazons.

4. Megalopta vivax.

Female. Length 3} lines.—Head and thorax blue-green, the vertex
and disk of the thorax obscurely so; abdomen brownish black, the

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apex green. The head with fine confluent punctures ; the clypeus
shining, blackish, and with strong punctures ; the mandibles with
the apical half rufo-piceous ; the flagellum fulvous beneath. Thorax
closely punctured, with the disk shining and with distant punc-
tures; the metathorax smooth and shining, with a transverse en-
closed space at its base, with strong short radiating strie ; wings

- hyaline, iridescent, and slightly clouded at their apex, the nervures
rufo-fuscous, the tegule rufo-testaceous; legs obscurely rufo-piceous
and with fulvous pubescence. Abdomen ovate, finely and sparingly
punctured ; the apical margins of the two basal segments with a
narrow fringe of fulvous pubescence, on the following segments
the fringe is paler and not so even.

Hab. Brazil, Para.

5. Megalopta cuprifrons.

Female. Length 4 lines—Head and thorax green, the face of a
coppery brilliancy ; the mesothorax above obscure; the scutellum
and postscutellum bright green; abdomen obscure dark olive and
opague. The head and thorax above with fine confluent punctures ;
the clypeus very bright and with strong punctures; the antenne
black; the wings hyaline, with a dark fuscous stain on the an-
terior margin of the front wings; legs black, but obscurely rufo-
piceous beneath, their pubescence black. ‘The basal segment of the
abdomen strongly punctured, the following segments with short
pubescence, pale, and changeable in different lights.

Male. Coloured as the female, but of a more slender form; the legs
rufo-piceous, the abdomen elongate-ovate, with the two basal seg-
ments strongly punctured.

Hab. St. Paulo, Amazons.

6. Megalopta ornata.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Green; the head and thorax strongly
punctured, the punctures confluent; abdomen dark green, with
tints of blue in certain lights. Head with the hinder margin of
the vertex acute ; the clypeus convex and of a bright coppery red ;
the face on each side golden yellow; the antenne black; head
beneath golden green. Thorax with the collar produced laterally
into an angulated thin curved process; the disk of the mesothorax
rugose, the base of the metathorax concave, smooth, and shining,
but having a few shallow longitudinal strie ; wings hyaline, their
apical margins with a fuscous cloud; the nervures fuscous, the
tegule black, smooth, and shining ; legs black, with tints of green
on the tibix, their pubescence fuscous above; the floccus on the
posterior femora beneath pale fulvous, as well as that on the tibiz
beneath ; on the first joint of the tarsi beneath it is bright fulvous.

_ Abdomen smooth and shining, the basal segment punctured late-

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50 ANDRENID®.

rally, finely and sparingly at the basal margin in the middle; the
apical segment with fuscous pubescence ; beneath green and punc-
tured, the margins of the segments fringed with pale pubescence.

Hab. St. Paulo, Amazons.

ANDRENA, Fabr.

1. Andrena torrida.

Female. Length 53 lines.—Head and thorax black, abdomen ferru-
ginous. Head very closely punctured ; the face and cheeks with
short white pubescence ; the apical joint of the antennze fulvous
beneath. Thorax shining above, with strong rather distant punc-
tures ; the metathorax smooth; the pubescence above pale and
yellowish, that beneath and on the legs white; the legs rufo-
piceous ; the wings fusco-hyaline, with the base hyaline. Abdo-
men shining and impunctate, the extreme base and apex blackish.

Male. The same length as the female ; similarly coloured, but having
the face densely covered with gold-coloured pubescence, and with
more black at the base and apex of the abdomen, which has the
margins of the segments depressed.

Hab. Bombay Presidency.

2. Andrena mollis.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Head and thorax shining black ; abdomen
pale ferruginous, with black spots and fascize. The head and thorax
above very closely and finely punctured ; the face thinly covered
with pale fulvous pubescence ; mandibles ferruginous, their base
and apex dark rufo-piceous; the flagellum of the antennz fulvous
beneath, two or three of the apical joints entirely so. The pubes-
cence on the thorax pale fulvous ; the postscutellum covered with
pale tomentum; wings subhyaline and iridescent, their apical
margins faintly clouded; legs ferruginous. Abdomen with a
fuscous macula a little beyond the middle of the first and second
segments laterally; a fuscous band across the third segment, the
following segments black ; beneath, the segments are fringed with
long pale hair.

Hab. Bombay.

There is only a single specimen of this species in the Collection ;
but it is probable that the dark markings on the abdomen vary in
different individuals.

3. Andrena communis.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Head closely and finely punctured; the
clypeus shining and with strong punctures; tips of the mandibles

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rufo-piceous; the flagellum obscurely fulvous beneath. Thorax
closely punctured, with pale fulvous pubescence above and with
hoary beneath ; wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures fusco-
ferruginous ; the scopa on the posterior tibiz pale fulvous. Ab-
domen black, with the apical margin of the first segment, the
second segment, and the sides of the third more or less ferrugi-
ginous; the apical margins of the second, third, and fourth seg-
ments fringed with white pubescence, the sixth segment with
.fuscous pubescence.

Hab. North India, Masuri; taken at an elevation of 7000 feet.

This species closely resembles some of the varieties of the European
Andrena cetir.

4. Andrena vitiosa.

Male. Length 4} lines.—Black. Head twice the width of the thorax,
deeply emarginate behind; the clypeus yellow; the face and vertex
finely punctured, the former with a thin pale fulvous pubescence ;
the cheeks smooth and shining. Thorax thinly covered above with
pale fulvous pubescence, that on the metathorax thin and hoary ;
the collar produced laterally into an elevated tubercle; wings
fulvo-hyaline, the tegule testaceous, the nervures ferruginous ; the
legs rufo-piceous, the tarsi palest. Abdomen smooth, shining, and
very finely punctured; the apical margins of the segments ob-
securely rufo-testaceous.

Hab. North China..
5. Andrena dentata.

Male. Length 5 lines.—Black ; the abdomen with the apical mar-
gins of the first, second, and third segments rufo-testaceous.
Head large, wider than the thorax, the vertex narrowed behind
the eyes; the face with hoary pubescence ; the mandibles forci-
pate, their tips rufo-piceous and armed at their base with a long
spine or tooth ; the joints of the flagellum subarcuate; the head
with long white pubescence beneath. Thorax with long thin
pale fulvous pubescence on the disk; on the sides, beneath, and on
the legs it is white; the tarsi pale ferruginous ; wings pale fulvo-
hyaline, the nervures ferruginous. Abdomen oblong, smooth, and
shining; the apical segment with white pubescence,

Hab. Japan, Yokohama.

6. Andrena fastuosa.

Female. Length 63 lines.—Black, the apical margin of the frst,
and the second segment of the abdomen entirely, ferruginous. The
pubescence on the face and cheeks whitish, that on the vertex pale
fulvous ; a line of white tomentum at the inner margin of the eyes ;

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the head closely punctured, the clypeus strongly so. Thorax with the
disk not very closely punctured, with pale fulvous pubescence above,
beneath it is whitish ; the wings fulvo-hyaline, their apex clouded,
the nervures ferruginous ; the tarsi and posterior tibie ferruginous
and with fulvous pubescence; the floccus at the base of the pos-
terior femora beneath white. Abdomen closely and finely punc-
tured; the apical margins of the segments testaceous, the second
and following ones with short pale pubescence, that on the apex
bright fulvous.

Hab. Mexico, Orizaba.

7. Andrena discreta.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Head and thorax black ; abdomen ferrugi-
nous, with the base black. Head very closely punctured; the face and
cheeks with fulvous pubescence; tips of the mandibles ferruginous.
Thorax finely and closely punctured, and clothed with fulvous pu-
bescence ; wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures aud stigma ferrugi-
nous, faintly clouded at their apex; legs rufo-piceous; the tarsi
and posterior tibize ferruginous, their pubescence fulvous; the
floccus at the base of the posterior femora pale fulvous. The ab-
domen with short fulvous pubescence; the apical margins of the
segments pale rufo-testaceous and fringed with fulvous pubescence ;
the fourth and fifth segments more or less fuscous at the base.

Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.

8. Andrena sodalis.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Black, the general pubescence above
fulvous ; abdomen smooth, shining, aud impunctate. The face with
pale pubescence ; the clypeus shining, and having deep scattered
punctures; a deep channel along the inner margins of the eyes, on
the sides of the face. Thorax with thin fulvous pubescence above,
beneath it is paler; wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures, tegule, and
stigma rufo-testaceous ; the apical joints of the tarsi, the posterior
tibize, and basal half of the first joint of the tarsi pale ferruginous ;
the scopa on the posterior tibie bright pale fulvous. Abdomen
oblong-ovate ; the apical margins of the second and third segments
fringed laterally, and the fourth entirely, with pale fulvous pubes-
cence, that on the apical segment is fuscous.

Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.

9. Andrena simulata.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Black ; thorax and abdomen smooth and
shining, the former with fulvous pubescence above. Head opaque,
the clypeus shining, with strong punctures, and a longitudinal smooth
impunctate line in the middle; the face with a thin pale pubes-

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cence, and a deep channel on each side at the margin of the eyes.
Thorax very finely punctured; wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures,
stigma, and tegule rufo-testaceous; legs obscure rufo-piceous be-
neath, their pubescence fuscous above. Abdomen oblong-ovate ;
the apical margins of the second and third segments more or less
rufo-piceous ; the third and fourth segments laterally, and the fifth
entirely, fringed with pale fulvous pubescence, the apical segment
with fulvous pubescence; beneath rufo-piceous.

Hab. Mexico, Orizaba.

This species resembles A. sodalis, but is distinguished from it by
the fuscous scopa on the posterior tibie.

10. Andrena agilis.

Male. Length 4 lines.—Coal-black, the head and thorax opaque,
abdomen smooth and shining. The clypeus yellowish white, on
each side of it, on the face, there is some black pubescence; at the
insertion of the antenne a little pale pubescence, the same on the
cheeks; the antenne as long as the thorax. The thorax with a
thin long hoary pubescence; wings hyaline and iridescent, the
nervures testaceous. Abdomen lanceolate, much attenuated at the
base ; on the apical margins of the second, third, and fourth seg-
ments laterally a narrow fringe of white pubescence; the two
apical segments testaceous and with white pubescence.

Hab. Mexico, Oa;aca.

11. Andrena modesta.

Female. Length 3 lines.—Head and thorax black ; abdomen ferru-
ginous, with the base black. Head closely punctured, the clypeus
coarsely so; the flagellum of the antennee fulvous beneath ; tips of
the mandibles rufo-piceous. Thorax finely punctured above; wings
hyaline and iridescent, slightly fuscous towards the apex, the ner-
vures and stigma dark fuscous; the basal joint of the posterior
tarsi with white pubescence within. Abdomen with the first seg-
ment black and its apical margin ferruginous ; the three following
segments ferruginous, the rest black; the red segments have a
lateral small fuscous or black macula; beneath black, with the
margins of the segments ferruginous.

Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.

12, Andrena commoda.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Black; the abdomen ovate and shining,
its apex, as well as the posterior legs, with bright fulvous pubes-
cence. The face with pale pubescence; the clypeus shining
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joint, obscurely fulvous beneath. The thorax with hoary pubes-
cence, that on the disk is thin, but at the sides of the metathorax
it is long and dense; wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures and stigma
ferruginous, the tegule rufo-piceous; all the tarsi and the inter-
mediate and posterior tibize with fulvous pubescence; the floccus
on the posterior femora beneath white; the tarsi and posterior
tibie ferruginous. Abdomen oblong-ovate and finely punctured.

Hab. Canada.

13. Andrena flavo-clypeata.

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Male. Length 3; inches.—Black, with the clypeus yellow and
having two minute black spots. The head deeply emarginate
posteriorly ; the antenne nearly as long as the thorax, with the
flagellum pale fulvous beneath. The pubescence of the thorax pale,
that on the disk slightly fulvous; wings hyaline and iridescent,
the nervures and stigma pale rufo-testaceous, the tegule pale tes-
taceous ; the apical joints of the tarsi rufo-testaceous. Abdomen
lanceolate, the apex pale testaceous and with white pubescence.

Hab. Canada.

14. Andrena miranda.

Female. Length 44 lines——Black; the pubescence on the thorax
above pale fulvous, but sparing, that at the apex of the abdomen
and on the posterior legs fulvous. Head closely punctured, the
clypeus strongly so; the sides of the face with pale pubescence.
The mesothorax strongly punctured, the scutellum and metathorax
coarsely so, the sides of the latter thickly fringed with pale pubes-
cence; the wings hyaline, iridescent, and slightly clouded at their
apex, the nervures and stigma ferruginous, the tegulee rufo-piceous ;
the legs dark rufo-piceous, the tibize of the posterior legs and all
the tarsi ferruginous. Abdomen ovate and closely punctured; on
the apical margins of the second, third, and fourth segments there
is a narrow fascia of white pubescence, the second usually, and also
the third occasionally, interrupted; the two apical segments with

- fulvous pubescence.

Se ee - e )

Male. Length 33 lines.—Resembles the female in having pale ful-
vous pubescence on the thorax, in having the tarsi and posterior
tibize pale ferruginous, and in having the apex of the abdomen with
fulvous pubescence; the face clothed with fulvous pubescence ;
wings as in the female ; abdomen shining and impunctate.

Hab. Canada.

15. Andrena mesta.

Female. Wength 5-53 lines.—Black, with hoary pubescence. The
face and chceks with white pubescence. The thorax thinly

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clothed on the disk with pale yellowish-white pubescence, on the
metathorax, sides, and beneath it is hoary; the floccus at the base

of the posterior femora beneath dense, curled, and white; the
scopa on the tibiz white ; the inside of the basal joint of the tarsi
fulyous; wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures and stigma
testaceous. Abdomen ovate, subacuminate at the apex, thinly
covered above with hoary pubescence; the apical margins of the
segments beneath fringed with the same.

Male. Length 4 lines.—The pubescence hoary, that on the face
and cheeks long and white ; the head above subquadrate; the an-
tennee nearly as long as the thorax; wings as in the female; the
legs slender, with the apical joints of the tarsi testaceous. Abdo-
men shining, with a thinly scattered hoary pubescence.

Hab. Canada.
Both the sexes described are in the best possible condition.

16, Andrena errans.

Female. Length 6-64 lines.—Shining jet-black, the thorax with
ochraceous pubescence above. The head with black pubescence,
on the face and vertex it is slightly ochraceous, on the metathorax,
the thorax beneath, on the sides, and on the legs it is black ; wings
fusco-hyaline, the nervures fusco-ferruginous. Abdomen very black
and shining, impunctate, the pubescence on the apex obscurely

fulvous.

Male. Smaller than the female, but closely resembling it; the
pubescence is similar, that on the clypeus is brownish ; the wings
are more clear, being hyaline towards the base, and the nervures
are testaceous.

Hab. Vancouver's Island. Collected by Dr. Lyall.

This species resembles A. vicina of N. America, but that insect
has pale pubescence on the face.

17. Andrena cerulea.

Female. Length 4-47 lines.—Blue, the abdomen shining and some-
times haying a green tint in certain lights. The pubescence on the
clypeus brownish, as well as that on the cheeks. On the thorax
above the pubescence is ochraceous, on the metathorax it is sooty
black, as is also that on the legs; the floccus on the posterior
femora beneath pale ; wings hyaline, iridescent, and slightly clouded
at their apex. Abdomen impunctate, with obscurely fulvous pubes-
cence at the apex.

Hab. Vancouver's Island. Collected by Dr. Lyall.

18. Andrena subtilis.
Female. Length 5 lines.—Head and thorax black, the abdomen

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smooth, shining, and nigro-zeneous. The face with pale fulvo- —
ochraceous pubescence, that on the clypeus whitish. The thorax
with fulvo-ochraceous pubescence above, paler on the sides of the
metathorax ; that on the legs beneath, and also the floccus at the
base of the posterior tibize beneath, nearly white ; the scopa on the
posterior tibie, as well as the pubescence on the tarsi, pale fulvous ;
wings hyaline, clouded and iridescent on their apical margins, the
nervures rufo-testaceous. Abdomen impunctate ; the apical mar-
gins of the second and following segments slightly depressed ; the
pubescence at the apex fulvous.

Hab. Vancouver’s Island. Collected by Dr. Lyall.

19. Andrena candida.

Female. Length 34 lines.—Nigro-eneous; abdomen smooth and
shining ; the apical margins of the second, third, and fourth seg-
ments with white interrupted pubescent fascie. Head with a deep
longitudinal channel on each side of the face along the margin of
the eyes, lined with a fulvous pile ; the clypeus shining, punctured,
and truncate, with the lateral angles acute. Thorax with thin
hoary pubescence; the floccus on the posterior femora beneath —
white ; the scopa on the tibie pale fulvous above ; the apical joints ~
of the tarsi rufo-testaceous. Abdomen ovate, the apical fimbria —
rufo-fuscous.

Hab. Vancouver’s Island. Collected by Dr. Lyall.

20. Andrena auricoma.

Male. Length 44 lines.—Black, the entire pubescence golden yel-
low. The face with long dense pubescence. The thorax very finely
and closely punctured above; the wings fulvo-hyaline, slightly
clouded at their apex, the nervures pale rufo-testaceous ; legs rufo-
piceous, the tarsi pale ferruginous. Abdomen lanceolate, all the
segments fringed with golden-coloured pubescence.

Hab. Vancouver’s Island. Captured by Dr. Lyall.

21. Andrena arrogans.

Female. Length 52 lines—Black, the base of the abdomen more
or less red. ‘The face and cheeks clothed with white pubes-
cence. Thorax clothed with white pubescence above, beneath it is
faintly tinged with yellow; on the metathorax the pubescence is
long and dense; wings pale fulvo-hyaline, the nervures obscure
fusco-ferruginous, the tegule rufo-piceous ; the scopa on the pos-
terior tibie fulvous; the pubescence on the anterior and inter-
mediate tarsi beneath, and that on the posterior pair entirely, bright
fulvous. Abdomen very finely punctured; the three basal seg-
ments ferruginous, and with a transverse black macula at the base

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of each, occupying about one third of the width of the segments ;
the two apical segments with black pubescence; the base of the
abdomen with a little white pubescence.

Hab. Burghersdorp, South Africa.

The insect described had evidently been some time exposed at the
time it was captured ; therefore the white pubescence would probably
be yellowish white in recent specimens.

22. Andrena fausta.

Female. Length 4 lines——Head and thorax black, abdomen ferru-
ginous. Head and thorax above closely punctured; the face and
cheeks with a little white pubescence, on the thorax it is whitish
and sparing; the wings fusco-hyaline, and iridescent towards the
apex ; the pubescence on the legs pale and of a glittering bright-
ness ; the claw-joint of the tarsi ferruginous. Abdomen with the
first segment closely punctured and black at the base; beneath the
segments are thinly fringed with pale fulvous pubescence.

- Hab. Natal.
23. Andrena neglecta.

Female. Length 44 lines.—Black, with hoary pubescence ; the apical
margins of the segments of the abdomen testaceous, and thinly
covered with white pubescence. The face with short pale pubes-
cence, that on the vertex fuscous. The thorax closely punctured,
the pubescence short and thin above ; the wings subhyaline, faintly
clouded and iridescent at their apical margins, the nervures testa-
ceous, the stigma and costal nervure black; legs obscurely rufo-
piceous ; the scopa on the posterior tibie pale fulvous. Abdomen
shining, the apex with rufo-fuscous pubescence.

Hab. Natal.

CTENOPLECTRA, Smith.
1. Ctenoplectra apicalis.

Male. Length 63 lines—Head and thorax black, abdomen blue.
Head closely punctured, semiopaque; the face and cheeks with a
short white downy pile; the clypeus with a longitudinal central
shining carina; antenne rufo-piceous. Thorax wider than the head,
rotundate, shining above, and finely punctured, the sides with fus-
cous pubescence ; wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures black; legs
dark rufo-piceous, palest beneath; the tarsi and posterior tibie
fringed with black pubescence. Abdomen bright shining steel-
blue, finely punctured, the apical margins of the segments impunc-
tate, on the two basal segments most broadly so; the apical seg-
ment transverse, wider than the sixth, produced laterally into a

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blunt curved tooth, widest in the middle, with the margin rounded ;
beneath obscurely rufo-piceous, the basal segment raised and having
a central longitudinal keel.

Hab. Burmah.

2. Ctenoplectra terminalis.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Head and thorax black ; abdomen metallic
blue, the apex ferruginous, and clothed with fulvous pubescence.

» The face and cheeks with whitish pubescence ; the antenne ferru-
ginous, the flagellum fuscous above ; the head strongly punctured,
the clypeus and labrum coarsely so. Thorax globose, closely and
finely punctured above; the sides of the metathorax with whitish
pubescence; wings hyaline, with dark-brown nervures ; legs ob-
scurely rufo-piceous, their pubescence black; the posterior tibiz
and basal joint of the tarsi with a thick scopa of black pubescence.
Abdomen smooth and shining; the first segment with a few scat-
tered punctures at the base; the second segment with a transverse
waved row of punctures in the middle; the two following segments
punctured at their base, the fifth entirely punctured and fringed
with fulvous pubescence; beneath, the fourth and following seg-
ments fringed with fulvous pubescence.

Hab. Natal.

MEGACILISSA, Smith.

1. Megacilissa vestita.

Male. Length 62 lines.—Black and densely pubescent. The face
and cheeks have a yellowish-white pubescence, that on the vertex
is fuscous. The thorax clothed with short, dense, fulvous pubes-
cence ; the abdomen covered with the same above; on the meta-
thorax the pubescence is longer and paler; on the entire body
beneath the pubescence is white, faintly tinged with yellow; at
the sides of the abdomen above the apical margins of the segments
are fringed with white, only visible when viewed sideways; the
tibie and tarsi ferruginous ; wings hyaline, the nervures black.

Hab. Peru.

2. Megacilissa tenuimarginata.

Male. Length 83 lines.—Black; the face, thorax above, and the
first segment of the abdomen densely clothed with rich fulvous
pubescence ; the clypeus and scape of the antenne yellow. The
pubescence on the sides of the thorax, beneath, and on the legs
fulvous, but paler than that on the disk; the legs ferruginous, the
posterior pair dark rufo-piceous and with fuscous pubescence out-
side, that on the tarsi within bright ferruginous; wings fulvo-

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hyaline, the nervures ferruginous, the tegulz pale rufo-testaceous.
Abdomen dark reddish brown ; the apical margins of the second,
third, and fourth segments narrowly testaceous and with a narrow
pale fulvous fringe ; those of the fifth and sixth segments fringed
with long black pubescence, the apical segment with fulvous.

Hab. Mexico, Orizaba.

This insect is very like the male of MW. eavmia, but differs from it
in the colour and pubescence of the posterior legs, and also in the
narrow pale margins of the segments of the abdomen.

5. Megacilissa clypeata.

Male. Length 7} lines.—Black, with fulvous pubescence, which is
dense on the head, thorax, and first segment of the abdomen, rich
above, and paler on the body beneath. The clypeus yellow; the
scape of the antenne, the flagellum beneath, and the apical joint
rufo-piceous ; the legs ferruginous, the posterior tibie darkest, and
with fuscous pubescence outside ; wings hyaline, the nervures fer-
ruginous, the tegule pale rufo-testaceous. Abdomen having the
second, third, and fourth segments with their apical margins pale
ruio-testaceous, widely so in the middle, then narrowly, and again
widely so laterally ; beneath rufo-testaceous.

Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.

4, Megacilissa generosa.

Male. Length 8 lines——Head and thorax black; abdomen dark
olive-green, with the legs black. The clypeus and labrum yellow,
and covered with fulvous pubescence. The thorax with fulvous
pubescence, becoming dark rufo-fuscous between the wings, and
posteriorly so on the metathorax ; wings fulvo-hyaline, with the
nervures ferruginous, the costal nervure black ; the legs black and
with black pubescence, the tarsi ferruginous; the pubescence on
the femora beneath pale fulvous. Abdomen with fulvous pubescence
on the basal segment, and also on the two apical ones; on the
intermediate ones it is very short, thin, and black; beneath, the
segments are fringed with long fulvous pubescence.

Hab. Venezuela.

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APIDAL, Leach.

SYSTROPHA, Lig.

1. Systropha difformis.

Male. Length 5 lines.—Black and shining, The head much nar-
rower than the thorax, the pubescence on each thin and cinereous ;
the three apical joints of the antennz convolute, rufo-testaceous,
and forming an equilateral triangle; the head closely punctured,
and having an impressed line from the anterior ocellus to the
antenne. The mesothorax and scutellum finely punctured ; wings
subhyaline, the nervures dark fusco-ferruginous ; the legs obscure
rufo-piceous and with thin cinereous pubescence. Abdomen very
finely punctured; the three basal segments with their apical mar-
gins constricted; the second segment much produced laterally,
forming a prominent tubercle; the third segment also produced
laterally, but less prominently so; the second segment has beneath
a prominent tubercle, which is wedge-shaped, being narrowed
behind, its apex being obliquely concave ; the pubescence on the
abdomen sparing and cinereous, that towards the apex above more
dense and intermixed with fuscous.

Hab. Burmah.

OSMIA, Latr.

1. Osmia ephippiata.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Black, the abdomen shining ; head closely
punctured ; the face and cheeks with black pubescence ; on the
posterior margin of the vertex and on the thorax above it is
ochraceous, on the sides, beneath, and on the legs it is black ;
wings fusco-hyaline, the nervures black. Abdomen very finely
punctured, the apical margins of the segments impunctate ; beneath
densely clothed with black pubescence.

Hab. Angara River, Siberia.

2. Osmia rubripes.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Black, the legs ferruginous, the coxee
and trochanters black. The head closely punctured, and having a
thin pale fulvous pubescence, and a more dense patch on each side,
The thorax with fulvous pubescence ; wings fusco-hyaline. Abdo-

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men shining and very finely punctured, the basal segment with
thin fulyous pubescence; the lateral apical margins of the third,
fourth, and fifth segments with white fascia, clothed beneath with
fulvous pubescence.

Hab. Angara River.

3. Osmia rufitarsis.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Black, the head and thorax with black
pubescence and very closely punctured ; the tarsi with bright fulvous
pubescence, the apical joints ferruginous; wings fulvo-hyaline.
Abdomen finely punctured, shining, and clothed with fulvous
pubescence ; bencath with fulvous pubescence.

Hab. Angara River.

MEGACHILE, Latr.

1. Megachile intricata.

Female. Length 52 lines.—Black. The face with pale golden
pubescence, on the vertex it is short, thin, and black; the cly-
peus closely punctured, and with a longitudinal central carina.
Thorax above with short sparing black pubescence and a little pale

~fulvous on the collar; beneath it is pale, also that on the meta-
thorax ; the apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous ; the basal joint
of the posterior pair with fulvous pubescence within; wings sub-
hyaline. Abdomen densely clothed above with short fulvo-ferru-
ginous pubescence, beneath it is pale and glittering.

Male. Closely resembles the female, but has the head propor-
tionately wider; the apical segment of the abdomen angulated, and
its apex slightly notched ; the anterior tarsi simple.

Hab. Cape of Good Hope.

There are several species of Megachile that are very similar to
each other: I am acquainted with three from India, three from
Africa, and one from Australia; all these have a black head and
thorax and a fulvous abdomen. The present species most closely
resembles M. bicolor ; but from that species it differs in being smaller,
in the colour of the pubescence on the face, and also in that of the
abdomen being more ferruginous; the male of JM. bicolor has the
apical segment of the abdomen denticulate.

2. Megachile nasalis.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Black. The face with sooty-black pubes-
cence ; the clypeus notched anteriorly and closely punctured. The
thorax closely punctured; the sides and beneath with pale fulvo-

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ochraceous pubescence; the legs are similarly clothed, that on the
tarsi being very bright, the claw-joint rufo-piceous; wings fuscous,
pale at their base. Abdomen closely punctured ; the basal segment
with pale pubescence, that on the two apical ones dark ferruginous ;
beneath, densely clothed with bright yellow pubescence, that on the
two apical segments ferruginous.

Hab. Zulu.

3. Megachile cordata.

Female. Length 32 lines.—Black. The face with whitish pubes-
cence ; from the insertion of the antenne to the vertex it becomes
obscurely fulvous. The thorax thinly clothed with pale fulvous
pubescence above, beneath it is thin and cinereous, as it is also on
the tarsi outside, within it is fulvous ; wings hyaline, with their
apical margins clouded. Abdomen heart-shaped ; the apical mar-
gins of the segments with fascie of fulvous pubescence; beneath
clothed with fulvous, the apical segment with dark fusco-ferru-
ginous pubescence.

Hab. Natal.-

4. Megachile terminata.

Female. Length 7 lines.—Black. The face with bright whitish
pubescence ; on the anterior portion of the clypeus, and also above
the insertion of the antenne, it is fulvous. Thorax above clothed
with short fulvo-ochraceous pubescence, beneath it is dense and
inclines to cinereous ; the apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous and
with bright ferruginous pubescence; wings hyaline, with a dark
fuscous cloud beyond the enclosed cells. Abdomen with the seg-
ments one to four clothed with bright fulvous pubescence, the two
apical ones with black; beneath with dense bright fulvous pubes-
cence, the apical segment with black.

Male. Length 6} lines.—Black. The face with dense silvery-white
pubescence, that on the vertex of the head and disk of the thorax
fulvous ; wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures and stigma ferruginous ;
the tibize and tarsi ferruginous, the anterior pair of the latter dilated
and covered with pale fulvous pubescence, nearly white ; beneath are
two oblong black spots; the anterior coxee armed with a long blunt
spine. Abdomen thinly covered with fulvous pubescence ; the apical
margins of the segments with fulvous fasciz, the apical margin of
the terminal segment denticulate.

Hab. South Africa, Burghersdorp.

5. Megachile albescens.

Female. Length 67 lines.—Black, with the legs and abdomen be-
neath ferruginous. The face and cheeks densely covered with

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silyery-white pubescence, on the vertex it is thin and short; the
mandibles ferruginous, the tips black, their base with short
white pubescence ; the flagellum of the antenne, except the basal
joint, ferruginous beneath. The mesothorax thinly sprinkled
with very short white pubescence; on the metathorax, the sides,
and beneath it is longer and more dense; the legs with white
pubescence; wings hyaline, their nervures ferruginous. The basal
margins of the abdominal segments with white pubescent fasciz ;
beneath clothed with dense fulvous pubescence.

Hab. The White Nile. Collected by Consul Petherick.

6. Megachile modesta.

Female. Length 43 lines.—Black, with the entire pubescence
white, sparing on the vertex and thorax above, and dense on the
face and abdomen beneath. The flagellum beneath fulvous; the
head and thorax above very closely punctured ; wings hyaline, the
nervures black, the tegule pale testaceous ; the apical margins of
the segments of the abdomen with narrow white pubescent fasciz,
usually more or less abraded. ;

Hab. White Nile. Collected by Consul Petherick.

7. Megachile consanguinea.

Female. Length 7 lines.—Black. The face with yellowish-white
pubescence ; the head and thorax closely punctured; the collar
and metathorax with white pubescence ; beneath the thorax and
on the legs it is black; on the tarsi within it is fulvous; the
anterior wings fuscous, with a violet iridescence, the posterior pair
hyaline. Abdomen shining, closely and finely punctured, the sides
with patches of white pubescence; beneath densely clothed with
fulvous pubescence ; at the sides and at the apex it is black.

Hab. Natal.

This species resembles M. lateralis, but has the abdomen shorter
and more heart-shaped and clothed with fulvous beneath.

&. Megachile tuberculata.

Female. Length 74 lines.—Black, with the legs rufo-piceous, the
abdomen with a band of yellow pubescence at the base. The
face with a mixture of pale and fuscous pubescence; the clypeus
closely punctured and deeply emarginate at the anterior margin ;
the mandibles with the anterior half obscurely ferruginous, the
teeth black. Thorax closely punctured, the scutellum produced
laterally into a shining tubercle; the pubescence on the meta-
thorax, the sides, and beneath pale yellowish white; the legs
rufo-piceous ; wings hyaline at the base, and fuscous beyond the

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marginal cell. Abdomen shining and finely punctured, the base
with pale fulvous pubescence ; beneath densely clothed with bright
fulvous pubescence.

Hab. Sierra Leone.

Two of the cells of this species, constructed of the leaves of a
shrub, not the cuttings of leaves, were sent with the insects by
James Foxcroft.

9. Megachile calida.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Black, with the apex of the abdomen
ferruginous. Head as wide as the thorax, subquadrate, finely
punctured ; the face with white pubescence; the flagellum of the
antennee, except the first joint, fulvous beneath. The pubescence
on the thorax and legs cinereous; the apical joint of the tarsi
ferruginous ; the wings hyaline, the nervures black. Abdomen
oblong and closely punctured ; the two basal segments and the basal
half of the third black, the following segments ferruginous, with
their pubescence fulvous ; beneath with glittering white pubes-
cence.

Male. Rather smaller, but closely resembling the female. The face
with white pubescence; the cheeks black, edged with a white
fringe; thorax as in the female. The two basal segments of the
abdomen black, the first with a ferruginous band, the second has
the apical half ferruginous as well as the rest of the abdomen ; the
apical segment with the margin entire, and with a slight central
depression.

Hab. Queensland.

10. Megachile ferox.

Male. Length 6 lines.—Black, with a patch of ferruginous pubes-
cence on the penultimate segment of the abdomen. The face with
white pubescence ; the flagellum fulvous beneath, with the apical
joint compressed and slightly dilated. The pubescence on the
sides of the thorax, beneath, and on the legs white; the anterior
tarsi broadly dilated, pale testaceous, and fringed with white
pubescence, having two black dots beneath; the anterior coxze
with long stout spines; wings hyaline, with their apex fuscous;
the intermediate and posterior tarsi and the apical joints of the
anterior pair ferruginous. Abdomen oblong; the basal segment
fringed with white pubescence, also a little white pubescence on
the apical margins of the two following segments laterally, and
probably also on the third occasionally ; the margin of the apical
segment slightly notched in the middle.

Hab. Swan River.

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11. Megachile pictiventris.

Female. WLength 6 lines.—Black, the abdomen above with shades
of green and violet. The face with white pubescence, that on the
vertex black; the clypeus naked and closely punctured, shining,
and with its anterior margin slightly emarginate; the cheeks with
some long white pubescence. Thorax above and the scutellum closely
punctured ; the pubescence on the mesothorax short, sparing, and
black, that on the metathorax, on the sides and beneath, white ;
the legs black above and rufo-piceous beneath ; the posterior tibize
with short glittering white pubescence within, that on the basal
joint of the tarsi fulvous within. The abdomen clothed beneath
with bright fulvous pubescence.

ffab. Richmond River.

12. Megachile rugosa.

Male. Length 5 lines.—Black, the thorax and basal segment of
the abdomen clothed with white pubescence. Head large, rather
wider than the thorax ; the face with golden-yellow pubescence :
the anterior tarsi simple, the coxe unarmed; the intermediate
tarsi fringed behind with white pubescence; wings hyaline and
with a slight fuscous cloud at their apical margins, a darker stain
in the marginal cell; the nervures black. The abdomen strongly
punctured, and with the apical margins of the second and third
segments narrowly smooth and shining, the second with a patch
of white pubescence laterally ; the apical margin of the terminal
segments emarginate in the middle.

Hab. Western Australia.

13. Megachile oblonga.

Female. Length 4-5 lines.—Black, with a patch of bright fulvous
pubescence on the fifth and sixth segments of the abdomen; the
head, thorax, and abdomen nearly equal in width. ‘The head ob-
long, and with a little white pubescence on the sides of the face;
the labrum oblong, slightly narrowed at the apex, which is trun-
cate and has a minute tooth in the middle of the truncation ; the
head and thorax finely and closely punctured; the wings hyaline,
with black nervures and a faint cloud at their apex. Abdomen
shining, finely punctured, the margins of the segments depressed ;
clothed beneath with white pubescence.

Hab. Western Australia.

14. Megachile albobasalis.

Female. Length 83 lines.—Black, the abdomen clothed with dark

brick-red pubescence and having that on the basal segment white ;
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wings dark brown, with violet iridescence. The face with black
pubescence; the mandibles stout, and with two acute teeth at their
apex. The metathorax with white pubescence; the tarsi with
ferruginous pubescence beneath ; the abdomen is also clothed with
the same beneath.

Hab. Murray Island, Torres Strait.

15. Megachile similis.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Black, the pollen-brush beneath bright
ferruginous. Head, thorax above, and the scutellum finely and
closely punctured ; the face with black pubescence; the anterior
margin of the clypeus truncate. Wings fusco-hyaline, their apical
margins fuscous, the nervures black; the pubescence on the legs
beneath as well as on the cheeks inclining to hoary, on the legs
above it is black. The abdomen shining and very finely punctured.

Hab. Aneiteum, New Hebrides.

This species closely resembles Megachile prctewentris from Aus-
tralia, but the pubescence on the face is of a different colour, and
the anterior margin of the clypeus is not emarginate.

16. Megachile albomarginata.

Female. Length 6-64 lines.—Black, the thorax with white pubescent
spots, and the apical margins of the segments of the abdomen with
narrow white pubescent fascia. The face with white pubescence,
on the clypeus and vertex it is black; the cheeks bearded with
white pubescence. ‘The prothorax, the sides beneath, the legs be-
neath, an ovate spot behind the tegule, and two spots at the base
of the scutellum with white pubescence; wings fusco-hyaline,
palest towards their base, the nervures black. The abdomen with
bright rufo-fulvous pubescence, except that on the two apical seg-
ments, which is black.

Hab. New Caledonia.

17. Megachile scutellata.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Black, shining, and closely punctured, the
abdomen most finely so; the scutellum produced into an angle
posteriorly, but not very acutely so. The face with white pubes-
cence and with thin fuscous on the vertex; the clypeus naked, its
anterior margin truncate; the pubescence on the metathorax, on
the sides and beneath, pale; on the tarsi it is rufo-fuscous above
and bright rufo-fulvous beneath ; wings slightly fuscous, with @
darker cloud in the marginal cell, the nervures rufo-fuscous. The
margins of the segments of the abdomen slightly depressed, and —
having laterally pale marginal fascia ; towards the apex of the —
abdomen the fascise are only slightly interrupted, in very recent

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specimens probably entire; clothed beneath with dense fulvous
pubescence, except that on the two apical segments, which is black.

Hab. South-Sea islands.

18. Megachile diligens.

Female. Length 44 lines.—Black ; the pubescence on the head and
thorax obscure pale fulyous, becoming cinereous on the metathorax
and on the face anteriorly ; the abdomen with ferruginous pubes-
cent fascie. The mandibles with four teeth, the two apical ones
acute, the others blunt; the cheeks with long cinereous pubescence ;
the legs with a little short black pubescence above, on the tarsi
beneath it is reddish brown; the claws ferruginous, tipped with
black ; wings subhyaline, the nervures black. Abdomen cordate,
and densely clothed with bright ferruginous pubescence beneath.

Male. Rather smaller than the female, but very closely resembling
it. Differs in having the clypeus densely covered with very pale
fulvous pubescence, the anterior tarsi fringed behind with pale
pubescence, the fifth and sixth segments of the abdomen densely
clothed above with short ferruginous pubescence, the sixth seg-
ment deeply emarginate, the exterior angles dentiform.

Hab. Honolulu.

The Rey. T. Blackburn states that this species is not rare; it
forms nests of leaves of a species of Acacia, rolled up into cylindrical
cells, which are joined one at the end of another to the length of
several inches, and are placed in crevices of masonry.

19. Megachile ardens.

Female. Length 7 lines.—Black, the abdomen clothed with bright
rufo-fulvous pubescence. The face, above the antenne, with black
pubescence, the vertex with a thin short fulvous pubescence, the
fringe on the cheeks of the same colour; the clypeus strongly punc-
tured, its anterior margin emarginate, the lateral angles of the
emargination acute and subdentate. The thorax with a short
fulyous pubescence above, on the sides and also beneath it is longer
and paler; the anterior tarsi, and the intermediate and posterior
pair inside, clothed with bright fulvo-ferruginous pubescence ;
wings fusco-hyaline, darkest at their apex, with the nervures
black. |

Hab. Ceylon.

There are four or five species resembling this; but the present
species is distinguished from them by the short velvety fulvous pu-
bescence of the thorax, and by the form of the clypeus.

20. Megachile penetrata.

Female. Length 7} lines.—Black ; the general pubescence pale ful-
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vous, that on the face having a golden brightness ; on the abdomen
beneath it is pale towards the base, and rufo-fulvous towards the
apex. The mandibles with four subacute teeth. The anterior
tibiee produced outwardly at their apex into an acute angle or tooth ;
the mesothorax and scutellum closely and rather finely punctured ;
wings hyaline, faintly clouded at their apex, with the nervures
ferruginous. The apical margins of the segments of the abdomen
with pale pubescent fascie.

flab. Northern India.
This species closely resembles M. maritema of Europe.

21. Megachile femorata.

Female. Length 4-5 lines.—Black, with the four posterior femora
ferruginous. ‘The face with white pubescence; the clypeus naked,
closely punctured, and having a central longitudinal smooth line ;
the cheeks with white pubescence. Thorax closely punctured and
opaque; the pubescence on the sides beneath and on the legs
white ; above it is pale yellowish white ; wings hyaline, slightly
clouded at their apical margins, the nervures black, the tegule
pale testaceous. Abdomen cordate; the apical margins of the
segments with white pubescent fascize ; beneath clothed with white
pubescence, except that on the terminal segment, which is black.

Var. The legs entirely ferruginous, the tibiz and tarsi obscurely so.

Male. Smaller, but closely resembles the female, and has the apical
margin of the terminal segment of the abdomen denticulate.

Hab. Bombay district.

22. Megachile fulvipennis.

Female. Length 74 lines.—Black, the head and thorax very closely
punctured, the abdomen clothed above with short pubescence and
of a velvety blackness, beneath it is black but longer. The man-
dibles stout and with two stout teeth at their apex; the clypeus
densely rugose, with a fine mesial carina, the anterior margin
scarcely emarginate. The wings bright fulvo-hyaline, with the
nervures rufo-testaceous, the posterior margins very pale fuscous.

Hab. Nicobar Islands.

23. Megachile relata.

Female. Length 74 lines.—Black, with the metathorax and first
segment of the abdomen clothed with white pubescence. The head
and thorax very closely punctured and subopaque ; the wings dark
fuscous, with their base pale; the legs usually more or less rufo-
piceous beneath. The three basal segments of the abdomen very
coarsely punctured, the rest more finely so; the apical margins of

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the segments have laterally a narrow fascia of white pubescence ;
clothed beneath with fulvous pubescence.

Hab. Shanghai, Hong Kong.

This is the Chinese representative of the Megachile disjuncta of
Fabricius, from which it differs principally in having fulvous pubes-
cence beneath the abdomen ; in MW. disjuncta, from India, it is black.

24. Megachile humilis.

Female. Length 7} lines.—Black, with sooty-black pubescence on
the face, and pale fulvous on the margins of the thorax above. The

anterior margin of the clypeus truncate ; mandibles very stout and
with two apical teeth. Thorax with the pubescence on the sides and
beneath pale ; wings hyaline, but clouded beyond the submarginal
cells, the nervures obscurely ferruginous, the tegule pale testaceous ;
the legs rufo-piceous beneath ; the tarsi with fulvous pubescence.
Abdomen finely punctured, the margins of the segments depressed ;
the basal segment with pale pubescence laterally ; the apical mar-
gin of the segments with widely interrupted narrow pale fascie ;
beneath, the basal half is clothed with pale fulvous, and the apical
half with black pubescence.

Male. Smaller, but resembles the female; it has, however, pale
pubescence on the face, the mandibles having four acute tecth, the
anterior tarsi simple, the apical segment of the abdomen notched
in the middle of its margin.

Hab. Shanghai.

25. Megachile remota.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Black ; the general pubescence above pale
fulvous, on the sides of the face below the insertion of the an-
tenne it is palest; the clypeus strongly punctured ; the pubescence
on the cheeks and thorax beneath whitish. The mesothorax closely

and rather strongly punctured above; the wings hyaline, with a
cloud beyond the submarginal cells, the nervures fusco-ferrugi-
nous; the legs with pale pubescence outwardly, the tarsi fulvous
within ; the calcaria pale testaceous. Abdomen with violet and green
iridescence above ; a narrow pale fulvous pubescent fascia on the
apical margins of all the segments; clothed beneath with pale ful-
vous pubescence, that on the two apical segments is wore or less
fuscous.

Hab. Shanghai.

26. Megachile determinata.

Female. Length 7} lines.—Black, the head and thorax above with

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rufo-fulvous pubescence, on the sides of the thorax beneath, on the
legs, and on the entire abdomen it is black. The mandibles stout,
porrect, and with two teeth at their apex ; the clypeus punctured,
and with a longitudinal central shining carina; wings dark fus-
cous, palest towards their apex.

Hab. Java.

27. Megachile barbatula. «

Male. Length 6 lines.—Black, with two, sometimes three, of the. 4
basal segments of the abdomen ferruginous. Theface with fulvous
pubescence; at the base of the clypeus a transverse patch of black,
and the anterior part with white pubescence; the flagellum of the
antennz fulvous beneath. The thorax with fulvous pubescence
above, paler on the sides and beneath; the coxe, trochanters, and
femora beneath more or less ferruginous ; the anterior coxa armed
with stout ferruginous spines; the anterior tarsi pale testaceous
and broadly dilated, the basal joint produced into an oblong process
that projects forwards over the following joints; all the joints
covered with short white pubescence above, and with a thick long
fringe of white pubescence behind, which is bright fulvous on its
hinder margin ; the first joint of the tarsus is narrowly margined
with fuscous anteriorly ; the posterior tarsi have bright fulvous
pubescence beneath, the first joint having a floccus of white at the
base; wings slightly fulvo-hyaline, with the apical margins slightly
clouded. Abdomen incurved at the apex; the ferruginous seg-
ments have their margins more or less black, and have also trans-
verse bands of fulvous pubescence before the black margins; the
apical segment emarginate in the middle.

ee i.

Hab, Ega, on the Amazons.

28. Megachile pulchra.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Head and thorax black, and elothed with ~~
fulvous pubescence, the abdomen and legs ferruginous; the fla-
gellum of the antennze fulvous beneath. ‘The wings fulvo-hyaline,
their apical margins slightly clouded, the nervures rufo-testaceous ;
the legs sometimes more or less stained with black, sometimes en-
tirely ferruginous. The apical margins of the segments of the ab-
domen with narrow pale fasciz ; beneath clothed with pale fulvous
pubescence.

Male. Closely resembles the female, but has the apical half of the
mandibles ferruginous, and the antenne entirely so, being only
slightly fuscous above; the anterior tarsi dilated, the basal joint
being produced into a long process that projects over the following
joints ; all the joints fringed behind with long curled pubescence,
which is edged with fuscous; the coxe armed with black spines ;
wings as in the female ; the apical segment of the abdomen with a
deep depression, its margin slightly emarginate.

Hab, St. Paulo, on the Amazons.

MEGACHILE. Fils

29. Megachile opifex.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Black ; the legs ferruginous, clothed with
fulvous pubescence ; that on the cheeks, the thorax beneath, and on
the basal segments of the abdomen beneath whitish, that on the
terminal segments bright fulvous. The mandibles obscurely fer-
ruginous at their apex, the flagellum fulvous beneath. The
wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures ferruginous, the tegule pale
rufo-testaceous. The abdomen covered with short fulvous pubes-
cence, the margins of the segments having fascize of the samc
colour, but more dense and longer; the apical segment with short
cinereous pubescence, and sprinkled with black hairs.

Male. A little smaller than the female, which it closely resembles ;

black, with the legs ferruginous, the wings being the same; the
- anterior tarsi dilated, and thickly fringed behind with white pubes-
cence, which is bordered with ferruginous.

Hab. St. Paulo, on the Amazons.

This species closely resembles W/. pulchra, from which the female
differs in having the abdomen black; the male is distinguished by
the different form of the dilated joints of the anterior tarsus, the
first joint being oblong and widest at its apex, but has not the pro-
duced appendage found in MW. pulchra.

30. Megachile pallipes.

Male. Length 6 lines.—Black, the legs ferruginous, with the tarsi
yellow. The face with bright golden-yellow pubescence; the an-
tenn black, with the apical joint compressed and dilated. The
pubescence on the disk of the thorax dense, short, and of a bright
golden yellow, on the metathorax it is paler and beneath whitish ;
wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures ferruginous, the tegule rufo-
testaceous ; the anterior tarsi dilated, fringed behind with white
pubescence, which is fuscous beneath; the anterior coxe with
black spines. The apical margins of the first to fourth segments of
the abdomen with narrow fascize of fulvous pubescence; the sixth
segment covered with white pubescence, its apical margin notched
in the middle, the segments beneath fringed with white pubes-
cence.

Hab. St. Paulo, on the Amazons.

31. Megachile crassipes.

Male. Length 6 lines.—Black, with the posterior femora incrassate.
The face with pale pubescence from the clypeus to the anterior
ocellus ; on the vertex it.is cinereous, and on the clypeus white,
with a transverse line of black; the flagellum fulvous beneath.
The thorax with cinereous pubescence ; the wings fulvo-hyaline, the
nervures ferruginous, the tegula rufo-testaccous ; the anterior legs

T2 APID®.

rufo-testaccous beneath, the femora dilated, the apex of the tibie
testaceous above; the tarsi pale testaceous, dilated, with the first
and second joints produced into large projecting lobes, the first
having a longitudinal fuscous stripe, all the joints fringed behind
with long white pubescence, which is edged narrowly with fuscous;

the cox armed with black spines; the intermediate femora are q

dilated, and, as well as the tibiz, rufo-piceous beneath; the tarsi
rufo-testaceous, with the tips of the joints rufo-fuscous ; the pos-
terior femora broadly dilated and the tibie curved, the tarsi rufo-
piceous ; the femora rufo-piceous beneath. Abdomen shining, the
margins of the segments thinly fringed with cinereous pubescence ;
the apical margin of the terminal segment slightly notched in the
middle. :

Hab. St. Paulo, on the Amazons.

32. Megachile compacta.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Black; the thorax above clothed with
fulvous pubescence. The face with short cinereous pubescence at
the sides of the clypeus; above the insertion of the antenne it is
fulvous; the flagellum fulvous beneath. The wings fulvo-hyaline,
the nervures and tegulee ferruginous; all the tarsi with bright ful-
vous pubescence beneath. Abdomen shining and very finely punc-
tured; the apical margins of the segments with pale fulvous fascie,
usually more or less interrupted in the middle; the apical segment
with erect black hairs; clothed beneath with changeable yellowish-
white pubescence.

ffab. Santarem.
This is probably the female of M. hilaris.

33. Megachile hilaris.

Male. Length 6 lines.—Black; the legs ferruginous, the anterior
tarsi dilated, and the abdomen with pale fasciz. The face with
bright pale golden pubescence, that on the vertex and disk of the
thorax fuivous, that on the cheeks and thorax beneath white; the
flagellum fulvous beneath. The metathorax with pale pubescence;
the intermediate and posterior legs rufo-piceous, darkest above,
their tarsi pale rufo-testaceous; the anterior tarsi yellowish; the
dilated’ joints with a thick fringe of white pubescence, which is
fulvous beneath; the other tarsi with a thin white fringe; the
anterior coxte with stout blunt spines; wings hyaline, with a fus-
cous cloud on their apical margins; the nervures ferruginous, the
tegule rufo-testaceous. Abdomen very finely and closely punc-
tured; the basal segment with pale fulvous pubescence, the apical
margins of the segments with pale fascie ; the fifth segment with
very short pale pubescence at its base and with black beyond, the
entire segment sprinkled with long black hairs; the sixth segment

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with short pale pubescence and with long pubescence of the same
colour, its apical margin emarginate.

Hab. Santarem.

This is probably the male of MZ. compacta.

34. Megachile strenua.

Male. Length 42 lines.—Black, with the legs ferruginous; the
anterior tarsi dilated. The face clothed with bright golden-yellow
pubescence, that on the clypeus and on the cheeks is paler, on the
vertex there are a few black scattered hairs. The thorax above
and the vertex of the head closely punctured; a patch of white
pubescence behind the teguie ; the metathorax with white pubes-
cence; the anterior tarsi pale testaceous, the apical joint ferrugi-
nous; the dilated joints fringed behind with whitish pubescence,
the margin of the fringe fusco-ferruginous ; the intermediate and
posterior legs with dark fuscous stains, the tarsi dark above; a
broad dark fuscous cloud on the anterior margin of the fore wings.
Abdomen closely punctured; on the apical margin of the first,
second, and third segments, laterally, there is a patch of white
pubescence.

Hab. St. Paulo, on the Amazons.

35. Megachile agilis.

Male. Length 33 lines.—Black, with the base and apex of the ab-
domen ferruginous. A little whitish pubescence between the
antennee and on the clypeus; on the face, at the sides of the cly-
peus, it is whitish, but intermixed with black; on the vertex it is
black; the cheeks with a long beard of white pubescence; the
flagellum obscurely fulvous beneath. Thorax closely punctured ;
the disk thinly sprinkled with short black pubescence, the meta-
thorax with pale fulvous, that on the thorax beneath long and
white; the legs obscurely rufo-piceous beneath, the anterior pair
being ferruginous beneath, the tarsi and apical joints of the in-
termediate and posterior pair of the same colour; wings fulvo-
hyaline, clouded beyond the submarginal cells, with the nervures
and tegule rufo-testaceous. The apical margins of the segments
of the abdomen fringed with fulvous pubescence; the apical seg-
ment notched in the middle.

Hab. St. Paulo, on the Amazons.

36. Megachile rubicunda.

Male. Length 44 lines.—Black, with the legs and the abdomen be-
neath and at the base ferruginous. The face with a dense fulvous
pubescence, that on the clypeus being bright yellowish white ; it is
also pale on the cheeks, and on the lees and body beneath. 'The thorax

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above with fulvous pubescence, but with pale on the metathorax ;
the wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures ferruginous, the tegule pale
rufo-testaceous ; anterior tibie and femora with a black stripe
behind, the coxe also black. The basal segment of the abdomen
ferruginous, and, as well as the three following segments, margined
with fulvous fasciz, the following segments covered with short
fulvous pubescence, the margin of the apical segment entire;
beneath, the segments are margined with pale pubescence.

Hab. St. Paulo, on the Amazons.

37. Megachile moderata.

Female. Length 64 lines.—Black, with fulvo-hyaline wings, the
apical margins of the segments of the abdomen with very narrow
white fascia. The face with white pubescence at the sides and
between the antenne, a little fulvous between the ocelli; the man-
dibles ferruginous, the teeth black; the flagellum fulvous beneath,
with the apical joint black. The thorax with short, thin, pale
fulvous pubescence above; on the metathorax, the sides, and be-
neath it is whitish; the legs dark rufo-piceous, palest beneath,
and covered with a downy whiteness, that on the tarsi more or less
fulvous above and bright rufo-fulvous beneath; the nervures of
the wings and the tegule rufo-testaceous. The abdomen with ful-
vous pubescence beneath, bordered at the sides with black ; above,
it is covered with a fine granulation, and has a short, thin hoary
pubescence, observable when viewed sideways.

Hab. Ega.
38. Megachile pullata.

Female. Length 6; lines.—Black, clothed with black pubescence.
The clypeus closely and rather strongly punctured, its anterior
margin slightly emarginate ; the flagellum of the antennze fulvous
beneath. The scutellum smooth and shining; the pubescence on
the metathorax sooty black; the wings pale fulvo-hyaline, the
nervures rufo-testaceous, the tegule rufo-piceous; the first joint
of the tarsi with rufo-fulvous pubescence beneath. The apical mar-
gins of the segments of the abdomen narrowly and obscurely rufo-
piceous ; beneath, the second segment has pale fulvous, and the
following segments black pubescence.

Hab. Ega.

39. Megachile propinqua.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Black ; the sides of the face with white
pubescence, intermixed with black above the antenne; the fla- |
gellum obscurely fulvous beneath. Thorax very finely and closely
punctured ; a line of white pubescence on the margin of the pro-
thorax, and a similar one that runs from the tegule, and curves
backwards along the base of the scutellum; the metathorax with

Leaf

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white pubescence ; the legs obscurely rufo-piceous above, distinctly
so beneath; wings subhyaline, the nervures dark fusco-ferru-
ginous. Abdomen slightly shining, very finely punctured, and
with narrow white pubescent fascie ; clothed beneath with whitish
pubescence, which is margined with black laterally.

Hab. Ega, Tapajos, and Tunantins.

40. Megachile ventralis.

Female. Length 54 lines.—Black; the thorax densely clothed with
cinereous pubescence, faintly tinged with fulvous above. The
vertex with pale fulvous pubescence; on the sides of the face it is
cinereous ; the clypeus strongly punctured, its anterior margin
rounded. The wings hyaline, their apical margins clouded; a
yellow stain in the marginal cell; the nervures and tegule rufo-
testaceous ; the legs obscurely rufo-piceous, with a thin cinereous
pubescence, that on the tarsi pale fulvous; on the basal joint of
the posterior pair it is dark fuscous. Abdomen cordate and shining,
with the apical segment opaque, very finely punctured ; beneath, the
basal segment and a small space in the middle of the second with
white pubescence, that on the other parts with black pubescence.

Hab, liga.

41. Megachile rubriventris.

Female. Length 42 lines.—Head and thorax black, abdomen ferru-
ginous. The face with a little cinereous pubescence, on the vertex
it is black; the flagellum fulvous beneath. Thorax with black
pubescence above; on the metathorax, the sides beneath, and also
on the legs beneath it is cinereous; on the legs above it is black ;
the claw-joint of the tarsi ferruginous; wings fulvo-hyaline, the
neryures and tegule ferruginous. Abdomen ferruginous, shining,
and with fine shallow punctures ; the pubescence beneath white,
except that on the two apical segments, which is black.

Hab. Santarem.

42. Megachile fossoris.

Female. Length 54 lines.—Black, and with the extreme base of
the abdomen and the legs ferruginous. The face on each side of
the clypeus with a little cinereous pubescence; the mandibles and
the antennz beneath ferruginous; a narrow fringe of fulvous
pubescence crossing the vertex between the ocelli; the posterior
margin of the vertex with a similar fringe. The thorax above
with fulvous pubescence, short and sparing on the disk; on the
metathorax, the sides, and beneath it is cinereous; wings fulvo-
hyaline, the nervures and tegule ferruginous. The apical margins
of the segments of the abdomen and the base of the first segment

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fringed with fulvous pubescence ; beneath, the pubescence is white,
except that on the two apical segments, and also that on the sides
of the fourth, which is black.

Hab. Santarem.

43. Megachile urbana.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Black; the head and thorax opaque, the
abdomen slightly shining. ‘The face with a little pale fulvous pu-
bescence on each side of the clypeus, and a little black above it;
the anterior margin of the clypeus emarginate; the cheeks with
cinereous pubescence. Thorax, and also the head, very closely
punctured ; the margin of the prothorax and the basal margin of
the metathorax with a short thick fringe of white pubescence ; the
legs obscurely rufo-piceous; wings subhyaline, with a fuscous
cloud on the anterior margin of the fore wings; the nervures
black. The apical margins of the segments of the abdomen ob-
scurely rufo-piceous, clothed beneath with white pubescence.

Male. Length 3-4 lines.—Black. The face densely clothed with
pale fulvous pubescence ; on the cheeks, body beneath, and on the
legs it is cinereous; the anterior tarsi pale rufo-testaceous, the in-
termediate and posterior pairs are darker ; all are fringed with long
white pubescence ; a narrow line of white tomentum crosses the
thorax between the wings; the wings as in the female. The apical
margin of the segments of the abdomen with a narrow fringe of
white pubescence, usually more or less obliterated ; the two apical
segments covered with hoary pile; the apical segment notched in
the middle.

Hab. Santarem.
44, Megachile lobitarsis.

Male. Length 5 lines.—Black; the face densely clothed with pale
gold-coloured pubescence, on the vertex it is thin and fulvous;
antenne ferruginous, slightly fuscous above; the cheeks fringed
with white pubescence. ‘The thorax thinly clothed with fulvous,
on the sides and beneath the pubescence is white; the wings fulyo-
hyaline, the nervures and tegule ferruginous; the legs ferruginous
beneath, the anterior pair palest, more or less fuscous above; the
anterior tibize with a black line; their tarsi dilated, yellowish, the
first joint oblong, produced at its apex into a projecting lobe;
the following joints are minute and project each into a long
lobe; the tarsi with a long curled white fringe, which has its
margin behind fuscous; the intermediate and posterior tarsi pale,
almost white; the cox armed with a blunt spine. Abdomen
shining ;. the margins of the segments with a narrow thin fringe
of pale pubescence; the apical margin of the terminal segment
deeply emarginate.

Hab. St. Paulo, on the Amazons.

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45. Megachile pilosa.

Female. Length 47 lines.—Black, covered with a changeable golden
pile. The face with short pale golden pubescence; in front of
the insertion of the antenne there is a little black pubescence ; the
clypeus strongly punctured, its anterior margin serrated. The
thorax with short pale gold-coloured pubescence; the wings fulvo-
hyaline, the apical margin of the anterior wings fuscous, darkest
in a line with and beyond the marginal cell; the nervures ferru-
ginous, the tegule testaceous; the thorax beneath and the legs
have a thin, short, hoary pubescence, most dense on the tarsi, the
posterior pair fulvous beneath. Abdomen pilose, the fourth and
fifth segments with pale fulvous fascie, the sixth segment densely
pilose ; the pubescence on the abdomen beneath is fuscous in the
middle and pale at the sides.

Hab. Fonteboa, on the Amazons.

46. Megachile vigilans.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Black, with the extreme base of the ab-
domen above and the two basal segments beneath ferruginous.
The face with fulvous pubescence; the clypeus naked, punctured,
with a shining impunctate space in the middle, its anterior margin
emarginate ; the flagellum obscurely fulvous beneath. The thorax
with short fulvous pubescence above; on the metathorax it is
longer; wings pale fulvo-hyaline, faintly clouded at their apex,
the nervures and tegule ferruginous; the legs obscurely rufo-
piceous ; the intermediate and posterior pairs ferruginous beneath;
the tarsi with bright fulvous pubescence beneath. Abdomen
shining, covered with fine shallow punctures; the apical margins
of the segments fringed laterally with fulvous pubescence; the
apical segment opaque, and covered with a fine cinereous pile ;
clothed beneath with pale fulvous pubescence, that on the two
apical segments is black.

Hab. Para.

47. Megachile constructrix.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Black. The face clothed with fulvous
pubescence ; the clypeus shining and punctured, with the anterior
margin emarginate; the tips of the mandibles ferruginous; the
flagellum of the antenne obscurely fulvous beneath. Thorax
shining; the mesothorax finely and not very closely punctured ;
the scutellum impunctate; the sides beneath and the metathorax
with pale pubescence; the latter has a little that is black behind
the wings; the wings subhyaline, the neryures dark, the apical
margins faintly clouded; all the tarsi with rufo-ferruginous pubes-
cence beneath ; the anterior pair and also the intermediate fringed
with pale pubescence behind; the spines at the apex of the tibix
pale rufo-testaceous. Abdomen very finely punctured, shining,

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and with an interrupted narrow white fringe on the apical margins
of the segments ; the apical segment with cinereous pile; clothed
beneath with white pubescence in the middle, that at the sides
being black.

Hab. Villa Nova.
48. Megachile incongrua.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Black, with the legs ferruginous. The
face densely covered with yellowish-white pubescence ; the cheeks
have a similar pubescence, but it is longer; the tips of the man-
dibles ferruginous. The pubescence on the thorax is similar to
that on the head; the mesothorax and scutellum closely and finely
punctured; wings subhyaline, their apical margins and also the
marginal cell with a fuscous cloud, the nervures and tegule ferru-
ginous. Abdomen shining, with the apical segment opaque,
covered with fine shallow punctures; the apical margins of the
segments with a narrow fringe of white pubescence, usually more
or less interrupted ; clothed beneath with white pubescence.

Male. The same length as the female; the legs ferruginous, but
more or less stained with fuscous, the tarsi black above and fringed
with white pubescence. The front clothed with fulvous pubes-
cence, the cheeks thickly bearded with pale pubescence ; the an-
terior tarsi simple, the trochantcrs with a sharp angular spine;
wings as in the other sex. Abdomen oblong, the base deeply con-
cave, the margins of the segments constricted ; the apical margins
with a white fringe laterally; the margin of the apical segment
rounded; beneath, the segments have a thick white marginal
fringe.

Hab. Tunantins.
49, Megachile cornuta.

Female. Length 64 lines.—Black; the clypeus deeply incised, the
lateral angles produced into angulated compressed horns. The
face with short white pubescence; the cheeks, the sides of the
thorax, and the legs with a short thin downy pubescence; the
sides of the metathorax with a white fringe ; wings hyaline, with
a fuscous cloud at their apex beyond the marginal cells, and which
also enters the marginal cell; the tarsi fulvous beneath, their
apical joints ferruginous. Abdomen oblong; the apical margins
with narrow white fascie; clothed beneath with pale fulvous
pubescence.

Hab. Mendoza.

50. Megachile anthidioides.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Black; the second, third, and fourth seg-
ments of the abdomen with a broad fringe on the apical margins,
laterally, of yellow pubescence. The flagellum fulvous beneath.

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The face with a mixture of pale and black pubescence; the clypeus
naked and punctured. ‘The thorax densely clothed with black
pubescence, that on the legs is also black; the tarsi fulvous be-
neath, with the apical joints ferruginous ; wings fulvo-hyaline, the
nervures ferruginous. Abdomen shining; the lateral patches of
pubescence of a lunate shape, the first pair widest apart; clothed
beneath with pale pubescence in the middle, and with black on
each side, that at the apex entirely black.

Hab. Parana.

51. Megachile sedula.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Shining black. The vertex impunctate ;
the clypeus punctured, its margin emarginate ; the face with white
pubescence on the sides, mixed with black between the antenne ;
the flagellum obscurely fulvous beneath; the cheeks with white
pubescence. Thorax very finely and distantly punctured; the
pubescence black, with a tuft of white below and in front of the
tegule, also a little white pubescence on the metathorax laterally ;
the legs obscurely rufo-piceous beneath; the wings fusco-hyaline,
darkest at the anterior margin of the fore wings. Abdomen clothed
beneath with bright ferruginous pubescence.

Hab. St. Domingo.

52. Megachile peruviana.

Female. Length 4 lines.— Black, the abdomen shining, and clothed
beneath with white pubescence. Head closely punctured and semi-
opaque ; the clypeus more strongly punctured than the vertex; its
anterior margin crenulated ; the face, on each side, with white
pubescence. Thorax closely punctured, its pubescence on the
sides, beneath, and on the metathorax thin and white; wings
hyaline and iridescent, faintly clouded at the apical margins, the
neryures black. Abdomen more finely punctured than the thorax ;
the apical segment opaque, and covered with a cinereous pile; the
apical margins of the segments narrowly fringed with white pubes-
cence, which is usually much obliterated.

Male. Rather smaller than the female; the front with white pu-
bescence ; the anterior margin of the clypeus with a minute tooth
in the middle. The thorax and wings as in the female. The
apical margins of the segments of the abdomen rufo-testaceous, and
more or less fringed with white pubescence ; the apical margin of
the sixth segment ‘entire ; the apical margins of the three basal
segments beneath fringed with white pubescence.

Hab. Peru.
53. Megachile concinna.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Black ; the head and thorax opaque, the
abdomen slightly shining, the pubescence entirely white. The

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front pubescent, densely so at the sides of the face. The pubes-
cence on the thorax above is very short and sparing ; on the me-
tathorax it is long, and dense at the sides; wings hyaline and iri-
descent, the tegule and nervures rufo-testaceous. The basal seg-
ment of the abdomen pubescent, densely so laterally; the apical
margins of the segments with narrow pubescent fascie, two ovate
pubescent spots on the apical segment; beneath densely pubes-
cent ; the apical segment with a little short black pubescence.

Hab. St. Domingo.

54, Megachile solitaria.

Female. Length 54 lines.—Black, with the three basal segments of
the abdomen obscurely ferruginous, and their apical margins with
bright ferruginous pubescence. The sides of the face with sooty-
black pubescence ; a little pale ferruginous pubescence at the sides
of the metathorax ; wings bright fulvo-hyaline at the basal por-
tion and fuscous beyond the enclosed cells. The pubescence on
the three apical segments of the abdomen above black ; beneath,
the pubescence on the basal half is ferruginous, the apical portion
black.

Hab. St. Domingo.

55. Megachile elongata.

Male. Length 6 lines.—Black ; head and thorax opaque and very
closely punctured, abdomen shining and finely punctured. The
face densely covered with yellowish-white pubescence, that on the
cheeks long and white. The pubescence on the thorax and legs
white; all the tarsi pale testaceous, the anterior pair dilated, and
thickly fringed behind with white pubescence ; wings subhyaline,
their apical margins clouded, a darker cloud beyond the marginal
cell. Abdomen oblong; the apical margins of the segments with
narrow pale fascie; the sixth segment deeply notched in the
middle.

Hab. St. Domingo.

56. Megachile armata.

Male. Length 7 lines.—Black. The face densely clothed with
bright pale yellowish-white pubescence, on the vertex it 1s thin
and fulvous ; the mandibles very stout, smooth and shining, haying
a few fine punctures, pale rufo-testaceous at their apex, and armed
at their base beneath with a stout tooth. The pubescence on the
thorax is pale fulvous above and whitish on the sides and heneath ;

the anterior tarsi pale testaceous, nearly white, and broadly di-
lated, thickly fringed behind with curled white pubescence; the
femora beneath and the apex of the tibiz pale; the first joint of
the tarsi has its margins fringed with short dark pubescence, the
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behind with white pubescence; the coxe have each a stout blunt
spine; the intermediate coxse have a long and more slender acute
spine, and the femora are incrassate. Abdomen with the three
basal segments thinly clothed with erect pale fulvous pubescence,
the fourth and fifth have their apical margins fringed with short
pale pubescence, and the apical margin of the sixth has a small
notch in the middle.

Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.

57. Megachile deceptrix.

Female. Length 54 lines.—Black, its pubescence white, the abdo-
men with a purple tinge. The head and thorax closely punctured ;
the face densely pubescent ; the clypeus strongly punctured ; the
flagellum fulvous beneath; the cheeks with dense pubescence.
Thorax with a line of white pubescence from the tegule passing
along the base of the scutellum; the legs rufo-piceous beneath; the
tarsi with fulvous pubescence beneath ; the wings subhyaline. The
apical margins of the segments of the abdomen with narrow white
pubescent fascize; the basal segment thinly pubescent in the
middle and densely so at the sides; beneath, the pubescence is
dense and of silvery brightness.

Hab. St. Domingo.

58. Megachile orbata.

Male. Length 6 lines.—Head and thorax very closely punctured
and opaque; the face densely clothed with pale pubescence, that
on the cheeks is white; the flagellum of the antenne fulvous be-
neath. Thorax with white pubescence; on the disk it is very
sparing, on the metathorax, the sides, and beneath it is longer and
much more dense ; all the tarsi yellowish white, the anterior pair
broadly dilated and fringed behind with curled white pubescence,
the first joint elongate and broadest at its apex, the following
joints small and transverse, diminishing in size to the apical joint ;
the femora and tibize pale beneath; the coxe armed with a stout
spine ; wings hyaline, slightly fuscous beyond the enclosed cells,
the nervures rufo-fuscous. Abdomen oblong; the apical margins
of the segments with narrow pale pubescent fasciz ; the basal seg-
ment deeply concave above, the second segment with a deep trans-
verse channel at its basal margin; the abdomen finely punctured ;
the apical segment rugose, and with a deep notch in its apical
margin. |

Hab, St. Domingo.

59. Megachile valida.

Female. Length 7 lines.—black ; the pubescence on the head and
thorax white, that on the abdomen yellowish-white. The head
closely and very finely punctured; the face and cheeks densely

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pubescent, that on the clypeus slightly fulvous; the vertex with
a little black pubescence. The thorax on the sides and beneath
with white pubescence ; above, it is thin and mixed with black ;
wings subhyaline, the nervures and tegule black ; the first joint of
the tarsi with fulvous pubescence beneath. Abdomen slightly
shining, with a thin, short, black pubescence above; the apical
margins of the segments with narrow yellowish-white pubescence ;
beneath densely clothed with pale fulvous pubescence, except on
the two apical segments, where it is black.

Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.

60. Megachile breviuscula.

Female. Length 54 lines.—Black, short and broad, with fulvo-
hyaline wings, the nervures fusco-ferruginous. The vertex
shining and very finely punctured; the clypeus shining and
having stronger punctures; the sides of the face with griseous
pubescence, on the vertex it is fuscous and thin; the flagellum
fulvous beneath, except at the base and apex; the mandibles fer-
ruginous, with the base and apex black. The thorax with a thin
short fuscous pubescence above ; on the metathorax, the sides, and
beneath it is whitish ; the tegule, the tarsi, tips of the femora and
of the tibiz ferruginous. Abdomen short and cordate, with a little
thin pale fulvous pubescence at the base; the apical margins of
the segments with narrow pale fulvous pubescent fascize ; densely
clothed beneath with a glittering pubescence, which changes in
colour when viewed in different lights; whitish in the middle, and
brown mixed with black at the sides.

Hab. Mexico, Orizaba.

61. Megachile irritans.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Black, with fuscous wings, the anterior
pair with the front margin dark fuscous with a violet iridescence.
The face with white pubescence; the clypeus strongly punctured,
its anterior margin slightly emarginate; the vertex with a little |
black pubescence. Thorax shining, finely and not very closely
punctured ; a fringe of black pubescence passes along the posterior
margin of the scutellum to the insertion of the posterior wings; at
the lateral angles of the metathorax and beneath the tegule, in
front, there is a tuft of white pubescence; the claws of the tarsi
ferruginous. Abdomen cordate, shining, except the apical seg- :
ment, which is opaque; the sides with a little black pubescence ;
beneath densely clothed with white pubescence.

Hab. Mexico, Orizaba.

62. Megachile candida.

Female. Length 53 lines.—Black, with the pubescence pale ful-
vous. The face pubescent, the clypeus slightly so, and punctured ;

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the tips of the mandibles rufo-piceous. The mesothorax with two
ovate patches of short pubescence anteriorly and another behind
each tegula ; the wings pale fulvo-hyaline, the nervures ferruginous,
the tegule rufo-piceous. Abdomen cordate; the apical margins of
the segments with narrow pubescent fasciz; the apical segment
with pale fulvous tomentum; beneath densely clothed with pale
fulvous pubescence.

Male. Length 5} lines.—Its pubescence pale fulvous; that on the
face dense and long, very bright and pale on the clypeus. Thorax
pubescent ; the wings asin the female; the anterior femora and
tibiz ferruginous, with a dark line in front; the tarsi yellow, and
broadly dilated; the first joint narrowest at the base, the follow-
ing joints short, transverse, and each in succession smaller, all
fringed behind with curled hairs, which are black at their tips;
the coxee with long black spines ; the intermediate tibicee and the
apex of the posterior pair ferruginous, their tarsi yellow. Abdomen
oblong, very slightly narrowed posteriorly, covered with short pale
fulvous pile, the apical margins of the segments with narrow fasciee ;
the apical segment covered with pale pubescence, and deeply
notched in the posterior margin.

Hab. Mexico.

63. Megachile bipartita.

Female. Length 42 lines.—Black, the pubescence on the head and
thorax cinereous, that on the abdomen fulvous. The face, as high
as the front of the vertex, pubescent ; the clypeus naked, its anterior
margin crenulated. The thorax with thin short pubescence above,
on the metathorax and the sides it is longer and more dense; the
claw-joint ferruginous; wings hyaline, the nervures black, the
apical margins beyond the second submarginal cell slightly fuscous.
Abdomen oblong, the third, fourth, and fifth segments covered with
short fulvous pile; the apical margins of all the segments with
narrow, pubescent, fulvous fascize ; densely clothed beneath with
pale fulvous pubescence, which is palest at the base of the ab-
domen.

Male. Length 47 lines.—The pubescence as in the female, the
abdomen being densely covered with short fulvous pubescence be-
yond the third segment ; the apical one deeply notched in the pos-
terior margin; the anterior tarsi simple.

Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.

ANTHIDIUM, Fabr.

1. Anthidium compactum.

Hemale. Length 3 lines.—Black, with the head and thorax very
closely punctured, the former, as well as the abdomen, spotted with
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yellow. The clypeus, the face on each side of it, and the man-
dibles, yellow; the tips of the latter ferruginous ; a minute spot on
the posterior margin of the vertex above the eyes yellow. Thorax
with a minute angulated white spot beneath the wings, and a
yellow one on the tegule in front; the apical joints of the tarsi
ferruginous ; the tarsi with white pubescence above and fulvous
beneath ; wings subhyaline, the anterior pair dark fuscous on the
fore margin and at the apex of the wings. Abdomen with the first
to fifth segments each with an oblong transverse yellow lateral
macula; shining, with the two basal segments finely punctured ;
clothed beneath with white pubescence.

Hab. Sierra Leone.

2. Anthidium lanificum.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Black ; the head and thorax closely punc-
tured; abdomen smooth, shining, and punctured only at the basal —
margins of the segments. A triangular spot on the clypeus; a
similar spot on each side of it on the face, the mandibles, and an ab-
breviated line on the posterior margin of the vertex above the eyes,
yellow ; the flagellum beneath, except two or three of the basal
joints, fulvous; the margins of the mandibles and their apex black.
The tubercles and the lateral margins of the scutellum yellow ; the
anterior femora and tibize in front rufo-testaceous ; the tarsi, and
the apical joints of the intermediate and posterior pairs, pale testa-
ceous, all being densely covered with pale pubescence; the legs
shining and punctured; wings dark fuscous. ‘The second segment
of the abdomen with a minute lateral spot at the basal margin; the
third, fourth, and fifth segments with an oblong transverse lateral
macula, yellow; clothed beneath with pale fulvous pubescence.

Hab. Old Calabar.

3. Anthidium apicatum.

Female. Length 34 lines.—Black, punctured, with the head and
thorax immaculate, abdomen spotted with yellow. The head and
thorax closely and strongly punctured ; the sides of the face, below
the insertion of the antenne, with pale pubescence; the tarsi with
pale fulvous pubescence above, and bright fulvous beneath; the
scutellum produced over the metathorax; wings subhyaline, their
apical margins clouded. Abdomen with the first to fourth seg-
ments with a small ovate spot at their extreme lateral margins;
the fourth segment has an additional spot within the extreme
lateral one; the fifth and sixth segments entirely pale yellow;
beneath densely clothed with pale fulvous pubescence.

Hab. Natal.

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4. Anthidium imitator.

Male. Length 6 lines.—Extremely like A. diadema of Europe.
_ The clypeus, the face on each side of it as high as the insertion of
the antennze, the scape beneath, the mandibles, and a minute spot
above the eyes, yellow ; the tips of the mandibles and a spot at the
base of the clypeus black ; the face with pale fulvous pubescence.
The thorax at the sides and beneath with pale pubescence; the
tibiz in front and the tarsi yellow, and covered with bright pale
pubescence ; wings fusco-hyaline; the outer margin of the tegule
yellow. Abdomen with the basal segment with a lateral yellow
macula; the four following segments with a subquadrate lateral
spot, from which a narrow line emanates and expands into a cla-
vate shape a little before the middle of the segment ; these, as well
as two large subovate maculee on the sixth segment, and its lateral
margins, are yellow; the seventh segment trifurcate; outside the
trifurcation is a stout curved tooth, and the sixth segment has a
minute tooth at its apical margin laterally.

Hab. Northern India.

5. Anthidium ardens.

Female. Length 43 lines.—Black. <A broad yellow line on the face
on each side of the clypeus, not extending higher than the insertion
of the antennz ; the mandibles and four minute spots on the poste-
rior margin of the vertex yellow; the face with pale pubescence ;
the head and thorax both closely punctured. Two transverse spots
on the anterior margin of the mesothorax, two abbreviated narrow
lines on its disk, a narrow line over the tegulze, and an interrupted
one on the posterior margin of the scutellum, pale yellow; the an-
terior and intermediate tarsi pale, and all the tarsi densely covered
with pale pubescence ; wings subhyaline, the anterior margin of the
fore wings fuscous. The basal margin of the abdomen with four spots,
the lateral ones subquadrate, the two inner ones narrow and mi-
nute ; the second segment has similar spots, but the inner ones are
broader and nearly in the middle of the segment ; the third, fourth,
and fifth segments have a narrow transverse line, which is inter-
rupted in the middle; the lines are deeply emarginate, forming a
broad spot at the extreme lateral margin ; the sixth segment has
two angular macule ; all are pale yellow; densely clothed beneath
with pale pubescence.

Hab. Bombay Presidency.

6. Anthidium rufipes.

Female. Length 23 lines.—Black, with the legs and abdomen be-
neath ferruginous. The clypeus, as high as the antenne, yellowish
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along the margin of the vertex, pale yellow. Thorax with the
tubercles and a line on the mesothorax over the tegule, and con-
tinued along the posterior margin of the scutellum, pale yellow ;
wings hyaline and iridescent, tegule rufo-testaceous ; the first joint
of the posterior tarsi pale yellow, the tibize having a dusky stripe.
Abdomen with the first to fifth segments with a transverse pale
yellowish-white fascia, the first very widely interrupted, reduced
to a lateral spot, the second much less interrupted, the others very
slightly so; the apical segment with a heart-shaped macula ;
clothed beneath with pale fulvous pubescence.

Hab. Bombay district.

7. Anthidium japonicum.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Black, closely punctured; the abdomen
shining, and spotted with yellow. ‘The face with a little whitish
pubescence at the insertion of the antenne ; two small ovate yellow
spots at the posterior margin of the vertex. Thorax with a minute
yellow spot on the scutellum laterally ; on the sides and beneath
there is thin cinereous pubescence; the tarsi with cinereous pubes-
cence above, and with fulvous beneath ; the posterior tibiee with a
narrow whitish line on their upper margin; the calcaria pale fer-
ruginous ; wings subhyaline, their apex fuscous. Abdomen with
the first to fifth segments with an oblong-quadrate macula on each
side; the sixth segment immaculate; clothed beneath with pale
pubescence.

Hab. Yokohama.

8. Anthidium ordinatum.

Female. Length 43-53 lines.—Black ; the head and thorax opaque,
and very closely punctured ; abdomen shining, finely punctured, and
having four rows of yellowish-white macule. The clypeus, with
the sides anteriorly and the face on each side as high as the base
of the clypeus, as well as the base of the mandibles, yellowish
white ; the anterior margin of the clypeus with two short blunt
teeth. The thorax and legs without macule; their pubescence
white, except that on the disk of the thorax, which is short and
dark brown ; wings subhyaline, the nervures black. The abdomen
with four longitudinal rows of irregular-shaped whitish spots; the
two inner rows pear-shaped, and placed obliquely ; clothed beneath
with white pubescence.

Male. Length 6-7 lines.—Closely resembling the female ; but with
the clypeus, sides of the face, mandibles, and scape in front
yellowish white ; also a narrow interrupted line on the posterior
margin of the vertex. Thorax with the pubescence above fulvous,
beneath it is white; the outer margin of the tegule, a line on the
intermediate and anterior tibiz above, and a spot at the base of the

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ANTHIDIUM. &7

posterior pair yellowish white; wings and abdomen nearly as in
the female ; the two central rows of spots are ovate in four speci-
mens examined, and the spot on the fifth segment, in one example,
is united to the lateral spot by a narrow line; the sixth segment
has a sharp spine at its lateral angles; the seventh segment is
broadly emarginate at its apex, its lateral angles forming blunt
spines; in the middle is a longitudinal carina which projects
beyond the emargination, thus making the segment tridentate.

Hab. Bombay Presidency.

9. Anthidium lachrymosum.

Female. Length 33—4 lines.—Black, closely punctured, the abdomen
shining, and with white pubescent spots. Head as wide as the
thorax ; the sides of the face with short snow-white pubescence, as
well as the cheeks. Thorax with a large patch of white pubescence
beneath the wings, and a small one on the mesothorax anteriorly,
the latter frequently obliterated ; the anterior wings dark fuscous,
with a hyaline spot at the apex of the submarginal cells; the pos-
terior wings hyaline, faintly clouded at their apex; the scutellum
more strongly punctured than the mesothorax, its posterior margin
straight. The first segment of the abdomen with a large patch of
white pubescence at the lateral margins, and the four following
ones with smaller spots.

Male. Closely resembles the female, but has the angles of the apical
margins of the third, fourth, and fifth segments produced laterally
into short acute teeth; apical segment with three teeth.

Hab. Bombay district.

10. Anthidium multiplicatum.

Male. Length 6 lines.—Head and thorax reddish yellow, with black
markings; abdomen black, with yellow fasciz. Head with two
triangular black macule on the vertex, placed transversely ; also a
black macula above the insertion of each antenna, extending to the
anterior ocellus; the labrum black; the mandibles very broadly
dilated, and widened at their apex ; the apical margin emarginate,
with a black blunt process at the lower angle of the emargina-
tion ; the upper angle forms a flattened truncated process ; the cly-
peus porrect, rounded at the apex and concave beneath. The
mesothorax with three broad longitudinal black stripes, the central
one extending from the base to the apex, the lateral ones not run-
ning to the anterior margin ; wings subhyaline, the anterior margin
of the fore wings dark fuscous. ‘The segments of the abdomen with
slightly interrupted yellow fascize, the first only entire. The insect
entirely yellow beneath.

Hab. Brazil, St. Paulo.

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11. Anthidium flavomarginatum.

Male. Length 4 lines.—Black ; head and thorax closely punctured,
semiopaque ; abdomen shining, much more finely punctured, and
having waved yellow fascie. The anterior portion of the clypeus,
the inner orbits of the eyes, a curved line at the insertion of each
antenna, the mandibles, and a narrow line on the posterior margin
of the vertex, which runs down to the base of the mandibles, yel-
low; the scape in front and the base of the flagellum reddish
yellow. A narrow yellow line on the anterior margin of the meso-
thorax, interrupted in the middle, passing over the tegule, and
continued along the hinder margin of the scutellum; the tegule,
the anterior femora in front, and the tibiz and tarsi, ferruginous ;
the tibize more or less black behind; wings fusco-hyaline, with a
dark stain along the fore margin of the anterior pair. The first
segment of the abdomen with a lateral, narrow, waved yellow line
in the middle; the second segment with an ovate macula at its
lateral margins ; the third, fourth, and fifth segments with a nar-
row fascia near their basal margins, the first narrowly interrupted ;
the sixth and seventh segments yellow, the latter with a small, deep
impression in the middle, close to the apical margin.

Hab. Brazil, Petropolis.

12. Anthidium bicoloratum.

Female. Uength 34 lines.—Black, and variegated with red and
yellow markings. Head with the orbits of the eyes, the posterior
margin of the vertex, a spot in front of the anterior ocellus, the
scape, and three or four of the basal joints of the flagellum, ferru-
ginous; the head and thorax closely punctured. The scutellum,
a lateral spot united to it, the tegule, and two narrow abbreviated
lines on the disk of the mesothorax ferruginous ; the anterior legs,
the intermediate femora at the apex, the tibie and tarsi, and the
posterior femora at the apex ferruginous; wings fuscous. Ab-
domen ferruginous at the extreme base ; the first to fifth segments
with a double row of yellow maculz, those on the three basal seg-
ments transverse, those on the fourth and fifth segments ovate;
three or four of the basal segments have also a small yellow spot
at their extreme lateral margins; clothed beneath with glittering
whitish pubescence.

Hab. Mendoza.

13. Anthidium confusum.

Male. Length 47 lines.—Black, variegated with ferruginous and
yellow. The clypeus, mandibles, and face on each side yellow;
the hinder margin of the vertex and the scape ferruginous ; [the

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flagellum wanting]. The mesothorax with an interrupted line
anteriorly, which passes over the tegule and unites with the scu- ,
tellum, being, as well as the latter, ferruginous ; the tegule and legs
ferruginous ; wings fusco-hyaline, darkest beyond the submarginal

cells; the sides of the thorax with griseous pubescence. ‘The first
and second segments of the abdomen ferruginous, the first with a
transverse yellow fascia, less distinct in the middle; the second
segment with its apical margin black ; the following segments are
black in the middle and ferruginous laterally ; the third segment
with two oblong-ovate macule placed transversely and uniting in
the middle; the fourth, fifth, and sixth have similar macule, but
smaller ; the apical segment yellow, tridentate, and with a central
sharp carina.

Hab. Mendoza.

14. Anthidium elegantulum.

Female. Length 34 lines.—Luteous, the abdomen with ferruginous
fascie. Head with a large subquadrate black macula on the vertex
enclosing the ocelli, and extending about halfway between the an-
terior ocellus and the antenne; anteriorly it has a minute angular
projection emanating from the middle of its margin ; the flagellum,
except two or three of the basal joints, fuscous above. The meso-
thorax and basal margin of the scutellum black ; the anterior and
lateral margins of the mesothorax yellow ; the metathorax black
behind ; the wings subhyaline, the fore wings dark fuscous at their
anterior margin. Abdomen with the basal margin of the segments
luteous ; the apical margin of the terminal segment black.

Hab. Brazil, Santarem.

15. Anthidium cognatum.

Female. Length 3 lines.—Black, the scutellum orange-yellow. The
head and thorax very coarsely punctured ; the lower portion of the
inner orbits of the eyes, and anterior margin of the clypeus, inter-
rupted in the middle, narrowly yellow. The wings dark fuscous
on the anterior margin of the fore pair, the rest subhyaline and iri-
descent. The abdomen pubescent, giving it a velvety blackness,
usually more or less abraded; the fourth and fifth segments nar-
rowly margined with pale yellow ; clothed beneath with glittering
white pubescence.

Hab. Brazil, St. Paulo.

This species has the general aspect of A. lunulatum, but is quite
distinct, its head and thorax being rugose punctate; its head is
smaller in proportion to its thorax, and it is less variegated with
yellow. The species are from different localities.

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16. Anthidium fiavolineatum.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Black ; the thorax margined with yellow,
the abdomen with five yellow more or less interrupted fascie.
The inner orbits of the eyes, the lateral margins of the clypeus,
and a short narrow line behind the eyes, yellow. The mesothorax
with a narrow yellow line at its lateral margins, which also curves
a short distance on its anterior margin; the posterior margin of
the scutellum and a spot at its lateral angles yellow; wings fusco-
hyaline; the marginal cell and the apex -of the wing somewhat -
darker; the anterior tarsi and the apical joints of the intermediate
and posterior pairs pale ferruginous. Abdomen with a widely in-
terrupted fascia at the base, the second, third, and fourth segments
with fascize which are only slightly interrupted, the second being
the most so, the fifth with an entire fascia, all the fasciz and the
sixth segment yellow; clothed beneath with glittering whitish
pubescence.

Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.

17. Anthidium impatiens.

Male. Length 43 lines.—Black, punctured, the abdomen with yel-
low fascie, the fascize with lateral transverse black markings. The
clypeus, the sides of the face, the mandibles, and a minute spot
behind the eyes yellow; tips of the mandibles black. The sides of
the mesothorax and scutellum bordered with yellow ; on the thorax
anteriorly, and on the sides of the metathorax, there is a little
pale pubescence ; wings fusco-hyaline, darkest in the marginal cell
and at the apex of the wings; the apical joints of the tarsi ferru-
ginous. Abdomen shining; at the basal margins of the first and
second segments, laterally, a slightly curved yellow line, narrowest
within; a broad slightly interrupted fascia on the third segment ;
the following segments are yellow, with their apical margins
black ; the fourth and fifth segments have at their basal margins a
small triangular black spot, and the third, fourth, and fifth have
laterally a narrow black stripe; the sixth segment is subdentate
at its lateral angles; the seventh with a sharp longitudinal central
carina, and with an acute angle or tooth laterally.

Hab. South Mexico.

18. Anthidium atriventre.

Female. Length 5} lines.—Black; the head, thorax, and apical
segments of the abdomen with yellow markings; the abdomen with
black pubescence beneath. The clypeus, a broad line on each
side of the face, an ovate spot in front of the anterior ocellus,
and a narrow line on the margin of the vertex, yellow. The meso-
thorax bordered laterally with yellow; wings dark fuscous. Ab-

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domen shining, closely and finely punctured ; the third segment
with a narrow lateral yellow line, which is slightly curved ;
the three following segments yellow, with their apical margins
black.

Hab. Mexico, Orizaba.

19. Anthidium deceptum.

- Male. Length 53 lines.—Black ; head, thorax, and legs variegated
with yellow; abdomen with four rows of ovate yellow spots.
The clypeus and sides of the face as high as the antenna, the
mandibles, and a spot above the eyes yellow; the face with white
pubescence. Thorax with pale fulvous pubescence above, and
with white beneath and on the legs; an oblong spot on each
side of the margin of the mesothorax anteriorly, another over the
tegulz, the posterior margin of the scutellum and an ovate spot at
its lateral angles, and the tegule in front and behind, yellow; the
tibie outside and the tarsi yellow; the tips of the claws black ;
wings subhyaline. The segments of the abdomen with a large sub-
ovate macula at their lateral margins, and each with two smaller
spots, the four spots on each segment being placed equidistant ; the
apical segment immaculate and trispinose; the central spine
shortest, and being a continuation of a central carina.

Hab. Peru.

CERATINA, Latr.

1. Ceratina compacta.

Female. Length 3 lines.—Black; head and thorax closely punc-
tured ; abdomen finely so, variegated with yellow. The labrum,
clypeus, and the face on each side of it, a narrow line up the inner
orbits of the eyes not as high as their summit, two oblique lines
above the insertion of the antenne, a transverse line above the
clypeus, the scape in front, and a line behind the eyes, yellow.
Thorax with the tubercles, an interrupted line on the collar, a line
close to the tegule, two short ones on the disk, and the scutellum
yellow ; the anterior legs and the intermediate and posterior tibize
and tarsi yellow ; wings hyaline, the tegule rufo-testaceous. The
apical margins of the segments of the abdomen with yellow fascie,
the second and third fascize widely interrupted ; the fascie widen
abruptly laterally, the third and fourth are widened both in the
middle and at the sides; the sixth segment with a hat-shaped
yellow macula.

Hab. Philippine Islands.

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2. Ceratina lepida.

Male. Length 32 lines.—Black and shining, finely punctured, and
variegated with yellow markings. The clypeus, labrum, a trans-
verse angulated spot above the clypeus, two minute oblique ones
before the anterior ocellus, a line on the anterior portion of the
inner orbits of the eyes, narrowest above, and a broader line behind
the eyes, yellow. A narrow line on the prothorax, a minute one
over the tegule, the base of the scutellum, the tubercles, the an-
terior femora at their apex beneath, the tibize above, the interme-
diate pair at their base, and the basal half of the posterior pair,
yellow ; the claw-joint of the tarsi pale rufo-testaceous; wings
hyaline and iridescent. The apical margins of the second, third,
and fourth segments of the abdomen with a narrow yellow fascia
laterally, narrowest within, the fifth segment with a continuous
fascia ; the apical segment produced in the middle into a sharp
angle or tooth, it is also angulated laterally.

Hab. Northern India.

3. Ceratina sexmaculata.

Male. Length 33 lines.—Bright emerald-green, strongly and closely
punctured ; the clypeus and labrum yellowish white. The an-
terior femora with a line beneath, the tibize with a line above,
the intermediate tibiz with a spot at their extreme base above, and
the posterior pair with nearly half their length above, yellowish
white ; wings subhyaline. The fourth and fifth segments of the
abdomen with two large, ovate, black macule, the sixth with two
smaller ones; its apical margin serrated, with a larger tooth in the
middle; the seventh segment produced into an acute point or tooth
at its apex.

Hab. Hong Kong and Celebes.

Specimens from Celebes only differ in being more strongly punc-
tured. The females resemble the male, but are without the black
macule on the abdomen, and have the apical segment pointed at the
apex.

4, Ceratina perforatrix.

Male. Length 432 lines.—Black and shining, the abdomen finely
punctured, sparingly variegated with yellow markings. The cly-
peus with a reversed L-shaped macula, a stripe on each side of
it on the face, the labrum and mandibles, and a line behind the
eyes, yellow ; the tips of the mandibles ferruginous. Thorax smooth
and shining above, punctured on the sides and beneath; the meso-
thorax slightly punctured anteriorly ; wings subhyaline, the ner-
vures fusco-ferruginous; the legs rufo-piceous, the tarsi palest.
The fourth and fifth segments of the abdomen with a yellow fascia

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on their apical margins, that on the fourth interrupted in the
middle; the sixth segment with a central yellow subovate macula ;
the seventh truncate at the apex.

Hab. Burmah.
5. Ceratina flavipes.

Male. Length 3 lines.—Black, smooth, shining, very finely punc-
tured; head and abdomen variegated with yellow. The man-
dibles, labrum, clypeus, a transverse spot above it, and the face
on each side of it, as high as the insertion of the antenne, yellow.
The metathorax opaque; wings hyaline and iridescent, the ner-
vures testaceous, the stigma and costal nervure fuscous ; the tibie
and tarsi honey-yellow. Abdomen with the apical margins of the
second to fifth segments with narrow yellow fascie ; the first and
second fascize widely interrupted, the third much less so, the fourth
entire; the seventh segment subdentate in the middle, and oblique
on each side.

Hab. Hakodate.

6. Ceratina unimaculata.

Female. Length 32 lines.—Head and thorax green, the abdomen
dark blue; strongly punctured. The clypeus with a longitudinal
yellowish-white macula, narrowest above ; the flagellum of the an-
tenne, except two or three of the basal joints, obscurely fulvous
beneath. The metathorax truncate, the margin of the truncation
above acute and slightly raised; the wings hyaline, with their
apical margins slightly clouded; the legs dark rufo-piceous be-
neath; the anterior tibie with a pale spot at the base; all the
tibie and tarsi with glittering pale pubescence. Abdomen with
the margins of all the segments constricted; the apical margin of
the terminal segment pointed in the middle.

Male. Rather smaller than the female; coloured and punctured in
‘the same manner ; the terminal segment of the abdomen with the
apical margin rounded and subdentate laterally.

Hab. Celebes, Macassar.

7. Ceratina rugifrons.

Male. Length 32 lines.—Head and thorax strongly punctured ;
abdomen closely, but more finely so, and variegated with yellow
markings. The face rugose-punctate; the anterior portion of the
clypeus, a line on each side of it, widened anteriorly, a transverse
line above it, the labrum, and a short narrow line behind the eyes,
yellow; the scape in front ferruginous, probably sometimes yellow.
The margin of the prothorax, the tubercles united with it, a trans-
verse line on the scutellum, the tibie and tarsi, the anterior

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femora, except at their base above, and the apex of the interme-
diate and posterior pairs, yellow ; wings hyaline and iridescent ;
the nervures black, the tegule rufo-testaceous. The basal seg-
ment of the abdomen with two narrow lines that curve back-
wards and almost unite in the middle of the segment, the second
and third with a line on their apical margins laterally, narrowest
within, the fourth segment with a longer line, that on the fifth
entire, that on the sixth widest in the middle, yellow; the
seventh pointed in the middle of the apical margin and tipped with
yellow.

flab. Celebes, Macassar.

8. Ceratina cognata.

Male. Length 3} lines.—Black, shining and finely punctured, varie-
gated with yellow. The clypeus, the face on each side of it, a nar-
row line at the inner orbits of the eyes not reaching their summit,
a transverse line above the clypeus, the labrum, and a short narrow
line behind the eyes, yellow. ‘The collar of the thorax, the tuber-
cles, scutellum, tibie, tarsi, and tips of the femora yellow; wings
hyaline and iridescent; the nervures rufo-testaceous, the tegule
pale rufo-testaceous. Abdomen with four spots placed trans-
versely on the basal segment, the second and third segments with
a subquadrate spot laterally, each having a short narrow abbre-
viated line emanating from it along the apical margin of the
segments ; the fourth segment has similar markings, but the nar-
rower lines almost coalesce in the middle of the segment ; the fifth
has a continuous fascia, which is widest in the middle; the sixth
has a similar fascia, yellow.

Hab. Celebes, Macassar.

9. Ceratina pubescens.

Female. Length 43 lines.—Dark bronze-green, the disk of the
thorax with a purple tint; the sides of the thorax, the legs, abdo-
men beneath, the sides, and apical portion above with short hoary
pubescence, very dense on the metathorax. Head closely and
strongly punctured; the clypeus with a central longitudinal line,
a narrow line on the lower portion of the inner orbits of the eyes,
and a broader one behind the eyes, yellow. Thorax strongly punc-
tured, the mesothorax with a smooth space on the disk ; the base of
the metathorax smooth and of a coppery lustre ; legs black; wings
subhyaline, nervures testaceous; stigma and costal nervure black.
Abdomen much narrowed at the base; the basal segment smooth
and shining; the second and third segments closely punctured ;
the three following segments rugose.

Hab. Ega and Tunantins.

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10, Ceratina rotundiceps.

Female. Length 34 lines.—Bronze-green ; head strongly punctured,
rotundate, and a little wider than the thorax; a minute white spot
on the clypeus. Mesothorax with a large smooth space on the
disk; the scutellum shining, sparsely and finely punctured; the
margin of the truncation of the metathorax smooth and shining ;
the sides of the thorax, and also beneath, closely and strongly
punctured ; legs black; the anterior tibie dark rufo-piceous ; the
apical joints of the tarsi rufo-piceous; wings subhyaline, nervures
and stigma rufo-piceous, the tegule with the outer margin rufo-
piceous. The basal segment of the abdomen smooth and shining,
the second and third closely punctured, the following segments
rugose.

Hab. Para.
11. Ceratina viridula.

Male. Wength 34 lines.—Bright green; the head strongly punc-
tured, thorax less strongly so, the abdomen closely and finely
punctured. The anterior margin of the clypeus and a spot on
the labrum white. The mesothorax with a smooth shining space
on the disk, which has five longitudinal, smooth, impressed lines,
the two outer ones abbreviated; the base of the metathorax with
longitudinal striz, the truncation closely punctured; legs green,
with the apical joint of the tarsi ferruginous ; wings subhyaline,
the neryures fusco-ferruginous. Abdomen with the four basal seg-
ments punctured, the rest rugose; the margin of the seventh seg-
ment entire; the basal margins of the second, third, and fourth
segments smooth, shining blue.

Hab. Brazil, St. Paulo.

12. Ceratina bicolorata.

Female. Length 4-4} lines.—Obscure bronze colour, with a purple
tint ; the three apical segments of the abdomen of a coppery green.
Head and thorax coarsely punctured ; the face with a subtriangular
spot on each side of the clypeus anteriorly, the clypeus with a
minute spot at its anterior margin, and a line behind the eyes,
yellow ; the clypeus with a deep longitudinal, impressed line. The
mesothorax with two longitudinal smooth spaces, which unite
posteriorly, being widened towards the scutellum; wings sub-
hyaline; the margin of the truncation of the metathorax smooth,
the truncation closely punctured; legs black, the posterior pair
very pubescent. The basal segment of the abdomen smooth and
shining, the two following segments finely punctured, the following
segments rugose.

Hab. Amazons, Kga.

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13. Ceratina longiceps.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Bronze-green; the head produced before
the eyes, as in species of the genus Halictus. The head and thorax
strongly punctured; the three basal segments of the abdomen
closely and finely punctured, the three apical segments rugose. A
spot on the clypeus anteriorly, and another,at the angles of the
face at the lower orbit of the eyes, and a narrow line bekind them,
yellow. The metathorax and postscutellum closely and finely
punctured; wings subhyaline; legs obscure nigro-neous, the
apical joints of the tarsi rufo-testaceous.

Hab. Amazons, Ega.

14. Ceratina cupreiventris.

Female. Length 5 lines—Head and thorax dark bronze-green ;
the disk of the mesothorax with a purple tinge; abdomen bright
coppery green. Head strongly punctured; a spot at the anterior
margin of the clypeus, another at the anterior angles of the face,
a minute one on the labrum, and a line behind the eyes, yellow.
Thorax strongly punctured ; the metathorax with a smooth shining
space on the disk, and with five longitudinal impressed lines, the
two lateral ones abbreviated; the metathorax very minutely and
finely punctured ; wings subhyaline, the nervures fusco-ferruginous ;
legs obscurely rufo-piceous, with the apical joints of the tarsi pale
ferruginous. Abdomen bright coppery green, the four basal seg-
ments finely punctured, the following rugose.

Hab. Amazons, Ega.

15. Ceratina diligens.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Olive-green, punctured, the abdomen
rather more finely so than the head and thorax, the former with
yellow maculez. A transverse line on the anterior margin of the
clypeus, a minute one on the labrum, two on each side of the face
(one opposite the insertion of the antenne, the second at the interior
angle of the face), and a line behind the eyes, yellow; the flagellum
fulvous beneath. Two oblong spaces on the disk of the meso-
thorax smooth and shining; wings subhyaline and iridescent, the
nervures dark fuscows, the tegule rufo-testaceous ; tibie and tarsi
ferruginous. Abdomen evenly punctured, with the two apical seg-
ments rugose, the apex pointed.

Hab. Brazil, Santarem.

16. Ceratina capitosa.

Female. Length 42 lines—Head wider than the thorax, longer
than broad, obtuse anteriorly ; the head, mesothorax, and scutellum

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obscurely dark purple, the metathorax and abdomen olive-green.
The clypeus with an oblong-ovate yellow macula; the head rather
strongly punctured ; the flagellum of the antennz beneath, except
two or three of the basal joints, fulvous. The disk of the mesothorax
smooth and shining; the sides beneath, the scutellum, and meta-
thorax closely punctured ; the margin of the truncation of the
metathorax smooth and shining; the legs rufo-piceous, the apical
joints of the tarsi palest; wings pale fulvo-hyaline, the nervures
and stigma rufo-testaceous. Abdomen closely punctured, the two
apical segments rugose.

Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.

17. Ceratina rufipes.

Female. Length 4 lines—Head and thorax black; base of the
metathorax blue; abdomen green; legs ferruginous. The clypeus,
a spot on each side of it on the face, the labrum, and base of the
mandibles yellow. Head and thorax strongly punctured; abdomen
more finely so, with the three apical segments rugose ; wings hya-
line, the nervures black ; the thorax rufo-piceous beneath.

' Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.

18. Ceratina strenua.

Male. Length 23 lines.—Olive-green, punctured, the head most
strongly so. The clypeus and a spot on the labrum white; the
flagellum fulvyous beneath. Thorax with the tubercles white ; the
anterior tibie and tarsi pale ferruginous, as well as the interme-
diate and posterior tarsi; wings hyaline, the nervures and tegule
rufo-testaceous. The fifth and sixth segments of the abdomen finely
rugose; the seventh segment rounded at the apex.

Hab. Texas.

ALLODAPEH, St. Farg.

1. Allodape candida.

Female. Length 33 lines.—Black ; the thorax and abdomen shin-
ing, the latter with pubescent fascie. The clypeus with a broad
white or yellowish-white longitudinal stripe, which has the ante-
rior angles slightly produced ; the flagellum fulvous beneath ; the
head with griseous pubescence, particularly on the sides of the face
and on the cheeks. Thorax pubescent on the sides and beneath ;
the mesothorax very smooth and shining, with a few fine punctures
anteriorly ; the scutellum finely punctured ; the base of the meta-
thorax opaque ; the wings hyaline, the nervures ferruginous ; the

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98 APIDE.

posterior tibize and tarsi with pale glittering pubescence; the
claw-joint of the tarsi ferruginous. Abdomen shining and finely
punctured ; the three apical segments subrugose; the apical mar-
gins of the segments more or less rufo-piceous ; the segments with
thin fascize in the middle of downy-grey pubescence, the basal seg-
_ment has the pubescence on its apical margin.

Hab. Abyssinia.

2. Allodape cordata.

Female. Length 34 lines.—Black, smooth, and shining. The cly- —
peus punctured and with a narrow longitudinal line, a line at the ~
inner orbits of the eyes, and a similar one behind them yellowish —
white. The mesothorax impunctate, or with only a few very fine ~
scattered punctures anteriorly ; the scutellum with a transverse ~
broad stripe; wings fusco-hyaline ; the posterior tibie and tarsi
with pale glittering pubescence, the apical joints of the tarsi rufo-
testaceous. Abdomen with shallow punctures, not very close on
the three basal segments, but confluent on the three apical ones.

Hab. Cape of Good Hope.

3. Allodape jucunda.

Female. Length 2 lines.—Head and thorax shining black, abdo-
men ferruginous, with black fascie. The clypeus, labrum, apical
half of the mandibles, a narrow line at the lower part of the inner ~
orbits of the eyes, and the scape of the antenne pale yellowish-
white; the flagellum fulvous beneath. The margin of the pro-
thorax, the tegule, and scutellum pale yellow; the legs pale ferru-
ginous ; wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures pale testaceous,
the stigma fuscous. Abdomen with a black fascia at the base of
the second, third, and fourth segments, the fifth with a similar
fascia at its apical margin; the two apical segments with short,
pale, glittering pubescence.

Hab. Zulu Land.
4, Allodape parvula.

Female. Length 23 lines.—Black, shining, and impunctate. The
clypeus yellowish white; the labrum and mandibles rufo-testaceous ;
the apical joints of the flagellum fulvous beneath. The tubercles,
tegule, and base of the wings pale rufo-testaceous ; wings hyaline
and iridescent, the nervures testaceous, the stigma fuscous ; legs
obscurely rufo-piceous, the apical joints of the tarsi rufo-testaceous ;
the posterior tibise and tarsi with pale glittering pubescence. Ab-
domen with the apical margins of the segments narrowly pale rufo-
testaceous above and beneath.

Hab. Bombay district.

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NOMADA, Fabr.

1. Nomada subpetiolata.

Female. Length 3 lines.—Ferruginous, with a black longitudinal
groove on the mesothorax; the pectus with two black spots, and
the intermediate and posterior femora blackish at their base
beneath ; the metathorax with white short downy pubescence,
more or less black at the base; wings hyaline and narrowly bor-
dered with fuscous at their apex. Abdomen subpetiolate, ferru-
ginous, with a black fascia on the apical margin of the first seg-
ment, and a black spot on each side of it; the second segment with
a broad black fascia at its apical margin, widest in the middle, the
ferruginous portion is bordered with yellow at its base; the third
segment is blackish, and the two following have each two large
yellow maculz which unite in the middle of the segment.

Hab. Bombay district.

2. Nomada infrequens.

Female. Length 3% lines.—Yellow, with black and ferruginous
markings. ‘The vertex and a space above the clypeus black; the
flagellum of the antenne pale ferruginous. The mesothorax
black, narrowly bordered with yellow, and, as well as the scu-
tellum, coarsely punctured ; it has also two narrow indistinct fer-
ruginous lines on the disk; the scutellum slightly elevated and
produced backwards, projecting over the base of the metathorax ;
the postscutellum and the enclosed space beneath it ferruginous;
the pectus with a curved dark fusco-ferruginous stain; the legs
pale ferruginous, with the posterior coxe yellow beneath; wings
fusco-hyaline. Abdomen with the first segment dark ferruginous,
with a narrow yellow margin; the second is similarly coloured, but
lighter; the following segments are black at the base, and with

yellow apical margins.
Hab. Brazil, St. Paulo.

3. Nomada nigrocincta.

Female. Length 4 lines.—-Ferruginous, with black markings, the
abdomen with black fascize on the apical margins of the segments,
the base of the first segment also black. Two black spots on the
clypeus, and the ocelli enclosed in a black macula. The meso-
thorax with a black central groove; the metathorax black, with
dense white pubescence laterally, and having two narrow ferru-
ginous lines; the femora black at their base beneath; wings sub-
hyaline, with a clear hyaline spot beyond the submarginal cells;
the nervures ferruginous.

Hab. Arctic America.
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100 APID#.

4, Nomada intercepta.

Male. Length 5 lines.—Black. The clypeus, the face on each side
of it, a line curving beneath the eyes, the mandibles, labrum, and
the scape of the antenne in front, bright yellow; the flagellum
fulyous beneath. The margin of the prothorax, the tegule, tuber-
cles, and a spot beneath them, two spots on the scutellum, a line
on the postscutellum, two spots on the metathorax, and the legs,
yellow ; the coxee and trochanters behind, and the femora and tibice
within, black; wings hyaline, the nervures ferruginous. Abdomen
with the base of the first and second segments black; the apical
margins of the following segments narrowly rufo-fuscous.

Hab. Vancouver’s Island.

This insect has a small elevated carina between the antennsz:
it is probably a sexual distinction.

5. Nomada volatilis.

Male. Length 4—42 lines.—Head and thorax black, with yellow
and ferruginous markings; abdomen ferruginous, with yellow
markings. ‘The clypeus, a line at the lower portion of the inner
orbits of the eyes, the labrum and mandibles yellow ; the antennee
fulvous beneath ; the eyes with a minute ferruginous spot above.
A narrow line on the prothorax, the scutellum, tubercles, tegule,
and legs ferruginous; the intermediate and posterior femora black
at their base beneath; wings hyaline, with their apical margins
fuscous, the nervures ferruginous. Abdomen black at the base,
with an interrupted fascia in the middle of the first segment, and
an interrupted fascia at the basal margins of the following segments,
yellow; beneath, the apical margins of the segments are fusco-
ferruginous.

Hab. Canada.

6. Nomada albofasciata.

Male. Length 38 lines.—Head and thorax black, abdomen dark
obscure ferruginous. ‘The clypeus, labrum, and mandibles white ;
the flagellum fulvous beneath, the front with thin white pubes-
cence. Thorax with thin white pubescence; wings hyaline and
iridescent, the tegule and nervures ferruginous ; the anterior legs,
the intermediate and posterior tibize and tarsi ferruginous, all more
or less black behind except the tarsi. The first segment of the
abdomen with a narrow white interrupted fascia in the middle ;
the second with a broad white fascia, attenuated in the middle at
its basal margin; the abdomen thinly sprinkled with white pubes-
cence towards the apex.

Hab. Canada.

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7. Nomada montezumia.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Black, with yellow markings. The face
with a yellow oblong spot at the inner orbit of the eyes anteriorly ;
the labrum covered with white pubescence as well as the lower
part of the cheeks; the scape and two or three of the basal joints
of the flagellum ferruginous beneath. The mesothorax smooth,
shining, and impunctate, with a central impressed longitudinal
line, and a short one on each side near the teguile; the margin of
the prothorax, the hinder margin of the scutellum, and the post-
scutellum yellow; wings hyaline, and with the anterior margin of
the fore wings dark fuscous; the legs and entire insect pubescent
beneath. Abdomen with a transverse yellow fascia in the middle of
the first and second segments, that on the latter widest; the fourth
and fifth with their basal margins yellow, the latter broadly so.

Male. Rather smaller than the female, but closely resembles it:
it differs in having the clypeus and a spot above it, the labrum,
and mandibles, yellow, in the mesothorax being punctured, and in
the legs being more or less ferruginous.

Hab. Mexico, Orizaba.

AMMOBATES, Lair.

Ammobates rufitarsis.

Female. Length 4? lines.—Head and thorax black ; abdomen fer-
ruginous, with the extreme base and apex black. The face clothed
with white pubescence, as are also the labrum and cheeks, the
latter thinly so. The metathorax, the sides, and beneath with
white pubescence; the tarsi and posterior tibie ferruginous, the
latter externally set with short serrations; wings subhyaline,
faintly clouded at their apex; the nervures dark rufo-fuscous.
Abdomen slightly pubescent at its base, very finely and closely
punctured; the fourth and fifth segments with white pubescent
marginal fascie.

Hab, Siberia, Angara.

EPEOLUS, Latr.

1. Epeolus natalensis.

Male. Length 4 lines.—Black, punctured, variegated with white
pubescence. The front, below the ocelli, with dense white pubes-
cence; the clypeus anteriorly naked, its margin rounded; the
mandibles ferruginous towards the apex. The mesothorax and
scutellum coarsely punctured; the margin of the prothorax and
a large space beneath the wings covered with white pubescence ;

102 APID ®.

the tibia and tarsi with white pubescence outside; wings fusco-
hyaline, with hyaline spots beyond the submarginal cells. The
apical margins of the first, second, and third segments of the ab-
domen with broad pubescent lateral fascize, which are continued up
the outer margins; the fourth and sixth segments with uninter-
rupted fascie ; the fifth segment covered with brown pubescence ;
the abdomen shining and finely punctured.

Hab. Port Natal.

2. Epeolus fervidus.

Female. Length 32 lines.—Black, variegated with white pubes-
cent markings. The front, below the ocelli, with silvery white
pubescence; the anterior margin of the clypeus subtruncate; the
tips of the mandibles ferruginous. The mesothorax and scutellum
very closely punctured; a line on each side of the collar, the
tubercles, two lines on the mesothorax anteriorly, and another
passing over the tegule, of white pubescence; a large patch on the
sides, before the wings, and the cox outside with white pubes-
cence; a little white pubescence at the sides of the metathorax ;
wings hyaline, with a broad fuscous border at their apex. The first
segment of the abdomen with white pubescence at its extreme
base, curving round at the sides and continued a short distance on
the apical margin of the segment; the following segments with
white pubescence on their apical margins laterally ; the second,
third, and fourth segments beneath have white marginal fascie.

Hab. Bombay district.

3. Epeolus intrepidus.

Male. Length 5; lines.—Black, with white pubescent markings ;
wings with brown stains ; tibize and tarsi ferruginous. The front,
before the antenne, with white pubescence; on each side it has a
golden lustre; the labrum, mandibles, scape of the antenne, and
basal joint of the flagellum ferruginous. The thorax with a line
on the margin of the prothorax, the margins of the tubercles, the
sides of the metathorax, the intermediate and posterior coxse and
trochanters beneath, with white pubescence; the tegule and ner-
vures of the wings ferruginous; the marginal, submarginal, and
first and second discoidal cells of a brown colour, mottled with two
or three hyaline spots; the tibie, tarsi, and apical half of the
femora ferruginous. Abdomen with a band of white pubescence on
the apical margin of the first segment, interrupted in the middle,
the white band recurves laterally towards the middle of the seg-
ment; the second, third, and fourth segments with white pubes-
cent marginal fascie, the first shghtly iterrupted ; beneath, the
apical segments are fringed with bright rufo-fulvous pubescence.

Hab. Mexico.

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4. Epeolus flavofasciatus.

| Female. Length 43 lines.—Black; the abdomen with yellow pubes-
| cent fascie. The clypeus with silvery, and the sides of the face
with golden, pubescence; the anterior margin of the clypeus trun-
cate; the mandibles, scape, and basal joint of the flagellum of the
antenne ferruginous. The margin of the prothorax, tubercles, and
a spot. beneath them, two longitudinal stripes on the mesothorax
anteriorly, a line from the tegule and along the basal margin of
the scutellum, and another curved line passing from the posterior
wings down the truncation of the metathorax, of pale yellow pu-
bescence; wings light brown, with a hyaline space beyond the
submarginal cells, the nervures and tegule ferruginous; the legs
ferruginous, with the coxee and femora more or less blackish above ;
the pectus and posterior coxz beneath with silvery-white pubes-
cence. All the apical margins of the abdominal segments with broad
pubescent yellow fascie, that on the first segment is continued up the
sides; the fifth segment has the fascia interrupted, and has a silvery
spot on its apical margin.

Male. Rather smaller than the female, and has the antenne
entirely black; otherwise marked as in the other sex.

Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.

5. Epeolus nigriceps.

Female. Length 63-74 lines——Black; the pubescent markings
yellowish white. Head with a little black pubescence on the front.
The margin of the prothorax and a space at the side enclosing the
tubercles, the margins of the mesothorax narrowly, and a line pass-
ing beneath the scutellum to the insertion of the posterior wings,
of yellowish-white pubescence; a pale spot at the base and apex of
the posterior cox; a spot at the apex of the femora above, and
the tibize and tarsi, usually with more or less of pale pubescence ;
wings light fuscous, the nervures black. The basal segment of the
abdomen with pale pubescence, divided in the middle by a quadrate
black space, which widens slightly towards the posterior margin.
of the segment, then abruptly terminates, a narrow black line also
runs to the margin; the three following segments with pale pubes-
cent fascize on their apical margins, the fascia on the first of these is
continued along the lateral margins of the segment ; beneath black.

Hab. California and Texas.

6. Epeolus vagans.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Black, with white pubescent markings,
the legs ferruginous. The clypeus and sides of the face, as well
as the labrum, with white pubescence. ‘The margins of the meso-

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thorax and sides of the metathorax with white pubescence ; the
legs mottled with white; wings hyaline, with their apex beyond
the submarginal cells fuscous; a darker fuscous stain beyond the
marginal cell. The first segment of the abdomen with a slightly
interrupted fascia at its base; the second segment with a con-
tinuous fascia, slightly attenuated in the middle, at its basal
margin; at its apical margin laterally, and on the following seg-
ment also, there is a minute oblong spot; the fourth and fifth
segments with an oblique white line on each side, the fifth segment
with a white spot in the middle of its apical margin.

Hab. Amazons, Ega.

7. Epeolus albifrons.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Black; the face clothed with silvery
white pubescence. The antenne obscurely rufo-piceous beneath,
the scape with white pubescence at the apex; the mandibles fer-
ruginous. The mesothorax and scutellum closely punctured; the —
pectus, coxee, and posterior femora with a changeable glittering
white pile ; wings subhyaline, iridescent, and with a brown cloud
on the anterior margin of the fore wings; the legs rufo-piceous.
Abdomen dark blackish brown; the second to fourth segments
beneath with short silvery white pubescence, and the second, third,
and fourth segments above with narrow transverse lines of white
pubescence ; the apical segment white at the sides.

Flab. Para.
CHLIOXYS, Latr.

1. Coelioxys clypeata.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Black, the abdomen shining; the clypeus
produced, its anterior margin notched and forming a bilobed apex,
the lobes obscurely ferruginous. The sides of the face with pale
pubescence; the eyes pubescent. The thorax strongly punctured ;
the posterior margin of the scutellum broadly angular, having a
central carina and a lateral short stout tooth; wings subhyaline,
becoming gradually darker fuscous to the apex; legs ferruginous.
Abdomen obscurely ferruginous beneath, smooth, shining, and
finely punctured above; the apex acute; the ventral apical plate
longer than the upper one, very slender and acute at the apex.

Hab. Tunantins, on the Amazons.

2. Colioxys ignava.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Black ; head and thorax strongly punc-
tured, abdomen finely so; legs and abdomen beneath ferruginous.
The face at the sides and a line behind the eyes of white pubes-

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cence; the mandibles, except their base, ferruginous. ‘The scu-
tellum produced in the middle of its posterior margin into a short
_ tooth, also a longer tooth at its lateral margins ; the margin of the
prothorax, a spot behind the tegulz, and a line at the base of the
scutellum with white pubescence; wings subhyaline, with a fus-
cous cloud at their apex. Abdomen shining, and gradually taper-
ing to the apex, which is lanceolate; the ventral apical plate a
little longer than the upper one, tapering to a point, and slightly
notched at the sides near the apex, which is small and lanceolate.

Hab. Ega.

3. Celioxys agilis.

Male. Length 34 lines.—Black. The front, as high as the anterior
ocellus, densely clothed with short pale golden-coloured pubes-
cence; a line of white pubescence behind the eyes; the vertex and
thorax above strongly punctured; the posterior margin of the scu-
tellum slightly rounded, with a stout, short, punctured tooth at its
lateral angles; wings subhyaline, becoming gradually darker to
the apex; legs ferruginous, and with white pile above. Abdomen
shining, finely and sparingly punctured; the apical margins of
the segments impunctate; the apical segment deeply grooved in
the middle, the lateral processes bidentate, there is also a short
acute tooth near the base of the segment laterally; the lateral
margins of the segments with white pubescent fascize; beneath,
the fascize are continuous and broader than those above.

Hab. Brazil, St. Paulo.

4. Colioxys vigilans.

Female. Length 53 lines.—Black, shining, and finely punctured ;
legs ferruginous, the pubescent fasciee and markings snow-white.
The sides of the face, the cheeks, and a fringe on the anterior
margin of the clypeus pubescent. The margin of the prothorax, a
narrow line on the mesothorax on each side anteriorly, and run-
ning down to the anterior coxe, another line running from the
wings to the intermediate cox, two spots at the base of the scu-
tellum, and another behind the tegule, of white pubescence;
the lateral margins of the metathorax fringed with the same;
the legs have white pile beneath; wings hyaline at their base, a
fuscous stain in the marginal cell and at the apical margin of the
wings; the scutellum with a short stout tooth at its lateral angles,
its hinder margin broadly angular, acute in the middle. Abdomen
very finely punctured, with a narrow fascia on the basal margin of
the first segment, and also on the apical margin of the other seg-
ments, of white pile, the latter widen at the sides and are continuous
beneath ; the ventral valve of the apical segment is a little longer
than the upper one; rather wide, notched on each side near the
apex, and terminating in a lanceolate process.

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Male. Closely resembles the female ; but the abdomen has on the
third, fourth, and fifth segments, in addition to the white fascie
on each side near the base of the segments, a short white line of
pubescence; the terminal segment has at the apex four acute
spines, and also a short one laterally.

Hab. St. Domingo.

5. Celioxys argentipes.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Black; the head and thorax strongly
and closely punctured, abdomen shining and finely punctured ;
wings fuscous, their base hyaline. The face with silvery-white
pubescence at the sides, the cheeks with white pubescence. Thorax
with the sides, beneath, and the legs with short, bright silvery-
white pubescence; the legs obscurely rufo-piceous; the spine on
each side of the scutellum very stout. Abdomen with a narrow
white fascia on the apical margins of all the segments; the apical
segment very finely punctured, and with a longitudinal carina ;
the apical ventral plate broad and spoon-shaped, with a minute
lanceolate appendage at the apex.

Hab. Sierra Leone.

6. Coelioxys penetratrix.

Female. Length 44 lines.—Black; head and thorax strongly punc-
tured, abdomen shining and finely punctured, legs ferruginous.
The front with white pubescence; the mandibles ferruginous. The
thorax with white pubescence on the sides and beneath; the legs
with a glittering white pile; the wings hyaline at the base,
thence becoming gradually fuscous to their apex, the nervures
black, the tegule rufo-piceous. Abdomen short and conical, the
segments with narrow white pubescent fascize; the apical segment
rather short, and with a central longitudinal carina; the lower
valve broad and spoon-shaped, with a minute lanceolate appendage
at the apex.

Hab. Natal.

7. Coelioxys minuta.

Female. Length 3? lines.—Black ; head and thorax strongly punc-
tured, abdomen finely so, and tapering from the base to a fine
point at the apex. The front densely covered with short white
pubescence; the eyes pubescent; the posterior margin of the scu-
tellum rounded, having two small patches of white pubescence
at the base, and a short tooth at its lateral angles; legs obscure
ferruginous ; wings byaline at their base, and slightly fuscous at
their apex; the neryures and tegule obscure ferruginous. Abdo-
men shining; the basal margin of the first segment with a very

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narrow fascia, its apical margin with a rather wider interrupted
one, and the following segments with uninterrupted fascize of white
pubescence ; the apical ventral valve longer than the upper valve,
and tapering to a point.

Hab. Bombay district.

CROCISA, Jurine.

1. Crocisa elegans.

Female. Length 42 lines.—Black, variegated with blue pubescent
markings. The clypeus produced; the front covered with blue
pubescence, the cheeks also blue. Thorax with three spots in front,
two on the disk, a narrow line over each tegula, which unites
with a spot placed in a line with the spots on the disk, of blue pile ;
the scutellum deeply notched behind, and with an ovate blue spot
on each side of the notch. The sides of the basal segment of the
abdomen with a large blue pubescent spot that is deeply emarginate
within, the rest of the segments with an oblong spot on each side ;
the tibie and basal joint of the tarsi blue outside; beneath, the
segments have an oblique blue line, these are frequently more or
less obliterated.

Hab. Bombay, Sumatra, Borneo.

This species is very distinct from C. mitidula; its head is more
elongate, the clypeus being produced ; the spots on the scutellum
are frequently obliterated.

2. Crocisa lugubris.

Female. Length 7 lines.—Black, and covered with very short black
pubescence, opaque, and variegated with snow-white spots; the
front with white pubescence, also a patch behind the eyes at their
summit. Thorax with three subovate spots anteriorly, and four
small ovate ones on the mesothorax, placed quadrately, two on
each tegula, one beneath each, and a longitudinal line beneath it,
of white pubescence ; the anterior tibia and basal joint of the tarsi
outside, the intermediate and posterior tibiz at their base, and the
basal joint of the tarsi outside, with white pubescence ; wings dark
fuscous, the hinder pair palest, with violet iridescence ; two or
three small hyaline spots beyond the submarginal cells. The first,
second, and third segments of the abdomen with four ovate, white
pubescent spots at about equal distances from one another, the
two inner spots much smaller than the lateral ones; the fourth
and fifth segments have each two small white spots; beneath, the
second, third, and fourth segments each with two ovate white
spots. .

Hab. Australia.

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3. Crocisa quinquefasciata.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Black, decorated with spots and mark-
ings of white pubescence ; the abdomen with fine narrow fascize
of white pubescence, which are slightly interrupted in the middle.
The head with white pubescence. The prothorax, three spots
on the mesothorax anteriorly, two posteriorly, a narrow line
over the tegule, the sides of the metathorax, and a large patch
beneath the wings, of white pubescence; the legs have a short
white pubescence ; wings fuscous, with hyaline spots in the mar-
ginal and submarginal cells; the hinder wings hyaline at their
base ; the scutellum produced over the base of the abdomen, its
posterior margin deeply notched. The fascize on the abdomen re-
curved up the lateral margins.

Hab, Madagascar.

MELISSA, Smith.

1. Melissa insignis.

Female. Length 8 lines.—Deep blue, with fusco-hyaline wings, the
nervures black, tegule blue. The face with a little white pubes-
cence on the sides opposite the insertion of the antenne, a fringe of
the same on the posterior margin of the vertex ; that on the labrum
and cheeks is black. On the’ front of the thorax, on the meta-
thorax, and beneath, the pubescence is black, as is also that on the
legs ; the scutellum bituberculate, the tubercles very prominent ;
the thorax and legs in certain lights with a purple lustre. Abdo-
men with a green and violet lustre; the apical segment with light
brown pubescence above; beneath purple; the third, fourth, and
fifth segments with a small triangular white pubescent spot at
their margins laterally.

Male. The same length as the female.—Blue, with green reflections.
The clypeus, a spot on the sides of the face, opposite the insertion
of the antenne, the margin of the vertex, the thorax in front, the
metathorax, and the sides with bright yellow pubescence; the disk
of the mesothorax and the tegule vivid green; wings as in the
female ; the legs black, with tints of blue and purple ; the posterior
tibia with a tuft of black pubescence at their apex beneath.
The first and second segments of the abdomen with a small spot of
yellow pubescence on their apical margins laterally ; beneath, the
third and fourth segments with an oblong snow-white spot late-
rally.

Hab. 8. Mexico, Orizaba.

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OSIRIS, Smith.

1. Osiris tarsatus.

Female, Length 4 lines.—Pale ferruginous, smooth and shining.
The head and disk of the thorax with a few shallow punctures ;
the clypeus convex, paler than the rest of the head, with scattered
distinct punctures; the ocelli black. The scutellum and meta-
thorax very smooth and shining; wings flavo-hyaline, iridescent,
with the nervures pale ferruginous; the basal joint of the posterior
tarsi quite as broad as the tibie, and very pubescent. Abdomen
broadest at the base, and tapering to a point at the apex, which is
pubescent.

Hab. Tunantins.

This species is very like O. pallidus in general aspect; but the
form of the abdomen and of the basal joint of the posterior tarsi
distinguish it from that species.

EUCERA, Scop.

1. Eucera terminalis.

Female. Length 7 lines.—Black. The face and vertex with black
pubescence, that on the labrum pale fulvous. The thorax clothed
above with ochraceous pubescence, on the sides and beneath it is
paler; the legs with fulvous pubescence, the apical joints of the
tarsi ferruginous; wings hyaline, faintly clouded at the apex;
nervures dark ferruginous. Abdomen with pale ochraceous pubes-
cence at the base; on the second and two following segments the
pubescence is of the same colour, but thin and short; on the fifth
ib is black; on the terminal segment it is obscure ferruginous at
the sides.

Male. The clypeus bright yellow, the labrum with yellow pubes-
cence ; the vertex and sides of the face with black, and the cheeks
with long whitish pubescence. The thorax and legs clothed as in
the female. The two basal segments of the abdomen with pale
fulvous pubescence, the rest with black; the margins of the seg-
ments laterally beneath with long pale pubescence.

Hab. South of France.

2. Eucera deceptrix.

Male. Length 6 lines.—Black. The clypeus bright yellow ; the face
and vertex with pale fulvous pubescence, the cheeks with white ;

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the antenne two thirds of the length of the body. The thorax
with fulvous pubescence above ; the legs with the same; the tarsi
ferruginous; the wings hyaline, the nervures ferruginous. The
two basal segments of the abdomen with fulvous, and the rest with
black pubescence.

Hab. Italy.

3. Eucera rufipes.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Black; the face with griseous pubes-
cence, that on the cheeks white ; the clypeus slightly produced and
flat, its anterior margin truncate; the flagellum rufo-testaceous
beneath. The thorax clothed above with pale fulvous pubescence ;
on the legs, which are ferruginous, it is fulvous ; wings hyaline,
slightly clouded at their apex; the nervures and tegule ferruginous.
The basal segment of the abdomen with thin griseous pubescence, the
second, third, and fourth segments with broad white fasciz, that on
the second segment interrupted ; the fascia on the fifth segment is
fulvous in the middle; the sixth segment with ferruginous pubes-
cence at the sides, beneath obscurely ferruginous.

Hab. Polish Ukrain.

4, Kucera nigrifrons.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Black. The head with black pubescence,
that on the labrum fusco-ferruginous. Thorax clothed above with
cinereous, and beneath with dark fuscous, nearly black, pubescence ;
the legs dark rufo-piceous, the apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous ;
the posterior tarsi ferruginous, the tibise and tarsi densely clothed
with bright fulvous pubescence ; wings hyaline, the nervures and
tegule dark ferruginous. The basal segment of the abdemen with
thin pale pubescence; the second, third, and fourth segments
with a patch of white pubescence on the apical margins laterally ;
the fifth and sixth segments margined with fulvous pubescence ;
beneath, the margins of the segments rufo-piceous.

Hab. Dalmatia.

5. Eucera velutina.

Male. Length 44-6 lines—Black, densely clothed with pale ful-
vous pubescence, on the labrum and cheeks it is white; the clypeus
yellowish white. The pubescence on the thorax beneath is white,
on the legs very pale fulvous; the apical joints of the tarsi pale
ferruginous ; wings hyaline. The abdomen very pubescent; the
apical margins of the fourth and fifth segments with short pubescent
fascize, nearly white.

Hab. Syria, Magdala.

TETRALONIA. aah

TETRALONIA, Spin.

1. Tetralonia reversa.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Black, the abdomen shining, the apical
and ventral segments pale ferruginous. The head shining, the cly-
peus punctured and with short glittering white hairs; the labrum
with pale pubescence. The thorax, as well as the anterior and
intermediate legs, with black pubescence; the posterior legs with
bright fulvous pubescence; the apical segments of the abdomen
with fulyous pubescence; wings subhyaline, the nervures black.

Hab. Brazil, Tejuca.

2. Tetralonia flagellicornis.

Male. Length 43 lines.—Black, the thorax with fulvous pubescence
above; antennee longer than the body, the joints subarcuate. The
anterior margin of the clypeus broadly yellow, also a yellow spot
at the base of the mandibles; a little thin pale pubescence on the
face, that on the cheeks white. The pubescence on the thorax
beneath and on the legs white; the two apical joints of the tarsi
ferruginous ; wings hyaline and iridescent, faintly clouded at their
apex, the nervures black. Abdomen with a little pale fulvous
pubescence at the base, and a narrow white pubescent fascia on the
apical margins of the second to fourth segments, that on the two
apical ones dark fuscous.

Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.

3. Tetralonia gyrosa.

Male. Length 6 lines.—Black, with the four apical joints of the
tarsi ferruginous ; the clypeus and labrum yellow, the former with
the base black, the black portion with a yellow notch in the middle ;
the mandibles reddish yellow at their apex. The face with a little
pale pubescence, that on the vertex fuscous, on the cheeks and
thorax beneath it is white ; the pubescence on the thorax above is
a mixture of pale yellowish brown and dark fuscous; the wings
flavo-hyaline, the nervures pale ferruginous. Abdomen shining,
with pale yellowish-brown pubescence at the base; at the base of
the second segment laterally a little patch of pale tomentum ; the
third, fourth, and fifth segments with a narrow fascia of thin, short,
white pubescence a little before their apical margin ; the segments
beneath fringed with white pubescence.

Hab. Ega, on the Amazons.

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4. Tetralonia melectoides.

Male. Length 7 lines.—Black, shining ; abdomen with white spots
at the apex. The clypeus yellow, the mandibles ferruginous be-
fore the apex; the face with a thin white pubescence, that on the
cheeks more dense and white; the antennz obscurely fulvous
beneath. The mesothorax and scutellum punctured, the former
with a little pale pubescence anteriorly; on the metathorax it
is whitish; wings hyaline, the nervures blackish brown; the
intermediate and posterior legs with black pubescence above, the
tarsi and tibiz of the former with a mixture of snow-white, the
posterior tibis at their apex and the tarsi with white pubescence.
Abdomen nigro-neous, finely punctured, most strongly so at the
base; the apical margins of the third, fourth, and fifth segments
laterally with a short marginal fascia of white pubescence, shortest
on the third segment.

Hab. Villa Nova, on the Amazon.

5. Tetralonia fervens.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Black, with the antenne, except the
three basal joints, bright red. The face, labrum, and cheeks with ~
white pubescence ; the clypeus closely punctured, truncate, and
having anteriorly a short carina in the middle. Thorax densely
clothed above with fulvous pubescence; wings subhyaline, the
nervures dark ferruginous, the tegule pale rufo-testaceous ; the
legs obscurely rufo-piceous beneath, the posterior legs with black

pubescence ; the apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous. Abdomen
shining; the base of the first segment with fulvous pubescence ; the
base of the second segment laterally with a little white tomentum ;
the third, fourth, and fifth segments have in the middle of the
segments laterally a narrow short fascia of white pubescence ; the
fifth and sixth segments with black pubescence, the latter with a
central angular naked space.

Male. Rather smaller than the female, which it closely resembles ;
but has the clypeus and labrum yellow, the pubescence on the
legs entirely pale, and the fasciz on the abdomen longer, that on
the third and fourth segments being only slightly interrupted.

Hab. Mendoza and Santiago.

6. Tetralonia decorata.

Female. Length 53 lines.—Head and thorax black, legs and abdo-
men pale ferruginous. The anterior margin of the clypeus, and
the labrum and mandibles, pale yellowish-white, the latter ferru-
ginous at their apex ; the antennx, except the three basal joints,
rufo-fulvous, fuscous above. The thorax clothed with pale fulvous
pubescence ; wings flavo-hyaline, the nervures ferruginous, tegulze

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_pale rufo-testaceous ; the legs with fulvous pubescence ; the scopa
_on the posterior tibiz with a few fuscous hairs at the base above.
Abdomen entirely pale ferruginous, palest beneath.

Male. Very closely resembles the female, but has some thin white
_fascize on the apical segments of the abdomen.

Hab. Ega, on the Amazons.

MELISSODES, Latr.

1. Melissodes obscura.

Female. Length 54 lines.—Black. The face with pale pubescence,
white on each side of the clypeus, and yellowish above the inser-
tion of the antenne; on the posterior margin of the vertex it is
black, and on the labrum fulvous. Mesothorax with a tuft of
black pubescence on each side anteriorly; the sides and the meta-
thorax with pale yellowish-white pubescence, and a little pale
tomentum at the margin of the tegule; wings subhyaline, their
apical margin clouded and brightly iridescent, the nervures blackish

_ brown ; legs dark rufo-piceous ; the intermediate and posterior legs
with black pubescence ; the apical joint of the tarsi ferruginous.
Abdomen with a little pale pubescence at the base; the second
segment has a narrow line of white tomentum on each side at its
basal margin; the fourth segment with two angular spots of ful-
yous pubescence, and the two following segments covered with the
same; beneath rufo-piceous.

Hab. Brazil, St. Paulo.

2. Melissodes rubricata.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Head and thorax black ; legs rufo-piceous
beneath ; abdomen bright chestnut-red. The face with short gri-
seous pubescence; the clypeus with an abbreviated central carina,
its anterior margin truncate; the labrum obscurely ferruginous.
Thorax densely clothed above with fulvous pubescence, beneath
it is fuscous; wings slightly fulvo-hyaline, darkest towards the
apex; the nervures rufo-fuscous, tegule rufo-testaceous; the leg-
with black pubescence, that on the posterior tibize outside with a
mixture of pale hairs. A little pale pubescence at the base of the
abdomen, which towards the apex becomes rufo-fuscous.

Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.

3. Melissodes pubescens.

Male. Length 4 lines.—Black, and densely clothed with pale ful-
vous pubescence. The clypeus, labrum, and mandibles yellowish
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white ; the pubescence on the face dense and nearly white; the
flagellum beneath fulvous. The thorax with whitish pubescence
beneath ; the tibis and tarsi ferruginous, the claws black; wings
hyaline and iridescent, the nervures ferruginous, the tegule rufo-
testaceous. Abdomen densely clothed with short pale fulvous pu-
bescence above, beneath rufo-piceous, with the margins of the
segments pale. :

Hab. Villa Nova, on the Amazon.

4, Melissodes californica.

Female. Length 8 lines.—Black; the thorax with fulvous pubes-
cence, the abdomen with pale abdominal fasciz. The face with
pale fulvous pubescence, that on the cheeks nearly white; the
mandibles pale ferruginous in the middle. The thorax with bright
fulvous pubescence above, that beneath paler; on the legs it is
fulvous, that on the posterior tibiz and first joint of the tarsi being
long and dense and fulvo-ferruginous within ; the apical joints of
the tarsi ferruginous, the claws black; wings subhyaline, the ner-
vures dark ferruginous. Abdomen with short black pubescence,
that on the two apical segments longer and sooty black; the basal
segment with pale fulvous pubescence, the three following seg-
ments with pale pubescent fascise a little before their apical mar-
gins; the second segment has also a fascia at its basal margin.

Male. <A little shorter than the female, which it strongly resembles,
but differs in having the clypeus, labrum, and mandibles pale
yellow, and also in being of narrower form.

Hab. California.

5. Melissodes assimilis.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Black; the thorax and posterior tibise
and basal joint of the tarsi with fulvous pubescence. The flagellum
of the antenne, except the two basal joints, fulvous beneath ; the
mandibles ferruginous a little before the apex; the face and cheeks
with white pubescence. Thorax with dense fulvous pubescence
above; on the disk of the mesothorax and scutellum it is black;
wings subhyaline, slightly clouded and iridescent; nervures brown,
tegule rufo-testaceous ; posterior tibiz and basal joint of the tarsi
with a dense scopa of pale fulvous pubescence. Abdomen oblong-
ovate, shining, with a little thin pale fulvous pubescence at the base ;
a fascia of white pubescence at the base of the second segment,
and also a broadly interrupted one in the middle; the third and
fourth segments with broad white pubescent fascize near their basal
margins; the fifth and sixth segments with black pubescence.

Male. About the size of the female, with the clypeus, labrum, and
antenne black, the latter the length of the head and thorax; the

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pubescence on the thorax and abdomen as in the female, except
that on the former it is entirely fulvous, and the fascie on the
abdomen are narrower.

Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.

6. Melissodes atrata.

Male. Length 5 lines.—Black ; the abdomen shining. The clypeus
‘with a semicircular yellow macula; the pubescence on the head

_ white; that on the thorax black, with a mixture of griseous on the

metathorax ; wings hyaline, faintly clouded and iridescent at the
apex, nervures black. The abdomen with a little griseous pu-
bescence at the base; the third, fourth, and fifth segments have
laterally a narrow line of thin white pubescence in the middle;
beneath, the margins of the third, fourth, and fifth segments
have a thin fringe of white pubescence.

Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.

This species resembles the male of WZ. nigra, but that insect has
the clypeus and labrum entirely yellow and the antenne fulvous
beneath.

7. Melissodes modesta.

Male. Length 5 lines.—Black, with the labrum white. The antennee
longer than the body, the joints subarcuate ; a little griseous pu-
bescence on the sides of the face, that on the cheeks white; the
thorax with pale fulvous pubescence above, beneath with white ;
the apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous; the intermediate and
posterior legs with black pubescence; the anterior legs with white
pubescence; wings hyaline at the base, their apex clouded and
iridescent ; the nervures fusco-ferruginous, the costa blackish.
Abdomen shining, the base with pale pubescence; towards the
apex a little thin white pubescence; beneath, the segments are
fringed with white.

Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.

8. Melissodes atropos.

Female. Length 7 lines.—Black and shining, the abdomen with an
seneous tint at the base. The face with white pubescence at the
sides, that on the vertex black; there is also a little white pu-
bescence behind the eyes; the clypeus strongly punctured; the
flagellum, except the two basal joints, obscurely fulvous beneath.
The thorax closely punctured, its pubescence, as well as that on
the legs, black ; wings fuscous, with a violet iridescence. Abdomen

closely and finely punctured; the fourth segment with a tuft of

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white pubescence on its apical margin laterally ; beneath, the third
and fourth segments fringed with white pubescence laterally, the
fifth entirely fringed ; the margins of the segments rufo-piceous.

Hab. Brazil, Santarem.

9. Melissodes ambigua.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Black. The face with griseous pubes-
cence; the flagellum, except two or three of the basal joints, ful-
vous beneath; the clypeus strongly punctured. Thorax with
griseous pubescence above, that on the disk of the mesothorax and
on the scutellum black; beneath and on the legs it is black, excep t
that on the posterior tibie and first joint of the tarsi, which is ful -
vous; wings subhyaline. Abdomen closely and finely puncture d
at the base of the segments, the base with a little griseous pubes-
cence ; the second segment with a narrow white pubescent fascia
at the basal margin, also an interrupted one in the middle of the seg-
ment, the third with a narrow white fascia at the base, the fourth
with a broader fascia; the two following with black pubescence ;
the segments beneath fringed with black pubescence.

Hab. Mexico.

10. Melissodes hirsuta.

Male. Length 44 lines.—Black, with fulvous pubescence. The
clypeus and labrum yellow; the mandibles ferruginous, with their
base black; the flagellum, except the basal joint, fulvous beneath ;
the pubescence on the head pale fulvous. The thorax with bright
fulvous pubescence above; on the metathorax, the sides, and
beneath pale fulvous; wings hyaline, their apical margins slightly
clouded, the nervures ferruginous; the legs with pale fulvous pu-
bescence, the tarsi ferruginous, the basal joint more or less fuscous
outside. Abdomen very pubescent; the segments with broad fascize
of fulvous pubescence, which is rather long and dense; the apical
segments beneath fringed with fulvous pubescence.

Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.

PACHYMELUS.

Head not quite as wide as the thorax ; antenne slender, the fla-
gellum filiform; the clypeus convex; the mentwm rounded ante-
riorly ; ocelli in a triangle; mandibles arcuate, rounded at the apex,
not toothed. The labial palpi 4-jointed ; the first joint elongate, one
third longer than the mentum; the second joint about one fifth of
the length of the first joint; the two apical joints minute, inserted

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near the apex of the second joint. Maaillary palpi 5-jointed, the
joints clavate ; the first joint short, the second joint about twice the
length of the first, the third shorter than the second, the two apical
ones of about equal length, each being shorter than the third joint.
Anterior wings with one elongate marginal cell as long as the three
submarginals united; the first submarginal as long as the two fol-
lowing, the second obliquely quadrate, the third a little longer than
the second and slightly widened at the apex; the first recurrent
neryvure uniting with the second transverso-median nervure, the
second recurrent uniting with the third transverse nervure. Thorax
globose ; legs stout; the posterior tibiee and basal joint of the tarsi
densely pubescent. Abdomen oblong-ovate.

1. Pachymelus micrelephas.

Female. Length 15 lines.—Black; the abdomen with short fulvous
pubescence. The front with a mixture of black and griseous pu-
bescence; the labrum and the mandibles beneath fringed with
black hairs. Thorax densely clothed with pale ochraceous pubes-
cence, usually more or less abraded on the disk of the mesothorax,
which is smooth and shining and has a central impressed line;
the scutellum bituberculate; wings subhyaline at their base, and
clouded with reddish brown beyond the enclosed cells; the ner-
vures black, the tegulz obscure rufo-piceous ; legs pubescent, on the
anterior pair it is dark; all the femora fringed beneath with pale
testaceous, the intermediate tibiz and tarsi with pale fulvous above,
the posterior tibie and tarsi with bright pale fulvo-ochraceous, that
on the basal joint of the tarsi within is black ; all the claws bifid.
Abdomen with short fulvo-ferruginous pubescence; the fifth and
sixth segments thickly fringed with pale fulvous pubescence ; the
sixth segment with an oblong angulated naked space in the middle;
the margins of the segments beneath fringed with pale fulvous
pubescence.

Hab. Madagascar.

The specimen of this gigantic bee described is not in good condi-
tion; the wings are ragged at the margins, and there can be no
doubt of the general pubescence being bleached: in a good example
the abdomen would be covered with short rufo-ferruginous pubes-
cence, of which only patches are found in the single specimen re-
ceived. The only bee known of a larger size is a species of the genus
Megachile, discovered by Mr. Wallace in Batchian, M. pluto, which
is 184 lines long.

2. Pachymelus conspicuus.

Female. Length 9 lines.—Black; the abdomen with rufo-ferru-
ginous pubescence. The labrum, the clypeus, and also the base
of the mandibles whitish; the clypeus with a bilobed black spot

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at the base; the front clothed with very pale ochraceous pubes-
cence, the cheeks with white; the mandibles fringed with white
hairs. Thorax densely clothed with short reddish-brown pubes-
cence on the disk, paler on the metathorax, beneath and on the
legs with black ; the anterior tibie and tarsi with a fringe of white
pubescence, the posterior tibie and tarsi densely clothed with
white outside, the former with a little black at the base; beneath
entirely black; wings subhyaline, with black nervures, the tegule
obscurely piceous. Abdomen densely clothed above with very
short rufo-fulvous pubescence, the fifth and sixth segments with
black ; the fifth has at the base in the middle a little tuft of
white pubescence.

Hab. Nyassa.

HABROPODA, Smith.

1. Habropoda montezumia.

Male. Length 5; lines.—Black; the thorax with ochraceous pu-
bescence above, also a little on the basal segment of the abdomen ;
the three following segments have their apical margins fringed
with pale bright pubescence, and the fifth and sixth are covered
with the same. ‘The clypeus much produced, and, as well as the
labrum, mandibles, scape of the antenne in front, and an angular
spot on each side of the clypeus at the margin of the eyes, yellowish
white; the face with thin black pubescence, that on the cheeks
and thorax beneath white. The wings subhyaline, the nervures
fusco-ferruginous, the tegule pale testaceous; the tarsi, except the
basal joint, ferruginous. The abdomen with short thin black pu-
bescence on the first, second, and base of the third segments.

Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.

2. Habropoda agilis.

Male. Length 53 lines.—Head and thorax black, abdomen fer-
ruginous. The clypeus much produced and yellowish-white ;
the mandibles, labrum, scape in front, and a triangular macula on
each side of the face of the same colour; the front with faintly
yellowish pubescence, mixed with black at the sides of the clypeus;
the cheeks and thorax beneath with white pubescence, above it is
pale ochraceous ; wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures black, the tegulee
pale testaceous; the base of the posterior tibiz and the four apical
joints of the tarsi ferruginous. The abdomen with thin pale pu-
bescence on the basal segment; the apical margins of the segments
pale testaceous, and fringed with pale pubescence; the two apical
segments thinly covered with the same.

Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.

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3. Habropoda bombyformis.

Male. Length 53 lines—Black; the thorax with fulvous pubes-
cence above; the abdomen more or less ferruginous at the apex.
The clypeus produced, and, as well as the mandibles, labrum,
the scape in front, and a narrow line at the inner margin of the
eyes, yellowish-white ; two longitudinal black lines at the base of
the clypeus, and two small ovate black macule at the base of the
labrum ; the cheeks and thorax beneath with white pubescence.
The wings subhyaline, the nervures fusco-ferruginous, the tegulz
rufo-testaceous ; the tarsi ferruginous, with the basal joint black.
Abdomen with the three basal segments, and sometimes the base
of the fourth, narrowly black, the rest ferruginous.

Var. The apical margin of the first and second segments and the
following segments ferruginous; all the segments fringed with
fulvous pubescence.

Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.

4, Habropoda terminata.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Black; clothed with black pubescence,
that on the three apical segments of the abdomen fulvous. The
clypeus yellowish-white, also a longitudinal stripe of the same
colour on the labrum. The wings subhyaline; the posterior tibiae
with white pubescence above; the tarsi, except the basal joint, fer-
ruginous ; the femora and abdomen beneath obscurely ferruginous.

Male. A little smaller than the female; the clypeus with a trian-
gular spot on each side close to the eyes, the labrum, mandibles,
and the scape of the antenne in front, yellowish-white; the
pubescence on the cheeks, thorax, and abdomen beneath white ;
the last with thin white pubescence on the tip. Otherwise like
the female, excepting that the posterior tibiz have black pubes-
cence.

Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.

This species must be closely allied to Anthophora aurolenta-cau-
data of Dours, which is probably a species of Habropoda; but his
description differs too much from that of our species, particularly
that of the male, to be that of H. termznata.

5. Habropoda fulva.

Male. Length 54 lines.—Black ; clothed with fulvous pubescence,
The clypeus, labrum, mandibles, a narrow line at the inner orbits
of the eyes, and the scape of the antenne in front white; a black
line on each side of the clypeus at its base, and the tips of the
mandibles black; the flagellum fulvous beneath. The wings sub-

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hyaline, the nervures black; the tarsi ferruginous; the apical
margins of the segments of the abdomen broadly rufo-testaceous.

Hab. Guatemala.

ANTHOPHORA, Latr.

1. Anthophora vivida.

Male. Length 6 lines.—Black; the abdomen with four blue pu-
bescent fascia. Head with a mixture of blue and black pubescence
above, that on the cheeks white; the mandibles and labrum, the
anterior margin of the clypeus narrowly, a central line, not extend-
ing to the base, a narrow abbreviated line on each side, a minute
central line above it, and a spot on the scape in front, yellow; two
black spots at the base of the labrum. The mesothorax with a
mixture of blue and black pubescence; on the metathorax it is
entirely black; the legs with black pubescence, the anterior tibize
and tarsi with blue pubescence above; wings fusco-hyaline, the
nervures black. Abdomen with a little black pubescence at the
base; the second and three following segments with pale blue
pubescent fasciz on their apical margins; beneath black.

Hab. Sierra Leone.

2. Anthophora torrida.

Female. Length 52 lines.—Black ; the pubescence on the head and
thorax above fulvous; the abdomen with pale pubescent marginal
fascie. The labrum, mandibles, the anterior and lateral margins
of the clypeus narrowly, a central longitudinal line, and also a
line above the clypeus, yellowish-white; the antenne fulvous in
front; the tips of the mandibles black; the cheeks with white pu-
bescence. The sides of the thorax, and also beneath, much paler
than above; the anterior legs with pale pubescence, that on the
intermediate and posterior tibie fulvous, and that on their tarsi
black ; the posterior tibiz with a tuft of white at their apex above ;
wings subhyaline, their nervures black, the tegule rufo-testaceous.
The fascia on the basal segment fulvous, that on the two following
paler, and the fourth white; the fourth and fifth segments spa-
ringly clothed with thin short white pubescence, that at the apex
fuscous.

Hab. Sierra Leone.

3. Anthophora fallax.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Black ; the head and thorax above with
ochraceous pubescence tipped with black, that.on the face, cheeks,
and on the thorax beneath whitish. The clypeus with the lateral

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and anterior margins and a narrow line in the middle, a transverse
line above the clypeus angulated in the middle, the labrum, and
mandibles, pale yellow; the basal margin of the labrum black,
the tips of the mandibles ferruginous ; wings subhyaline, the ner-
vures dark fuscous, the tegule pale testaceous ; the posterior tibie
with white pubescence above, beneath with black, the calcaria
black. Abdomen with short black pubescence, the apical margins
of the first to fourth segments with narrow white pubescent fascie ;
beneath they are margined with fulvous pubescence in the middle
and with white at the sides.

Male. Closely resembles the female, but has the scape of the
antenne pale yellow in front.

Hab. Natal, Sierra Leone.

4. Anthophora rapida.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Black; the vertex and thorax above with
dull ochraceous pubescence tipped with black; that on the face,
cheeks, thorax beneath, and on the femora and tibiz above,
whitish ; that on the legs beneath and on the tarsi black; the an-
terior margin of the clypeus narrowly, a central longitudinal line,
a transverse one above it, the labrum and mandibles, white; the
latter black at their apex ; wings subhyaline, the nervures black,
tegule dark rufo-piceous. At the extreme base of the abdomen the
pubescence is fulvous and on the apical portion black; the second
and third segments with very short black pubescence, on the fourth
and fifth it is thin and white, and on the apical segment black ; the
apical margins of the first, second, and third segments with narrow
white pubescent fasciz.

Hab. Natal.

5. Anthophora terminata.

Male. Length 53-6 lines.—Black ; the pubescence on the head,
thorax, and fourth and fifth segments of the abdomen white. The
anterior margin of the clypeus narrowly and a central tapering line,
sometimes the lateral margins more or less, a transverse line above
it, the labrum and mandibles, yellowish white; the tips of the
latter and two spots at the base of the labrum black. The legs
with black pubescence ; the anterior tibie and tarsi above, the in-
termediate tibize above, and a tuft at the base of the posterior
tibize white ; wings subhyaline, with their apical margins faintly
clouded.

Hab. Natal.

6. Anthophora modesta.

Female. Length 63 hnes.—Black ; the pubescence black and very

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dense on the head and thorax; the face with a little griseous
pubescence, that on the cheeks white; the posterior tibie and
tarsi with bright fulvous pubescence ; all the tarsi and the pos-
terior tibize ferruginous; a narrow fascia of snow-white pubes-
cence on the apical margin of the basal segment of the abdomen.

Hab. St. Vincent, Cape-Verd Islands.

7. Anthophora advena.

Male. Length 63 lines.—Black ; the thorax with rufo-fulvous pu-
bescence ; the fourth and following segments of the abdomen
with white pubescence. The antericr margin of the clypeus
broadly, the lateral margins narrowly, a central longitudinal line,
and a transverse line above, the clypeus and mandibles, white, the
tips of the latter black ; the cheeks and thorax beneath with gri-
seous pubescence; the wings subhyaline, the nervures black, the
tegule testaceous ; the anterior legs with pale pubescence.

Hab. Lake Nyassa.

8. Anthophora fimbriata.

Female. Length 8? lines.—Black ; a large ovate spot at the lateral
angles of the anterior margin of the clypeus, the margin between
the spots, a central elongate angular macula, a narrow line at the
sides, a transverse spot above the clypeus, three large spots on the
labrum, and the basal half of the mandibles, white ; the pubescence
on the vertex white, tipped with black. Thorax clothed with
short bluish-white pubescence, tipped with black ; the metathorax
and posterior margin of the scutellum with longer, snow-white
pubescence ; wings dark fuscous, with a violet iridescence; the
anterior legs with similar pubescence to that on the mesothorax ;
on the other legs it is black. Abdomen slightly shining and finely
punctured, the fifth segment with a little white pubescence.

Hab. Silhet.

9. Anthophora candida.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Black, and densely clothed with pale
ochraceous pubescence. The clypeus, labrum, and mandibles
white, the latter ferruginous at their tips; the antenne fulvous.
The wings clear hyaline, the tegule and nervures rufo-testaceous ;
the intermediate tibiz and tarsi with black pubescence beneath ;
the posterior tibize beneath and the tarsi entirely covered with
black pubescence. The abdomen with black pubescence at the
apex.

Hab, Punjaub.

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10. Anthophora florea.
Female. Length 7 lines.—Black ; the thorax with fulvous pubes-

cence ; the coxee and femora ferruginous; the apical margins of
the second, third, and fourth segments of the abdomen with narrow
white pubescent fasciz. The anterior and lateral margins of the
clypeus, a central longitudinal line, a transverse line above it, and
the labrum and mandibles, white; the latter rufo-piceous at their
apex. The wings pale fulvo-hyaline, the nervures black, the
tegule pale rufo-testaceous ; the tibiz with fulvous pubescence,
that on the tarsi black. On the first and second segments of the
abdomen there is a thin short fulvous pubescence, on the following
segments it is black ; the abdomen obscurely ferruginous beneath.

Hab. Shanghai.

11. Anthophora hilaris.

Female. Length 52 lines.—Black; the pubescence on the head
white, that on the thorax above and on the base of the abdomen
rufo-fulvous. The flagellum of the antenne beneath, except the
three basal joints, fulvous. The pubescence on the thorax above
is very bright; on the tibiz above it is white, and on the tarsi
black; the legs rufo-piceous beneath; the apical joint of the tarsi
ferruginous; wings hyaline, the nervures black, the tegule rufo-
testaceous. The first segment of the abdomen with bright rufo-
fulyous pubescence; the second, third, and fourth segments with
thin white pubescent fascis, usually more or less interrupted in
the middle; beneath, the third, fourth, and fifth segments have
their apical margins fringed laterally with white pubescence, the
fifth with black in the middle.

Hab. St. Domingo. i

12. Anthophora emendata.
Anthophora cincta, Dowrs (nee Fabr.), Mon. du Gen. Anthoph. 58.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Black; the head, thorax, and legs with
bright fulvo-ferruginous pubescence, that on the cheeks and thorax
beneath white ; the flagellum beneath, except the basal joint, ful-
vous; the clypeus, labrum, and mandibles reddish yellow; the
clypeus thinly sprinkled with black hairs; tips of the mandibles
ferruginous. The apical margins of the segments with fasciz of
pale blue pubescence, having a silvery lustre ; the band on the basal
segment with a slight yellow tinge; beneath, the segments are
fringed with fulvous pubescence in the middle, and with white at
the sides.

Hab. Australia.
The Fabrician type of Megilla cincta 1s in the Banksian Collection

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in the British Museum. The species has been received from Sierra
Leone; and it has, as described by Fabricius, green pubescence on
the thorax. The A. cincta is described by Dours as having the
pubescence ‘‘ ardente-rufis:” the size given is evidently a mistake,
being 18 millims.; that is the size of A. hispanica, which belongs
to the division Magna, whilst A. emendata is placed in the division
Media, of which A. quadrifasciata is given as typical.

13. Anthophora insularis.

Female. Length 64 lines.—Black; the pubescence on the face,
thorax anteriorly, and extreme base of the abdomen ochraceous ;
on the hinder portion of the thorax, from the tegule, it is black ;
on the second and third segments of the abdomen it is fulvous, and
on the following segments black; on the posterior margin of the
vertex and on the cheeks it is also black; the posterior tibie and
tarsi with fulvous pubescence outside; on the tibiz within it is
black, but bright fulvous on the tarsi; two or three of the apical
joints of all the tarsi ferruginous. The wings subhyaline, the ner-
vures and tegule black.

Hab. Vancouver’s Island.

14. Anthophora cineraria.

Female. Length 7-74 lines.—Black, and clothed with cinereous
pubescence, that on the thorax having more or less of an ochraceous
tinge ; the posterior tibie and tarsi with bright fulvous pubescence '
outside ; the apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous; wings subhya-
line, the nervures and tegulz black.

Male. Smaller than the female; clothed with similar pubescence,
but the third to sixth segments of the abdomen with black pubes-
cence, the terminal segment with white; on the thorax beneath,
and on the tibie and tarsi, the pubescence is pale ; the apical joints
of the tarsi pale ferruginous.

Hab. Vancouver’s Island.

XYLOCOPA, Latr.
1. Xylocopa bomboides.

Male. Length 123 lines.—Black; the clypeus and sides of the face,
below the antenne, white ; the flagellum, except one or two of the
basal joints, fulvous beneath ; eyes large and subapproximate at the
vertex ; the head, thorax, legs, and three basal segments of the
abdomen with black pubescence, the legs having a long fringe be-
hind ; the fourth and following segments of the abdomen with bright
ferruginous pubescence; the wings fulvo-hyaline, and slightly

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clouded beyond the enclosed cells; the nervures fusco-ferru-
ginous.

Hab. Island of Formosa.

EXOMALOPSIS, Spin.

1. Exomalopsis iridipennis.

Female. Length 22 lines.—Black and shining, the scopa on the
posterior legs black. The face with pale fulvous pubescence at the
sides; the clypeus with a few scattered punctures; the labrum
with pale fulvous pubescence; the flagellum fulvous beneath. The
margin of the prothorax fringed with short white pubescence ;
the mesothorax finely punctured ; the sutures of the scutellum and
postscutellum with white tomentum; wings clear hyaline and
brightly iridescent, the nervures and stigma pale rufo-testaceous ;
the apical joints of the tarsi pale ferruginous. Abdomen with the
basal segment impunctate, the second and third very finely punc-
tured, the apical segments with dense short white pubescence ;
beneath, the pubescence is pale fulvous.

Hab. Amazons, Ega.

2.. Exomalopsis planiceps.

Female. Length 3 lines.—Black and shining; the posterior legs.
with a dense scopa of black pubescence. Head rotundate, the
clypeus punctured. Thorax finely punctured above; wings hya-
line and iridescent, the apical margins clouded, the stigma pale; the
legs obscurely rufo-piceous beneath ; the scopa on the posterior pair
sooty black, with a mixture of pale pubescence in front. Abdomen
impunctate ; the third segment with golden-coloured pubescence at
the sides, the following segments covered with the same.

Male. Rather smaller than the female; the face with golden pu-
bescence ; the flagellum fulvous in front. The thorax with brown
pubescence in front, on the sides and beneath it is griseous ; wings
as in the other sex; the apical joints of the tarsi pale ferruginous.
Abdomen with thin short pubescence, that at the sides of the first
segment pale; the third, fourth, and fifth with fascie of golden-
coloured pubescence, the apical segments covered with the same.

Hab. Amazons, Tunantins.

3. Exomalopsis tarsata.

Female. Length 3 lines.—Black and shining. Head rotundate ;
the face with silvery-white pubescence at the sides ; the mandibles

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ferruginous at their apex; the flagellum of the antenne, except the
basal joint, fulvous beneath ; the clypeus with scattered punctures.
The mesothorax with scattered punctures ; the sides of the thorax,
beneath, and the metathorax with sparing short white pubescence ;
wings hyaline and iridescent, their apex slightly clouded, the ner-
vures and stigma pale rufo-testaceous, the tegule rufo-piceous ;
the tarsi and posterior tibie ferruginous ; the scopa on the posterior
tibiz pale fulvous, that on the basal joint of the tarsi fuscous.
Abdomen with the basal segment impunctate, the second segment
finely punctured at the base; the following segments with white
pubescence.

Hab. Santarem.

This species is closely allied to the Z. analis of Spinola, described
in the Mem. Accad. Torino, vol. xiii.

4. Exomalopsis artifex.

Female. Length 3 lines.—Black; the legs rufo-piceous beneath,
obscurely so above; the scopa on the posterior legs fuscous above
and whitish beneath. The face with short white pubescence on
each side, that above the antenne slightly fulvous ; the flagellum
of the antenne fulvous beneath. The scutellum with dense
pale fulvous pubescence ; the wings hyaline, the nervures, stigma,
and tegule rufo-testaceous ; the apical joints of the tarsi pale
ferruginous. Abdomen shining, the basal segment impunctate,
at its extreme base a little pale fulvous pubescence, also a little
at the sides of the second, and the following segments covered with
similar pubescence.

Male. Smaller; the labrum rufo-testaceous, the tips of the man-
dibles ferruginous; the wings as in the female; the legs rufo-
piceous; the tibiz and femora darkest above, the pubescence
whitish above and fulvous beneath. The abdomen rufo-testaceous
beneath, above obscurely so; a little white pubescence at the
base; the second segment has an interrupted fascia of white pu-
bescence, and the third and following segments covered with the
same.

Hab, Para.

5. Exomalopsis rufitarsis.

Female. Length 3 lines.—Black and shining, the scopa on the
posterior legs fulvous; the labrum and tips of the mandibles
ferruginous; the flagellum fulvous beneath. The wings hya-
line, the nervures and stigma fusco-ferruginous; the tarsi and
posterior tibiee ferruginous ; the scopa fulvous, with a slight mix-
ture of fuscous above. Abdomen smooth, shining, and impunctate ;

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the base with a little pale pubescence, also at the basal margins of
the following segments ; the apex with fulvous pubescence,

Hab. Jamaica.

6. Exomalopsis flava.

Female. Length 3 lines.—Yellow; slightly reddish yellow on the
__ vertex and mesothorax, palest on the clypeus and metathorax; the
labrum, mandibles, and cheeks are also pale; the clypeus with
strong punctures. The mesothorax with a central longitudinal
impressed line, with a pale stripe on each side of it; wings hyaline
and brightly iridescent; the nervures, stigma, and tegule yellow ;
the scopa on the posterior legs pale fulvous. Abdomen smooth,
shining, and impunctate.

Hab. Brazil, St. Paulo.

7. Exomalopsis fulvofasciata.

Female. Length 33 lines.—Black ; the face with pale fulvous pu-
bescence, the clypeus with scattered punctures; the flagellum
fulyous beneath. The mesothorax finely and closely punctured ;
the margin of the prothorax, the scutellum, and postscutellum
with fulyous pubescence; beneath, the pubescence is white;
wings subhyaline, the nervures fusco-ferruginous, the tegule rufo-
piceous; the scopa on the posterior legs black above and white
beneath. ‘The basal segment of the abdomen with thin pale pubes-
cence; the basal margin of the second segment with a narrow fascia
of fulvous pubescence; a broad fascia of fulvous pubescence in the
middle of the third, and the fourth and fifth covered with the
same; on the sixth the pubescence is black.

Hab. Bahia.

8. Exomalopsis fulvescens.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Black, with the antenne and legs ferru-
ginous; the front above the antenne with fulvous pubescence,
below the antennz it is cinereous, as it is also on the cheeks.
Thorax with fulvous pubescence above, paler on the sides, and
whitish beneath; wings pale flavo-hyaline, the nervures pale tes-
taceous, the tegule rufo-testaceous; the scopa on the posterior
legs pale fulvous, with a mixture of fuscous above. Abdomen with
a short changeable fulvous tomentum, the apical margins of the
segments with bright fulvous fascic.

Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.

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TETRAPEDIA, Klug.

1. Tetrapedia volatilis.

Male. Length 5 lines.—Black ; the mandibles, labrum, and clypeus
yellowish white; the last with a semicircular macula at the base
and the tips of the mandibles black. The thorax opaque above ;
the wings fuscous, palest at their apical margins; the stigma
rufo-testaceous; the apical joints of the anterior and intermediate
tarsi, and the whole of the joints of the posterior pair, ferruginous ;
the hinder legs, with the apex of the tibic and first joint of the
tarsi, with long bright yellow pubescence. Abdomen very smooth
and shining, except the extreme basal margins of the segments,
which are punctured; a transverse ferruginous fascia on the two
basal segments, that on the first in the middle of the segment, on
the second it is at its basal margin ; beneath, the third and fourth
segments are fringed with pale hairs, the fourth has also on each
side a floccus of long pale fulvous pubescence, which curls in-
wardly.

Hab. Brazil, Constancia.

2. Tetrapedia fervida.

Male. Length 4 lines.—Black, with the legs and base of the ab-
domen obscurely ferruginous. The anterior margin of the clypeus,
an oblong spot on the sides of the face below the antenne, the
clypeus, and mandibles, white; the antenne dark ferruginous; the
flagellum beneath, except the basal joint, fulvous; the head and
abdomen shining, the thorax opaque above; the wings fusco-
hyaline, the stigma pale rufo-testaceous ; the legs with black pu-
bescence ; the calearia, which arm the apex of the tibiz, white.
Abdomen very smooth and shining; beneath, the third segment in
the middle is covered by a semicircular kind of pad; the fourth
segment has at its basal margin a narrow fringe of white pubes-
cence, and has also, laterally, a floccus of pale pubescence, which
curls inwardly ; the following segment is yellow in the middle.

Hab. Brazil, Constancia.

3. Tetrapedia amplipennis,

Female. Length 4? lines.—Black ; the head and abdomen shining ;
thorax opaque above ; the extreme base of the abdomen sometimes
slightly ferruginous. The clypeus coarsely punctured, its anterior
and lateral margins, as well as the base of the labrum, pale testa-
ceous; the antenne more or less fulvo-ferruginous beneath; the
base of the scape pale testaceous. The wings dark fuscous,
becoming paler towards their apical margins; the stigma rufo-

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testaceous ; the apical joint of the tarsi ferruginous ; the pubescence
on the legs black, with a little white at the apex of the posterior
tibie ; the first joint of the posterior tarsi with fulvous pubescence
within.

Male. Exactly resembles the female, and, as in that sex, has the
legs obscurely ferruginous beneath.

Hab. Amazons, Ega and Tunantins.

4, Tetrapedia basalis.

Female. Length 43 lines.—Black; the abdomen very smooth and
shining. A little white pubescence on the sides of the face and
also at the insertion of the antenne ; the clypeus with a few distant
punctures, its anterior margin slightly emarginate; the tips of the
mandibles pale testaceous; the flagellum of the antenne, except
the three basal joints, obscurely fulvous beneath. The mesothorax
shining and punctured ; the wings, from the base to the stigma,
dark brown, the apical portion milky white; the legs with black
pubescence, that on the posterior tibice and first joint of the tarsi
very dense and long. Abdomen pubescent at the apex; beneath,
the third and fourth segments with pale fulvous pubescence, that
on the apical segments black.

Hab. Brazil, Fontiboa.

5. Tetrapedia plumipes.

Female. Length 42 lines.—The head and thorax black, the abdo-
men yellow, with black markings: legs pale ferruginous. The
clypeus, labrum, and mandibles yellow; the last black at their
tips; antenne ferruginous; the base of the clypeus more or less
black; the front with short pale fulvous pubescence, the clypeus
naked. The thorax above with short fulvous pubescence, that on
the sides and beneath paler; wings hyaline, the nervures, stigma,
and tegule pale ferruginous ; the pubescence on the legs fulvous,
that on posterior pair long and dense, as in Dasypoda hirtipes. Ab-
domen oblong; the basal segment with four ovate black spots, two
placed laterally and near the apical margin of the segment, and
two minute ones in a line with the others; at the basal margin of
the other segments a broad black fascia, which emits a semicircular
black mark on each side, in a line with the two ovate black spots
on the basal segment; beneath yellow.

Hab. Amazons, ga.

6. Tetrapedia flavipennis.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Yellow. The vertex black, with a narrow
yellow line before the anterior ocellus; the tips of the mandibles
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black; the flagellum fuscous above, the eyes also fuscous. The
thorax opaque above; the wings flavo-hyaline, the nervures and
tegule pale ferruginous; the legs with reddish-yellow pubescence,
very dense on the posterior legs. Abdomen very smooth and
shining, the apical margins of the segments more or less fuscous ;
the apical segment with bright reddish-yellow pubescence.

Hab, Amazons, Ega.

7. Tetrapedia levifrons.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Yellow, smooth, and shining, except the
thorax above, which is opaque. The head reddish yellow above
the antenne, and pale below; the scape pale yellow; the man-
dibles ferruginous at their apex. The wings pale flavo-hyaline,
the nervures and tegule pale ferruginous; the pubescence on the
legs fulvous, except that on the basal joint of the posterior tarsi,
which is dark fuscous. Abdomen very smooth and shining; the
apical segment with fulvous pubescence ; beneath pale yellow, the
segments fringed with yellow pubescence.

flab. Brazil, St. Paulo.

8. Tetrapedia punctifrons.

Female. Length 3? lines.—Head and thorax reddish yellow, the
abdomen pale ferruginous. The clypeus and a triangular space
above coarsely punctured, the clypeus pale yellow towards the
apex; the antenne fuscous above beyond the third joint; a black
stripe on each side of the face at the inner orbits of the eyes,
towards their summit. The prothorax marginate posteriorly ;
wings hyaline, the nervures and stigma pale ferruginous ; the pos-
terior legs with a dense scopa of long pale, nearly white, pubes-
cence. Abdomen with pale yellow fascie at the basal margins of
the segments, the fascia much attenuated in the middle.

Hab, Brazil, Santarem.

EPICHARIS, Klug.

1. Epicharis lateralis.

Female. Length 8 lines.—Black; the abdomen with two large sub-
triangular yellow macule at the base. The labrum and a small tri-
angular spot on the face on each side, at the anterior angles, yellow.
The thorax with sooty black pubescence on the sides, beneath, and
on the metathorax ; wings dark brown, with a violet iridescence ;
the pubescence on the legs black, except that on the posterior tibize
and first joint of the tarsi, which forms a dense scopa of bright

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yellow. The second segment of the abdomen with a large pale yellow
macula on each side, ‘the width of the segment laterally, and nar-
rowing inwardly to a point at the middle of its base ; the third,
fourth, and fifth segments have at their base laterally a short
narrow yellow stripe.

Hab. Trinidad.

BOMBUS, Latr.

1. Bombus bellicosus.

Female. Length 103 lines.—Black. The head oblong, its pubes-
cence black; the labrum fringed with ferruginous pubescence. The
thorax clothed with dull fulvo-ferruginous pubescence above; on
the sides, beneath, and on the legs it is black; on the tarsi beneath
it is ferruginous ; wings dark brown, darkest towards their apical
margins. The first, second, and third segments of the abdomen
with short black pubescence, that on the following segments bright
ferruginous.

Hab. Sumatra or India.

From the Zoological Society’s Collection.

2. Bombus montivagus.

Female. Length 93 lines.—Black. Head elongate; the clypeus
shining and finely punctured; the pubescence black. The thorax
with rufo-fulvous pubescence, on the disk of the mesothorax it is
black ; the posterior tibie and tarsi obscurely ferruginous, palest
beneath; the tarsi with ferruginous pubescence within; wings
dark brown, with a purple and violet iridescence in certain lights,
the tegule obscurely rufo-piceous. The basal segment of the abdo-
men with bright yellow pubescence, on the second and third it is
black, and on the following segments it is bright ferruginous ;
beneath, obscurely ferruginous, the segments fringed with rufo-
fulvous pubescence.

Hab. Moolai (alt. 3000-6000 feet).

3. Bombus senilis.

Female. Length 7? lines.—Black. Head elongate; the pubescence
on the front and on the posterior margin of the vertex pale ochra-
ceous, the latter mixed with a few black hairs. The thorax above
with a mixture of black and ochraceous pubescence, palest on. the
scutellum, on the sides and beneath it is nearly white; the legs
with pale pubescence, on the anterior and intermediate tibiz out-

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132 APIDE.

side it is short and fuscous, on the tarsi above it is fulvous, and
beneath ferruginous; wings subhyaline, with a slight fuscous cloud
at their apex, the nervures fusco-ferruginous. The basal segment

_of the abdomen with pale ochraceous pubescence ; the second with
fulvous at the base and pale beyond; the rest of the segments with
pale pubescence, and each with a little black at their basal margins; —
the extreme apex with short fulvous pubescence; beneath, the seg-
ments are fringed with pale pubescence.

Hab. Japan.

This species closely resembles the European B. sylvarum.

4. Bombus buccinatoris.

Female. Length 8 lines.—Black. The head oblong, and, as well as
the thorax and legs, clothed with black pubescence ; the meta-
thorax and two basal segments of the abdomen with bright yellow
pubescence, on the two following it is black, on the two apical
segments it is bright ferruginous; wings dark brown, with violet
iridescence.

Hab. Northern India, Kanawar district.

5. Bombus personatus.

Female. Length 10 lines. Black; head elongate, asin B. hortorum.
The pubescence on the cheeks and vertex black, the latter mixed
with pale hairs. The thorax above with a band of black pubescence
between the wings, before and behind which it is pale fulvo-ochra-
ceous, aS well as on the two basal segments of the abdomen; the
following segments have black pubescence at their base, and have a
fringe of pale pubescence on their apical margins. The legs with
black pubescence, except that on the basal joint of the tarsi beneath,
which is ferruginous; wings subhyaline, the nervures fusco-ferru-
ginous. :

Hab. India, Kanawar.

6. Bombus bicoloratus.

Female. Length 12 lines.—Black; the head, thorax, and legs with
black pubescence; the first jot of the tarsi with ferruginous
pubescence beneath. Wings fulvo-hyaline, their apical margins
clouded beyond the third submarginal cell; the nervures ferrugi-
nous, the costal nervure black. The abdomen densely clothed with

ferruginous pubescence; beneath, the SeEMENUS are fringed wile a

the same.

Hab. Island of Formosa.

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7. Bombus ardens.

Male. Length 7 lines.—Black, with the tarsi ferruginous ; the pu-
bescence on the head, thorax, and three basal segments of the
abdomen yellow, that on the abdomen palest ; head not elongated ;
the mandibles fringed with fulvous pubescence, as are also the
tibize and tarsi ; wings pale fulvo-hyaline, the nervures ferruginous ;
the four apical segments of the abdomen clothed with fulvous pu-
bescence.

Hab. Japan.

8. Bombus unifasciatus.

Female. Length 11 lines.—Black; the head oblong; the insect
clothed with black pubescence; the third segment of the abdomen
with a fascia of bright yellow pubescence; the Ba brown-black,
with a violet iridescence.

Worker. Length 5-7 lines.—Exactly agrees with the female in
every particular except size.

Male. Length 6-8 lines.—Differs only in the yellow fascia extend-
ing on to the fourth segment of the abdomen.

Hab. Guatemala, at an elevation of 5000 feet; San Francisco,
4500 feet; Irazu, 6000-7000 feet.

Bombus flavifrons resembles this species, but has yellow pubes-
cence on the head and prothorax.

9. Bombus excellens.

Female, Length 11 lines.—Black; the head, thorax, legs, and the
basal segment of the abdomen with black pubescence. The head
elongate; the vertex and clypeus shining, the latter finely punc-
tured. The basal joint of the tarsi with obscurely ferruginous
pubescence within ; wings brown, the nervures dark fusco-ferru-
ginous. The abdomen with bright fulvo-ferruginous pubescence
on the second to fifth segments, the sixth segment shining and with
a few scattered black hairs.

Hab. Venezuela.

10. Bombus opifex.

Worker. Length 6-64 lines.—Black; the pubescence on the head
and legs black, a broad band of the same between the wings; the
thorax anteriorly, posteriorly, and on the sides clothed with yellow
pubescence, as are also the first, second, and third segments of the
abdomen ; on the following segments it is bright fulvous or fulyo-

134 EUMENIDZ.

ferruginous, more or less bright in different individuals; two or
three of the apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous, the basal joint
of the posterior tarsi with ferruginous pubescence beneath. The
head in this species is subelongate.

Hab. Santiago and Mendoza.

11. Bombus lateralis.

Weer Length 43-64 lines.—Black ; head subelongate ; the pu-
bescence on the head black « on the thorax it is bites except that
on the sides, which is bright yellow; on the basal seement of the
abdomen and in the middle of the second also it is bright yellow,
on the rest of the abdomen it is black.

Var. The yellow pubescence on the abdomen is on the sides only of
the first and second segments.

ae Guatemala, Val de Fuego, and irae 6000-7000 feet.

EUMENID.

ODYNERUS.
Group of Odynerus pratensis, Sausswre’s American Wasps, p. 292.

1. Odynerus localis.

Female. Length 7 lines.—Head and thorax not strongly but very
closely punctured; the clypeus convex, strongly punctured, and
truncate at the apex. The mesothorax with a mixture of large and
small punctures; the postscutellum with strong punctures and cre-
nulated; the metathorax rugose and truncate; wings dark shining
reddish brown. Abdomen shining, truncate at the base, but not

sharply ridged; the first and second segments with very fine distant
punctures, the puncturing being strongest and closest at the base
of the second segment; the third and following segments with
stronger punctures than the first or second; the apical margins of
the first and second segments with white fascia, that on the first
narrower than that on the second.

Male. Only presents the usual sexual difference in the structure
of the antennz and abdomen; but the white bands on the abdomen
“are narrower, and the basal segment is rounded, not truncate.

Hab. Kauai.

According to the Rey. T. Blackburn, this species is abundant on
the island of Kauai, but is not found anywhere else.

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2. Odynerus maurus.

a Female. Length 64 lines.—Entirely black, with dark fuscous wings

that have a violet iridescence, and some semifusco-hyaline spots
about the second and third submarginal cells. The head and
thorax very closely punctured; the clypeus with stronger punc-
tures, its apex truncate, concave, and with the lateral angles sharp
and apparently bidentate. The scutellum flattened; the postscu-
tellum rugose, and with the margin crenulated; the metathorax
truncate, having a central longitudinal channel, on each side of
which it is obliquely rugose-striate. The basal segment of the ab-
domen obtusely rounded, not ridged, and, as well as the second
segment, with very fine distant shallow punctures: the apical
margin of the second segment and the following segments with
distant large shallow punctures.

Male. Smaller, but closely resembles the female ; the hooked joint
at the apex of the antenne is ferruginous.

Hab. Honolulu &c.

The Rey. T. Blackburn states that this species is apparently common
all over the Hawaiian islands, constructing mud nests of | to 10 cells
against stones, trunks of trees, &c., under eaves of houses, often even
inside houses.

Group of Odynerus vagus, Saussure’s American Wasps, p. 314.

3. Odynerus rubritinctus.

Female. Length 44 lines.—Black, with the postscutellum, the me-
tathorax, the basal segment of the abdomen, and the lateral and
apical margins of the second segment dark blood-red. Head with
a triangular red spot at the insertion of the antenne above; the
clypeus convex, narrowed anteriorly, its apex truncate, the lateral
angles of the truncation subdentate. Thorax with a red spot be-
neath the wings and a minute one on the tegule in front and
behind, closely and not very strongly punctured in the same

manner as the head; the scutellum flat, and with a central longi-
tudinal impressed line; the metathorax concave-truncate, the
cavity black; wings dark fuscous, with a violet iridescence; along
the course of the nervures is a more or less hyaline line. Abdomen
shining ; the first segment campanulate, and with rather strong
distant punctures; the rest of the segments more finely punctured ;
the red lateral margins of the second segment are united by the
red posterior margin.

Male. Length 34 lines.—Very closely resembling the female; the
terminal hook of the antenne red. Thorax with two ovate spots
on the scutellum, also two beneath wings, frequently united; the

136 EUMENID®.

second segment of the abdomen has a larger spot at the sides, and
no red band on the apical margin.

Hab. Kauai.

This species is not rare on Kauai.

Group of Odynerus totonacus, Saussure’s American Wasps, p. 346.
4, Odynerus montanus. ,

Female. Length 6 lines.—Entirely black and shining; wings deep
brown-black, with a violet iridescence, very brilliant; the stigma
and costal nervures bright steel-blue. The clypeus convex, finely
punctured, with the apex truncate. Thorax not so strongly or
closely punctured as the head ; the scutellum flat, the postscutellum
slightly convex, shining, and sparingly punctured ; the metathorax
concave-truncate, having a central longitudinal channel; obliquely
rugulose in the middle, the sides coarsely rugose. The first seg-
ment of the abdomen campanulate, strongly but not very closely
punctured, the apical margin rebordered ; the second segment very
convex, elevated to a subconical shape, finely and not very closely
punctured ; its apical margin, as well as the HO AUT ae
with larger shallow punctures.

Male. Length 53 lines.—Closely resembling the female; the aya
peus more strongly punctured, the terminal hook of the antennee
rufo-piceous ; the thorax and abdomen as in the female.

Hab. Mountains of Oahu, where it is common.

5. Odynerus congruus.

Female. Length 42 lines.—Black, punctured, and shining; the |
wings fusco-hyaline, with a dark fuscous stain along the anterior
margin of the front pair. The head with distant fine punctures ;
the clypeus very convex, and with a small truncate projection at
its apex; impunctate, or with only a few-very fine distant punc-
tures. Thorax smooth and shining above, having only a few very
fine shallow punctures; the scutellum slightly convex ; the meta-
thorax opaque, oblique, and with shallow rather large indentations,
the lateral margins rounded, without any excavation; the claws
of the tarsi ferruginous. Abdomen with the first segment cam-
panulate, as long as broad, finely, evenly, but not very closely
punctured ; the second segment large, impunctate, or with only a
few very fine shallow punctures, its apical margin, as well as the
following segments, with shallow fine punctures.

Male. Smaller than the female, but of the same form and similarly
sculptured ; differs in having at the apex of the clypeus two little
pale yellow lines, and also a small ovate yellow spot just above the

ODYNERUS. 1ay/

insertion of the antennze; the terminal hook of the antenne and
claw-joint of the tarsi ferruginous.

Hab. eieriolulu:

This species is not rare.

6. Odynerus dubiosus.

Male. Length 4 lines.—Black, with fuscous wings, not very dark,
but with bright violet iridescence. Head closely punctured ; the
clypeus impunctate, or with a few very fine shallow punctures, its
apex notched above, giving it the appearance of being bidentate ;
the terminal hooks of the antenne pale at their tips. Thorax
punctured, but not strongly so; the lateral angles of the prothorax
acute; the scutellum and postscutellum only slightly convex and
sparingly punctured ; the metathorax with confluent rather shallow

_ punctures, concave in the middle, with the sides rounded; the scu-
tellum with a central longitudinal ‘impressed line. Abdomen with the
first segment campanulate, as broad as long, and evenly punctured ;
the second segment large, convex, the sides rounded, impunctate,
or with only a few very fine shallow punctures; the following seg-
ments with fine shallow punctures, but stronger than those on the
second segment.

Hab. Honolulu.

7. Odynerus agilis.

Male. Length 44 lines.—Black, with a narrow yellow fascia on the
apical margins of the first and second segments. Head very closely
punctured; a minute yellow spot between, but a little above, the
insertion of the antennz; the clypeus very convex and bidentate
at the apex; the terminal hook of the antenne obscurely testa-
ceous; the entire insect with a fine cinereous pile, which is most
dense on the head and thorax. The scutellum rather convex, and
with a central longitudinal impressed line; the metathorax con-
cave-truncate ; wings subhyaline, with a fuscous line along the
costal and marginal cells; the wings iridescent. Abdomen with
the basal segment campanulate and with very shallow punctures;
the second segment with very fine shallow punctures; the apical

_ segments with shallow punctures.

Hab. Maui.

The Rey. T. Blackburn states that this species is apparently rare.
He has not seen the female.

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CRABRONID.

CRABRO.

1. Crabro affinis.

Female. Length 42 lines.—Black; the abdomen shining and having
two yellow fascie, the first interrupted. Head and thorax semi-
opaque, the former with the ocelli in a curve on the vertex; the
basal half of the mandibles and the scape of the antennz in front
yellow ; the clypeus with a longitudinal carina, and thinly covered
with silvery pile. The mesothorax with two abbreviated longi-
tudinal ridges on the disk; the scutellum obsoletely bituberculate ;
the metathorax with a central longitudinal channel; wings sub-
hyaline, the nervures black ; the outer margin of the tegule flavo-
testaceous. Abdomen with a slightly interrupted yellow fascia on
the basal margin of the second segment, and a narrow uninter-
rupted one near the basal margin of the fourth; the apical margin
of the fifth segment narrowly flavo-testaceous, and fringed with
short white pubescence; the sixth segment with a few scattered
punctures.

Hab. The island of Kauai.

This species was captured very sparingly. It resembles the C.
vagus of Kurope, and belongs to the same division of the genus,
having the ocelli in a curve, the Solemus of St. Fargeau.

2. Crabro mandibularis.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Black, and slightly shining; the head
and thorax very closely and finely punctured, and having a few
yellow markings. The ocelli in a curve on the vertex; the clypeus
and anterior margin of the face with bright golden-coloured pubes-
cence; the scape of the antenne in front and the basal half of the
mandibles above yellow; the cheeks with changeable silvery pile.
Thorax with a minute spot on the collar laterally, the tubercles,
and the postscutellum yellow; the wings hyaline, the nervures
black ; the metathorax with a central longitudinal channel, and a
few short carine at its extreme base, and without the usual en-
closed semicircular space at its base. Abdomen smooth and shining,

' the three or four apical segments with short white pubescence;
the apical segment with the margins. raised, shining, and with a
few strong punctures.

Hab. Coasts of Maui. |
Taken on flowers on sandy coasts by the Rev. T. Blackburn.

LARRIDZ&. 139

3. Crabro denticornis.

Male. Length 3-4 lines.—Black; the head and thorax slightly
shining, the abdomen smooth and shining. The ocelli in a curve
on the vertex; the fifth joint of the flagellum produced beneath
into a tooth or tubercle; the clypeus with bright silvery pubes-
cence ; the mandibles bidentate at the apex, and having a large acute
tooth on their inner margin. The postscutellum yellow, scarcely
interrupted in the middle; the scutellum slightly bituberculate ;
the metathorax with a central longitudinal channel, slightly im-
“pressed at the base and deeply so towards the apex; wings fusco-

hyaline, palest at their base. Abdomen smooth, shining, and im-

_ punctate; occasionally the second segment has a small yellow spot
laterally. ;

Hab. Sandy coasts of Maui.

This may possibly be the male of C. mandibularis ‘ but the silvery
clypeus and dark wings obliged me to hesitate at uniting them.

LARRID.

PISON.

1. Pison iridipennis.

Male. Length 3 lines.—Black ; head and thorax finely and closely
punctured and slightly shining; abdomen shining and very de-
licately punctured. The face with silvery-white pubescence as
high as the emargination of the eyes; the palpi rufo-testaceous.
The metathorax obliquely and finely striated, having a central lon-
gitudinal channel, and with silvery-white pubescence laterally ;
the wings hyaline and splendidly iridescent, the nervures black ;
the legs with silvery pile, which is very bright on the posterior
tibiz within. ‘The abdomen has at the basal margin of the second
segment laterally a little silvery-white pubescence, on the apical
margins of the segments laterally a little silvery pile, only ob-
servable in certain lights.

Hab. Honolulu.

Rare; a single female was taken by Mr. Blackburn, which differs
sexually, as in the following species.

2. Pison hospes.
Female. Length 5} lines.—Black, shining, with the head and thorax

140 POMPILIDZ.

closely and finely punctured, the abdomen with fascie of silvery-
white pubescence. The face below the antenne with bright silvery —
pubescence, also a line on the margin at the inner orbit of the eyes,
as high as their emargination; the anterior margin of the clypeus
rounded. The hinder margin of the prothorax with a little silvery-
white pubescence, and also on the sides of the metathorax, which
has a deep central longitudinal channel; the wings subhyaline, the
nervures black; the legs covered with silvery pile; the calcaria
black. Abdomen much more finely and closely punctured than
the thorax; the segments slightly constricted; the apical margins
of the segments with fasciz of fine silvery pile, which are very
-brilliant in certain lights, and which are widened laterally.

Male. Only differs in being smaller and in having an additional
joint in the antennee and an extra segment to the abdomen.

' Hab. Sandwich Islands.

A common but not abundant species; it was taken in the islands
of Oahu, Kauai, and Maui. Mr. Blackburn says that he has bred
this species from the same collection of cells as those which produced
species of Pelopwus and of Crabro. This observation appears to in-
dicate the habit of the genus to be parasitic; but this cannot be the
case, their economy having been observed and published by Mr.
Horne in the seventh volume of the ‘ Transactions of the Zoological
Society.’ The species construct cells of mud, which they provision
with spiders, the food of their young brood. The genus Crabro
usually provisions its cells with Diptera.

POMPILID/S.

POMPILUS, Schicdte.

1. Pompilus pilosus.

Female. Length 64 lines.—Black ; covered, except the three apical
segments of the abdomen, with dense ashy pile. The mandibles
ferruginous towards the apex; the clypeus widely emarginate; the
pile on the flagellum and vertex very thin. The hinder margin of
the prothorax angular; the metathorax with a rather broad central
longitudinal channel; the wings hyaline, the anterior pair faintly
yellow, and fuscous beyond the marginal cell; the nervures pale
rufo-testaceous ; the apical joints of “the tarsi ‘testaceous, the an-
terior pair with long black cilia ; the spines on the tibice ‘and tarsi
black, the calcaria pale testaceous.

Hab. South Africa.

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2. Pompilus ornatipennis.

Female. Length 52 lines.—Black, with a changeable grey pile on
the face, the fae of the aa. the legs, and abdomen beneath ;
on the thorax above, the pile has a slight purple tint, and the basal
margins of the seoments have a band of grey pile. The anterior
margin of the elypeus truncate. The posterior margin of the pro-
thorax rounded; wings subhyaline, and moron with fuscous
clouds ; the metathorax somewhat obliquely truncate, its posterior
lateral angles with bright silvery pile. Abdomen lanceolate,
‘smooth, and shining.

Hab. Central Africa.

3. Pompilus ruficeps.

Female. Length 74 lines.—Black, with the head, antenne, and an-
terior legs ferruginous, the latter black at their base and apex ;
wings dark brown, with violet iridescence. The anterior margin
of the clypeus truncate, the margin reflexed. The prothorax, the
sides of the moesothorax above, and the tegule ferruginous ; the
metathorax with a central longitudinal impressed line and finely
transversely striated ; the intermediate femora and tibie, as well
as the posterior tibiz, more or less ferruginous within. The ab-
domen with an obscure blue tinge.

Hab. Zulu Land.

4. Pompilus subpetiolatus.

Female. Length 63 lines.—Ferruginous, with the sides of the
thorax, and also beneath, as well as the apical half of the abdomen,
black. The anterior margin of the clypeus rounded. The hinder
margin of the prothorax subangulated ; the metathorax oblong and
transversely striated; wings flavo-hyaline to the second submar-
ginal cell, with the nervures pale ferruginous, thence to the apex
dark fuscous; the coxze more or less black beneath. Abdomen
with the first segment and base of the second ferruginous, the short
petiole black; the extreme apex ferruginous.

Hab. The Gambia.

5. Pompilus abdominalis.

Female. Length 9 lines.—Head, antenne, legs, and thorax ferru-
ginous ; abdomen black ; wings dark brown and slightly iridescent.
The face with short ferruginous pubescence. The hinder margin
of the prothorax rounded ; the second and third submarginal cells
of about equal length; the third narrowed towards the marginal

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cell to about two thirds of its length ; the second discoidal cell with
a small subhyaline spot at its base ; the metathorax with a central
longitudinal black channel, and transversely finely striated. The

abdomen slightly shining. |

Hab. Congo.

6. Pompilus torridus.

Female. Length 8 lines.—Black, with the head, scape of the an-
tennee, the pro- and mesothorax, as well as the scutellum, obscurely
ferruginous; the wings dark fuscous. An impressed line from the
anterior ocellus to the antenne; the clypeus short, somewhat
elevated, and truncate anteriorly; the mandibles ferruginous
towards their base. The anterior legs dark ferruginous; the in-
termediate and posterior pairs obscurely so beneath ; the third sub-
marginal cell quite as long as the second, and slightly narrowed
towards the marginal cell; the metathorax with a central lon-
gitudinal channel, and finely striated transversely. Abdomen
slightly shining, the apical segment covered with light grey pile.

Hab. Algeria.

7. Pompilus fasciatus.

Male. Length 33 lines.—Black, with the second segment of the
abdomen ferruginous; impunctate. Head truncate behind; the
antenne rather thick and tapering to a point; obscurely fulvous
beneath. The hinder margin of the prothorax rounded behind ;
the metathorax short, truncate, with a central channel above, that
terminates at the verge of the truncation ; wings hyaline, the ner-
vures fuscous. Abdomen slightly shining, the apex pale testaceous.

Hab. Algeria.

~ 8. Pompilus frontalis.

Male. Length 5 lines.—Black, smooth, and slightly shining; the
orbits of the eyes, the prothorax above, a spot on the disk of the
mesothorax, and the tegule orange-red ; the front, below the an-
tenn, with silvery pile. The metathorax truncate, the verge of
the truncation with silvery pile; wings fuscous. The basal mar-
gins of the second, third, and fourth segments of the abdomen with
obscure narrow bands of silvery pile.

Hab. Lake Nyassa.

9. Pompilus candidus.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Black ; the head and thorax covered with
silvery pubescent pile, which is dense on the face and margins of
the prothorax ; the posterior tibise and femora ferruginous. The

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elypeus widely emarginate. The metathorax concavly truncate ;
wings subhyaline, and, with their apex, dark fuscous beyond the
submarginal cells; the nervures black; the base of the posterior
femora black. The base of the segments of the abdomen with
dense silvery pile.

Hab. The Gambia.

10. Pompilus proximatus.

Female. Length 74 lines.—Black, with the two basal segments of
the abdomen ferruginous, the wings dark fuscous. The head and
thorax with a purple bloom; the clypeus flat, smooth, and shining,
_and having a few fine scattered punctures; truncate anteriorly,
with the angles rounded; its margin in front and laterally slightly
raised; the metathorax obtuse, and, as well as the prothorax,
with a central longitudinal depression; the third submarginal cell
much narrowed towards the marginal. The second segment of the
abdomen with the apical margin fuscous.

Male. Smaller, more slender, and has the ferruginous colouring
of the abdomen extending partly on the third segment; the thorax
has a similar purple bloom to that on the female.

Hab. Algeria.

This species greatly resembles Pompilus fuscus, but the different
form of the naked clypeus, and the central longitudinal depression,
both on the pro- and metathorax, characterize more than a variety.

11. Pompilus viridicatus.

Female. Length 9 lines.—Black, and covered with an olive-green
pile; wings dark brown, with a violet iridescence. The clypeus
slightly emarginate; the antenne black. The prothorax short, its
posterior margin angulated; the third submarginal cell shorter
than the second, and much narrower towards the marginal ; the
metathorax smooth and obtusely truncated, and with a fine narrow
channel, not extending to the base nor the apex ; the legs with fine

slender spines, not thickly set. The abdomen with purple shades
in different lights.

Hab. West Africa. ©

12. Pompilus insidiosus.

Female. Length 57 lines.—Black, with a thin grey pile; the wings
hyaline, with a dark fuscous border beyond the third submarginal
cell. The face with a fine short grey pubescence ; the mandibles
ferruginous towards their apex, their tips black; the anterior
margin of the clypeus rounded. The hinder margin of the pro-
thorax subangulated ; the metathorax smooth, and rounded behind ;

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the anterior tibise and tarsi ciliated, the first two joints of the latter
ferruginous ; the second submarginal cell one third broader than
the third, which is narrowed moderately towards the marginal.

Hab. Natal.

13. Pompilus vindex.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Black, with the head, antenne, pro- and
mesothorax above, as well as the legs, ferruginous. The hinder
margin of the prothorax and scutellum, and also the postscutellum,
pale yellow; wings flavo-hyaline, with their apex beyond the
middle of the marginal cell dark fuscous; the metathorax ob-
scurely ferruginous in the middle, and with a central longitudinal
channel. The abdomen has, at the basal lateral margin of the second,
third, and fourth segments, an oblong transverse macula, pointed
within; the apical segment ferruginous.

Male. Differs in having the abdomen, femora, and tarsi black.

Hab. Sierra Leone.

14. Pompilus iridipennis.

Female. Length 12 lines.—Black; the abdomen blue; wings dark
brown-black, with a bright violet iridescence. The clypeus with
scattered punctures, its anterior margin rounded. The pro- and
mesothorax, as well as the scutellum, with shades of blue and
purple; the scutellum compressed ; the metathorax rounded behind.
Abdomen smooth and shining, with tints of purple and blue.

Hab. Sierra Leone.

15. Pompilus crudelis.

Female. Length 11-13 lines.—Black; the antenne, the clypeus,
which is smooth and shining, the tibie, tarsi, and tips of the
femora ferruginous; wings dark brown and with a violet irides-
cence. The mandibles towards their base ferruginous; the anterior
margin of the clypeus rounded. ‘The posterior margin of the pro-
thorax subangulated ; the metathorax with a longitudinal channel
that terminates at the verge of the truncation, and is also trans-
versely striated, strongly so towards and on the truncation. The
entire insect opaque, being covered with a very short velvety pile.

Hab. South Africa.

16. Pompilus hilaris.

Female. Length 10 lines.—Black; the mandibles, palpi, antenna,
tibie, tarsi, and tips of the femora ferruginous; wings fulvous,

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their apical margins fuscous, the nervures ferruginous. The tips
of the mandibles black. The metathorax transversely striated ; the
posterior margin of the prothorax rounded. Abdomen smooth and
shining, the apex ferruginous.

Male. Exactly resembles the female, but varies in length from
6 to 9 lines.

Hab. Zulu and Natal.

17. Pompilus sepulchralis.

Female. Length 11 lines.—Black; the abdomen with a green
tinge beyond the basal segment; antennew, except the scape and
the base of the following segment, fulvous; wings brown-black,
with bright violet iridescence. The anterior margin of the clypeus
rounded. The pro- and mesothorax obscurely bluish green; the
hinder margin of the prothorax angulated ; the third submarginal
cell not quite so wide as the second, and slightly narrowed towards
the marginal; the second transverse median nervure much bent in-
wardly ; the first recurrent nervure entering the second submar-
ginal cell near its apex. The anterior tibie and tarsi ciliated; all

_ the spines and calcaria black.

Male. Only differs in being smaller, and in having the flagellum
entirely fulvous and the clypeus obscurely ferruginous.

Hab. Natal.

18. Pompilus fervidus.

Female. Length 5-6 lines.—Ferruginous, with black and white
markings; wings hyaline, with their apex dark fuscous. Head with
a narrow yellowish-white line behind the eyes in some examples.
The metathorax above and three spots on the mesothorax anteriorly
black; a whitish fascia on the hinder margin of the prothorax ; the
pectus black. Abdomen with a narrow whitish fascia at the basal
margins of the second and third segments; the apical segment
white above. The entire insect with a thin pale silky pile.

Male. Closely resembles the female, but has the front above the
antenne black; the base of the abdomen is also black.

Hab. Natal.

19. Pompilus frustratus.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Black ; the thorax and abdomen with a
faint purple bloom; wings dark fuscous, the legs ferruginous. The
mandibles ferruginous towards the apex, their tips black; the
anterior margin of the clypeus slightly rounded; a faintly im-

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pressed line from the anterior ocellus to the antenne. The dark
wings with a violet iridescence; the hinder margin of the pro-
thorax concavo-truncate, the margin of the truncation slightly ex-
cised in the middle; the third submarginal cell much narrowed
towards the marginal; the coxe, trochanters, and the basal half
of the femora black, the spines on the legs and calcaria ferrugi-
nous. The extreme apex of the abdomen ferruginous.

Hab. Natal.

20. Pompilus clotho.

Female. Length 7 lines.—Black; the abdomen with an obscure
blue tinge ; the wings dark brown, with a violet iridescence. The
hinder margin of the prothorax rounded; the second and third
submarginal cells of equal length, the third much narrower towards
the marginal ; the metathorax smooth and concavo-truncate. The
abdomen very smooth and slightly shining.

Hab. Sumatra.

The three species, P. atropos, P. lachesis, and P. clotho, all from
Sumatra, have a close general resemblance, and are nearly all of the
same size; the last can at once be distinguished by its truncate
metathorax ; P. atropos is distinguished from P. lachesis by its ab-

dominal fasciz and by its obliquely-quadrate second submarginal
cell.

21. Pompilus lachesis.

Female. Length 63 lines.—Black, and with a slight purple bloom
in certain lights. The anterior margin of the clypeus rounded.
The hinder margin of the prothorax subangular; the wings fus-
cous ; the second and third submarginal cells of about equal length,
the second oblong, the third narrowed towards the marginal ; the
metathorax smooth and rounded. The abdomen smooth and
slightly shining ; the apical segment with cinereous pile, observable
in certain lights.

Male. With a similar bloom to that of the female; the face below the
antenne covered with silvery pile; the colour of the wings and the
neuration is the same as that of the other sex, the hinder wings
being also paler than the anterior ones.

Hab. Sumatra.

22. Pompilus atropos.

Female. Length 7 lines.—Black, with a thin cinereous pile; the
basal margins of the segments of the abdomen with indistinct
cinereous fascize; on the face the pile is bright and silvery, as it is
also on the sides of the thorax, the coxz, and femora beneath, in

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certain lights. The hinder margin of the prothorax angulated and
with a fascia of bright pile; wings dark brown, and with violet
iridescence ; the third submarginal cell longer than the second, and
much narrowed towards the marginal; the second subquadrate ;
the tibie and tarsi rather strongly spinose. The obscure fascie on
the second segment of the abdomen much broader than those on
the other segments.

Hab. Sumatra.
23. Pompilus familiaris.

Female. Length 54 lines.—Black, with the first and second seg-
ments of the abdomen and the base of the third ferruginous. The
mandibles ferruginous in the middle; the anterior margin of the
elypeus rounded. The wings fusco-hyaline, their apical margins
bordered with darker fuscous; the third submarginal cell petio-
lated ; the metathorax smooth, and having a slight purple pile, and
eradually rounded from base to apex. Abdomen smooth and
shining.

Hab. Sumatra.

24, Pompilus pruinosus.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Black, with the head, thorax, antenne,
and legs densely covered with frosted silvery pile; the basal seg-
ment of the abdomen covered with similar pile, and the apical
margins of the following segments with broad bands of the same.
The wings hyaline; the apex of the anterior pair beyond the mar-
ginal cell dark fuscous ; the metathorax gradually declivous from
the base to the apex.

Hab. India.
25. Pompilus capitosus.

Female. Length 43 lines.—Black ; the head wider than the thorax ;
wings hyaline, the anterior pair with a dark fuscous cloud beyond
the middle of the marginal cell; the posterior tibie bright ferru-
ginous. A pale yellow line at the inner margin of the eyes, and a
broader one on the margin of the clypeus; the mandibles yellow in
the middle. Thorax with a narrow white line on the hinder margin
of the prothorax, and a short transverse one on the mesothorax, at
the margin of the scutellum ; also a pale spot on the tegule; the
metathorax with a little white pubescence at its apex. Abdomen
with a triangular white macula at the lateral basal margin of the
second segment.

Hab. Burmah.
26. Pompilus pullatus.
Female. Length 64 lines.—Opaque black, with a slight purple tinge
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in certain lights. The clypeus with changeable silvery pile, its
anterior margin rounded. The hinder margin of the prothorax
rounded; the metathorax truncate; wings fuscous, and with a
slight violet iridescence, their apex with a darker border beyond
the enclosed cells; the third submarginal cell petiolated ; the pos-
terior libie bright ferruginous.

Hab. Trebizond.

27. Pompilus mitis.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Head, thorax, and coxe black; legs and
abdomen ferruginous. The mandibles, clypeus, and a line at the
inner orbits of the eyes white; the scape white beneath, the fla-
gellum ferruginous beneath. The posterior margin of the pro-
thorax and the tubercles white; the sides of the thorax, the pectus,
coxee, and femora beneath with silvery pile, bright only in certain
lights ; wings hyaline, with a broad fuscous cloud crossing the an-
terior pair beyond the stigma, leaving the tip of the wings white.
Abdomen smooth and shining, the extreme base black.

Hab. Bombay district.

28. Pompilus ephippiatus.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Black, with the pro- and mesothorax and
scutellum ferruginous ; wings fusco-hyaline, the hinder pair palest,
the anterior pair bordered with dark fuscous beyond the marginal
cell. The clypeus with silvery pile; a narrow pale line at the
inner orbits of the eyes, also an abbreviated one behind them, the
margin of the vertex ferruginous. The metathorax, the sides
beneath, and also the legs with a changeable silvery pile. The
apical margin of the abdominal segments with narrow fascie of
silvery pile, which on the second, third, and fourth segments is
produced into an angular shape in the middle.

Hab. Bombay Presidency.

29. Pompilus multipictus.

Male. Length 64 lines.—Variegated with black, yellow, and ferru-
ginous. Head black on the vertex, and with a broad stripe down
to the antenne ; the face otherwise yellow, as well as the man-
dibles and a broad line behind the eyes; the antenne ferruginous,
with the scape yellow in front. The prothorax, mesothorax, and
the pectus black; the metathorax and legs ferruginous ; the hinder
and lateral margins of the prothorax broadly yellow; a bifurcate
mark on the mesothorax, the tegule, and a narrow line over them,
the scutellum, anterior and intermediate coxe beneath, as well as
the tarsi and anterior tibie in front and the posterior pair above,

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yellow ; wings flavo-hyaline, with the apex of the anterior pair
dark fuscous, the nervures ferruginous ; the tips of the joints of the
tarsi and of the posterior tibie dark fusco-ferruginous. Abdomen
ferruginous, with a yellow fascia at the basal margin of each seg-
ment; one or two of the apical fasciz slightly interrupted or emar-
ginate, the fasciz more or less bordered with black or dark fus-
cous; beneath, the second, third, and fourth segments with broad
yellow fasciz.

Hab. Bombay.

This species strongly resembles various species of wasps included
in the genus Polvstes.

30. Pompilus decoratus.

Female. Length 63 lines.—Black, adorned with white and pale
blue pile; the head, thorax, and abdomen with white lines and
spots. The front, below the antenne, with bright silvery-white
pile; the orbits of the eyes with a narrow white line, that is in-
terrupted at theirsummit. The prothorax, and the metathorax at
its base and apex laterally, with pale blue pubescent pile; the
legs have a fine silvery pile; the posterior margin of the prothorax,
a small transverse spot on the mesothorax at the base of the scu-
tellum, a spot at the base of the anterior wings, and another at the
base of the posterior tibie, white or very pale yellow; wings
hyaline, with the tips of the anterior pair beyond the third sub-
marginal cell dark fuscous; the tibize and tarsi spinose. ‘The ab-
domen rather longer than the head and thorax; the second and
third segments with a transverse ovate white macula laterally
towards their basal margins, and a white fascia at the base of
the fifth.

Hab. Bombay.

31. Pompilus simillimus.

Female. Length 63 lines——Black, and variegated with grey pile;
wings fuscous, the anterior pair darker at their apex beyond the
third submarginal cell. The anterior margin of the clypeus trun-
cate; the face with changeable grey pile. The prothorax, sides of
the mesothorax, the metathorax, and the scutellum with grey pile,
brighter in certain lights; the legs pilose, most densely so on
the coxze and femora beneath. The basal margins of the segments
of the abdomen with fasciz of grey pile.-

Hab. Calcutta.

This species is very like P. canifrons from Sumatra, but its meta-
thorax is different in form, being squarer posteriorly, the apical
angles being somewhat produced; the neuration of the anterior

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wings is also different, the third submarginal cell being more tri-
angular, and receiving the recurrent nervure nearer to its base.

32. Pompilus alienus.

Female. Length 6} lines.—Black, opaque, and having more or less
of purple bloom in certain lights; wings fuscous, the posterior pair
palest towards their base; the third submarginal cell petiolated.
The clypeus and lower portion of the face covered with bright
silvery pile. The anterior angles of the prothorax, the sides
beneath, and the coxe and femora beneath pilose, very bright
in certain lights; the metathorax truncate. Abdomen with some-
what obscure cinereous fascize at the base of the first, second, and
third segments.

Hab. Japan.

33. Pompilus propinquus.

Female. Length 54 lines.—Black; the wings dark brown, the ab-
domen with ferruginous markings. Head thinly sprinkled with
black hairs; the anterior margin of the clypeus rounded. The
posterior margin of the prothorax subangulated ; the meta-
thorax smooth, convex, and truncated, and with a slightly im-
pressed longitudinal line; the third submarginal cell triangular ;
the posterior femora ferruginous, with the base and apex black.
A broad interrupted ferruginous band on the basal segment of the
abdomen, narrowed inwardly; the second segment ferruginous, its
apical margin black, the black band widens in the middle; the third
segment has two large transverse lunate spots at its base; beneath
black.

Hab. North Japan.

This species is the representative of the Pompilus fuscus of Kurope.

34. Pompilus elegans.

Female. Length 93 lines—Head and thorax black, abdomen fer-
ruginous ; wings subhyaline, the apical margin of the anterior pair
bordered with fuscous beyond the marginal cell. The anterior
margin of the clypeus emarginate, with a broad fascia of bright
silvery pile, which is continued up the inner orbits of the eyes
a little higher than the insertion of the antennze; the surface
beneath the pile is ferruginous, and this colouris continued round the
orbits of the eyes; there is a similar ferruginous fascia on the hinder
margin of the prothorax. The metathorax with bright silvery
pile, as well as the sides, beneath, and the coxee and femora beneath ;
a deep longitudinal centrai channel on the metathorax, and a short

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one at its base on each side; the legs fusco-ferruginous, with the
posterior femora bright ferruginous.

Hab. India.
35. Pompilus ceruleus.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Dark shining blue and impunctate. The
clypeus rounded anteriorly ; the tips of the mandibles ferruginous.
The metathorax with a prominent tubercle laterally at the
middle of the margin; the anterior wings fuscous, the posterior
pair hyaline; the second submarginal cell small, narrowed to a
point towards the marginal ; the third submarginal narrowed mo-
derately. Abdomen smooth and shining. The entire insect with
bright violet tints in certain lights.

Hab. New Hebrides, Fiji Islands or Solomon Islands. Obtained
on the voyage of the ‘ Herald.’

36. Pompilus fulvipennis.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Black, smooth, and shining; the wings
fulvous, the nervures pale ferruginous ; the tips of the anterior
wings fuscous. The posterior margin of the prothorax rounded ;
the metathorax truncate and opaque; the anterior tarsi obscurely
ferruginous. The abdomen smooth and impunctate.

Male. Closely resembles the female, but is smaller, and has the
lateral margins of the labrum and clypeus, and also a small trian-
gular spot above the clypeus, yellow. The thorax thinly sprinkled
with cinereous pubescence; the metathorax obliquely truncate ;
the third submarginal cell wider than the second in both sexes, and
moderately narrowed towards the marginal; the anterior tibia,
tarsi, and tips of the femora pale ferruginous; the intermediate
and posterior calcaria white.

Hab. South Australia.

37. Pompilus labilis.

Female. Length 5; lines.—Black; the head and prothorax an-
teriorly covered with white pubescence; the abdomen with three
white fasciz ; the wings fuscous. A narrow space across the vertex,
enclosing the ocelli, and also a longitudinal space in the middle of
the clypeus naked. The metathorax concavo-truncate; wings
dark fuscous, the third submarginal cell subangular. The apical
margins of the first, second, and third segments of the abdo-
men with a broad fascia of fine white pubescence, the fascia with
a small rounded emargination in the middle of its anterior margin.

Hab. Queensland.

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38. Pompilus consimilis.

Female. Length 52 lines.—Black; the front, from the antenne to
the anterior ocellus, the vertex behind the ocelli, and the prothorax
with pale orange-coloured pubescence; the wings fuscous. The
clypeus with silvery pile, its anterior margin rounded ; the cheeks
with white pile. The metathorax concavo-truncate, smooth and
semiopaque ; a pale pubescent spot at the lateral basal angles of
the scutellum; the third submarginal cell subtriangular ; the spines
and the calcaria on the tibis and tarsi black. Abdomen with a
small white pubescent spot near the basal margins of the second
and third segments.

Hab. Queensland.

39. Pompilus nubilipennis.

Male. Length 6? lines.—Black ; the antenne thick and tapering
to a point; wings clouded. The head and thorax with thin hoary
pubescence ; a cream-coloured line at the inner orbits of the
eyes, and a spot at the base of the clypeus laterally. The
hinder margin of the prothorax angular, and narrowly cream-
coloured; the metathorax opaque, rounded, and with a slight
central channel at the base, also thinly covered with hoary pubes-
cence ; the legs with short spines; the calcaria white, also a white
line at the base of the posterior tibie; wings subhyaline, with
fuscous clouds along the course of the nervures; also a cloud occu-
pying the marginal cell and crossing the second and third submar-
ginals; the apex of the anterior wing clouded. A white lunate
spot at the base of the third segment of the abdomen laterally.

Hab. Adelaide.

40. Pompilus sanguinolentus.

Female. Length 57 lines.—Black, with the pro- and mesothorax, scu-
tellum, and postscutellum blood-red. The front below the antennz
with changeable silvery pile; the head and thorax with thin erect
fuscous pubescence. The metathorax opaque, and transversely
rugose towards the apex; wings hyaline, with a transverse fuscous
cloud at the base of the first submarginal cell, which crosses the
anterior wings, the entire apex of the wings being fuscous beyond
the base of the marginal cell. The abdomen with a thin sericeous
silvery pile, which is most dense at the sides.

Hab. Swan River.

41. Pompilus papuensis.
Female. Length 43 lines.—Black ; the front, below the antenna,

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with silvery-white pile; the anterior margin of the clypeus and the
orbits of the eyes, except their summit, with a narrow yellowish-
white line. The hind margin of the prothorax, a line on the
mesothorax, at the base of the scutellum, and a spot on the
tegule whitish ; the apex of the metathorax and the cox outside:
with silvery pile ; the posterior tibie with their apex ferruginous
within ; the wings hyaline, with a fuscous cloud crossing the an-
terior pair at the base of the first submarginal cell, the fascia as
wide as the first discoidal cell; the apex of the wings fuscous
beyond the third submarginal cell. Abdomen with the first segment
covered with silvery pile; a slightly interrupted narrow pale yel-
low fascia at the basal margin of the third segment, and another at
the base of the fifth.

Hab. New Guinea.
42. Pompilus latus.

Female. Length 9-11 lines.—Ferruginous, with black markings and
fulvous wings. Head with asmall ovate black spot between the eyes
and the ocelli; three or four of the apical joints of the antenne
black, and also tips of the mandibles; the anterior margin of the
clypeus emarginate. Thorax with the sides and beneath, the anterior
coxz behind, and the intermediate and posterior pairs entirely,
black ; the metathorax concave at the apex; wings fulvous, the
nervures ferruginous. The apical margins of the first and second
segments black; sometimes the third narrowly so.

Hab. Uruguay.

43. Pompilus tubereulatus.

Female. Length 74 lines. —Ferruginous ; wings flavo-hyaline, the
anterior pair with two narrow fuscous fasciz. The antenne fuscous
towards the apex; the clypeus somewhat produced, truncate an-
teriorly, with the lateral angles rounded. ‘The hinder margin
of the prothorax rounded; the metathorax with two tuber-
cles at each lateral margin, beyond the second the metathorax
is obliquely truncate; a pale fuscous fascia crosses the anterior
wings, traversing the nervure at the base of the first submarginal
cell ; a second narrow fascia crosses from the middle of the mar-
ginal cell; the third submarginal longer than the second, and nar-
rowed to about half its length towards the marginal; legs ferrugi-
nous, with ferruginous spines. Abdomen with the apical margins of
the first, second, and sometimes of the third segment black.

Hab. Mendoza.

44, Pompilus rubricatus.

Male. Length 6 lines.—Ferruginous; the wings flavo-hyaline.

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Four or five of the apical joints of the flagellum fuscous; the
anterior margin of the clypeus rounded; a black stripe running
from each antenna up to the ocelli. The anterior wings with a
fuscous cloud at the lower margin of the second submarginal
cell, the apical margins fuscous at the tip; the posterior wings
have a pale fuscous apical border; one or two of the apical joints
of the tarsi of the intermediate and posterior legs fuscous. The
apical margins of the segments of the abdomen narrowly black, also
the extreme base of the abdomen black; the fascize on the second,
third, and fourth segments produced into an angular shape in th
middle.

Hab. Peru.
45. Pompilus inauratus.

Female. Length 67 lines.—Black, with thin cinereous pile on the
legs and abdomen; the head and thorax adorned with bright pale
golden pilose spots. The face with a pale golden spot on each
side above the antenne; the anterior margin of the clypeus
silvery ; behind the eyes pale golden. The prothorax golden
anteriorly, its hinder margin broadly yellowish white; the meso-
thorax with the posterior margin golden before the scutellum,
the apex of the latter, and a band between the posterior wings en-
closing the postscutellum, and also the metathorax laterally, golden ;
an oblique golden spot beneath the wings, which are dark fuscous.

Hab. Cordova (Argentine Confederation).

46. Pompilus representans.

Female. Length 7-9 lines.—Black, with dark brown wings, the
abdomen with large ferruginous spots. The front of the head
below the antennz with short white pubescence ; down the middle
of the clypeus it is fuscous; the anterior margin of the clypeus
emarginate. The hind margin of the prothorax angular; the
metathorax rounded, and with a central longitudinal channel; the
third submarginal cell nearly as long as the second, and greatly
narrowed towards the marginal. The first, second, and third seg-
ments of the abdomen with a large ferruginous macula at their
basal margins, lunate, and more than half the width of the seg-
ments; two smaller spots on the fourth segment; the spots on the
basal segment united.

Hab, Uruguay.
This species has the appearance of being a gigantic race of Pom-
pilus fuscus of Europe, with black wings.
47. Pompilus unicolor.

Female. Length 54 lines.—Black, smooth, and slightly shining,

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with a faint purple or blue tinge on the abdomen in certain lights ;
wings dark fuscous, with a violet iridescence. The anterior margin

_ of the clypeus widely emarginate anteriorly, the face on each side
with changeable silvery pile. The hind margin of the prothorax
subangular; the metathorax with a slight central channel, which
terminates in a small fossulet at the apex, the fossulet with a few
transverse carine; the third submarginal cell smaller than the
second, and much narrowed towards the marginal. Abdomen
longer than the head and thorax, and tapering to a point at the
apex; the base of the segments with a little cinereous pile.

Male. Closely resembles the female, but has the apical segment of
the abdomen white.

Hab. Guatemala, 5000 feet; Guyaquil.

‘The pile at the base of the segments is usually more or less ob-
literated.

48. Pompilus coruscus.

Female. Length 54 lines.—Head and thorax black, abdomen fer-
ruginous ; covered with a fine silvery pile, most thinly so on the
abdomen. ‘The front of the head, below the antenne, with bright.
glittering pile; on the vertex it is thin, and intermixed with
scattered erect black hairs. Thorax with the hind margin of the
vertex with a border of dense white pile; on each side of the scu-
tellum to the wings, and also on the sides of the metathorax and
on the coxee, the silvery pile is glittering and dense; wings hyaline,
the neryures black; the apex of the anterior wings fuscous beyond
the third submarginal cell; the metathorax with a central longi-
tudinal channel, not quite extending to the apex. Abdomen im-
punctate.

Hab. Guatemala, Chinantla, 4100 feet.

49. Pompilus imperialis.

Male. Length 53 lines.—Bright shining blue, with purple shades ;
wings dark fuscous, with a brilliant iridescence of violet and cop-
pery lustre. The face, not the clypeus, with silvery-white pile;
the antennze black. The hinder margin of the prothorax rounded ;
the metathorax with the apex slightly concave; the second sub-
marginal cell subquadrate, the third much narrowed towards the
marginal, The abdomen smooth and shining.

Hab. Costa Rica, Cache.

50. Pompilus virulentus.

Female. Length 9 lines.—Ferruginous, not very brightly so, with

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a few black markings ; wings fusco-hyaline, with a bright violet
iridescence, the nervures black. The eyes and seven or eight of
the apical joints of the antennz black; the anterior margin of the
clypeus slightly emarginate. The hinder margin of the pro-
thorax rounded; the metathorax short, concavo-truncate, the
lateral angles of the truncation produced, subtuberculate; the
middle of the metathorax black; the sutures at the sides narrowly
black. The apical margins of the two basal segments of the ab-
domen black.

Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu, 6000-7000 feet.

51. Pompilus flavopictus.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Variegated with black and yellow; the
wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures ferruginous. The black mark-
ings on the head are a narrow transverse line at the base of the
clypeus, a broader one from each antenna passing upwards and
uniting with a transverse line between the eyes, and the back part of
the head, leaving a broad yellow stripe behind the eyes; the tips
of the mandibles are black, and also the scape above and the base
of the antennz, beyond which the flagellum is fulyous, with four or
five of the apical joints slightly fuscous. The mesothorax with
three broad black longitudinal stripes ; the scutellum in the middle,
a longitudinal line in the middle of the metathorax, and also an
interrupted line at the sides black; the sutures at the sides, and a
line on the coxe and femora above, black. The apical margins of
the first and second segments of the abdomen black; the following
segments are obscure, the third being palest at its basal and apical
margins, the basal having a changeable white pile.

Male. Resembles the female, but is smaller (34 lines), and has the
abdomen bright yellow, with broad black fascize on the apical mar-
gins of the three basal segments; on the two following the bands
are fuscous and narrow; on the apical segments the fascie are
obsolete.

Having only seen a single specimen of the female, it is impossible
to determine whether the yellow colouring of the abdomen is ever
bright on the apical segments, but it most probably is so.

Hab. Costa Rica, Cache.

PEPSIS, Fabr.

1. Pepsis solitarius.

Male. Length 83 lines.—Dark green, the abdomen brightest; legs
and antenne black, the latter with the four apical joints yellow.
The mandibles and palpi black. The wings dark brown, with a
violet iridescence; the metathorax transversely striated; the ab-

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domen subpetiolate, the first segment being gradually widened from
the base.

Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu.

2. Pepsis optimus.

Female. Length 21 lines.—-Blue-black, brightest on the abdomen,
which is adorned with violet and purple tints. The anterior
margin of the clypeus widely, but slightly emarginate; the scape
and the first joint of the flagellum and the base of the second black,
the rest of the joints bright yellow; the head thinly sprinkled with
black hairs. The thorax velvety; the metathorax with a central
longitudinal channel, and at its base a few transverse carine, there
are also a few at the sides near the verge of the truncation; wings
ferruginous, blackish at the extreme base of the anterior pair, their
apical margins not clouded; the nervures, except the costal and
the others towards the base of the wings, ferruginous; legs of a
purple-blue and thickly spinose.

Male. Length 13 lines.—Of the same colour as the female, but
has the flagellum of the antennz of a reddish yellow; it has also
a small subhyaline spot at the base of the second discoidal cell, and
the extreme apex of the anterior wings is narrowly subhyaline.

Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu, 6000-7000 feet, and river Susio.

This appears to be an undescribed species. It is most nearly allied
to P. montezuma, but is at once distinguished by the yellow antennz
in both sexes, and by the wings not having a fuscous margin or
broad black basal one.

PRIOCNEMIS, Dahlb.

1. Priocnemis levis.

Female. Length 84 lines.—Black; the head and thorax opaque,
the abdomen impunctate, smooth and shining; wings flavo-hyaline,
the nervures ferruginous. The front below the antenne and
the cheeks with short downy golden pubescence, the latter have
also a thin long fulvous pubescence ; the mandibles pale testaceous,
with their base and apex black; antennez black. Thorax with the
sides, beneath, the coxe, and femora with golden downy pile; the
tibiz, tarsi, and tips of the femora ferruginous, more or less fuscous
above; the metathorax smooth, the sides and apex (and probably in
some specimens entirely) clothed with golden-coloured pile. The
apical segment of the abdomen with short rufo-fuscous pubes-
cence; beneath, the apical margins of the third, fourth, and fifth

Esegments are narrowly rufo-testaceous.

Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu, 6000-7000 feet.

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THYNNIDA, Erichson.

THYNNUS.

Thynnus, Fabr. Syst. Ent. 360 (males only).

Myrmecodes, Latr. Nouv. Dict. d Hist. Nat. xx. 2nd ed. (females).
Thynnoides, Guér. Voy. Cog. Zool. 11. 232.

Agriomyia, Guér. Voy. Cog. Zool. ii. 218.

Catocheilus, Guér. Mag. de Zool. (1842).

1. Thynnus penetratus.

Male. Length 32 lines.—Black; the thorax and abdomen with
white macule, the legs ferruginous. The anterior margin of the
clypeus, a narrow line up the inner margin of the eyes as high
as the antenne, a spot above each of the latter, and a spot at
the base of the mandibles white; two small obscure rufous spots
at the margin of the vertex. The margins of the prothorax, the
tegule, an abbreviated narrow line on the mesothorax, and a
similar line on the scutellum yellowish white; wings hyaline and
iridescent, the nervures ferruginous; the coxe and trochanters
black. The basal segment of the abdomen with a central longi-
tudinal impression ; the first and three following segments with an
oblique short narrow white line at their extreme lateral margins ;
beneath, smooth and shining, the second, third, and fourth seg-
ments with a minute white spot laterally.

Hab. Hunter River.

2. Thynnus vastator.

Male. Length 9 lines.—Head, thorax, legs, and extreme base of
the abdomen black; the rest of the abdomen ferruginous. The
head and thorax with hoary pubescence, thin above, but much
more dense on the sides and beneath, and longest on the meta-
thorax and extreme base of the abdomen; the clypeus, inner orbits
of the eyes as high as the antenne, and the mandibles yellow; the
outer margin of the tegule yellow; wings subhyaline, a fuscous
cloud in the marginal cell; the anterior femora and tarsi pale fer-
ruginous beneath. Abdomen not very closely or strongly punc-
tured, the apical segment rugose; the apical ventral segment
triangular, and with a curved spine at the apex.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Black; the base of the mandibles, the —
flagellum, apex of the scape, and the head anteriorly pale rufo-

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testaceous ; the legs dark rufo-piceous, with the anterior and inter-
mediate tarsi pale testaceous; the second segment of the abdomen
transversely striated, with the margins rufo-piceous.

Hab. Adelaide.

3. Thynnus rufopictus.

Male. Length 5 lines.—Ferruginous; the head, thorax, and ab-
domen with black markings. Head black above between the
eyes, the posterior margin of the vertex ferruginous; three or four
of the apical joints of the antenne black. Thorax beneath, the
anterior portion, or neck, of the prothorax, and the mesothorax
black ; a spot on the disk of the mesothorax ferruginous; the scu-
tellum and postscutellum ferruginous, on each side of them it is
black; the metathorax ferruginous; wings hyaline, the nervures
ferruginous as well as the tegule. The fifth and sixth segments
of the abdomen black.

- Hab. Adelaide.

4, Thynnus protervus.

Male. Length 84 lines.—Black; the mandibles and the anterior
margin of the clypeus yellow, the tips of the former black. The
head, thorax, and legs with hoary pubescence, which is longest and
most dense on the metathorax and on the sides beneath the wings ;

the legs ferruginous, with the coxe, trochanters, and the femora
above more or less black; wings subhyaline, with the nervures
obscure ferruginous. Abdomen oblong, shining, the apical mar-
gins of the segments finely and distantly punctured; above thinly
sprinkled with short hoary pubescence; beneath it is longer and
much more dense; the apical ventral segment triangular, the basal
angles acute, the apical one terminating in a short spine.

Hab. Adelaide.

5. Thynnus decoratus.

Male. Length 34 lines.—Head and thorax black; legs and abdomen
ferruginous, and decorated with white lines and spots. The
‘mandibles, the clypeus anteriorly, a V-shaped spot between the
antennee and the orbits of the eyes, slightly interrupted above,
white. The margins of the prothorax, an abbreviated line
on the disk of the mesothorax, the hinder margin of the scu-
tellum, the postscutellum, the tegule, and the posterior angles of
the metathorax, white; wings hyaline and iridescent; the anterior
coxe, a spot on the other pairs, and two large irregular-shaped
macule beneath the wings, white; the intermediate and posterior
tarsi fuscous. Abdomen with the basal segment black, the segments
with an oblique lateral white macula; beneath immaculate.

Hab. Adelaide.

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6. Thynnus fulvopilosus.

Male. Length 53 lines—Black; the vertex and thorax above with
thin fulvous pubescence ; the face with griseous pubescence. Thorax
closely punctured; wings hyaline and iridescent; the anterior legs
and the intermediate and posterior tibie and tarsi ferruginous ;
the anterior coxe and trochanters black. Abdomen subpetiolate,
smooth, shining, and impunctate; beneath, the apical margins of
the segments with narrow white interrupted fasciz.

Female. Black; the articulations of the legs and the tarsi pale
ferruginous ; the abdomen is ferruginous at the base above, and
strongly transversely grooved ; the abdomen is opaque black, ex-
cept the apical segment, which is smooth and shining.

Hab. Adelaide.

7. Thynnus multipictus.

Male. Length 5} lines.—Black, with the legs and the second and
third segments of the abdomen ferruginous. The mandibles, clypeus,
the orbits of the eyes (interrupted above), and a spot over each
antenna, yellow ; two somewhat obscure ferruginous spots on the
vertex. The margins of the prothorax, the tegule, a longitu-—
dinal line on the mesothorax and scutellum, the postscutellum,
the posterior lateral angles of the metathorax, and three oblong
spots beneath the wings, yellow; wings hyaline and iridescent,
the nervures ferruginous. The second, third, and fourth segments of
the abdomen with a short, somewhat oblique, yellowish-white spot
at their extreme lateral margins; a very narrow line from each spot
curves inwardly; the abdomen shining and impunctate; beneath,
three or four of the segments have a minute lateral spot.

Hab. Adelaide.

8. Thynnus propinguus.

Male. Length 6 lines.—Black; the head and thorax with white -
markings, those on the abdomen forming interrupted fascie. A
spot at the base of the clypeus, its anterior margin, an abbre-
viated line at the lower margin of the eyes, a similar line on the
sides of the clypeus, an oblong spot in its centre, and a small ovate
one above each antenna, white. Thorax closely punctured; the
anterior elevated margin of the prothorax, its posterior margin
narrowly, the tegule, a longitudinal line on the scutellum, its
posterior margin with a narrow line, which is continued to the
posterior wings, white; wings hyaline, the nervures fusco-ferru-
ginous. Abdomen shining and impunctate; the second, third, and
fourth segments with interrupted white fasciz, the fascize uneven,
being widest towards the lateral margins; two minute spots on the
basal segment and four on the fifth segment, placed transversely ;

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beneath, the basal segment with a small white tubercle ; the second
segment with two large spots and two smaller lateral spots, all
being more or less united; the third and fourth segments have
each four separated spots.

This species is very like Thynnus strenwus, but its markings are
white and different, and its legs are black.

Hab. Adelaide.

2: Thynnus tuberculifrons.

_ Male. Length 7 lines.—Black, with the mandibles, clypeus, and
‘inner orbits of the eyes, as high as the antenne, yellow; between
the antenne there is a blunt tubercle, which a yellow carina unites
with the clypeus. Thorax closely punctured, the metathorax finely
so, and with a thin hoary pubescence; wings hyaline, the nervures
black; the tips of the joints of the tarsi ferruginous beneath. Ab-
domen oblong, narrow, smooth, and shining, with fine distant
shallow punctures; the margins of the segments depressed; the
apical segment strongly punctured.

Hab. Swan River.

10. Thynnus suspiciosus.

Male. Length 74 lines.—Black; head and thorax with yellowish-

white markings, abdomen with subovate macule on the segments
above and beneath. The mandibles, clypeus, the inner margin of
the eyes a little higher than the insertion of the antenns, two
small ovate spots between them, and an interrupted line behind
the eyes yellowish white. The anterior and posterior margins
of the prothorax, the tegule, a spot on the scutellum, the post-
scutellum, the lateral margins of the metathorax, and an oblong
‘spot in the middle pale yellow; wings subhyaline, the nervures
obscure fusco-ferruginous. The basal and four following segments
of the abdomen with large subovate, lateral, pale yellow macule,
those on the basal segment almost confluent; the sixth segment
with a minute lateral spot; beneath, the second to fourth segments
with ovate lateral macule.

Hab. Swan River.

11. Thynnus vividus.

_ Male. Length 53-6 lines.—Black ; the head and thorax with yellow

_ spots, the abdomen with yellow fascize. The clypeus, two minute

spots between the antenne, and the base of the mandibles yellow;

the latter ferruginous towards the apex. The anterior elevated

margin of the prothorax, its posterior margin very narrowly,

more or less interrupted in the middle, a large subquadrate spot
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beneath the wings, the tegule, the scutellum, postscutellum, and
the metathorax laterally at its apex, yellow; the wings hyaline,
the nervures black; the legs ferruginous, the coxee black. Abdomen
shining; the apical margins of the segments depressed; the first
and fifth segments with narrow interrupted fascie, the second,
third, and fourth segments with interrupted broader fasci ;
beneath with three more or less interrupted fascie, these are
sometimes reduced to spots.

Hab. Swan River, Champion Bay.

12. Thynnus oppositus.

Male. Length 73 lines.—Black; the abdomen with a double row
of ovate yellow spots above and also beneath. The clypeus trun-
cate, its anterior margin and also the mandibles yellow; the pubes-
cence on the head and thorax white; the tips of the femora, the
tibiee, and tarsi yellow; wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures black.
Abdomen narrowed and rounded at the base; the apical segment
yellow; the second and four following segments with a large sub-
ovate lateral macula; beneath, the segments have similar rows
of maculae; the terminal ventral segment with an acute spine at
the apex; the margin of the basal segment tuberculate in the
middle.

Hab. Swan River.

In the type specimen the legs and the nervures at the base of the
wings appear to have been changed from yellow to red by cyanide
of potassium, used in collecting.

13. Thynnus irregularis.

Male. Length 6 lines.—Black; the head and thorax with a few
minute yellow macule ; the abdomen with irregularly shaped quad-
rate macule laterally, and two rows of smaller macule within.
Head very closely punctured ; the mandibles, the margins of the
clypeus, an oblong spot at its base, a small ovate spot above each
antenna, a narrow line at the inner margins of the eyes, as well
as a short one behind them, towards the mandibles, yellow.
A narrow line on the anterior margin of the prothorax, a short
line in the middle of the mesothorax and at the margin of the scu-
tellum, and a minute spot on the postscutellum, yellow; wings
. subhyaline, the nervures black. Abdomen with subquadrate ma-
cule laterally, and between these two rows of small lunate or
hooked-shaped spots close to the apical margins of the segments ;
on the basal segment these spots unite with the lateral ones;
beneath, the second, third, and fourth segments have each two
large white ovate macule, the macule having a transverse curved
black line.

Hab. Swan River.

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14. Thynnus excellens.

| Male. Length 53 lines.—Ferruginous, and with white and black
markings. The antenne black; the mandibles, the clypeus, the
inner orbits of the eyes, a spot above each antenna, and the lower
portion of the outer orbits of the eyes, white; a longitudinal fer-
ruginous line on the clypeus. The prothorax with the margins
white between them, black above in the middle, and ferruginous
laterally; a white spot on the disk of the mesothorax with a
black line on each side; the tegule and a narrow line over them,
the postscutellum, and a narrow line up to the insertion of the pos-
terior wings, white; the metathorax black above, with the posterior
lateral angles and two central ovate spots white; wings hyaline ;
the prothorax beneath and the pectus black; the anterior coxe
with large white spots; the intermediate and posterior tarsi, also
the posterior coxee and femora above and the apex of the tibie,
black. Abdomen with the margins of the segments deeply con-
stricted; the extreme base black; the first to fifth segments with
lateral white subovate macule, and also a double central row of
minute ones; the abdomen is somewhat similarly spotted beneath.

Hab. Swan River.

15. Thynnus insidiator.

Male. Length 7 lines.—Head and thorax black, legs pale ferrugi-
nous ; abdomen yellow, with the base and the extreme base of each
segment narrowly black. The mandibles, the clypeus, the mar-

_ gins of the eyes (narrowly interrupted at their summit), and a
V-shaped spot between the antenne, yellow. The anterior margin
of the prothorax narrowly, and the posterior margin broadly,
yellow ; a quadrate spot on the disk of the mesothorax, the tegule,
scutellum, and postscutellum, yellow; the legs pale ferruginous;
the anterior coxe at their base, and the intermediate and posterior
pairs black; wings fulvo-hyaline the nervures at the base of the
wings ferruginous, beyond they are black. The segments of the
abdomen have laterally a short ferruginous longitudinal line, an
indistinct central similar row of lines, and also a short transverse
line near the apical margin of each segment between the lon-
gitudinal rows.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Black above and ferruginous beneath ;
the antenne and legs ferruginous; the margins of the segments
above ferruginous; the apical segments punctured; the head,
thorax, and base of the abdomen smooth and shining, and with a
few fine scattered punctures.

Hab. Swan River.

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16. Thynnus aterrimus.

Male. Length 6 lines.—Black; shorter and broader than is usual
in Thynnideous insects. The face and body beneath with cinereous
pubescence; the prothorax with the anterior margin very narrowly
yellow ; the postscutellum and a very narrow line continued to the
posterior wings yellowish ; wings fusco-hyaline, the nervures black.
The head and thorax very closely punctured. Abdomen shining,
and having very shallow distant punctures; the segments deeply
constricted; the terminal ventral segment tridentate.

Hab. Swan River.

17. Thynnus perplexus.

Male. Length 6 lines.—Black; the head and thorax with yellow
markings, the abdomen with interrupted yellow fascize on each
segment; the legs ferruginous. The mandibles, the clypeus, a
spot above each antenna, and two minute spots on the vertex,
yellow. The posterior margin of the prothorax, the tegule, an
ovate spot on the mesothorax, and also one on the scutellum,
yellow; the femora and thorax beneath with white pubescence, as
well as the sides of the metathorax; wings hyaline, the nervures
ferruginous. Abdomen with six interrupted yellow fasciz, the
seventh segment ferruginous, the inferior plate forming a tri-
angular appendage; beneath ferruginous; the margins of the seg-
ments black; the second and three ene segments with two
large ovate macule.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Head, ee and legs ferruginous; the
head wider than the thorax, and with a few scattered punctures.
Abdomen black above and ferruginous below; the basal segment
yellow above, black at the extreme base, and with a narrow black line
in the middle; the second segment transversely striated, and with a
large lateral subquadrate spot; the three following segments with
very broad yellow fascize, slightly interrupted in the middle.

Hab. Swan River.

18. Thynnus petulans.

Male. Length 9 lines.—Head and thorax closely punctured and
black; abdomen, tibiae, and tarsi ferruginous. The mandibles
reddish yellow, their apex and inner margin rufo-piceous; the
clypeus truncate, its margin yellow, and emitting upwards a
yellow triangular mark in the middle. The posterior margin
of the prothorax and the tegule ferruginous; the metathorax
with white woolly pubescence; wings pale fulvo-hyaline, the
nervures dark ferruginous; beneath with white pubescence, the
legs fringed with the same. Abdomen with the extreme base

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black; the apical margins of the segments slightly constricted and
more or less fuscous in the middle, where the fuscous colour widens
into a triangular shape; beneath, the segments are black laterally
and ferruginous in the middle; the apical segment above lon-
gitudinally striated, the ventral segment triangular, its margins
black.

Hab. Swan River.

19. Thynnus nigropectus.

Male. Length 8 lines.—Yellow, with black markings; the head
above the antenne, the latter, and the tips of the mandibles black;
between the antenne is a yellow triangular-shaped spot that runs
up to the anterior ocellus; a yellow line above the antenne at the
inner margin of the eyes, not extending to their summit. A
transverse line in the middle of the prothorax, the mesothorax,
the base of the scutellum, and the pectus, black; two abbre-
viated lines, and also a line over the tegule, yellow; the tarsi
black; the wings hyaline, with the nervures black. Abdomen
truncate at the base, the apical margins of the first and second
segments black; the following segments black, with a broad
yellow fascia on the third, fourth, and fifth, interrupted in the
middle; the sixth has a lateral yellow spot; the apical segment
truncate above, and with longitudinal irregular striz, beneath the
produced truncated portion it is smooth and shining, and has la-
terally two short acute spines; the apical ventral plate trifid; the
basal margin of the ventral segments narrowly black.

Hab. Swan River.

20. Thynnus vespoides.

Male. Length 84 lines.—Black; the abdomen with yellow fascie,
the tibie and tarsi ferruginous. The clypeus truncate, and, as
well as the mandibles, yellow, the latter black at their tips; the
cheeks and inner margin of the eyes with white pubescence.
Thorax closely punctured; the metathorax densely clothed with
long white pubescence, on the sides and beneath it is shorter and
less dense; the femora fringed with the same beneath; wings
faintly fulvo-hyaline, the nervures black. Abdomen truncate at
the base; the first, second, third, and fourth segments with the

_ margins narrowly black; the segments pale yellow, and with a
small ovate black spot laterally; the fifth segment with a narrow
pale yellow fascia, interrupted laterally in a line with the black
spots; the sixth and seventh segments black ; the apex produced
in the lower plate into a trifid appendage.

Hab. South Australia.

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21. Thynnus molestus.

Male. Length 74 lines.— Black, marked with yellow on the head,
and sparingly so on the abdomen; the tibice and tarsi ferruginous.
The mandibles, clypeus, a line from it that unites with a broad
line at the inner margin of the eyes, as high as the antenne, a
minute spot above them, and a broad stripe behind the eyes, yellow.
Thorax closely punctured; the wings subhyaline, the nervures
yellowish at the base of the wings. Abdomen shining, finely and
closely punctured; a minute yellow macula at the lateral margins
of the second, third, and fourth segments.

Hab. South Australia.

22. Thynnus strangulatus.

Male. Length 4 lines.—Shining black, the segments deeply con-
stricted. Head punctured; the clypeus much produced, its anterior
margin truncate, its extreme lateral margins narrowly white; a
spot at the base of the mandibles white. Thorax sparingly punc-
tured ; the wings hyaline and iridescent; the anterior tibie pale
rufo-testaceous. Abdomen shining and impunctate.

Female. Ferruginous and shining; the metathorax dark fuscous ;
the apex of the abdomen black; the head compressed, smooth, and
shining, widest anteriorly.

Hab. South Australia.

23. Thynnus pavidus.

Male. Length 5 lines.—Black; the head and thorax with yellow
markings; the base of the antennee and the legs ferruginous. The
clypeus and mandibles reddish yellow; the former, with the base
and two minute spots, black; the tips of the mandibles black.
The margins of the prothorax yellow, the hinder margin broadly
so, and uniting with the anterior margin, which is slightly inter-
rupted in the middle; the scutellum, postscutellum, and a narrow
line from the latter to the base of the posterior wings, yellow ; the
mesothorax finely punctured ; the metathorax transversely striated
beyond the base, which is smooth and shining; wings hyaline, the
nervures dark fuscous, becoming ferruginous towards their base ;
the cox black. Abdomen shining black, impunctate, with the
margins of the segments depressed.

Female. Black; the head smooth and shining ; the mandibles, an-
tenn, legs, and second segment of the abdomen ferruginous, the
latter transversely grooved ; the apex of the abdomen ferruginous.

Hab. South Australia.

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24, Thynnus nubilipennis.

Male. Length 7 lines.—Black and shining, variegated with yellow,
the wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures ferruginous, a fuscous cloud
occupying the marginal and a portion of the second submarginal
cell. The mandibles, clypeus, orbits of the eyes, interrupted at
their summit, and a V-shaped spot above the antenne, bright yel-
low ; the tips of the mandibles and a transverse spot on the clypeus
black. Prothorax with a broad interrupted fascia at the posterior
margin, the fascia narrowed towards the tegule, a quadrate spot
on the disk of the mesothorax, the scutellum, and a narrow line
running to the insertion of the wings, a large irregularly shaped
spot beneath them, the metathorax with an oblique stripe on each
side, which runs to its apex and curves up its lateral margins, yel-
low; the legs pale ferruginous. All the segments of the abdomen
with a lateral oblong-ovate yellow spot ; beneath entirely black.

Female. Length 52 lines.—Black; the mandibles, anterior tibiz,
and all the tarsi ferruginous; the flagellum pale ferruginous; the
tibize spinose. The thorax and legs sprinkled with pale hairs.
The margin of the basal segment of the abdomen, and a large,
oblong, transverse, subovate lateral macula yellow; the fifth
segment with a narrow, lateral, transverse macula; the second
segment transversely grooved.

Hab. Queensland.

25. Thynnus perelegans.

Male. Length 33 lines.—Black ; the head, thorax, and abdomen
with bright yellow markings. The mandibles, the clypeus, two
united spots above the antenne, and a narrow line round the orbits
of the eyes, interrupted at their summit, yellow; the head closely
punctured. Thorax closely and more strongly punctured than the
head on the pro- and mesothorax; the metathorax more distantly
punctured ; the margins of the prothorax broadly yellow; a quad-
rate spot on the disk of the mesothorax, the scutellum, and post-
scutellum, yellow, as well as the apical portion of the metathorax,

_ which has a narrow black line in the centre; the legs pale ferru-
ginous, with the tips of the joints yellow, and the base of the pos-
terior tibie black; wings hyaline, the nervures pale ferruginous.
Abdomen shining, the margins of the segments depressed ; the
first to sixth segments with a large lateral, oblong-ovate, yellow
macula, the macule with a small notch on their upper margins.

_ Hab. Queensland.

26. Thynnus simplex.
Male. Length 63 lines—Black ; the abdomen with a double row

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of yellow macule; the apical segment ferruginous. The mandibles
and clypeus yellow, the latter truncate and longitudinally striated ;
the cheeks with white pubescence. Thorax closely punctured
above, and thinly covered with white pubescence ; the legs ferru-
ginous; the femora more or less blackish beneath ; the cox and
trochanters black ; wings subhyaline, the nervures black. Abdomen
with the basal segment black, the five following with a large, sub-
ovate, transverse macula on each side; the upper plate of the ter-
minal segment ferruginous and longitudinally striated, the inferior
plate forming a lanceolate process trausversely striated.

Hab. Champion Bay.

27. Thynnus rixosus.

Male. Length 32 lines.—Black and shining, with the wings fusco-
hyaline. Head strongly but not very closely punctured ; the cly-
peus with a sharp central, longitudinal carina, and pointed at its
apex, and, as well as the face below the antennz, covered with
white pubescence. The pro- and mesothorax strongly punctured ;
the metathorax smooth and shining, with the apex finely punc-
tured ; wings fusco-hyaline, palest at their base, the nervures
black ; the legs obscurely rufo-piceous beneath. Abdomen sub-
petiolate, smooth, shining, and impunctate.

Hab. Champion Bay.

28. Thynnus morosus.

Male. Length 94 lines.— Black ; the clypeus, labrum, the mandibles,
and a narrow line behind the eyes, yellow. Head rugose; the
cheeks with white pubescence, that on the margin of the vertex
and prothorax pale ochraceous. The thorax closely punctured
above ; the metathorax with dense white pubescence ; wings fulvo-
hyaline, the nervures black; beneath with a dense white pubes-
cence; the anterior coxe enlarged into large circular flattened
lobes. Abdomen rounded at the base, covered with fine shallow
punctures, and having an obscure prismatic iridescence; the apical
segment with a short spine at its base laterally ; the apical ventral
plate with a trifid process, which has also a stout tooth at the base
laterally.

Hab. Champion Bay.

29. Thynnus impatiens.

Male. Length 63 lines.—Black ; the head and thorax opaque and
variegated with yellow ; legs ferruginous; abdomen smooth, shin-
ing, impunctate, and having six yellow macule. The head and
thorax very closely punctured ; the anterior margin of the clypeus

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and the mandibles yellow, the latter black at their apex. The
margins of the prothorax yellow, the hinder one broadly so, the
anterior one interrupted in the middle; the tegule, an ovate spot
on the scutellum, and the postscutellum yellow ; wings subhyaline,
iridescent, and with black nervures; the coxe and trochanters
black. Abdomen impunctate, and with a large ovate macula on the
second, third, and fourth seements laterally.

Hab. Champion Bay.

30. Thynnus deceptor.

Male. Length 73 lines.—Head, thorax, and base of the abdomen
black, the rest of the abdomen and the legs more or less ferru-
ginous. Head closely punctured ; the mandibles, except the ex-
treme base, ferruginous. Thorax with the disk and the scutellum
strongly punctured, otherwise less coarsely and more closely punc-
tured ; beneath, and also the metathorax, with short white pubes-
cence ; wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures ferruginous ; the cox
black; the femora and tibize with more or less of dark stains.
Abdomen with the segments slightly constricted, their apical
margins with a narrow fringe of white pubescence.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Black ; the head very smooth and shin-
ing, and with an obscure ferruginous tint. Thorax smooth above ;
legs obscurely rufo-piceous ; the intermediate tibiee much swollen.
Abdomen with the basal segment longitudinally striated, its apical
margin smooth and shining; the second segment with deep trans-
verse grooves above, the rest of the segments smooth and with
scattered punctures.

Hab, Champion Bay.

31. Thynnus indistinctus.

Male. Length 74 lines.—Black ; the segments of the abdomen with
indistinct reddish fascize. Head finely rugose; the cheeks and face
at the sides with white pubescence; the clypeus convex, produced
over the labrum, and, as well as the mandibles, yellow. The thorax
with white pubescence, which is sparing on the disk and dense
and longest on the metathorax ; the legs have a similar pubescence,
which is longest on the femora beneath ; the apical joints of the
tarsi obscurely rufo-piceous ; wings fusco-hyaline, the nervures
black. Abdomen truncate at the base, covered with fine shallow
punctures ; the basal and four following segments with indistinct
fascize of a reddish yellow, the fasciz most distinct laterally ; the
apical segment terminates in a lanceolate process, very acute at
the apex, and with two small teeth at its base.

Hab. Western Australia.

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32. Thynnus medius.

Male. Length 64 lines.—Black; the clypeus and mandibles yellow,
a transverse black line on the former, and the tips of the latter,
black. Thorax very closely punctured; the elevated anterior
margin of the prothorax, the tegule, a spot on the scutellum, and
the postscutellum, yellow; the legs ferruginous; the pubescence
beneath, and also that on the metathorax, thin and hoary; wings
hyaline, the nervures ferruginous. Abdomen shining and with
shallow punctures ; the apical margins of the segments depressed ;
the first segment with a minute lateral pale yellow spot; the four
following with oblong lateral maculee about the middle of the seg-
ments, those on the second segment are largest and irregularly
ovate ; on the two following segments the macule taper inwardly,
those on the fifth segment are very narrow; the apical ventral
segment is lanceolate, and has a minute tooth at the apex; beneath,
the second, third, and fourth segments have two central, sublunate,
pale yellow spots, and also a minute subovate spot laterally.

Hab. Australia.

33. Thynnus flavovariegatus.

Male. Length 53 lines.— Black, and much variegated with yellow ;
the anterior wings clouded at their apex. The mandibles, clypeus,
orbits of the eyes (interrupted above), a spot above each antenna,
and two small ovate ones on the vertex, yellow ; the clypeus bi-
dentate anteriorly ; the scape in front, and the apex of the joints
of the antenne, yellow. The margins of the prothorax, the tegule,
a furcate spot on the mesothorax, two ovate ones on the scutellum,
the postscutellum, and two longitudinal stripes on the metathorax,
which curve up its lateral margins, yellow; a large oblong spot
beneath the wings, and the coxe beneath, yellow; the legs ferru-
ginous; wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures ferruginous.
The first four segments of the abdomen with a yellow fascia on
their apical margins, each fascia with a transverse dark line that is
interrupted in the middle; beneath, the second, third, and fourth
segments with yellow fascice.

Hab. Australia.

34. Thynunus fastuosus.

Male. Length 43 lines.—Black ; the head and thorax variegated
with yellow, a fuscous cloud in the marginal cell of the anterior
wings, and the abdomen with five yellow fasciz. The clypeus, the
inner orbits of the eyes, a line behind them which runs along
the hinder margin of the vertex, and two minute spots above the
antenne, yellow. The margins of the prothorax (the anterior one
slightly interrupted), a square spot on the mesothorax, a broad
margin on the scutellum, the postscutellum, a line continued to

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the wings, and the metathorax posteriorly, yellow; a large yellow
oblong macula beneath the wings; wings pale fulvo-hyaline, the
neryures ferruginous, the tegula yellow. Abdomen narrowed at
the base; the first and four following segments with narrow yellow
fasciz ; the three apical ones slightly interrupted beneath, black.

Hab. Australia.

35. Thynnus nanus.

| Male. Length 3 lines.—Black and shining, the wings hyaline and
: prismatic, having white spots and lines. A spot at the base of the
mandibles, the margin of the clypeus, a line at the inner orbits of
the eyes as high as the antennz, a short line behind the eyes, and
a spot above each antenna, white. The margins of the prothorax
(the anterior one slightly interrupted), a spot on the scutellum, the
postscutellum, and the tegule, white; the wings hyaline and iri-
descent, the nervures ferruginous; a line beneath the wings white.
Abdomen smooth and shining; the basal segment with an im-
pressed longitudinal line ; the four following segments with a lateral,
oblique, longitudinal spot.

Hab. Tasmania.

56. Thynnus candidus.

Male. Length 63 lines.—Black; head and thorax closely punc-
tured ; abdomen smooth and shining; head and thorax with yellow
markings; legs ferruginous. The base of the mandibles and the
clypeus yellow, the latter strongly punctured and with an anchor-
shaped black mark. The margins of the prothorax, the tegule, a
small oblong spot on the disk of the mesothorax, two minute spots
on the scutellum, a similar spot on each side of it at its basal
angles, the postscutellum, and the lateral apical angles of the meta-
thorax, yellow ; two ovate spots beneath the wings yellow; the
coxee and trochanters, the anterior and intermediate femora behind,
and the posterior pair at their apex above, black. The segments of
the abdomen slightly constricted, and having an oblong pale yellow
macula laterally; the apical ventral segment triangular, with a
sharp spine at each angle.

Hab. Morty Island, Eastern Archipelago.

37. Thynnus strenuus.

Male. Length 64 lines.—Black; head and thorax closely punc-
tured, and thinly sprinkled with black pubescence; the second and
four following segments with white lateral oblong macule pointed
within. Head with a minute spot at the base of the mandibles,
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vertex. The anterior margin of the thorax white, slightly inter-
rupted in the middle; a spot on the tegule, another on the scutellum
and on the postscutellum, also white; the wings hyaline, the ner-
vures ferruginous. Abdomen with the lateral macule placed nearest
to the posterior margins of the segments; beneath, the second and
three following segments with interrupted white fasciz.

Hab. Chili.

38. Thynnus nigrofasciatus.

Male. Length 42 lines——Head and thorax shining black ; legs and
abdomen ferruginous, the latter with the basal and the fifth seg-
ments black. The mandibles pale ferruginous. The mesothorax
and scutellum finely and not very closely punctured ; wings hyaline
and iridescent, the nervures black ; the coxe and trochanters black ;
the abdomen smooth, shining, and impunctate.

flab. Chili.

39. Thynnus nigripennis.

Male. Length 9-10 lines.—Jet-black ; head and thorax opaque,
the abdomen shining. The joints of the antenne subarcuate ; the
pubescence on the head, thorax, and legs black; the head and
thorax closely punctured ; wings dark fuscous, and with a violet
iridescence ; the mesothorax with two deep longitudinal channels,
and two abbreviated narrower ones towards the tegule ; the scu-
tellum elevated, forming a prominent tubercle. Abdomen narrowed
at the base, subpetiolate, and very smooth and shining.

Female. Black, with the flagellum, anterior tibie in front, and the
tarsi fulvous ; above the insertion of each antenna is a broad, arched,
yellow macula; the head and thorax not closely punctured; the
basal segment of the abdomen strongly punctured, and with a tuft
of fulvous pubescence at its base; the second segment rugose, the
following segments finely and distantly punctured; the extreme
apex ferruginous.

Hab. Chili.

40. Thynnus macilentus.

Male. Length 5 lines.—Head and thorax shining black, abdomen
and legs ferruginous. Head finely but not very closely punctured ;
the mandibles and palpi white. Thorax not strongly or closely
punctured ; the margins of the prothorax white, and slightly inter-
rupted in the middle; wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures
black ; the coxe and trochanters black. Abdomen smooth and
shining, and having a black macula on the basal segment.

Hab. Chili.

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41. Thynnus intaminatus.

Male. Length 5 lines.—Shining jet-black; the head and thorax
thinly sprinkled with black hairs, finely but not very closely punc-
tured ; wings fusco-hyaline, and haying a violet iridescence ; abdo-
men with the segments slightly constricted, and smooth, shining,
and impunctate; the prothorax has beneath a central sharp, longi-
tudinal carina.

Hab. Chili.

42. Thynnus albofasciatus.

Male. Length 83 lines.—Black; head and thorax very closely
punctured ; abdomen closely but much more finely so, and with an
impunctate white fascia on the second, third, and fourth segments ;
the fasciz attenuated in the middle and near the apical margins
of the segments. The anterior margin of the prothorax white ;
the legs ferruginous; wings fulvo-hyaline, the anterior pair with
a fuscous cloud in the marginal cell and extending a little below
it, this part of the wings with a violet iridescence ; the nervures
from the base of the wings to the marginal cell ferruginous, beyond
the stigma they are black.

Hab. Chili.

43. Thyunus ingenuus.

Male. Length 7 lines.—Black, much adorned with yellow mark-
ings; the head and thorax closely punctured; abdomen more
strongly but more distantly punctured. The clypeus and a spot at
the base of the mandibles yellow. The margins of the prothorax,
which unite in the middle and have a central black spot, the
tegule, a macula on the mesothorax at the base of the scutellum,
the hinder portion of the latter, the postscutellum, and two broad
stripes on the metathorax, which curve round to its lateral poste-
rior angles, yellow; an oblong spot beneath the wings, the ante-
rior femora in front, and the intermediate and posterior pairs
towards their apex beneath, yellow ; the wings hyaline, their ner-
vures ferruginous. All the segments of the abdomen with a large,
oblong, lateral macula, the macule with a small ovate notch in
their outer margin ; beneath, the second, third, and fourth segments
with a small lateral yellow macula.

Hab. Bay of St. Blas, North Patagonia.

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ELURUS, Klug.

1. Hlurus anthracinus.

Male. Length 7 lines.—Jet-black; the head closely and rather
strongly punctured, the metathorax closely and finely so; wings
subhyaline, the nervures black; a fusco-ferruginous cloud occupy-
ing the first and second submarginal and the third discoidal cells ;
abdomen smooth and shining and subpetiolate. The face and
mandibles with griseous pubescence, the cheeks with a long curled
fringe of the same; the margin of the cheeks behind the eyes
more or less testaceous. The metathorax with erect, thin, griseous
pubescence. The apex of the abdomen with griseous pubescence,
and terminating in a trispinose appendage.

Female. Of an obscure dark reddish brown; the head subopaque,
and strongly and very closely punctured; the thorax less closely
punctured ; the two basal segments of the abdomen rugose, the
rest with oblong shallow punctures ; the apical segment ferruginous,
its margin rounded: the legs and antennee ferruginous.

Hab. Queensland.

ANTHOBOSCA, Guerin.

1. Anthobosca errauns.

Male. Length 7 lines.—Black ; the head and thorax shining, closely
and finely punctured, and, as well as the thorax, with pale yellow
markings; the legs ferruginous. Head subrotundate; the clypeus
and a spot at the base of the mandibles pale yellow; antennz ex-
tending to the base of the scutellum. Two transverse macule on
the prothorax, a spot on the mesothorax, a small one at the apex
of the scutellum and the postscutelium, pale yellow; wings hyaline
and iridescent, the nervures black; the apex of the anterior coxee
whitish. Abdomen slightly shining, and having a thin cinereous
pile.

Hab. Zulu and Port Natal.

2. Anthobosca antennata.

Male. Length 53 lines.—Black ; the antenne incrassate, tapering
to a point at the apex, not extending beyond the tegule; the
head and thorax finely and closely punctured and with yellow
markings. The mandibles, clypeus, and scape in front yellow;
the flagellum fulvous beneath ; the mandibles black at their apex.
The posterior margin of the prothorax, the tegule, a spot on the
mesothorax, one on the scutellum, and the postscutellum yellow :

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the anterior femora in front, the tarsi, and coxee yellow ; the inter-
mediate and posterior trochanters, the extreme apex of the femora
beneath, their tarsi, and the posterior tibie at their base and also
outside, yellow. Abdomen with a thin grey pile.

Hab. Brazil.

3. Anthobosca ethiops.

Male. Length 6} lines.—Black; the head and thorax strongly
punctured. The head a little wider than the thorax, with a very
narrow white line at the inner orbits of the eyes; the face and
cheeks with griseous pubescence ; the antenne incrassate, extend-
ing to the scutellum. The sides of the thorax parallel; the meta-
thorax transversely quadrate ; wings subhyaline; the calcaria pale
testaceous. The abdomen with delicate shallow punctures, and
having a thin cinereous pile.

Hab. West Australia, Champion Bay.

This species is separated from A. negra by the square form of the
metathorax, and by having a white line at the margin of the eyes:
its legs are also totally black.

RHAGIGASTER, Guerin.
1. Rhagigaster sthiops.

Male. Length 84 lines.—Black, shining, punctured, the mesothorax
and scutellum coarsely so; wings hyaline, with black nervures.
The tips of the mandibles ferruginous; the clypeus shining and
finely punctured, its anterior margin emarginate, the lateral angles
of the emargination acute. The prothorax not very strongly punc-
tured, its anterior margin acute and somewhat raised ; the sides,
beneath, and the metathorax with thin hoary pubescence. The
segments of the abdomen constricted, the apical margins of the
segments depressed, with scattered shallow punctures.

Female. WUength 6 lines.—Black, with the meso- and metathorax and
legs ferruginous. The head smooth and shining above, anteriorly
rugose; the antennz and mandibles rufo-piceous; the thorax
smooth and shining, and, like the head, with a few scattered
punctures ; the abdomen smooth and shining, with the extreme
apex rufo-piceous.

Hab. Adelaide.

2. Rhagigaster fuscipennis.

Male. Length 63 lines.—Black, shining, sparingly punctured on
the thorax and abdomen ; wings fusco-hyaline, with a violet irides-

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cence, the nervures black. Head closely and strongly punctured,
except the hinder portion of the vertex, which has distant punc-
tures ; a transverse carina in front of the ocelli; the mandibles ©
black, with the extreme apex ferruginous; the face, below the
antenne, with white pubescence. Thorax with strong but distant
punctures ; the anterior margin of the prothorax raised and acute,
the sides of the prothorax somewhat rounded to the wings. Abdo-
men with the segments constricted, sparingly punctured; beneath,
the base of the segments closely punctured, their apical half with
stronger but distant punctures.

Hab. Queensland.

3. Rhagigaster rugosus.

Male. Length 5 lines.—Black; the head and thorax rugose ; the
tibiee, tarsi, and two apical segments of the abdomen ferruginous.
The head and thorax with thin hoary pubescence ; wings hyaline,
the nervures black. Abdomen closely punctured and shining; the
recurved spine black.

Female. Length 2? lines.—Black ; the antenne pale ferruginous ;
the mandibles and tarsi ferruginous, the tibie obscurely so; the
prothorax ferruginous, the meso- and metathorax obscurely so ;
the second segment of the abdomen bright ferruginous and deeply
transversely grooved ; the extreme apex ferruginous.

Hab. Adelaide.

This species is closely allied to R. hemorrhoidalis of Guérin, but
is distinguished from it by its smaller size and by the colour of its
legs.

4, Rhagigaster levigatus.

Male. Length 10 lines.—Black, shining, thorax impunctate ; wings
dark brown-black, lightest towards their apical margins. The face
with a few scattered fine punctures, the vertex impunctate ; the
face on each side of the clypeus with cinereous pubescence. The
scutellum prominent. The abdomen smooth and shining; the
margins of the segments depressed ; the depression at the apex of
the third, fourth, and fifth segments finely punctured.

Female. Length 7} lines.—Ferruginous, the abdomen, legs, and
antenne obscurely so; the head subquadrate, and, as well as the
thorax above, with strong oblong punctures; the apical margins
of the segments with a row of punctures; the apical segment with
oblong punctures.

Hab. N.W. coast of Australia, Champion Bay.

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5. Rhagigaster clypeatus.

| Maie. Length 8 lines.—Black ; the head and thorax closely punc-
_ tured and subopaque; abdomen shining, and more finely and
distantly punctured ; the clypeus yellow, truncate anteriorly, and
longitudinally striated ; the base of the mandibles with an indistinct
yellow spot. The wings subhyaline, and haying a violet irides-
cence ; the metathorax more finely punctured than the meso-
thorax, and with a little hoary pubescence at the sides. The basal
margins of the segments of the abdomen depressed; the sixth
ventral segment with a short lateral spine, the seventh with a
recurved spine that has a short tooth or spine at its base.

Hab. Australia.

ELAPHROPTERA, Guérin.

1. Elaphroptera carbonaria.

Male. Length 12-124 lines.—Shining black, closely and finely
punctured; wings hyaline, with their apical portion clouded.
Head transversely subquadrate; the clypeus carinate, its anterior
margin deeply emarginate and acutely bidentate; the sides of the
face, below the antennz, concave ; the antenne extending to the
middle of the first segment of the abdomen, the joints of the
antenne arcuate. The anterior margin of the prothorax acute,
the scutellum forming an elevated tubercle; the wings hyaline
from the base to the marginal cell, in which is a dark fuscous cloud,
which extends thence to the apex of the wings, but of a lighter
tint; the nervures brown-black, those of the anterior wings mar-
gined with fuscous ; the apex of the wings with a violet iridescence.
Abdomen subpetiolate, the margins of the segments depressed ; the
apical segment impunctate at the base and rugose at the apex,
and, as well as the ventral segment, rounded at the apex.

Hab. Rie.

SCOLITDAL, Leach.

MYZINE.

Scolia (pt.), Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 236.

Elis (pt.), Fabr. Syst. Prez. 232.

Tiphia (pt.), Faubr. Syst. Prez. 232.
Sapyga (pt.), Panz. Faun. Germ. 87. 19.
Myzine, Latr. Hist. Nat. des Ins, xiii. 269
Plesia, Jurine, Hym, (1817).

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1. Myzine ruficornis.

Male. Length 3-31 lines.—Black ; the flagellum of the antenne
and apical segment of the abdomen ferruginous; the segments of
the abdomen constricted, and, as well as the thorax and head,
variegated with yellow. The mandibles yellow, with their tips
ferruginous. ‘he margins of the prothorax, the tegule, scutellum,
tibize, tarsi, and tips of the femora, yellow; wings subhyaline.
Abdomen with yellow marginal fascie that are expanded laterally ;
beneath black.

Hab. Sicily.
2. Myzine nigrifrons.

Male. Length 6-64 lines.—Head and thorax black, the latter with
yellow markings, and the tibie and tarsi yellow; abdomen with
yellow fascize. The mandibles yellow at their base; the face and
cheeks with white pubescence, that at the insertion of the antenne
pale ochraceous. The margins of the prothorax yellow; a spot
beneath the wings, the femora beneath and at their apex, as well
as the tibie and tarsi, yellow; wings hyaline, nervures fusco-
ferruginous, the stigma ferruginous. Abdomen shining and finely
punctured ; the apical margins of the segments with yellow fascie
that gradually widen laterally, the fascie continued beneath the
abdomen, and are abruptly widened in the middle.

Var. The spot on the mandibles and the yellow margins of the pro-
thorax obsolete.

Hab. Sicily.
3. Myzine torrida.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Head and thorax black, legs and abdo-
men ferruginous. Head strongly but not very closely punctured,
most densely so on the face; the mandibles and tips of the scape
and flagellum ferruginous. The prothorax, the hinder margin of
the mesothorax, and the scutellum punctured; the metathorax
somewhat obliquely truncate, but not abruptly so, and having a
central longitudinal channel that terminates at the verge of the
truncation; wings hyaline, with a slight fuscous cloud in the
marginal cell; the tibie and tarsi with pale glittering sete.
Abdomen smooth and shining, the apical segment longitudinally
striated.

Hab. The Gambia.

4, Myzine insularis.

Female. Length 103 lines.—Shining black, with fulvo-hyaline
wings, the nervures ferruginous, tegule rufo-testaceous. The an-
tenn fulvous beneath; the mandibles thickly fringed beneath

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with dark brown pubescence ; the clypeus obscurely ferruginous ;
the head with fine scattered punctures. ‘Thorax finely punctured,
distantly so on the mesothorax and scutellum; the hinder margin
of the prothorax obscurely ferruginous, the metathorax opaque;
the apical joints of the tarsi obscurely ferruginous. The basal
segment of the abdomen with a somewhat obscure lunate, ferru-
ginous, transverse spot ; the apical margins of the segments slightly
depressed, the depressions with a row of fine punctures ; the apical
segment rugose and covered with blackish-brown pubescence.

Hab. Madagascar.

5. Myzine combusta.

Female. Length 87 lines.—Head and thorax black, legs and abdo-
men ferruginous. Head below the ocelli with rough confluent
punctures ; above, the vertex smooth and shining; the antennse
and mandibles ferruginous. The prothorax strongly punctured
laterally, as are also the sides and beneath; the metathorax trun-
eate, with one or two deep transverse grooves at the verge of the
truncation ; the tibiz and tarsi with dense ferruginous sete ; the
mesothorax with two deep longitudinal grooves on each side of
the disk; the disk between the inner grooves yellow, between the

_ grooves themselves it is ferruginous; wings hyaline, the nervures

ferruginous. Abdomen smooth and shining, the apical segment

longitudinally rugose ; beneath, the segments are punctured at their
apical margins.

Hab. India (?) or Africa.

6. Myzine pallida.

Male. Length 33-4 lines.—The head black, the rest of the insect
pale testaceous with pale rufous markings. The scape of the
antennee, the clypeus, and mandibles pale testaceous, nearly white ;
the flagellum fulvous. The thorax and legs whitish, with a pale
ferruginous tint at the sides and in front of the mesothorax ; some-
times the metathorax is more or less tinted with pale ferruginous ;
wings hyaline, the nervures testaceous, the stigma fuscous. Abdo-
men with pale, waved, ferruginous fascie.

Hab. India, North-west Provinces.

7. Myzine orientalis.

_ Male. Length 53 lines.—Black and much variegated with pale

_ yellowish-white. The scape of the antenne in front, the clypeus,

and mandibles pale yellow; the antenne longer than the thorax,

the flagellum fulvous beneath. The prothorax, the tegule, a spot

on the mesothorax, the scutellum, postscutellum, and legs pale
N 2.

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yellowish white ; wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures rufo-
testaceous. All the segments of the abdomen, except the apical
one, with broad pale fasciz, leaving the apical margins narrowly
fuscous and the basal margins narrowly black; beneath rufo-
testaceous, with angular fascize on the second, third, and fourth
segments.

Hab. Beloochistan.

8. Myzime simillima.

Female. Length 74 lines.—Black ; head and thorax strongly but
not very closely punctured, variegated with yellow; abdomen very
smooth and shining. The face closely punctured, with a reddish-
yellow spot above each antenna, and an abbreviated line opposite
to them close to the eyes, also a line behind them. Thorax shining
above, and with rather strong punctures, which are sparing on the
mesothorax ; a transverse fascia on the metathorax near its hinder
margin, the postscutellum, and a spot on the posterior coxe above,
yellow; the metathorax truncate, the truncation with radiating
strie, punctured above, and with a smooth shining space on each
side; the sides of the metathorax longitudinally striated ; wings
subhyaline, with dark brown nervures. Abdomen smooth and
shining, and having a few fine scattered punctures; the apical
segment very finely longitudinally striated ; a yellow macula on —
each side of the first and second segments, that on the second is
near its basal margin; the three following segments with narrow,
widely interrupted, yellow fascize.

Hab. St. Paulo.

This species somewhat resembles M. flavopicta from Santarem, but
is quite distinct, differing both in sculpturing and coloration.

9. Myzine jucunda.

Female. Length 83 lines.—Head, thorax, and legs black ; abdomen
blue-black, and with narrow pale yellow fascize. Head strongly
punctured, most closely so on the face; the mandibles obscurely
rufo-piceous ; the flagellum fulvous beneath. The prothorax closely
punctured ; the mesothorax with scattered punctures ; the meta-
thorax impunctate at the base, the truncation punctured and with
strie that radiate laterally from the centre; a furcate macula on
the mesothorax, a short stripe over the tegule, the scutellum, the
postscutellum, and a longitudinal stripe in the middle of the meta-
thorax that narrows to its apex, also a line at the lateral margins
of the metathorax, yellow; the posterior coxe with a yellow macula
in front ; the tibiee and tarsi obscurely rufo-piceous ; wings hyaline,
with a dark fuscous stain on the anterior margin of the fore wings.
The basal segment of the abdomen with a lateral angular macula,
the basal margins of the first to fourth segments with narrow fasciz, —

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pale yellow ; the terminal segment longitudinally striated, its apical
margin rufo-testaceous.

Hab. Brazil, St. Paulo.

10. Myzine albomaculata.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Black, shining, and sparingly punctured.
Head with a few fine punctures, the cheeks and clypeus having a
little hoary pubescence. Two small subovate macule on the pro-
thorax above, a similar one on its sides, a small transverse one on
the mesothorax at the margin of the scutellum, a small spot at the
basal margin of the metathorax in the middle, and a subovate one
at its posterior lateral angles, white; the posterior tibie with a
row of spines on their outer margin; wings subhyaline, the ner-
vures black, the tegule pale testaceous. Abdomen with a subovate
macula on the second and third segments laterally ; the apical seg-
ment densely covered with short brown pubescence; its margin
pale testaceous or white.

Male. Length 4 lines.—Black, shining, the head and thorax finely
punctured and variegated with yellow ; the segments of the abdo-
men not constricted. The clypeus, mandibles, and scape of the
antenne in front, white; the flagellum fulvous beneath towards the
base. ‘Two subovate spots on the prothorax, a smaller one on the
mesothorax at the base of the scutellum, a spot on the latter, the
postscutellum, and a minute spot at the base and also at the apex of
the metathorax, yellowish white ; the tibie, tarsi, and apex of the
four anterior legs, pale yellow; the anterior and intermediate tibize
behind, and the posterior pair at their apex, black ; the claw-joint
of the tarsi black or fuscous ; wings hyaline and iridescent. Abdo-
men smooth and shining.

Hab. Para;-Tunantins and Ega on the Amazons.

The sexes taken im coi by Mr. H. W. Bates.

11. Myzine iridipennis.

Male. Length 57 lines.—Black, shining, and very finely punctured.
Head narrowed behind the eyes; the anterior margin of the cly-
peus, and of the face to the eyes, and also the mandibles, white,

the last black at their apex ; antenne entirely black ; two minute
spots between the antennz, sometimes obsolete. A narrow inter-
rupted line on the anterior margin of the prothorax; the meta-
thorax with white pubescence at the sides; wings hyaline at the

- base, nearly to the extremity of the externo-median cell, from there
fuscous with a brilliant violet iridescence. Abdomen with the
apical margins of the segments very narrowly. and indistinctly
rufo-testaceous.

Hab, Amazons, Kga.

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12. Myzine confusa.

Male. Length 4 lines.—Head and thorax black, abdomen ferru-
ginous. The mandibles ferruginous, the flagellum fulvous beneath ;
the vertex smooth, shining, and impunctate. The pro- and meso-
thorax with fine scattered punctures, smooth and shining; the
metathorax coarsely rugose; the tibie and tarsi ferruginous ; wings
hyaline and iridescent, the nervures rufo-testaceous, the stigma
fuscous. Abdomen subpetiolate, smooth, and shining; the basal
half of the first segment black.

Hab. Amazons, Kga.

13. Myzine agilis.

Female. Length 8 lines.—Black, shining, and punctured, variegated
with pale yellow markings; wings fulvous, their apex fuscous
and iridescent, nervures ferruginous. The antennze, two spots be-
tween them, the clypeus, and mandibles ferruginous, the tips of
the latter black; a narrow yellow line at the inner orbits of the
eyes towards their summit, with scattered punctures above the
antenne. The pro- and mesothorax with strong but not close
punctures ; the metathorax truncate, the base rugose; at the verge
of the truncation transversely carinate, the truncation with radi-
ating striz ; the margins of the prothorax yellow, the anterior one
interrupted ; the postscutellum and a spot beneath the wings yel-
low ; the legs ferruginous. Abdomen smooth and shining; a lateral
ovate macula on the basal segment; the second segment with a
short lateral lme near the middle and a short one at its basal
margin in the centre; the third and fourth segments with trans-
verse narrow fascie, that on the latter slightly interrupted, and the
fifth segment with a widely interrupted narrow fascia, pale yellow ;
beneath black.

Male. Length 7% lines.—Black; the clypeus, mandibles, scape in
front, and a spot above each antenna yellow. The prothorax, the
tegule, a Y-shaped spot on the mesothorax, a lunate one on the
scutellum, the postscutellum, a spot beneath the wings, the tibie,
tarsi, and apex of the femora, yellow; wings hyaline, the nervures
ferruginous. The segments of the abdomen with uninterrupted
yellow fascize ; beneath, the fascize are narrower, attenuated, and
interrupted in the middle.

Hab. Nicaragua.

14. Myzine bicincta.

Female. Length 53 lines.— Black; the metathorax yellow, the
abdomen with a violet iridescence, and with a narrow yellow
fascia at the base of the third and fourth segments. The clypeus,
mandibles, and antenne ferruginous, the latter more or less fuscous

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above; punctured. Thorax closely punctured anteriorly, but more
finely and distantly so behind; a quadrate macula on the meso-—
thorax, a line over the tegule, the scutellum, and postscutellum
pale yellow, the latter with an angular black spot at the base
laterally, and also two oblong ones on the truncation; wings
hyaline and iridescent, the nervures ferruginous, with a fuscous
cloud in the marginal cell; the legs ferruginous, the posterior pair
with the coxe and the femora above yellow. ‘The second, third,
and fourth segments of the abdomen beneath with interrupted
yellow fascize, the first broadest.

Hab. Brazil?
Believed to be from Swainson’s collection.

15. Myzine fallax.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Black ; the abdomen with shades of blue
and violet, and having two uninterrupted yellow fascia. Head
strongly punctured ; the mandibles ferruginous towards their apex ;
a narrow ferruginous line at the inner orbits of the eyes, and an
abbreviated one behind them. The pro- and mesothorax strongly
punctured, the metathorax semiopaque ; an interrupted fascia on
the anterior margin of the prothorax, a line beneath the wings,
and the lateral margins of the metathorax, ferruginous; wings
subhyaline, with a fuscous stain on the anterior margin of the
fore wings. Abdomen with an ovate lateral macula on the basal
segment; the third and fourth segments with a yellow fascia
towards their basal margins, the fifth segment with a narrow
interrupted fascia ; the apical segment longitudinally striated, and
obscurely ferruginous at its apex ; beneath with a lateral macula
on the second and third segments.

Male. Length 63 lines.—Black, and with orange-coloured spots
and fascie. The clypeus, mandibles, and two spots at the insertion
of the antenne ferruginous. The margins of the prothorax, the
anterior one interrupted, a quadrate spot on the disk of the meso-
thorax, the scutellum, postscutellum, and lateral margins of the
metathorax, orange-yellow ; the anterior and intermediate tibie
and tarsi and the apex of the femora, yellow; the intermediate
tibiee black behind; the posterior tibie at their base yellow, as
well as the tarsi. The apical margins of the segments with orange
fascie, those on the first and second segments emarginate in the
middle, and also notched laterally.

Hab. Mexico.

16. Myzine flavicornis.

Female. Length 7 lines.—Black, punctured, the flagellum of the
antenne orange-yellow ; the wings dark brown, with violet irides-
cence. Head with the vertex shining and not very closely

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punctured ; the face and cheeks with a little black pubescence. The

- mesothorax shining and sparingly punctured, the scutellum more
closely so; the metathorax opaque and rather finely rugulose.
Abdomen smooth and shining, and with very fine scattered punc-
tures ; beneath sparingly but more strongly punctured.

Hab. Chili.

TIPHIA, Fabr.

1. Tiphia fulvipennis.

Female. Length 6-73 lines.— Black, shining, and punctured ; wings
fulvous, with ferruginous nervures, the stigma obscure. The head
strongly punctured; the flagellum fulvous beneath, obscurely so
above; mandibles obscurely rufo-piceous. ‘The pro- and meso-
thorax strongly punctured ; the metathorax opaque and truncate,
with two longitudinal carine above, slightly approximating at the
verge of the truncation, and haying a short carina between them
at the base of the metathorax. Abdomen with fine punctures,
which are closest towards the apex; the margins of the segments
with a thin fringe of white hairs; similarly punctured and fringed
beneath.

Male. This sex strongly resembles the female, but is more finely
punctured.

Hab. Albania, Servia.

2. Tiphia consueta.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Black, shining, and punctured, the abdo-
men impunctate at the base, and very finely punctured beyond the
second segment. The face closely punctured, the vertex less closely
so. Thorax closely punctured, the metathorax impunctate and
with three longitudinal subparallel carine ; the apical half of the
wings slightly fuscous.

Hab. Ceylon.

3. Tiphia natalensis.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Shining black, punctured, and with fusco-
hyaline wings, nervures brownish black. Head not very closely
punctured ; antennze ferruginous beneath and fuscous above; the
mandibles ferruginous. The pro- and mesothorax punctured ; the
metathorax impunctate, with three longitudinal carine, the lateral
ones slightly approximating towards the verge of the truncation ;
the tibiz obscurely rufo-piceous, the tarsi paler. Abdomen finely

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punctured, the apical segment more strongly and closely so and
ferruginous at its apex.

Hab. Natal.
4, Tiphia rugosa.

Female. Length 67 lines.—Black ; the head and pro- and mesothorax
coarsely punctured, the abdomen rather finely so, the wings dark
fuscous. The antennz fulvous beneath, the mandibles obscurely
ferruginous. The hinder margin of the prothorax smooth and
shining ; the metathorax semiopaque, and having three longitudinal
carinz, the lateral ones slightly converging to the verge of the
truncation ; the anterior tarsi and the apex of the joints of the
intermediate and posterior pairs rufo-testaceous. The punctures
on the third and following segments of the abdomen oblong and
with a tendency to run into strie.

Hab. Zulu.

5. Tiphia penetratrix.

Male. Length 23 lines.—Black and punctured, with ferruginous
antenne. ‘The face closely punctured, the vertex more distinctly
so and shining; the scape black; the mandibles ferruginous. The
pro- and mesothorax punctured; the metathorax with three sub-
parallel carinz ; the sides delicately aciculate; wings hyaline and
iridescent, the nervures testaceous, the stigma black ; the anterior
and intermediate tibize and tarsi, and the posterior at the apex of
the joints, pale ferruginous. Abdomen smooth and shining, pube-
scent towards the apex.

Hab. Sierra Leone.

6. Tiphia solitaria.

Male. Length 5 lines.—Black, the abdomen very smooth and
shining, and having only a few delicate scattered punctures ; wings
fusco-hyaline, clear towards their base. Head closely punctured,
the pro- and mesothorax less closely so; the metathorax impunc-
tate, and having three subparallel carine; the anterior tibie
ferruginous in front, and the apical joints of the tarsi rufo-
testaceous.

Hab. Ega, on the Amazons.
This is probably the male of 7. parallela.

7. Tiphia parallela.

Female. Length 5-63 lines.—Black and shining, punctured, ex-
cept the metathorax above, which has three longitudinal parallel

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carine, the two outer ones extending from the base to the apex,
the central one not quite running to the apex; a carina runs
along the margin of the truncation and up the lateral margins.
The head strongly punctured; the face with fine white downy
pile ; the mandibles ferruginous, with the base and apex obscurely
so. The pro- and mesothorax with strong punctures; wings
fuscous, somewhat paler at their apex. Abdomen with fine secat-
tered punctures, most closely punctured on the apical segments ;
the terminal segment rugose; the segments fringed at the sides
and beneath with thin white pubescence.

Hab. Amazons, Ega.

8. Tiphia salutatrix.

Female. Length 33 lines.—Black and shining, punctured, except
the two basal segments of the abdomen, the scutellum, and the
metathorax, which are smooth and shining, the latter with three
central longitudinal carine that are nearly parallel, very slightly
converging towards the verge of the truncation, which has a raised
carina that runs up the lateral margins. The head, pro- and meso-
thorax with fine distant punctures; the mandibles ferruginous,
the antenne very obscurely so. The anterior and intermediate
tibie and tarsi, and the tips of the femora, dark ferruginous ;
wings subhyaline, the nervures and outer margin of the tegule
rufo-testaceous. The third and following segments of the abdo-
men finely punctured ; the apex ferruginous.

Male. The size of the female.—The head and thorax more closely
punctured; the flagellum of the antenne fulvous beneath; the
mandibles ferruginous towards their apex. The wings subhyaline,
with the nervures and stigma black; the scutellum punctured, the
apical margins of the segments distinctly punctured.

Hab. Amazons, Ega.

9. Tiphia campanula.

Male. Length 32 lines.—Black and shining, punctured, except the
two basal segments of the abdomen and the metathorax, the latter
with three subparallel carinee, the middle one with a deep groove
on each side. The head finely punctured, the face with a white
downy pile; the pro- and. mesothorax finely punctured; wings
subhyaline, becoming hyaline towards the base, the nervures and
stigma black. Abdomen with the first segment bell-shaped and
much narrower than the second segment, beyond which it is finely
but not closely punctured ; beneath finely punctured.

Hab. Kga.

This species resembles the male of 7. salutatriv, from which it

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differs in being a more slender insect, in haying the second sub-
marginal cell much narrowed towards the discoidal cells, and in
haying the first segment of the abdomen as long as broad: in
T. salutatrix the segment is short and transverse.

10. Tiphia oblonga.

Female. Length 541 ines.—Black, with fusco-hyaline wings; the
metathorax oblong, more so than usual. Head closely punctured
and gradually narrowed behind the eyes. The pro- and meso-
thorax punctured the same as the head; the scutellum sparsely
punctured ; the metathorax impunctate, with three longitudinal
parallel carine, the middle one short, and not distinctly formed.
The two basal segments of the abdomen impunctate and shining,
the following segments finely so; the terminal segment with pale
pubescence, its apical margin rufo-testaceous.

Hab. Columbia.

11. Tiphia clypeata.

_ Male. Length 4 lines.—Black, with the clypeus and mandibles
white. Head and thorax closely punctured ; the metathorax longi-
tudinally rugose; the usual three carinz not distinctly observable,
but are parallel and rather wide apart ; wings hyaline, the nervures
black. Abdomen finely punctured, the segments with a fringe of
pale fulvous pubescence above and beneath.

Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.

12. Tiphia subspinosa.

Male. Length 5 lines.—Black, punctured ; the wings hyaline, iri-
descent, and faintly clouded at their apex. The head closely
punctured ; the antenne as long as the thorax; the face and
cheeks with thin white pubescence. The thorax closely punctured ;
the metathorax rugose and with three longitudinal carine, the
lateral ones approximating towards the verge of the truncation ;
the prothorax narrowed towards the head; the lateral angles of
the anterior margin subspinose ; the tegule smooth and shining.
Abdomen rather strongly punctured ; the first segment longer than
broad, and having a central impressed line.

Hab. Mexico.

This differs from the male of 7. parallela and T. nornata in having
the angles of the prothorax subspinose, and in the strongly punc-
tured abdomen.

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13. Tiphia intricata.

Female. Length 53-7 lines.—Black. The head, pro- and mesothorax
with strong confluent punctures; the metathorax smooth and shining,
and with three longitudinal carine, the lateral ones approximating
to the verge of the truncation ; the wings subhyaline, the nervures
brownish black, the tegule smooth and shining; the legs with
glittering white pubescence. Abdomen shining, with scattered,
shallow, rather fine punctures; the apical segment with strong
confluent punctures.

Male. Length 44-5 lines.—Resembles the female in having con-
fluent punctures on the head and thorax; the head, thorax, and
legs are much more pubescent.

Hab. South Mexico, the eastern slope of the mountains, and
Oajaca.

DIMORPHOPTERA, Smith.

1. Dimorphoptera cognata.

Female. Length 5 lines.~Black and shining ; punctured, sparingly
pubescent, and having the mandibles and legs ferruginous. The
clypeus shining, smooth, with the sides punctured; the face
closely punctured, the vertex sparingly so. The prothorax, the
disk of the mesothorax, and the metathorax finely punctured, the
two former with distant strong punctures; wings fusco-hyaline,
the nervures and stigma black; a little white pubescence at the
sides of the metathorax ; the coxee and trochanters black. Abdomen
very finely and closely punctured, and with a downy pile at the
base of the segments laterally ; beneath, the second segment with
a few scattered punctures, the rest closely and finely punctured,
their margins fringed with white pubescence.

Hab. Swan River.

Has a general resemblance to Tiphia femorata, but the basal seg-
ment is not constricted.

2. Dimorphoptera levifrons.

Female. Length 37 lines.—Black and shining. The head impunc-
tate; the antenne fulvous beneath; the mandibles ferruginous.
The prothorax smooth, except in front, where it is finely punctured ;
wings fusco-hyaline, the nervures and stigma black; the legs ob-
scurely rufo-piceous, the apical joints of the tarsi palest. Abdomen
impunctate.

Hab. South Australia.

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SCOLIA, Fabr.
(Dielis, Sauss.)

1. Scolia albofimbriata.

Female. Length 94 lines.—Black, with fulvo-hyaline wings. Front
of the head, as high as the emargination of the eyes, closely punc-
tured, above with a few scattered punctures, the vertex being im-
punctate. Thorax strongly punctured, the disk, and also the scu-

-tellum, sparingly so; the wings with violet iridescence; the
pubescence black, but with a thin fringe of white hairs on the legs
beneath. Abdomen with a very obscure violet or blue tinge; the
base punctured ; the second and third segments with a few very
fine distant punctures, the following segments with strong punc-
tures at their apical margins; the terminal segment rugose; a thin
short white fringe on the apical margins of the first, second, and
third segments.

Male. Of the same colour as the female, but the first segment of
the abdomen is much narrower than the second, with a short
petiole and clavate.

Hab. Costa Rica, Cache.

MUTILLIDA, Leach.

MUTILLA.

Mutilla, Zonn. Syst. Nat. 1. 966.
Tiphia, pt. Rosse, Faun. Etrus. ii. 68.

AFRICAN SPECIES.
Div. I. With the thorax ferruginous. (Sp. 1-12.)
1. Mutilla obtusa.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Black; the thorax ferruginous above ;
the abdomen with a spot of pale yellowish-white pubescence on
the basal segment, two on the second segment, and the third covered
with similar pubescence. Head nearly as wide as the thorax,
rugose, with the antennz obscurely ferruginous; the mandibles
ferruginous, with their tips black. Thorax quadrate and longitu-
dinally rugose, abruptly truncate behind; the tarsi ferruginous.
Abdomen short, subglobose; the basal segment with a pubescent

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spot, two on the second, and the third covered with white; the ©
erect pubescence on the insect beneath is white.

Hab, Cape of Good Hope.

2. Mutilla angulata.

Male. Length 7 lines.—Black; the mesothorax and scutellum fer-
ruginous. The head very closely punctured, the eyes emarginate,
wings with two submarginal cells. The thorax rugose-punctate,
the mesothorax most coarsely so and widest posteriorly; wings
brown, palest towards their base, the tegule ferruginous. The
first and second segments of the abdomen strongly punctured, the
first with a patch of white pubescence on its apical margin laterally,
the third segment with a broad slightly interrupted white fascia ;
the entire insect thinly sprinkled with erect white pubescence, ex-
cept that on the second and apical segments of the abdomen, which
is fuscous.

Hab. Cape of Good Hope?

This species resembles Mutilla miranda in having the posterior
lateral angles of the metathorax produced; but that insect has the
head ferruginous, and is from India; the present species is believed
to be from the Cape. It is from the Shuckardian collection.

3. Mutilla purpurata.

Male. Length 53 lines.—Head, antenne, the thorax at the sides,
beneath, the metathorax, and legs black; the abdomen dark
purple; the thorax ferruginous above. ‘The head very closely and
strongly punctured. The thorax rugose, the metathorax coarsely
so; wings dark fuscous, subhyaline at their extreme base; the
legs with thin white pubescence. The apical margins of the first
and second segments of the abdomen with a white pubescent fascia,
the third segment covered with the same, the second segment finely
punctured.

Hab. Natal.
4, Mutilla dolosa.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Head and abdomen black, the thorax
ferruginous, the legs obscurely so; two small ovate spots on the
second segment, and the third with a fascia of bright white pubes-
cence. Head large, much wider than the thorax, and strongly and
closely punctured; the tubercles at the base of the antenne
bright ferruginous, and each having a short black tooth above; the
scape of the antenne obscurely ferruginous; the mandibles ferru-
ginous in the middle. Thorax oblong-quadrate, slightly narrowed
in the middle, very coarsely rugose, irregularly sculptured longi-

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tudinally, the grooves with oblong punctures. The abdomen with
erect white pubescence, very thinly scattered above, more dense at
the sides beneath and at the apex above.

Hab. Natal.

5. Mutilla comparata.

Female. Length 5-54 lines.—Black; thorax dark red; abdomen
with two yellowish-white spots on the first segment, the third
covered with similar pubescence, but slightly interrupted in the
middle. ‘The head wider than the thorax, and coarsely rugose.
The thorax nearly as wide anteriorly as long, more coarsely rugose
than the head, being sculptured with deep oblong punctures, nar-
rowed towards the metathorax, somewhat abruptly so a little
beyond the middle; the legs with thin erect white pubescence.
The second segment of the abdomen with a narrow smooth space
at its base, which has deep rounded punctures beyond, covered
with deep elongate punctures, which are more or less confluent,
thinly sprinkled with erect black hairs, those on the white spots
are white and erect.

Hab. Natal.

This species resembles the MV. bilunata of Gerstaecker ; but the
thorax is of a different form, the spots on the first abdominal seg-
ment occupy its sides, and there are no spots on the apical margin
of the second segment.

6. Mutilla predatrix.

Female. Length 32 lines.—Head, legs, and abdomen black, thorax
ferruginous ; a pubescent macula on the first segment, another in
the middle of the second, and the third segment with a broad fascia
of bright yellowish-white pubescence. The head about the same
width as the thorax, rugose, and, in some examples, very indi-
stinctly ferruginous on the vertex. Thorax oblong-quadrate, the
sides parallel; the truncation of the metathorax, as well as thorax
above, rugose-punctate, the punctures oblong and running into
irregular striz. The second segment of the abdomen punctured in
a similar manner to the thorax, but less coarsely so.

Hab. Natal.

7. Mutilla inconspicua.

Female. Length 3 lines.—Head, legs, and abdomen black, the
former rather wider than the thorax, which is red above; the
abdomen with two white fascie. Head rugose, having long con-
fluent punctures ; the mandibles ferruginous at their tips. Thorax
oblong, narrowed behind and covered with irregular rows of coarse

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oblong confluent punctures above, smooth and shining at the sides.
Abdomen oblong-ovate, covered with oblong, irregular, confluent
punctures; the apical margin of the first segment with a narrow
fascia of white pubescence, the third covered with similar pubes-
cence; beneath, evenly punctured.

Male. The size of the female, but differs in colouring, having the
metathorax black and covered with large coarse punctures. Head
not wider than the thorax; the eyes emarginate. The wings fus-
cous, and with three distinct submarginal cells. The abdomen
with the first segment strongly, and the second finely, punctured,
with white fasciz similar to those of the female.

Hab. Natal.

8. Mutilla stimulatrix.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Black, with the thorax ferruginous above.
The head with golden-yellow pubescence above. Thorax oblong,
much narrowed behind and rugose above; the legs with short
glittering white pubescence, and, as well as the head and thorax,
sprinkled with long black hairs. Abdomen deep velvet-black; a
silvery-white pubescent spot on the basal segment, an ovate one at
the base of the second, and also a larger transverse spot near its
apical margin, on each side, with a spot also at the apex of the
abdomen, which is thinly sprinkled with black erect pubescence
above and with white beneath ; the second segment beneath rugose,
and the margins of all the segments fringed with white pubes-
cence.

Var.? With the antenne, tibize, and tarsi ferruginous, of the same
form, and with similar markings.

Hab. South Africa.

9. Mutilla petulans.

Female. Length 24 lines.— Head, abdomen, and legs black ; thorax
ferruginous and oblong-quadrate. Head as wide as the thorax,
rugose, with the mandibles ferruginous in the middle. Thorax
rugose, truncate anteriorly and posteriorly, the sides parallel; the
metathorax, the sides beneath, and the legs with erect scattered
pale fulvous pubescence. The abdomen with two ovate spots on
the second segment of pale fulvous pubescence, an interrupted band
of the same on the third ; the apical segment longitudinally striated
and fringed at the sides with pale pubescence.

Hab. West Africa.

10. Mutilla horrida.

Female. Length 5-54 lines.—Coarsely rugose, the head and abdomen

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black; the thorax obscure pink-red. The head narrower than
the thorax, which is a little longer than broad, subquadrate, and
widest in the middle, having a thinly-scattered short black pubes-
cence above, on the sides and beneath it is cinereous; the legs have
also a few scattered pale hairs. Abdomen with the second seg-
ment coarsely rugose, but less so at its apical margin; two pale
gold-coloured ovate pubescent spots on the basal segment; the third
segment covered with similar pubescence, but interrupted in the
middle; beneath, the segments fringed with pale pubescence.

Hab. Zambesi, Lake Nyassa.

11. Mutilla guttata.

_ Female. Length 44 lines.—Black, with the thorax ferruginous
| above. The head with pale golden-coloured pubescence; the
_ antennz and the base of the mandibles obscurely ferruginous.
| ‘The thorax oblong, rounded in front, and narrowed to the meta-
| thorax, coarsely rugose, and sprinkled with pale glittering golden-
coloured pubescence; the legs have a similar pubescence. The
basal segment of the abdomen subglobose and covered with silvery
pubescence; the second segment with three large ovate, bright
gold-coloured pubescent macule, a similar macula at the apex of
the abdomen ; beneath, the second, third, and fourth segments are
fringed with white pubescence.

Hab. Madagascar.
12. Mutilla penetrata.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Head a little wider than the thorax,
black, with the vertex obscurely ferruginous, and covered with large
deep oblong punctures that are more or less confluent. Thorax
ferruginous, quadrangular, truncate anteriorly and posteriorly,
coarsely rugose, the punctures large, oblong, and running into
irregular striz; the legs with glittering white pubescence. The
abdomen with an ovate pubescent macula at the apical margin of
the first segment, two placed laterally towards the apical margin of
the second segment, one in the middle of its apical margin, and a
similar spot on the margins of the three following; these unite,
forming a central line ; beneath, the second and following segments

are fringed with white pubescence.

Hab. Madagascar. ,

Div. II. Head and thorax ferruginous. (Sp. 13-17.)

13. Mutilla decipiens.

. Female. Length 23-34 lines.—Head, scape, two or three of the
basal joints of the antennae, the mandibles, palpi, thorax, and legs
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ferruginous. The head rugose. The thorax oblong, narrowed pos-
teriorly, rugose, and not so wide as the head; the tips of the
femora more or less fuscous. The margin of the basal segment of
the abdomen, an ovate spot in the middle of the second segment,
its apical margin, and the third segment covered with pale gold-
coloured pubescence ; beneath dark rufo-piceous, the second segment
punctured, and all the segments fringed with pale pubescence.

Hab. Natal.

14. Mutilla imitatrix.

Female. Length 2 lines.—Ferruginous, with a black fascia on the
apical margins of the first and second segments. Head strongly
and closely punctured, wider than the thorax; the tips of the man-
dibles and apical joints of the antenne black. Thorax oblong-
quadrate, and with strong confluent punctures above, truncate
posteriorly, the truncation strongly punctured. Abdomen closely
punctured; the third and following segments with pale pubescence.

Hab. Natal.

This species has a strong general resemblance to MW. ferrugata of
North America, but is distinguished from it by its quadrangular
thorax.

15. Mutilla speculatrix.

Female. Length 3-33 lines.—Black ; the vertex of the head, the
tubercles at the base of the antennee, the mandibles in the mid-
dle, and the thorax ferruginous. The head rugose, the thorax
coarsely so and oblong-quadrate; the head and thorax above
sprinkled with erect fuscous pubescence, beneath, as well as the
legs, white. The second segment of the abdomen with two ovate,
pale gold-coloured pubescent macule, and the third and fourth
segments covered with similar pubescence, interrupted in ‘the
middle.

Hab. Natal.

16. Mutilla crudelis.

Female. Length 8 lines.—Black, with the head and thorax ferru-
ginous above; the former large, subquadrate, much wider and
larger than the thorax, and coarsely rugose ; the flagellum of the
antennz and base of the mandibles ferruginous. The thorax quad-
rate and deeply longitudinally grooved ; the metathorax truncate,
black, and opaque; the sides concave and shining; the legs with
cinereous pubescence; the apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous.
An ovate bright gold-coloured pubescent macula on the first seg-
ment of the abdomen, two on the second, a spot on its apical

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4 margin, in the middle, which unites with a broad fascia on the third
_ segment; dark rufo-piceous beneath, the margins of the segments
4 fringed with pale yellowish pubescence.

Hab. Africa.

17. Mutilla irritabilis.

Female. Length 63 lines.—Black, with the head and thorax above
_ ferruginous, and both coarsely rugose ; the scape and mandibles at
their base ferruginous. The thorax sculptured above with irregular
| longitudinal grooves, oblong-quadrate, and with an obtuse tubercle
_ on each side a little before the middle; truncate behind; the legs
with golden-yellow pubescence. The abdomen with a broad golden-
yellow fascia at the base of the second segment, its hinder margin
bisinuate; the third and fourth segments with golden pubes-
cence, interrupted in the middle; the basal segment truncate ;
beneath, all the segments fringed with golden pubescence.

Hab. Egypt.

Diy. III. Head and thorax black. (Sp. 18-25.)

18. Mutilla exaltata.

| Male. Length 7—8 lines.—Black, with the first and second seg-
| ments of the abdomen ferruginous. The head rugose-punctate ;
the eyes emarginate; the vertex with thinly scattered black pu-
bescence, that on the face, below the antenne, and also that on the
cheeks cinereous. Thorax coarsely punctured ; the prothorax and
scutellum with fulyous pubescence; the metathorax coarsely reti-
culate, the lateral margins crenulated; wings dark brown, the
tegule strongly punctured. The apical margin of the second abdo-
minal segment, and the third entirely, covered with pale fulvous
pubescence ; the two basal segments closely punctured ; the first
segment beneath with a sharp carina, which is produced into an
acute spine or tooth ; the second segment punctured, and the follow-
ing fringed with pale pubescence.

Hab. Natal.

19. Mutilla conspicua.

_ Female. Length 6 lines.—Black ; the abdomen with a broad band in
the middle of bright coppery-red pubescence, an ovate spot of the same
at the base, and a quadrate one near the apex ; the basal segment,
which is small and subglobose, with silvery-white pubescence. The
head small, much narrower than the thorax, and with an ovate
silvery-pubescent spot on the vertex. Thorax oblong-quadrate,
slightly narrowed posteriorly, coarsely rugose, and, in some exam-
_ ples, of a very obscure reddish hue above; the legs de more or
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less of short silvery-white pubescence; the entire insect thinly
sprinkled with erect long black hairs. The apical margin of the
second segment of the abdomen fringed with white pubescence ; the
erect hairs on the body beneath are white.

Hab. Damara Land and Namaqua Land.

20. Mutilla atrata.

Male. Length 47 lines.—Black; the pubescence white; the eyes.
emarginate ; the anterior wings with three submarginal cells.
Head strongly and closely punctured, and covered with pubescence,
that on the clypeus dense ; the scape of the antennz also pubescent.
The mesothorax and tegule of the wings rugose ; the wings fuscous,
with their base subhyaline; the metathorax with large deep punc-
tures; the postscutellum and the base of the metathorax, in the
middle, with dense short white pubescence, the rest of the thorax
and the legs with thin erect pubescence. Abdomen punctured,
not strongly so, and the base of the second segment with dense
silvery-white pubescence, all the segments thinly fringed with
pubescence.

Hab. Lake Ngami.

21. Mutilla deformis.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Black ; the head much larger than the
thorax and nearly twice the width, subquadrate, and very closely
punctured ; mandibles porrect, bidentate, and slightly ferruginous at
their base and apex. Thorax longitudinally rugose, narrowest
anteriorly, truncate posteriorly, with the margin of the truncation
tridentate. Abdomen pyriform; the margins of the second and
third segments with narrow fascie of yellowish-white pubescence ;
the fascia on the second segment widens abruptly in the middle
into an angular shape; there is also a similar patch in the middle
of the margin of the first segment. ;

Hab. Zambesi.

22. Mutilla fossulata.

Female. Length 7 lines.—Black; the abdomen with two broad
yellowish-wnite fascie. The head and thorax very coarsely rugose,
with elongate deep fovee, each being filled with short whitish
pubescence ; the second segment with a broad fascia of yellowish-
white pubescence ; the antenne and legs with cinereous pubescence ;
the thcrax oblong-ovate. The abdomen coarsely sculptured, par-
ticularly so at the base, clothed with black pubescence ; the second
segment with a broad fascia of yellowish-white pubescence a little
beyond the base of the segment, its anterior margin slightly notched

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in the middle ; the third segment covered with similar pubescence ;
beneath, the segments are fringed with pale pubescence ; the second
segment with a central longitudinal carina.

Hab. Angola.

23. Mutilla rufofemorata.

Male. Length 8? lines.—Head, antenne, thorax, tibie, and tarsi
black ; femora ferruginous, coxe black ; abdomen dark purple. The
head and thorax rugose; the latter with a central longitudinal
carina, an abbreviated channel on each side, not extending to the
anterior margin, and a short carina near the tegule ; the scutel-
lum produced into an obtuse tubercle; wings dark brown, with a
bright violet iridescence, the metathorax with the sides rounded
and slightly widened posteriorly, with a longitudinal channel in
the centre and an abbreviated lateral one. The abdomen finely
and distantly punctured. The insect sprinkled with erect black
pubescence.

Hab. Western Africa.

24. Mutilla versuta.

Male. Length 62 lines.—Black, with the pro- and mesothorax and
scutellum ferruginous ; eyes emarginate ; wings with three submar-
ginal cells. Head the same width as the thorax, strongly punc-
tured, most closely so on the face, which, as well as the mandibles,
has a thin, erect white pubescence, that on the vertex black. The
mesothorax and scutellum closely punctured ; the metathorax with
large, very shallow punctures; wings dark fuscous, and with a
purple iridescence ; the tegule smooth, shining black ; the thorax
has on the sides beneath, and also on the legs, a thin, erect, white
pubescence. Abdomen subpetiolate, smooth and shining, and with
a few fine scattered punctures ; the apical segment strongly punc-
tured, with a smooth central longitudinal line.

Hab. Fernand Vaz River, West Africa.

25. Mutilla ignava.

Female. Length 7 lines.—Black ; the head very large, wider than
the thorax, and coarsely rugose ; the eyes placed forwards, near to
the insertion of the mandibles. ‘The thorax oblong, narrower be-
hind and coarsely rugose, and, as well as the head and legs, sprinkled
with erect cinereous pubescence. Abdomen slightly shining and
rather finely longitudinally rugulose ; the first segment with two
pale gold-coloured pubescent macule ; the second segment with a
similar macula in the middle of its apical margin ; the third seg-
ment with a broad interrupted fascia of the same colour, which

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nearly occupies the entire segment; thinly sprinkled with erect
black pubescence, that on the macule is pale.

Hab. Lake Nyassa.

This species is allied to WM. bilunata of Gerstaecker, but differs
from it in the form of the thorax, and also in the markings on
the abdomen.

ASIATIC SPECIES.
Div. I. Head and thorax ferruginous. (Sp. 26, 27.)
26. Mutilla placida.

Female. Length 5; lines.—Head, thorax, and legs ferruginous ;
abdomen black, with the first segment, the apical margin of the
second, and the third segment covered with golden-coloured pu-
bescence. The head small, narrower than the thorax, and rugose ;
[the antenne wanting]. Thorax narrowed from the middle ante-
riorly and posteriorly; the middle produced at the sides into a
tubercle or blunt tooth ; rugose above; the legs with fulvous pu-
bescence. Abdomen longitudinally coarsely rugulose; the basal
segment small and campanulate.

Hab. Bombay Presidency.

27. Mutilla aurifex.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Head and thorax ferruginous and coarsely
rugose, the latter oblong, slightly narrowed behind, and having on
each side, a little before the middle, a stout tooth ; legs black; the
tibize and tarsi with golden-coloured pubescence. Abdomen black,
with black pubescence ; the basal segment with a small triangular
spot of golden pubescence ; the second segment with a broad fascia
of golden pubescence, its hinder margin being emarginate on each
side; the third and fourth segments covered with golden pubes-
cence, with a narrow longitudinal line in the middle of black
pubescence ; beneath, the segments are fringed with golden pu-
bescence.

Male. Length 73 lines.—Coloured like the female, and the head
and thorax similarly sculptured; the eyesemarginate. The meta-
thorax black and covered with golden pubescence, its posterior
lateral angles shghtly produced and subacute ; wings dark fuscous
and subhyaline at their base; the tegule large and acute; legs
black, the tibiae and tarsi with golden pubescence. Abdomen with
similar pubescence to that of the female, but the spot on the basal
segment wanting.

Hab. Bombay Presidency.

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Div. Il. Thorax ferruginous. (Sp. 28-33.)

28. Mutilla rufitarsis.

Female. Length 43 lines.—Head, legs, and abdomen black, thorax
ferruginous ; an ovate macula of white pubescence at the base of
the abdomen, and a fascia towards its apex. The scape, first joint
of the flagellum, and base of the mandibles obscurely ferruginous.
Thorax oblong-quadrate, slightly widened posteriorly, and coarsely
rugose ; the tarsi obscurely ferruginous. Abdomen with an ovate
silvery-white pubescent macula at the base of the second segment,
a small one, which unites with a narrow white fascia on its apical

- margin; the third segment covered with white pubescence ; the
apical segment longitudinally striated, and fringed at the sides
with pale pubescence; beneath, the segments are fringed with
white pubescence. ;

Hab. India.

29. Mutilla argentcomaculata.

Female. Length 53-72 lines.—Black, with the thorax ferruginous
above ; the vertex of the head and the abdomen with fine silvery-
white pubescent ovate macule. On the cheeks and below the
antennee a little white pubescence; the head narrower than the
thorax. The thorax oblong and narrow, coarsely rugose above,
and having a short, bright rufo-fulvous pubescence ; on each side,
before the middle, a stout angular tooth ; on the sides, beneath, and
on the legs a mixture of short silvery-white and long black pubes-
cence ; the anterior margin of the thorax more or less black. The
second segment of the abdomen with large, deep, coarse punctures ;
the first segment covered with fulvous pubescence; the second
‘with an ovate silvery-white pubescent macula in the middle of its
apical margin, extending onto the base of the following segment ;
on the margin of the second segment is also a similar white spot
on each side of the central one; the fifth segment has a smaller
central white spot; all the macule are thinly sprinkled with white
erect hairs, the rest of the abdomen with black; beneath, the pu-
bescence is entirely white.

Male. Adorned with silvery-white spots, but has the thorax black,
the second segment of the abdomen being more or less ferruginous ;
the head and the metathorax and the first segment of the abdomen
with white pubescence ; an ovate spot at the middle of the apical
margin of the second, the third with a lateral spot, and a central
one on the fifth and sixth; the wings fuscous, becoming subhyaline
towards their base ; the eyes ovate.

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Hab. Bombay Presidency.

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30. Mutilla decora.

Female. Length 23 lines.—Head black ; thorax, antenne, mandibles,
and legs ferruginous ; abdomen dark purple, observable in certain
lights, the basal segment ferruginous. The head very closely punc-
tured, and a little wider than the thorax. The thorax very closely
punctured, narrow, and slightly wider anteriorly ; the tips of the
femora fuscous. The second segment of the abdomen with an ovate
spot of white pubescence towards its basal margin; its apical
margin, aS well as that of the third segment, with a broad fascia of
white pubescence.

Hab. Pulo Penang.

31. Mutilla strangulata.

Female. Length 32? lines.—Black, with the thorax, legs, and ex-
treme base of the abdomen ferruginous. Head rugose, the punc-
tures being confluent ; a little wider than the thorax; the scape,
base of the flagellum, and the mandibles ferruginous. Thorax
rugose, not coarsely so, oblong, strangulated in the middle at the
sides, the margins crenulated ; the apex of the joints of the legs
fuscous. An ovate spot of fulvous pubescence on the first segment
of the abdomen, and a fascia of the same on the apical margin of
the second segment ; beneath, all the segments have a thin fulyous
fringe.

Hab. North China.

32. Mutilla deserta.

Female. Length 33 lines.—Head and abdomen black, thorax quad-
rangular and ferruginous. The head and thorax of the same width,
the former closely punctured; the mandibles ferruginous in the
middle. The thorax of a bright ight ferruginous and rather finely
rugose ; the lateral margins of the metathorax crenulate ; the coxee
ferruginous. The basal segment of the abdomen with a central
ovate spot of white pubescence; the second segment with a white
fascia on its apical margin, and the three following segments each
with a minute white spot in the middle of their apical margins ;
the apex white.

Hab. Celebes.

33. Mutilla basalis.

Female. Length 33 lines—Head and abdomen black; the scape,
thorax, legs, and basal segment of the abdomen ferruginous. The
head finely rugose, rather wider than the thorax ; the latter oblong,
rugose, the margins finely crenulated, and sprinkled with erect
pale hairs; the tarsi fuscous. Abdomen with an ovate spot of

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white pubescence at the base of the second segment, and a fascia of
the same on its apical margin; the third segment has also a
similar fascia ; the apical segment smooth and shining, and fringed
at the sides with pale fulvous pubescence.

Hab. Sarawak.

This species is very like Mutilla desdamia of Borneo, but that
species has three ovate white spots on the second segment.

Diy. III. Black, with the legs ferruginous. (Sp. 34.)

34. Mutilla exacta.

Male. Length 7 lines.—Black, the legs ferruginous, the abdomen
with golden-coloured pubescent fascie. The vertex of the head
longitudinally irregularly punctate-striate; the face with pale
golden pubescence; the inner orbits of the eyes slightly notched.
The thorax coarsely punctured ; the sides, the metathorax, and be-
neath with thin bright golden-coloured pubescence, that on the
tibie and tarsi of the same colour; the coxe black; the wings
fuscous. Abdomen punctured, not very closely so on the second
segment ; the apical margins of the first, second, and third segments
with fasciee of gold-coloured pubescence, that on the following seg-
ments is black.

Hab. Shanghai.

AUSTRALIAN SPECIES.
Div. l. The thorax black. (Sp. 35-41.)
35. Mutilla auriceps.

Female. Length 6-7 lines.—Black, coarsely punctured ; the vertex
with bright golden-coloured pubescence, that on the cheeks silvery
white. Thorax oblong, its anterior margin slightly rounded, the
lateral angles acute, widened nearly to the middle, then narrowed
to the metathorax, rugose-punctate ; beneath, and also the legs,
with scattered white pubescence. ‘The second segment of the ab-
domen with coarse, irregular, elongate punctures ; a spot of silvery-
white pubescence in the middle of the basal segment, an oblong one
at the base of the second segment, a third at its apical margin, and
two smaller ones in a line beyond ; at the extreme lateral margins

*%f the second, third, and sometimes of the fourth segment a tuft
of white pubescence ; beneath, usually more or less obscurely fer-
ruginous.

Hab. Australia.

This species is closely allied to M. formicaria ; but it appears to

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be more than a variety, since, independent of the colour of the pu-
bescence of the head being different, its thorax 1s narrower and more
elongate.

36. Mutilla scabrosa.

Female. Length 4-53 lines.—Black; the head and thorax with
coarse confluent punctures; the flagellum beneath and the man-
dibles at their base obscurely ferruginous ; the entire insect with
thinly scattered erect pale pubescence; the legs rufo-piceous, the
tarsi ferruginous. The sides of the thorax parallel anteriorly,
thence abruptly narrowed to the truncation of the metathorax ; the
truncation opaque and not visibly punctured. The first and second
segments of the abdomen with strong elongate punctures that are
more or less confluent and running into striz ; in the middle of the
margin of the basal segment a little bright pubescence, the second
segment fringed with the same.

Hab. Swan River.

37. Mutilla pallidicornis.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Black ; the head and thorax closely and
strongly punctured, the latter most deeply and coarsely so, the
punctures becoming confluent and running into irregular strie ; the
apical margins of the first and second segments of the abdomen
with a narrow white pubescent fascia; the fourth and following
segments with pale yellowish-white pubescence. The antenne pale
ferruginous, and the mandibles ferruginous towards their base. The
thorax narrowed beyond the middle to the truncation of the meta-
thorax ; the tarsi ferruginous, as well as the coxe, trochanters, and
base of the femora beneath. ‘The entire insect, beneath, with thin
white scattered pubescence.

Hab. New South Wales.

38. Mutilla hospes.

Female. Length 43 lines.—Black ; the head rounded behind,
strongly punctured, the punctures more or less confluent. Thorax
anteriorly rounded, narrowed behind the middle; covered above
with coarse punctures that run into strie; the intermediate and
posterior tibiz with three or four spines exteriorly, the calcaria
white. Abdomen finely rugose; a transverse silvery-white pubes-
cent macula at the apical margin of the first and second segmentsg
and a central line of the same on the three following segments ;
above, with scattered erect black pubescence, at the sides and be-
neath with white.

Hab. Western Australia, Champion Bay.

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39. Mutilla depressa.

Female. Length 5-6 lines.—Blackish brown, more or less inclining
to red-brown ; antennee and legs black. The head small in pro-

' portion to the thorax; the vertex with silvery-white, or, in some
examples, with pale golden pubescence; rounded behind and
strongly punctured. Thorax transverse in front, widened nearly
to the middle, then narrowed to the metathorax ; coarsely punc-
tured above, and with thinly scattered erect black hairs. Abdomen
with strong oblong punctures ; the second segment with a central
longitudinal depression ; a transverse spot of silvery-white pubes-
cence at the margin of the basal segment, and two spots of the same
at the apical margin of the second ; with scattered black erect hairs
above and with white beneath.

Hab. Champion Bay.

This species resembles Mutilla ferruginata, but the head is longer
behind the eyes ; the thorax is also longer in proportion. It appears
to be more than a variety.

40. Mutilla jucunda.

Female. Length 27 lines.—Head and thorax black, legs and abdo-
men ferruginous. The vertex of the head with golden pubescence ;
the antennee and mandibles ferruginous, the latter black at their
tips. The thorax closely punctured; short, rounded anteriorly,
narrowed behind the middle and truncate. The basal segment of
the abdomen pale rufo-testaceous, a broad elongate patch of bright
gold-coloured pubescence extending from the base nearly to the
apex ; the third, fourth, and fifth segments with black pubescence
laterally; beneath, the second and following segments fringed
with white pubescence.

Hab. Adelaide.

41. Mutilla fragilis.

Male. Length 3-4 lines.—Black; the metathorax, antenne, man-
dibles, legs, and petiole of the abdomen ferruginous. Head trans-
verse ; eyes prominent and ovate, punctate and slightly shining.
Thorax punctured, the metathorax most strongly so; wings hyaline
from the base to the second submarginal cell, and having a fuscous
cloud beyond. Abdomen with a short petiole, the first segment
with a broad black apical margin, punctured and shining; the
apical segment ferruginous ; the second, third, and apical segments
thinly fringed with white pubescence.

Hab, Champion Bay.

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Div. Il. Thorax ferruginous. (Sp. 42-44.)

42. Mutilla pacificatrix.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Head, legs, and abdomen black; the
thorax ferruginous. The head with pale golden-coloured pubes-
cence above, that beneath is white. Thorax oblong-quadrate,
coarsely punctured, covered with short decumbent pale golden
pubescence, and having also erect pale fulvous hairs thinly sprinkled
above ; the pubescence on the legs white. The abdomen with thin,
erect, black pubescence ; the basal segment margined with white
pubescence ; there are two ovate pubescent spots in the middle of
the second segment, a little white pubescence in the middle of its
apical margin, and a similar minute spot in the middle of the api-
cal margin of the fifth segment ; beneath, the segments are fringed
with white pubescence.

Hab. Champion Bay.

43. Mutilla auropilosa.

Female. Length 2} lines.—The head, femora, apical margin of the

second abdominal segment, and the following segments entirely
black, otherwise ferruginous; the apical joint of the flagellum
black ; the head, thorax, and two basal segments of the abdomen
covered with short gold-coloured pubescence, and thinly sprinkled
with erect pale hairs; the apical margins of the second, third,
fourth, and fifth segments black, interrupted in the middle by a
line of gold-coloured pubescence ; the apical segment black and
longitudinally aciculate.

Hab. Champion Bay.

44, Mutilla notabilis.

Female. Length 37 lines.—Ferruginous, with the head and anterior
margin of the thorax black. The antennz and mandibles ferru-
ginous; the vertex of the head densely covered with gold-coloured
pubescence. Thorax oblong-ovate, closely and rather finely punc-
tured ; the sides with dense short whitish pubescence. The ab-
domen finely rugulose; the second segment with two small oblong
pubescent spots towards the base ; a broad stripe of gold-coloured
pubescence on each side from the apical margin of the second seg-
ment to the apex ; between the stripes the abdomen is blackish.

Hab. Tasmania.

MUTILLA.. 2085

Diy. III. Head and thorax ferruginous. (Sp. 45-49.)
45. Mutilla albolineata.

Female. Length 3-33 lines.—Head and the thorax above ferru-

ginous ; the latter beneath, the legs, and abdomen black. The head
ied with golden-coloured pubescence ; the antenne and mandibles fer-
th ruginous, strongly punctured. Thorax oblong-quadrate, slightly
| wider anteriorly ; roughly punctured, covered with golden-coloured
pubescence, and thinly sprinkled with erect pale fulvous hairs ; the
legs ferruginous, with the apex of the femora, tibie, and of the
joints of the tarsi more or less fuscous. Abdomen thinly sprinkled
with erect black hairs ; a line of white pubescence extending from
i the base to the apex.

| Hab. Champion Bay.

46. Mutilla bipartita.

|
D © Female. Length 22-3} lines.—The head, thorax, legs, base of the
4 abdomen, and a longitudinal line that widens to the apical margin
a of the second segment, and then narrows to a point before the api-
i cal segment, red. The antennz fuscous towards the apex ; the head
ig with shallow punctures; the mandibles black at their apex; the
vertex of the head with erect black pubescence, that on the hinder
margin of the vertex and on the cheeks white. The thorax some-
what heart-shaped, transverse in front, slightly widened at the
; sides, then narrowed to the apex of the metathorax ; closely punc-
: tured, and sprinkled with erect black pubescence. Thesides of the
abdomen above black and with black pubescence; that on the
basal segment and on the central line white.

4 Var. §. The anterior legs and all the femora dark fuscous:
22 lines long.

Var. y. The thorax more elongate, and the femora and anterior
tibiee fuscous: the same size as var. /3,

Hab. Champion Bay.

47. Mutilla nitida.

Female. Length 3 lines.—Ferruginous and shining ; the flagellum
thickened in the middle and black; the head not very closely
punctured. The thorax more strongly punctured than the head,
the metathorax most strongly so; the apex of the tibie and of the
joints of the tarsi fuscous. The abdomen finely but not closely
punctured ; the second segment with a central longitudinal, fuscons,
narrow macula; at the base of the abdomen there is a little erect

206 MUTILLIDZ.

white pubescence, the segments with a few black hairs on their
apical margins.

Hab. Champion Bay.

48. Mutilla quadriceps.

Female. Length 23 lines.—Black, with the sides of the head beneath,
and also the sides of the thorax anteriorly, the middle of the thorax
longitudinally, the legs, and an ovate spot on each side of the second
segment of the abdomen more or less obscurely ferruginous. Head
wider than the thorax, subquadrate, with the angles rounded ;
evenly punctured, not strongly so; the anterior margin of the
head, the mandibles, and basal portion of the antenne ferruginous.
The thorax short, rounded in front, and narrowed posteriorly,
punctured in a similar manner to the head; the apex of the tibize
black. The apical margin of the basal segment of the abdomen
with a fascia of white pubescence, two large subovate spots at the
apical margin of the second, and a central spot beyond of white
pubescence.

Hab. Adelaide.

49. Mutilla scrutata.

Female. Length 22 lines—Head and abdomen ferruginous; the
antenne, legs, and abdomen black. Head and thorax of the same
width, the former moderately and closely punctured ; the mandibles
ferruginous at their base. The thorax covered above with strong
confluent punctures; oblong and narrowed behind. The abdomen
shining, covered with fine oblong punctures; the margin of the
basal segment pale, testaceous ; a line of white pubescence from the
apical margin of the second segment to the apex of the abdomen ;
a thin erect black pubescence above, at the sides and beneath it
is also thin and white.

Hab. Melbourne.

Div. IV. Body more or less metallic. (Sp. 50-53.)

50. Mutilla bicolorata.

Female. Length 43 lines.—Head and thorax green, abdomen purple.
The mandibles and antenne obscurely ferruginous; the head
behind and the cheeks fringed with white pubescence; the head
closely and strongly punctured. The thorax oblong, widest a little
before the middle, narrowed to the metathorax, which is truncate,
above with large confluent punctures; the legs ferruginous, more
or less obscurely so above. Abdomen strongly punctured, the

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punctures on the second segment large and confluent, the seg-
ment with two pale yellow ovate maculz towards the apical margin;
a line of white pubescence in the centre of the three following
segments ; beneath ferruginous, and with large oblong punctures
on the second segment, the apical margin of the three following
segments with a series of fine punctures.

Hab. Victoria.

51. Mutilla eruginosa.

Male. Length 34 lines.—Blue-green, varying in tint; the thorax
usually blue, with the metathorax more or less green. The an-
tenn, black with the scape blue or green; the head closely punc-
tured, the eyes ovate. The thorax widest a little before the middle ;
strongly punctured above, the metathorax coarsely so; wings sub-
hyaline, the nervures black; legs blue, and, as well as the head
and thorax, thinly sprinkled with white pubescence. Abdomen
closely punctured, subpetiolate, and the segments thinly fringed
with long white pubescence above and also beneath.

Hab. Moreton Bay.

52. Mutilla vivida.

Male. Length 43 lines.—Head and thorax dark blue; abdomen

black, with the first segment, which is petiolate, as well as the
legs, ferruginous. The head closely punctured, the eyes ovate ;
the antenne black, thinly sprinkled with erect black hairs above,
and with white beneath. The thorax closely punctured, the me-
tathorax coarsely so; wings fuscous, subhyaline towards their
base; the tarsi black, with the basal joint of the posterior pair
ferruginous; the calcaria white; the coxe and trochanters black.
The second, third, and fourth segments of the abdomen fringed with
long white pubescence; the tip also white; beneath, the second
and third segments fringed with white.

Hab. Champion Bay.

53. Mutilla splendida.

Male. Length 4 lines.—Brilliant green, with golden tints in different

lights ; the abdomen towards the apex, and also beneath, with bur-
nished coppery effulgence. The head, thorax, and abdomen punc-
tured, the metathorax most strongly so; the mandibles, palpi, tibize,
and tarsi pale ferruginous. The entire insect thinly sprinkled with
erect pale fulvous pubescence, most densely so on the apical seg-
ments of the abdomen. Wings fuscous, becoming subhyaline towards
their base. yes large and ovate.

Hab. New Guinea.

208 . MUTILLIDA.

This species resembles Mutilla mirabilis, described in the seventh
volume of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, from Waigiou ;
but that species has the scape and legs entirely ferruginous.

SouTtH-AMERICAN SPECLES.

Div. I. The thorax ferruginous. (Sp. 54-68.)
54. Mutilla crassicornis.

Female. Length 2-23 lines.—Ferruginous, not shining ; legs palest ;
head, thorax, and abdomen evenly and very closely punctured. The
head covered with pale gold-coloured pubescence ; the apical margin
of the second segment of the abdomen, and the rest of the segments
entirely, with similar pubescence to that on the head ; the antennz
short and incrassate, darkest towards their apex. The whole insect
is clothed with thin, scattered, pale, erect pubescence.

Hab, Ega, St. Paulo and Obydos, on the Amazons.

55. Mutilla ambigua.

Female. Length 3% lines.—Black, very closely punctured ; the thorax _
ferruginous and black anteriorly and posteriorly above. The apex
of the scape and also of the flagellum ferruginous, and both ob-
scurely so beneath; mandibles ferruginous in the middle. Thorax
oblong-ovate; the coxee ferruginous, the femora obscurely so be-
neath. Abdomen with the first segment cylindrical, ferruginous,
and with an acute tooth at the base beneath; its apical margin
above with whitish pubescence; the apival margin of the second
segment with a fascia of pale yellowish-white pubescence, and the
following segments covered with the same; the apex ferruginous.

Hab. Obydos.

56. Mutilla subtilis.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Black; the thorax ferruginous, the apical
margins of all the segments of the abdomen with yellowish-white
fascia. Head large, wider than the abdomen; subquadrate, with
a line of pale golden-yellow pubescence running obliquely from the
insertion of the antennz to the eyes and thence to the vertex,
then inwardly, where the lines unite. Thorax oblong, very closely
punctured, slightly contracted towards the apex; the lateral mar-
gins of the metathorax finely crenulated ; the tibie and tarsi with
short whitish pubescence, most dense on the anterior and inter-
mediate pairs; the intermediate and posterior tibiz spinose exte-
riorly. The fascie on the abdomen continued on the margins of
the segments beneath.

Hab, Kga.

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57. Mutilla investigatrix.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Black ; the head large, subquadrate, much
larger than the thorax, the posterior lateral angles produced into a
sharp spine; the anteune and mandibles ferruginous. The thorax
ferruginous; the lateral margins and the metathorax fuscous or
black, widest in front, then somewhat abruptly narrowed, with the
sides of the metathorax rounded and denticulate, haying also two
or three teeth on the margins anteriorly; the legs ferruginous,
with the tibiz and tarsi more or less fuscous. The basal segment
of the abdomen with white pubescence, which forms a triangular
patch, the apex of which extends a little into the base of the second
segment, which has a fascia of similar pubescence a little before its
apical margin ; in the middle the fascia is produced into a trian-
gular shape, which extends to the apical margin; a line of white
pubescence continues to the apex. In some examples there is a
little white pubescence on the vertex and also on the metathorax.

Var. The thorax entirely ferruginous and the legs black.

Hab. Ega.
58. Mutilla detracta.

Female. Length 3 lines.—Black, with the antenne, thorax, legs,
and basal segment of the abdomen ferruginous ; four or five of the
apical joints of the antennze fuscous; the mandibles and palpi fer-
ruginous ; the entire insect very closely punctured. Thorax oblong-
ovate, the apical joint of the tarsi black. The second segment of
the abdomen with two indistinct ferruginous macule at the base,

its lateral and apical margins with a fascia of bright golden-coloured
pubescence; the rest of the segments with similar pubescence,
their lateral margins black.

Hab. St. Paulo.

59. Mutilla vivax.

Female. Length 33-4} lines.—Bleack, the thorax and legs ferrugi-
nous, the former oblong-ovate and with four oblong black macule,
two at the sides anteriorly, and two in a line with them posteriorly.
The tubercles at the base of the antenne, the base of the antenne,
and middle of the mandibles ferruginous; the head and thorax
very closely punctured. The tibie and tarsi, in small examples,
more or less fuscous. Abdomen velvet-black; the basal segment,
two large somewhat triangular macule at the base, and the apical
margin of the second segment with a broad fascia of pale golden-
yellow pubescence ; the other segments covered with the same. A
minute tubercle on each side of the thorax a little beyond the
middle.

Hab. Kga.

210 MUTILLID &.

60. Mutilla vindex.

Female. Length 33 lines.—Head, and second segment of the abdo-
men above, black, the latter with two large oblique oblong ferru-
ginous maculz, which are nearly united anteriorly at the base of the
segment ; the scape of the antenne, flagellum beneath, apex of the
mandibles, thorax, legs, basal segment of the abdomen, and also
the third and following segments ferruginous ; the basal segment
small and forming a short petiole. The insect closely punctured ;
the head with a central longitudinal carina; the thorax oblong-ovate,
the apical margin of the second segment and all the following seg-
ments covered with dense short golden-coloured pubescence.

Hab. ga.
61. Mutilla venatrix.

Female. Length 3 lines.—Pale ferruginous, with the head, flagellum
above, and the second segment of the abdomen above, black ; the
insect very closely punctured. The face with very short golden
pubescence ; the head with scattered black pubescence, that on the
thorax and legs pale fulvous. The thorax oblong-ovate, narrower
behind than in front. The lateral and apical margins of the second -
segment of the abdomen pale ferruginous, and, as well as the fol-
lowing segments, covered with short golden-coloured pubescence,
interspersed with longer pale hairs; the basal segment of the
abdomen small, quadrate, and forming a short petiole.

Hab. Ega.

Very like M. vindew, differing in the form of the thorax and in not
having oblique pale macule on the second segment of the abdomen.

62. Mutilla discursa.

Female. Length 37; lines.—Head and abdomen black; antenne,
thorax, mandibles, and legs pale ferruginous. The head covered
with golden-coloured pubescence; the flagellum incrassate. The
thorax and abdomen punctured; the former with a transverse line
on the prothorax, two on the mesothorax, and the scutellum black.
The first segment of the abdomen pale ferruginous, narrow, and
forming a short petiole; the second segment thinly covered with
golden pile, the other segments densely covered with golden-
coloured pubescence.

Hab. Para.
63. Mutilla armanda.

Female. Length 3-4 lines.—Head and abdomen black; thorax and
legs pale ferruginous. The scape and first joint of the antenne
ferruginous. Thorax about the same width as the head, slightly
widened anteriorly to about the middle, thence emarginate, and

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slightly narrowed to the apex ; truncate posteriorly, the margin of
the truncation with a row of six or eight spines, sprinkled above
with erect fuscous pubescence. The basal segment of the abdomen
ferruginous, the second with a broad interrupted fascia in the
middle, and the third, fourth, and fifth segments with pale yellowish-
white pubescence.

Hab. Brazil, Constancia.

64. Mutilla insidiosa.

Female. Length 3-33 lines.—Head and abdomen black, thorax and

legs ferruginous. The antenne and mandibles obscurely ferrugi-
nous, the former fuscous above towards the apex, the latter black
at the tips. Thorax the width of the head, rather short and fiddle-
shaped, very closely punctured, the margins crenulated; legs
fusco-ferruginous. Abdomen with the extreme base ferruginous ;
the second segment with two large transverse, yellowish-red, united
macule near the apical margin; the following segments ciliated
with short white pubescence above and beneath.

Hab. St. Paulo and Ega.

65. Mutilla pectoralis.

Female. Length 3} lines.—Head and abdomen black; the base of

the antennee, thorax, and legs ferruginous. The mandibles ferru-
ginous, with their tips black. Thorax narrower than the head,
very closely punctured and attenuated behind ; above, slightly
curved from the front to the apex. Abdomen with the basal seg-
ment ferruginous; the second with two oblong-ovate yellowish-
white macule at the base, its apical margin and the following
segments covered with similar coloured pubescence.

Hab. Rio de Janeiro.

66. Mutilla crenulata.

Female. Length 43 lines.—Black; the head anteriorly and the

thorax above ferruginous, and having short ferruginous pubescence.
The head about the same width as the thorax, rounded at the
lateral angles of the vertex; the mandibles ferruginous in the
middle. Thorax oblong-quadrate, emarginate at the sides towards
the apex, rugose above, and with the margins crenulated. Abdo-
men with a narrow longitudinal line from the base to the apex of
silvery-white pubescence, crossed by a similar line on the second
segment towards its apical margin ; this segment has also a line of
the same at the extreme lateral margins; beneath, the segments
are fringed with white pubescence.

Hab. Venezuela.
Pp 2

212 MUTILLID®.

Mutilla cruw resembles this species; but that insect has the scape
of the antennz and legs ferruginous, and the thorax is elongate,
black, and with a central line of golden pubescence.

67. Mutilla auromaculata.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Black ; two pale golden pubescent spots
on the vertex, extending from the eyes to the posterior margin of
the vertex ; four spots on the thorax and two on the basal seg-
ment of the abdomen. The head as wide as the thorax; the
mandibles ferruginous in the middle. Thorax rugose, a little wider
in the middle than at the anterior margin, with a short, recurved,
lateral tooth at the widest part; there is also a second small tooth
halfway towards the anterior margin, behind the widest part it is
obliquely and suddenly narrowed ; above there is an oblique golden
spot on each side at the widest part; the metathorax subparallel,
with a golden stripe on each side. The second segment of the
abdomen with ovate, glabrous, testaceous spots at about the middle
of the segments ; the third, fourth, and fifth segments with a lateral
longitudinal line of pale golden pubescence.

Hab. Venezuela.

This species is closely allied to W. spinosa, but, independent of its
smaller size, its vertex 1s more quadrate, and the glabrous spots on
the abdomen are proportionately smaller. I think it must be more
than a local variety.

68. Mutilla pertinax.

Female. Length 53-6 lines.—Black ; a longitudinal macula on the
disk of the thorax, an ovate one on the basal segment of the abdo-
men, and also one on the second segment of ferruginous pubes-
cence. Head very large, wider than the thorax, and rugose-
punctate. Thorax oblong, narrowed posteriorly ; the metathorax
truncate, rugose-punctate. Abdomen shining, rather finely punc-
tured, and having a thin black pubescence.

Hab. Mendoza.

Div. Il. The thorax black. (Sp. 69-80.)

69. Mutilla mansueta.

Female. Length 3 lines.—Black, finely rugose, covered with short
black pubescence, and sprinkled with erect long black hairs. The
head with a short thin hoary pile. The thorax as wide as the head,
narrowed behind, and with a little hoary pile near the apex. The

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apical margin of the basal segment of the abdomen, and a small
triangular spot at the base of the second in the middle, of white
pubescence ; the apical margin of the second segment has a fascia
of white pubescence.

Hab. Ega.

70. Mutilla parasitica.

Female. Length 53 lines.—Black, with two large ovate golden-
yellow macule on the second segment of the abdomen. Head wider
than the thorax, subquadrate, finely granulated, and with scattered
erect black hairs. ‘Thorax granulated, the sides parallel to one
third of its length, where there is a small tooth, thence narrowed
to the base of the metathorax, which is covered with long silvery-
white pubescence and has the lateral margins rounded. The third,
fourth, and fifth segments of the abdomen with white pubescence ;
the apical segment rugose, and with a mixture of black and brown
pubescence.

Hab. Brazil, Constancia.

71. Mutilla spinifera.;

Female. Length 44 lines.—Black ; the head and thorax very closely
punctured. Head rather wider than the thorax, subquadrate,
slightly narrowed from the eyes to the posterior lateral angles,
which are acute. Thorax constricted at the base of the metathorax,
having four small blunt teeth at the anterior lateral margins, and
four acute teeth, or spines, on each lateral margin of the meta-
thorax. The apical margin of the basal segment of the abdomen,
and the third and following segments, with silvery-white pubes-
cence ; two large, uniting, ovate, pale ferruginous macule on the
second segment.

Hab. Para.

72. Mutilla simulatrix.

Female. Length 3—4 lines.—Black, and with two large, united, ovate,
reddish-yellow macule on the second segment of the abdomen.
Head and thorax rugose, the former as wide as the thorax, and
thinly sprinkled with white pubescence, as is also the thorax above ;
the latter has the anterior margin slightly arched, and from thence
gradually narrowed to the apex; the tarsi and the posterior
tibize with fine silvery-white pubescence. The first, second, ana
third segments of the abdomen with silvery-white pubescence ; the
apical segment with a little long pale fulvous pubescence.

q Hab. liga.

214 MUTILLIDA.

73. Mutilla solitaria.

Female. Length 3-33 lines.—Black ; head, thorax, and abdomen
closely and strongly punctured, the pubescence pale yellowish
white. The head with a smooth shining carina running from the
margin of the vertex to the insertion of the antenne. The anterior
margin of the thorax, which is oblong and semiovate, the meso-
thorax posteriorly, the metathorax, and sides of the thorax with
fine, thin, short pubescence ; the metathorax with a central sharp
carina and also a small tubercle at its base laterally. The first
segment of the abdomen cylindrical, forming a stout petiole ; the
apical margin of the second segment, and the following segments
entirely, covered with short pubescence ; beneath, the second seg-
ment fringed with snow-white pubescence.

flab. Obydos.

74. Mutilla vagabunda.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Black, with four orange-red maculz on
the second segment of the abdomen. The head the width of the
thorax ; the vertex with silvery-white pubescence. Thorax much
narrowed posteriorly; a silvery-white pubescent stripe on each
side, extending from the point from which the thorax narrows to
the apex; the sides silvery; the legs with scattered silvery-white
hairs. A row of silvery-white pubescent spots down the middle of
the abdomen, commencing at the apical margin of the second seg-
ment, a similar row at the extreme lateral margins ; the apical
segment longitudinally striated.

Hab. Santarem.

75. Mutilla albata.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Black; the head, thorax, and abdomen
clothed above with white pubescence, the thorax in front and the
second segment of the abdomen with yellowish-white ; the legs
with a thin white pubescence; the apical joints of the tarsi ferru-

ginous ; two ovate denuded spots on the second segment of the
abdomen obscure reddish brown.

Hab. ga.

76. Mutilla diligens.

Female. Length 7 lines—Black ; the vertex covered with silvery
pubescence ; the abdomen with four orange-yellow macule. The
head much narrower than the thorax, which is oblong, narrowed
behind, without spines or tubercles, covered with black pubes-
cence, and with longer erect black pubescence at the sides; the

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legs with black pubescence, on the tibie and tarsi it is mixed with
white. The basal segment of the abdomen very short, forming a
flattened scale, the second segment with two ovate macule at the
base, and two that are rather larger towards its apical margin ;
the third, fourth, and fifth segments fringed with white pubescence
at their extreme lateral margins ; the apex with white pubescence.

Hab. Venezuela.

77. Mutilla perfidiosa.

Female. Length 52 lines.—Black ; the abdomen with two large
pale ferruginous macule. Head quite as wide as the thorax, rather
finely rugose; a patch of bright silvery pubescence on the vertex ;
the tubercles at the base of the antenne, the clypeus, and man-
dibles ferruginous, the latter black at their tips; the flageilum,
except two or three of the basal joints, fulvous beneath. Thorax
oblong-quadrate, rugose, with the sides slightly rounded anteriorly,
then abruptly narrowed, the sides thence parallel to the apex; the
metathorax truncate, the truncation with silvery-white pubescence
at its lateral margins; a silvery spot on the sides above the inter-
mediate and posterior coxe; the legs with thin white pubescence,
the apical joints of the tarsi obscurely ferruginous. The basal seg-
ment of the abdomen with two silvery-white pubescent spots; the
third and following segments with white pubescence laterally.

Hab. Venezuela.

78. Mutilla sociata.

Female. Length 9 lines.—Black, and clothed with black and silvery-
white pubescence. Head not quite as wide as the thorax; the
vertex with white pubescence; the face and cheeks with scattered
white hairs; the scape with white pubescence. ‘The lateral angles
of the prothorax acute, below the angles a short acute tooth; the
thorax with a large tooth about midway at its lateral margins; a
curved band of white pubescence crosses the thorax about the
middle, and the metathorax has on each side a longitudinal stripe
of the same. ‘The margins of the basal segment of the abdomen
with a broad band of bright white pubescence, interrupted in the
middle above; the segment has also a transverse crenulated acute
carina before the apical one; the second segment with two ovate
pale macule; the third and following segments with short pale
pubescence, more or less interrupted in the middle.

Hab. Ecuador.

This species resembles J. insignis both in size and general mark-
ings, but it differs in having black antennz, in M. insignis they
are yellow; the head is proportionately considerably smaller, and
the metathorax is longer and narrower.

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79. Mutilla albomaculata.

Female. Length 33-4 lines.—Black ; the head clothed with white
pubescence, and of the same width as the thorax. The thorax
clothed above and at the sides with white pubescence; the meta-
thorax black; the legs with white pubescence above. Abdomen
with a spot on the basal segment, which is small and subpetiolate,
the second segment with four oblong-ovate spots, placed trans-
versely in the middle, the lateral ones longest, and a central spot
on the three following segments, of snow-white pubescence;
beneath, the second and third segments fringed with similar pubes- —
cence.

Hab. Chili.

80. Mutilla erratica.

Female. Length 3 lines.—Black, and adorned with silvery-white
markings. The head and scape of the antenne with white pubes-
cence. ‘Thorax above, the sides, and hinder portion with white
pubescence; the truncation black; the legs thinly sprinkled with
white. The basal segment of the abdomen with a patch of white
pubescence on each side, that on the apical segment, on the apical
margin of the second, and also that on the third segment white,
the two latter more or less interrupted in the middle. The white
pubescence is intermixed with long white hairs, the black with
long black hairs.

Hab. Mendoza.

Div. III. Males with two submarginal cells in the anterior wings.

(Sp. 81-86.)
81. Mutilla rufoscutellata.

Male. Length 64 lines.—Black, pubescent, very closely punctured,
the metathorax most strongly so; the scutellum convex, prominent,
and ferruginous. Head very large, quite as wide as the thorax,
and subquadrate; the scape fringed beneath with white pubes-
cence. The wings dark fuscous, the anterior pair with two sub-
marginal cells, the second incomplete, the second transverso-median
neryure only commenced. Abdomen with the basal segment small
and subpetiolate, its apical margin fringed with white pubescence,
the second segment, as well as the head and thorax, having a little
scattered white pubescence at the sides.

Hab. Parana.
The form of this species resembles that of the Vespid Tatua

morro.

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~._— 82. Mutilla sordidula.

Male. Length 6 lines.—Black; the pubescence black, except that
on the scutellum, the first segment of the abdomen, the apical mar-
gin of the second, and the third segment (the two latter more or
less interrupted) white. The head the width of the thorax, rounded
at the sides. ‘The wings dark fuscous, the anterior pair with two
submarginal cells; a minute hyaline spot just beyond the second
submarginal cell. The interrupted white pubescent band on the
abdomen continued beneath; the apical segments of the abdomen
fringed with long black pubescence; the basal segment narrow
and subpetiolate.

Hab. Mendoza.

83. Mutilla fascinata.

Male. Length 8 lines.—Black, and clothed with black and white
pubescence. Head much narrower than the thorax; the vertex
with white pubescence. Thorax with black pubescence, except a
little on the scutellum and the thin pubescence on the metathorax,
which is white; the intermediate and posterior femora and tibie,
as well as the inside of the basal joint of the posterior tarsi, with
white pubescence; wings fuscous, their base, as well as the second
submarginal and half of the second discoidal cell, hyaline. Ab-
domen with the basal segment small, narrow, and subpetiolate ;
its apical margin and the base of the second segment laterally with
white pubescence; the third and fourth segments densely covered
with white pubescence.

Hab. Peru.

84. Mutilla marginipennis.

Male. Length 5 lines.—Black; the anterior wings margined with
fuscous, and having a hyaline space beneath the marginal cell,
which extends a little beyond and also includes the second sub-
marginal and the second discoidal cells. ‘The anterior wings with
two submarginal cells. Head narrower than the thorax, subquad-
rate, and closely punctured. Thorax strongly and closely punc-
tured, the metathorax rugose; the legs with black pubescence, that
on the tarsi short and white. Abdomen subpetiolate, the basal
segment clavate, closely punctured; the first and second segments
with a narrow white marginal fringe; the third and following
segments fringed with long black pubescence.

Hab. Para.

85. Mutilla tenuis.

Male. Length 33 lines.—Black; head and thorax closely punc-

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tured, the metathorax with large shallow punctures; abdomen
shining, the basal segment with strong punctures. The extreme
base and apex of the scape, and the mandibles in the middle, fer-
ruginous ; the head as wide as the thorax, transverse, and with
griseous pubescence on the face and cheeks. The metathorax, the
tibie, and tarsi with silvery-white pubescence; wings subhyaline
and iridescent, palest at their base. Abdomen with the basal seg-
ment clavate; the apical margins of the second, third, and fourth
segments thinly fringed with long white pubescence, that on the
apical segments black.

Hab. Ega.

86. Mutilla irregularis.

Male. Length 43 lines.—Black, shining; head and thorax strongly
but not closely punctured. Head large, quadrate, rather wider
than the thorax, both thinly covered with, erect griseous pubes-
cence; wings with two submarginal cells fuscous, palest at their
base, the nervures black; the legs with black pubescence, the tarsi
fuscous. Abdomen moderately punctured ; the first, second, and
third segments with their apical margins fringed with white pubes-
cence; the apical segments fringed with black.

Hab. South America.

Div. IV. Males with three submarginal cells in the anterior wings.
(Sp. 87-100.)

87. Mutilla oblita.

Male. Length 6-7 lines.—Black ; the head and thorax closely punc-
tured, the abdomen more finely so and shining. The head, below
the antenne, with silvery pubescence; on the vertex it is longer,
thin, and scattered. The pro- and mesothorax with short black
pubescence, that on the metathorax is short, dense, and silvery .
white; wings dark fuscous, with their base hyaline, the anterior
pair with three submarginal cells; the legs with white pubescence ;
the calcaria white. The basal segment of the abdomen bordered
with white pubescence, the margins of the other segments with a
thin fringe of the same; the lateral margins of the second segment
towards its apex have also a little white pubescence.

Var. a. The head greenish, thorax obscure purple, and the abdomen
blue.

Hab. Villa Nova, on the Amazons.

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88. Mutilla maculipennis.

Male. Length 7 lines.—Black, closely punctured. Head wider
than the thorax; the face with silvery-white pubescence. The
metathorax with dense silvery pubescence, the first segment of the
abdomen and the base of the second with similar pubescence; the
wings dark fuscous and with a purple iridescence, their base hya-
line, some hyaline spots in the submarginal and also in the dis-
coidal cells; the anterior wings with two submarginal cells. The
second segment of the abdomen has a fringe of white pubescence ;
the following segments are fringed with black in the middle and
with white laterally.

Hab. Ega.

This species closely resembles M. nigrella, but is separated from
it by its mottled wings and much more strongly punctured thorax.

89. Mutilla excellens.

Male. Length 8 lines.—Head and thorax closely and strongly punc-
tured; abdomen blue, finely and distantly punctured. The head,
below the insertion of the antenne, the cheeks, and hinder margin
of the vertex with white pubescence. The prothorax obscurely
blue; the mesothorax black, with a purple tinge; the scutellum
produced into a prominent conical shape; wings dark fuscous;
the anterior pair with three submarginal cells; the metathorax
with dense short silvery-white pubescence above. ‘The first seg-
ment of the abdomen margined with silvery-white pubescence, and
the third and fourth broadly margined with the same, but inter-
rupted in the middle.

Hab. liga.

90. Mutilla dentata.

Male. Length 6 lines.—Black, punctured; the face below the
antenne, the prothorax, metathorax, the basal segment of the
abdomen, and the basal margin of the second segment, its apical
margin, as well as that of the third segment, with silvery-white
pubescence. The mesothorax strongly punctured; the scutellum
produced and triangular, with a large blunt tooth on each side,
being a prolongation of the mesothorax, the teeth with deep punc-
tures; wings dark fuscous; the anterior wings with three sub-
marginal cells, the second with a narrow hyaline line, also a small
hyaline spot on the third discoidal cell.

Hab. St. Paulo.

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91. Mutilla maligna.

Male. Length 44 lines.—Black; head and thorax strongly and
closely punctured ; the abdomen shining and very finely punctured.
The head as wide as the thorax, transverse; the face below the
antenne: with a little long white pubescence. The metathorax
with large shallow punctures, and having posteriorly a fine white
pubescence ; wings dark fuscous, subhyaline towards the base; the
anterior pair with three submarginal cells. Abdomen subpetiolate,
narrow, and with white pubescence at the apical margin of the
first segment; the other segments with a mixture of black and
white pubescence, the white being sparing above, but beneath the
abdomen the margins are fringed with white.

Hab, Kga.

92. Mutilla impetuosa.

Male. Length 5 lines.—Black ; the head and thorax strongly punc-
tured, the former small and not so wide as the thorax. The
metathorax with the sides parallel, truncate behind, and covered
with white pubescence ; wings dark fuscous and subhyaline at the
base, the anterior pair with three submarginal cells, and a small
hyaline spot in the first and second submarginal; the posterior
tibiz with white pubescence beneath. The first segment of the
abdomen subpetiolate, punctured, and with white pubescence at its
apex; the second segment with white pubescence at its base
laterally ; the rest of the segments with the apical margins fringed
with black pubescence; the second and third segments beneath
fringed with white pubescence.

Hab. Para.

93. Mutilla fugax.

Male. Length 4 lines.—Black, punctured, with the face, meta-
thorax, basal segment of the abdomen, and the apical margin of
the second with silvery-white pubescence. The mesothorax and
scutellum strongly punctured; wings with three submarginal cells,
fusco-hyaline and palest at their base; the tegule large, with the
outer margin rufo-piceous; the sides of the metathorax parallel,
the lateral angles acute, subdentate. The basal segment of the
abdomen forming a stout petiole. The eyes emarginate.

Hab. Para.

94. Mutilla proxima.

Male. Length 43 lines.—Head, thorax, legs, and basal segment of
the abdomen black, the rest of the abdomen ferruginous. The
head, prothorax, and metathorax with long silvery-white pubes-

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cence ; wings hyaline from the base to the apex of the second sub-
marginal cell, beyond they are fuscous, the anterior pair with three
submarginal cells. Abdomen subpetiolate, with thinly scattered
long white pubescence; the basal segment strongly punctured, its
apical margin narrowly ferruginous ; the apical segment black.

Hab. Para.

This species has a great resemblance to M. rufiventris ; but it
differs from that species in not having the eyes notched, and the
neuration of the wings is different, the second submarginal is shorter,
and the third is much narrowed towards the third discoidal cell.

95. Mutilla midas.

Male. Length 5} lines.—Black; head and thorax strongly punc-
- tured, the metathorax coarsely so; the abdomen clothed with gold-
coloured pubescence; the head, pro- and metathorax, as well as
the legs, with white pubescence, that at the base of the metathorax
dense ; the wings subhyaline from the base to the apex of the en-
closed cells, beyond the latter they are dark fuscous. Abdomen
subpetiolate, strongly punctured, the apical margin only with
golden pubescence ; the apical segment with black pubescence.

Hab. Para.

96. Mutilla mandibularis.

Male. Length 5 lines.—Black, the mandibles ferruginous. Head
large, closely punctured, subquadrate, and having a short thin
cinereous pubescence. Thorax shining above, more strongly punc-
tured than the head, the metathorax rugose; the latter, the sides,
and also beneath with thin cinereous pubescence; wings fusco-
hyaline, and with three submarginal cells. Abdomen shining and
punctured; the basal segment small and campanulate; the apical
margins of the segments with a few pale fuscous hairs.

Hab. Ega.

97. Mutilla hemarioides.

Male. Length 8? lines.—Black, punctured, and with black and
white pubescence. Head and thorax with black pubescence, mixed
on the vertex, prothorax, and scutellum with a little white; the
tibize and tarsi have a thin white pubescence ; the metathorax with
large shallow punctures; wings hyaline from the base to the apex
of the second submarginal cell, beyond which they are dark fus-
cous ; the nervures black; the anterior wings with three submar-
ginal cells. Abdomen subpetiolate; the apical margin of the first
segment with white pubescence, a large patch of the same on each

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side of the second segment at its base; the third and fourth seg-
ments with white pubescence, more or less interrupted in the
middle; the apical segments with black pubescence; beneath, the
second and third segments with a narrow fringe of white pubes-
cence.

Hab. Uruguay.

98. Mutilla gracilescens.

Male. Length 52 lines.—Head, legs, and abdomen black; thorax
and first segment of the abdomen ferruginous; the apical margin
of the latter black. Head small and finely punctured, shining,
and with a little long white pubescence. The mesothorax not very
strongly punctured, the metathorax reticulated; the cox reticu-
lated; wings with two submarginal cells, subhyaline, pubescent,
and with the nervures testaceous; the tibiz and tarsi with white
pubescence. Abdomen shining, not very closely punctured; the
second and following segments ciliated with long white pubescence.

Hab. Uruguay.

99. Mutilla pubescens. ‘

Male. Length 53 lines.—Black, and clothed with black and white
erect pubescence. Head small, narrower than the thorax; the
pubescence black, with a mixture of white on the vertex. Thorax
with short black pubescence in front; the scutellum and the meta-
thorax with longer white pubescence; the intermediate and pos-
terior femora and tibiz with a little thin white pubescence; the
anterior wings with three submarginal cells, subhyaline from the
base to the marginal cell, the apical portion beyond dark fuscous.
Abdomen subpetiolate ; the first segment small, campanulate, and
covered with white pubescence, as is also the base of the second
segment, but narrowly so in the middle; the third and fourth seg-
ments with white pubescence, interrupted in the middle; the
rest of the abdomen with shorter black pubescence.

Hab. Mendoza.

100. Mutilla incana.

Male. length 43 lines.—Black; the head, prothorax, scutellum,
apical margin of the first segment of the abdomen, and also that of
the second and third, with long white pubescence; wings sub-
hyaline, the anterior pair with three submarginal cells, the ner-
vures fusco-testaceous, the stigma and costal nervure black. The
second segment of the abdomen shining, and with thin, short, black
pubescence ; the fifth and following segments with black pubes-
cence.

Hab. Mendoza.

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Species FROM CENTRAL AMERICA AND St. Domineo.
Div. I. With the thorax black. (Sp. 101-111.)

101. Mutilla melancholica.

Female. Length 5-73 lines.—Black, with the thorax more or less
obscurely red above, and with black and white pubescence. The
head with black pubescence. The thorax and abdomen rugose, the
former bidentate on each side; the metathorax clothed with long
white pubescence, as well as the intermediate and posterior legs.
The basal segment of the abdomen, the apical margin of the second
segment, and the third entirely, with long white pubescence ; the
second segment with a large black tuft ; the apical segments entirely
clothed with black pubescence.

Hab. St. Domingo.

102. Mutilla araneoides.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Blaek; the vertex and a semicircular
spot on the thorax in front of bright rufo-fulvous pubescence; the
head and thorax beneath with white pubescence; a spot on each
side of the metathorax, two ovate ones on the second segment of
the abdomen, a narrow fascia on its apical margin, the third seg-
ment and the fourth laterally covered with bright pale yellowish-
white pubescence; the rest of the thorax and abdomen with black
pubescence; the legs have a bright pale pubescence, the posterior
femora with black pubescence at their apex.

Hab. Nicaragua, St. Juan del Sur.

103. Mutilla macrocephala.

Female. Length 6} lines.—Clothed with ferruginous pubescence ;
head and abdomen obscure ferruginous, thorax black. Head wider
than the thorax, subquadrate, the cheeks armed with a sharp spine.
The thorax short, narrowed behind; the metathorax with black
pubescence. The basal segment of the abdomen and the legs with
black pubescence, the second and following segments fringed with
black pubescence.

Hab. Orizaba.

104. Mutilla munifica.

Female. Length 434-7 lines.—Black, with pubescent rusty-golden
spots. Head narrower than the thorax, and covered above with
rusty-golden pubescence ; beneath, and also on the thorax and
abdomen beneath, the pubescence is pale yellowish-white. Thorax

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with black pubescence in front and with rusty-golden behind, the
latter partly covering the sides of the truncation, which is black
in the middle; the legs with a whitish pubescence. Abdomen with
black pubescence, and with two ovate, deep, ochraceous macule at
the base of the second segment, and two larger ones towards its
apical margin; the macule with rusty-golden pubescence ; the
fourth and fifth segments with ochraceous pubescence in the middle.

Hab. Mexico.

A smaller example in the collection has the markings clothed with
golden-yellow pubescence.

105. Mutilla ducalis.

Female. Length 7-93 lines.—Black, clothed with black pubescence ;
the head above and a broad transverse band on the thorax, which
curves slightly backwards, of bright gold-coloured pubescence ; the
second segment of the abdomen ferruginous above, and having at
its base a large, subovate, black pubescent macula; also a smaller
ovate macula, placed laterally about the middle of the segment, the
apical margin of the segment, and also the third segment, black ;
the black bands not usually extending to the lateral margins,
which have silvery-white pubescence, similar to that which clothes
the thorax beneath and fringes the segments of the abdomen ; the
fourth, fifth, and sixth segments have golden-coloured pubescence
above, the fifth with more or less of black laterally.

Hab. Orizaba and South America.

A variety from 8. America has the two lateral ovate black macula
united with the central black macula, and is full 2 lines larger than
the Mexican specimens.

106. Mutilla luxuriosa.

Female. Length 5} lines.—Black; the legs ferruginous, adorned
with bright golden-yellow pubescent markings. Head large, wider
than the thorax and subquadrate; above, covered with golden-
coloured pubescence ; the antenne obscurely ferruginous. Thorax
slightly narrowed behind, above with golden pubescence; the
truncation of the metathorax, and a subtriangular space in front,
black ; the coxee and tips of the femora and tibiz black. Abdomen
with the basal segment black; the second with golden pubescence,
a semicircular spot at its basal margin in the middle, a somewhat
angular one on each side, and its apical margin, with a broad
fascia that is widest in the middle, black ; the following segments
with pale golden-yellow pubescence.

Hub. Mexico.

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107. Mutilla vulpina.

Female. Length 63 lines.—Black and densely pubescent ; the head
with long, suberect, yellowish-white pubescence ; the thorax covered
with similar pubescence, and having an ovate tuft of black on the
disk. The abdomen with a large, semicircular, black pubescent
space at the base, then a broad band of yellowish white, followed
by one of black, the apex being whitish, except the apical segment,
which is black.

Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.

108. Mutilla sapiens.

Male. Length 34 lines.—Black; the head and thorax coarsely punc-
tured ; the abdomen shining and more finely punctured. The head
covered with white pubescence. The metathorax, the basal seg-
ment of the abdomen, and the apical margin of the second segment
with a fascia of silvery-white pubescence, the basal segment form-
ing a short petiole ; wings hyaline, faintly clouded at their apical
margins, the nervures black; the tegule large, testaceous at their
tips. Anterior wings with three submarginal cells ; the eyes emar-
ginate.

Hab. Mexico, Orizaba.

109. Mutilla ordinaria.

Male. Length 43-7 lines.—Head, thorax, legs, and basal segment
of the abdomen black, the other segments ferruginous; wings
fuscous and more or less hyaline at their base. The head and
thorax strongly punctured; the eyes emarginate ; the face and the
metathorax with thin white pubescence, the latter with large shal-
low punctures ; a little silvery pile at the basal margin of the meta-
thorax and also behind the wings, the latter with three submarginal
cells. Abdomen with fine scattered punctures, and the segments
fringed with ferruginous pubescence.

Hab. Mexico, Orizaba.

110. Mutilla terminata.

Male. Length 43 lines.—Head,.thorax, legs, and the base and apex
of the abdomen black, the latter otherwise clothed with bright
scarlet pubescence. The eyes ovate; the head, thorax anteriorly,
and the scutellum with pale fulvous pubescence ; wings with two
submarginal cells, dark fuscous at their apex, paler towards their
base. The abdomen more or less ferruginous beneath,

Hab. Mexico, Oajaca.

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111. Mutilla nana.

Male. Length 3 lines.—Black, punctured, with the disk of the
thorax and abdomen shining. Head the width of the thorax, thinly
covered with white pubescence ; the eyes ovate; the scape of the
antennee and the mandibles obscurely ferruginous. The metathorax
with large shallow punctures ; the anterior wings fuscous, darkest
in the marginal cell, with three submarginal cells; legs fusco-
ferruginous. Abdomen finely punctured ; the apical margins of the
segments thinly fringed with white pubescence.

Hab. Mexico, Orizaba.

Diy. II. With the thorax ferruginous. (Sp. 112-116.)
112. Mutilla derelicta.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Head, antenne, legs, and abdomen black,
thorax ferruginous. Head and thorax rugose, the former the same
width as the latter, which is elongate, with the lateral margins
nearly parallel, being very slightly narrowed in the middle and
rounded anteriorly and posteriorly; the legs with a thin, pale
pubescence ; the spines at the apex of the tibiee, and also those at
the apex of the joints of the tarsi, pale ferruginous. ‘The apical
margin of the basal segment of the abdomen, a large oblong patch
on each side of the second segment at its base, a broad fascia on its
apical margin, and the following segments covered laterally with
yellowish-white pubescence.

Hab. Aceytuno, Central America.

113. Mutilla ferruginea.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Ferruginous, rugose; the head wider
than the thorax, subquadrate, the hinder angles acute, the poste-
rior margin nearly straight, densely covered above with pale
golden-coloured pubescence, that on the cheeks is thin and silvery
white. Thorax oblong, pyriform, with a thin, short, pale golden
pubescence, and, as well as the head, thinly sprinkled with erect
pale hairs; the legs with thin pale pubescence; the intermediate
and posterior tibiee with black spines. The first segment of the
abdomen small, and with a spot of silvery-white pubescence; the
second segment with a subovate patch of black pubescence in the
middle towards its basal margin, its apical margin with black
pubescence; the third, fourth, and fifth segments with silvery-
white pubescence in the middle, that at the sides of the apical
segment being black; beneath, the segments are fringed with
white.

Hab. Mexico, Orizaba.

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114. Mutilla salutatrix.

Female. Length 3-4 lines.—Black, with the thorax and legs fer-
ruginous, the antenne and mandibles obscurely so. Head much
wider than the thorax, subquadrate, the posterior angles acute;
with golden-yellow pubescence above, and a black semicircular
spot on the vertex anteriorly. Thorax narrowed behind, constricted
about the middle ; the margins with a series of compressed teeth,
closely and strongly punctured above. Abdomen with the margin
of the first segment, a triangular spot at the base of the second,
from which a narrow line emanates and unites with a broad fascia
near the apical margin of the same segment, of bright golden-
coloured pubescence ; from the transverse fascia a line of similar
pubescence runs longitudinally to the apex.

Hab. Mexico, Orizaba.

115. Mutilla separata.

Female. Length 3-4 lines.—Head and abdomen black; thorax and
legs ferruginous. The head a little wider than the thorax, slightly
narrowed and rounded behind. The thorax somewhat fiddle-shaped
and finely rugulose; legs obscurely ferruginous. Abdomen with a
sharp carina in the middle from the base to the apex of the second
segment ; the margin of the basal segment and an elongate angular
spot at the base of the second segment of silvery-white pubescence ;
the second segment with two, ovate, pubescent, pale-yellow macule ;
the following segments with white pubescence.

Hab. Mexico, Orizaba.

116. Mutilla blandina.

Female. Length 3-34 lines.—Ferruginous ; the head and thorax
finely rugulose ; the flagellum of the antenne and the tips of the
mandibles black. The head wider than the thorax and subquadrate ;
the latter fiddle-shaped, its margins crenulated. The apical margin
of the basal segment of the abdomen, and the middle of the basal
margin of the second, with bright golden-coloured pubescence, with
two ovate spots of the same colour near the apical margin of the
second segment; the apical margin and the rest of the segments
with bright golden pubescence; a black spot between the ovate
macule.

Hab. Mexico, Orizaba.

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NUTILLIDZ.

METHOCA.

1. Methoca nigriceps.

Female. Length 4 lines.—Ferruginous, with the head and four
fascize on the abdomen black. The clypeus, mandibles, and antenne
ferruginous ; the head smooth and shining, with fine distant punc-
tures. The thorax smooth and shining; the tibiz and tarsi finely
spinose. Abdomen very smooth and shining; the second and
third segments with a broad black fascia near to their apical mar-
gins; the fascive are broadest in the middle and taper to a point
laterally, but do not extend to the lateral margins ; the fasciz on
the third and fourth segments are at their basal margins.

Hab. Brazil (?).
Obtained from Mr. W. Shuckard, by exchange, the locality being

uncertain.
2. Methoca constricta.

Male. Length 33 lines.—Black, the abdomen shining, the segments
deeply constricted. The antenne obscurely fulvous beneath, above
fuscous ; the mandibles ferruginous ; the face closely punctured,
the vertex shining and less closely so. The prothorax closely
punctured, the mesothorax and scutellum more strongly so; the
metathorax coarsely punctured; wings hyaline and iridescent, the
nervures and stigma rufo-testaceous ; legs dark rufo-piceous, with
the articulations and the tarsi, as well as the anterior tibiz, rufo-
testaceous. The margins of the segments of the abdomen with a
thin hoary pile; beneath, there is an impressed longitudinal line
in the middle of each segment.

Hab. Ega.

PONERIDL, Smith.

LEPTOGENYS, Roger.

1. Leptogenys insularis.

Worker. Length 33 lines—Opaque black, and thinly covered with
ashy pile. Head widest anteriorly ; the eyes ovate, placed forwards
at the sides near the base of the mandibles, which are falcate and
pointed at their apex, which is ferruginous; the flagellum of the
antennee rufo-testaceous, obscurely so above; the clypeus produced ;
the antenne inserted at the sides of a prominence above the cly-
peus. Thorax oblong, compressed from the prothorax to the apex
of the metathorax ; the tarsi more or less rufo-testaceous. Abdo-

ICHNEUMONIDA. 229

men oblong, narrowed posteriorly to the apex; the node of the
peduncle subglobose, of the width of the metathorax, but narrower
than the first segment of the abdomen, which is slightly constricted ;
the apical segment pale ferruginous, and with a few fulvous hairs.

ab. Island of Oahu.

Not rare. According to Mr. Blackburn it forms its nest under
stones ; workers only have been taken.

ICHNEUMONIDZA.

PIMPLA, Fabr.

1. Pimpla levigata.

Female. Length 63 lines.—Head and thorax black, very smooth
and shining; tip of the abdomen black, the four basal segments
ferruginous, the first palest. Head with a narrow line at the inner
orbits of the eyes below the antenne, the clypeus, and palpi white ;
a triangular fuscous spot on the clypeus. The legs ferruginous,
with the coxe, intermediate and posterior trochanters, the apex of
the posterior tibie and tarsi black. Wings pale fulvo-hyaline ;
the anterior pair with a broad dark fuscous fascia between the
stigma and the areolet; the apex of all the wings fuscous, the
nervures ferruginous. The ovipositor black and the length of the
abdomen.

Hab. Costa Rica, Cache.

2. Pimpla coxata.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Black and shining, the mesothorax bright
ferruginous ; the legs pale ferruginous, with the coxe and tro-
chanters white; the palpi and scape of antenne in front white ;
: the scutellum and a spot at the sides of the metathorax ferrugi-
nous; wings pale fulvo-hyaline, iridescent, the nervures fuscous, .
the stigma pale testaceous. Abodmen black, with an obscure cas-
taneous tinge ; the ovipositor nearly as long as the abdomen.

Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu.

3. Pimpla molesta.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Black and shining; the legs ferruginous,
with the apical joint black ; antenne black, the scape ferruginous,
the flagellum obscurely so beneath. The scutellum white; the
metathorax transversely irregularly striated ; wings hyaline and
iridescent, the nervures black. The first segment of the abdomen

230 ICHNEUMONIDZ.

deeply excavated longitudinally at the base; the ovipositor black,
and less than half the length of the abdomen.

Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu.

4. Pimpla lineata.

Female. Length 53 lines.—Pale yellow, the mesothorax with three
longitudinal black lines ; the margins of the segments of the abdo-
men have narrow black fascie; the ovipositor is also black, and
scarcely half the length of the abdomen; the insect. smooth, shining
and impunctate; the antenne black, with the scape yellow in
front ; wings hyaline, the apex of the anterior pair slightly fus-
cous ; the posterior tarsi, and the apical joints of the intermediate
pair, black.

Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu.

THYREODON, Brullé.

1. Thyreodon morosus.

Female. Length 11 lines.—Black, with the wings dark brown, and
having a brilliant violet and purple iridescence. The front with a
minute tubercle between the antenne ; the face closely punctured ;
the scape and two minute joints at the base of the flagellum black,
the following two thirds of the flagellum white, the apical portion
black ; the mesothorax with two deeply impressed channels that
run longitudinally and unite at the scutellum, the channels crenu-
lated ; the metathorax with a longitudinal channel, on each side of
which it is obliquely striated and pubescent. The abdomen smooth
and shining, and having an obscure violet tinge.

Hab. Costa Rica, Cache.

2. Thyreodon principalis.

Female. Length 11-133 lines.—Black, with the third and fourth
segments of the abdomen yellow. The clypeus slightly elevated
and pointed at the apex; the mesothorax with two longitudina
furrows that are crenulated and unite at the base of the scutel-
lum; the metathorax with a central longitudinal depression, on
each side of which it is obliquely striated; wings dark brown,
with a splendid violet and purple iridescence. Abdomen very
smooth and shining.

Hab. Costa Rica, Cache.

CRYPTUS.—MESOSTENUS. OAL

CRYPTUS, Fabr.

1. Cryptus ferrugineus.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Ferruginous, shining and impunctate ;
wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures and stigma black ; their
apical margins narrowly fuscous, with a dark fuscous macula at the
apex of the marginal cell and extending beyond it; antennz black,
two or three of its basal joints ferruginous beneath ; the posterior
tarsi black; the metathorax very smooth and shining, truncate,
with the margin of the truncation acute and laterally subdentate.
The apical margins of the abdominal segments slightly constricted ;
the ovipositor black, and about half the length of the abdomen.

Hab. Costa Rica, Cache.

2. Cryptus bicolor.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Head and thorax black; abdomen ferru-
ginous ; wings fuscous, with a violet iridescence. Thorax semi-
opaque, the scutellum shining; the metathorax finely rugulose,
posteriorly truncate, the margin of the truncation acute and slightly
raised, laterally produced into a small tooth. Abdomen smooth and
shining ; the first segment petiolated, expanding into a quadrate
shape, its anterior angles dentate.

Hab: Costa Rica, Irazu.

MESOSTENUS, Gray.

1. Mesostenus nigerrimus.

Female. Length 6 lines.—Jet-black, with the abdomen shining.
The antennz with the apex of the fifth and the seven following
joints white above; the mesothorax longitudinally striated on the
disk ; an elevated carina runs from the anterior wings obliquely to
the scutellum, which is elevated into a conical tubercle; the meta-
thorax is rugose behind and has a longitudinal striation at the base,

" and on each side has a blunt tooth or tubercle; the anterior wings

with a large dark fuscous cloud in the middle, the apex also fuscous.

Abdomen with the two first segments very smooth and shining, the

rest with a fine grey pile.

Hab. Costa Rica, Cache.

2382 ICHNEUMONID At.

2. Mesostenus intrudens.

Female. Length 5-53 lines.—Yellowish white, variegated with
black. The head behind and a line from the vertex to the antennze
black ; the mesothorax black, with two short longitudinal white
lines on the disk; the tegule, a line from them to the base of the
scutellum, a line from the apex of the scutellum to the base of the
wings, also a line from the postscutellum to the wings white; the
scutellum at its apex and the postscutellum white; the metathorax
black at the base, and with three black lines from there to the
apex, the base longitudinally and the apical portion transversely
striated; the two intervening yellow spaces each with a stout
yellow spine; wings hyaline; the tibie black above, the coxe also
with black markings. The abdomen with black fascie ; the ovi-
positor black. The antenne with a white annulus.

Hab. Costa Rica, Cache and Irazu.

JOPPA, Fabr.

1. Joppa hilaris.

Length 43 lines.—Pale yellow, with the vertex, the antenne, the
mesothorax, scutellum, postscutellum, base of the metathorax, a
spot beneath the wings, the tibisv and tarsi, and the fourth and
following segments of the abdomen black; wings black a te base
and apex, the intermediate space flavo- -hyaline. Ste

Hab. Costa Rica, Cache.

2. Joppa variolosa.

Length 5 lines.—The vertex and thorax above fulvo-ferruginous ;
the head in front, the thorax beneath, and the first and second seg-
ments of the abdomen nearly white; the antenne and a spot en-
closing the ocelli black. Wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures ferru-
ginous, the apex dark fuscous: legs black; the anterior pair, with
the tibia, tarsi, tips of the femora, and the cox whitish; the in-
termediate pair with the coxe, trochanters, base and apex of the
femora, and the tibie, except their apex, whitish; the posterior
pair have the base of the femora and the tibie, except their apex,
whitish. Abdomen with the first to fourth segments longitudinally
striated.

Hab. Costa Rica, Cache.

3. Joppa pulchripennis.

Female. Length 74 lines. Black; the wings hyaline from their
base to the areolet, beyond which they are blackish brown, as is

JOPPA. I38

also the apex of the posterior pair; the hyaline portion with a
light-blue iridescence, that on the apical portion is violet; a line
at the inner orbits of the eyes, two ovate spots on the clypeus,
and a short line behind the eyes, white. The scutellum elevated
into a conical tubercle ; the posterior tarsi white, with the claws
black. The abdomen petiolated, longitudinally striated ; two ovate
white macule at the apex of the first segment.

Hab. Costa Rica, Cache.

4, Joppa elegantula.

Female. Length 7-8 lines.—Black; the anterior wings hyaline,
with a dark brown fascia before the stigma, the apex being dark
brown beyond the areolet; the posterior pair lighter fuscous at
their apex. The front, below the antenne, white, with two tri-
angular black macule; a white line at the inner margin of the
eyes as high as the ocelli, the line expanding at its apex into a
white macula, also a narrow line behind the eyes; the antennz
with three or four white joints a little beyond the middle, beyond
the white joints they are slightly thickened, and then taper to a point.
The scutellum elevated into a conical tubercle, the base of the meta-~
thorax also elevated ; the posterior tarsi white, with the two apical
joints black. Abdomen longitudinally striated, the apical margin
of the first and second segments with a white macula laterally.
The anterior and intermediate coxeze and legs beneath more or less
white, and in some examples a few joints of the antenne are white

beneath.
Hab. Costa Rica, Cache.

5. Joppa modesta.

Length 53 lines.—Yellow, with the vertex, the metathorax, the
scutellum and postscutellum, the fourth and following segments of
the abdomen, the intermediate and posterior tarsi, with the apex of
the posterior femora and the base of the tibie, black. The three
basal segments of the abdomen finely striated; wings hyaline,
slightly fuscous at their base, their apex and the anterior pair
beyond the areolet dark fuscous.

Hab. Costa Rica, Cache.

6. Joppa maculosa.

Male. Length 8 lines.—Head, thorax, and three basal segments
of the abdomen pale yellowish white, with black markings above ;
the three apical segments of the abdomen ferruginous ; the scape of
the antenne black above; antenne black, slightly thickened in the

middle, where are three or four white joints. Thorax black above;
R

934 ICHNEUMONIDZ.

the mesothorax with two triangular whitish spots anteriorly, a
quadrate white spot on the disk, and a line close to the tegule ;
the scutellum, postscutellum, and a quadrate spot beneath it, also
the metathorax laterally, the sides of the thorax beneath the coxe,
also the trochanters of the anterior and intermediate legs, with their
tibiee and femora beneath, whitish ; the posterior femora are also
pale beneath; the legs partly ferruginous and partly black above :
wings pale fulvo-hyaline. Abdomen with the three basal segments
black above, with their margins whitish and longitudinally striated ;
the three apical segments smooth, shining, ferruginous.

Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu.

BRACON, Fabr.

1. Bracon levis.

Female. Length 5 lines.—Head, thorax, and legs black, the abdo-
men pale yellow-ferruginous, and entirely smooth and shining;
wings dark fuscous, with three small hyaline spots across the an-
terior wings, opposite the base of the stigma, which is black. The
second segment of the abdomen with the lateral angles elevated,
subtuberculate in the middle, whence a shining carina crosses
to the apical margin; there is a depression on the segment late-
rally; the ovipositor as long as from its base to that of the anterior
wings.

Hab. Costa Rica, Cache.

ALPHABETICAL INDEX.

abdominale (Oacosoma),
40

abdominalis (Paracolle-
tes), 5.

abdominalis (Pompilus),
141

acidalia (Augochlora), 41.
acis (Augochlora), 43.

advena (Anthophora),
122.
fflurus, 174.

seruginosa (Mutilla), 207.

sruginosum (Temnoso-
ma), 29.

sethiops
175.

ethiops (Rhagigaster),
175

affinis (Crabro), 138.
agile (Cacosoma), 40.
agilis (Andrena), 53.
agilis (Ceelioxys), 105.
agilis (Habropoda), 118.
agilis (Halictus), 37.
agilis (Megachile), 73.
agilis (Myzine), 182.
agilis (Odynerus), 137.
albata (Mutilla), 214.
albescens (Megachile),

(Anthobosca),

albifrons (Epeolus), 104.

albifrons (Sphecodes), 27.

albobasalis (Megachile),
65.

albofasciata (Nomada),

albofasciatus (Halictus),

albofasciatus (Thynnus),
173.

albofimbriata (Scolia),
189.

albolineata (Mutilla),
205.

albomaculata (Mutilla),
216.

albomaculata (Myzine),
181.

albomaculata (Prosopis),

albomarginata (Mega-
chile), 66.
albozonatus (Halictus),

aleyone (Augochlora), 45.
alienus (Pompilus), 150.

Allodape, 97.

amabilis (Lamprocolle-
tes), 9.

ambigu (Melissodes),
116.

ambigua (Mutilla), 208.

amicula (Prosopis), 19.

Ammobates, 101.

amplipennis (Tetrape-
dia), 128.

Andrena, 50.

Andrenide, 1.

angulata (Mutilla), 190.

antennata (Anthobosca),
Wes

antennatus (Lamprocol-
letes), 10.

anthidioides (Megachile),
78

Anthidium, 83.

Anthobosea, 1'74.

Anthophora, 120.

anthracinus (Adlurus),
4.

apicalis (Ctenoplectra),
57

apicatum (Anthidium),
84

Apide, 60.
araneoides (Mautilla), 223.
ardens (Anthidium), 85.
ardens (Bombus), 133.
ardens (Megachile), 67.
argenteomaculata (Mu-
tilla), 199.
argentifrons (Lamprocol-
letes), 11.
argentipes (Ccelioxys),
106.
armanda (Mutilla), 210.
armata (Megachile), 80.
arrogans (Andrena), 56.
artifex. (Hxomalopsis),
126.

aspasia (Augochlora), 47.
assimilis (Melissodes),
114,

aterrimus(Thynnus), 164.
atrata (Melissodes), 115.
atrata (Mutilla), 196.

pe seule (Anthidium),

0.

atropos (Augochlora), 43.
atropos (Melissodes), 115.
atropos (Pompilus), 146.
Augochlora, 41.
auriceps (Mutilla), 201.
auricoma (Andrena), 56.
aurifex (Mutilla), 198.
auromaculata (Mutilla),
212.
auropilosa (Mutilla), 204.
aurora (Augochlora), 47.
pe (Megachile),
0.
basalis (Mutilla), 200.
basalis (Tetrapedia), 129.
bellicosus (Bombus), 131.
berenice (Augochlora),
42

bicincta (Myzine), 182.

bicolor (Colletes), 3.

bicolor (Cryptus), 231.

bicolor (Lamprocolletes),
10

bicolorata (Ceratina), 95.
bicolorata (Mutilla), 206.
bicoloratum (Anthidium),

bicoloratus (Bombus),

bimaculatus (Lamprocol-
letes), 10.

bipartita (Megachile), 83.

bipartita (Mutilla), 205.

bituberculata (Prosopis),
18.

blackburni _—_ (Prosopis),
20.

blanda (Euryglossa), 13.

blandina (Mutilla), 227.

bombiformis (Habropo-
day 119)

236

bomboides (Xylocopa),
124.

Bombus, 131.

Bracon, 234.

breviuscula (Megachile),
82. *

briseis (Augochlora), 46.
buccinatoris (Bombus),
132.

Cacosoma, 39.
cerulea (Andrena), 55.
cxruleus (Pompilus), 151.
calida (Megachile), 64.
californica (Melissodes),
114.
callisto (Augochlora), 42.
calypso (Augochlora), 44.
campanula (Tiphia), 186.
candida (Allodape), 97.
candida (Andrena), 56.
candida (Anthophora),
122.
candida (Megachile), 82.
candidus(Pompilus), 142.
candidus (Thynnus), 171.
capitosa (Ceratina), 96.

capitosus (Pompilus), 147.

carbonaria
ptera), 177.

Caupolicana, 7.

Ceratina, 91.

chryseis (Augochlora),
44.

cineraria (Anthophora),

4

(Hlaphro-

al

clotho (Pompilus), 146.

clypeata (Ccelioxys), 104.

clypeata (Megacilissa),
59

clypeata (Tiphia), 187.
clypeatus (Rhagigaster),
177

Coelioxys, 104.

cognata (Ceratina), 94.

cognata (Dimorpho-
ptera), 188.

cognata (Prosopis), 18.

cognatum (Anthidium),
89

Colletes, 1.

combusta (Myzine), 179.

commoda (Andrena), 53.

communis (Andrena), 50.

communis (Halictus), 33.

compacta (Ceratina), 91.

compacta (Megachile),
72.

compactum (Anthidium),
83

comparata (Mutilla), 191.

ALPHABETICAL INDEX.

concinna (Megachile), 79.

confusa (Myzine), 182.

confusum (Anthidium),

congruus (Odynerus),
136.

consanguinea (Mega-

chile), 63.

consimilis (Pompilus),
152.

conspicua (Mutilla), 195.

conspicuus (Halictus),
34.

conspicuus (Pachyme-
lus), 117.

constricta (Methoca), 228.
constructrix (Megachile),
consulta (Tiphia), 184.
convexus (Halictus), 35.
cordata (Allodape), 98.
cordata (Megachile), 62.
cornuta (Megachile), 78.

ecorruscus (Pompilus),
155.

coxata (Pimpla), 229,

Crabro, 1388.

Crabronide, 138.

erassicornis (Mautilla),
208.

crassicornis (Sphecodes),

crassipes (Megachile), 71.

crenulata (Mutilla), 211.
Crocisa, 107.
crudelis (Mutilla), 194.
erudelis (Pompilus), 144.
Cryptus, 231.
Ctenoplectra, 57.
cupreiventris (Ceratina),
96.

euprifrons (Megalopta),
49.

Dasycolletes, 11.
deceptor (Thynnus), 169.
deceptrix (Eucera), 109.
deceptrix (Megachile),

deceptum (Anthidium),
91.

decipiens (Mutilla), 193.

decora (Mutilla), 200.°

decorata (Tetralonia),
112.

decoratus (Pompilus),
149.

decoratus (Thynnus), 159.

deformis (Mutilla), 196.

deidamia (Augochlora),
43.

dentata (Andrena), 51.
dentata (Mutilla), 219.
denticornis (Crabro), 139.
depressa (Mutilla), 203.
derelicta (Mutilla), 226.
deserta (Mutilla), 200.
desertus (Halictus), 38.
determinata (Megachile),
69

detracta (Mutilla), 209.
difformis (Systropha),
60

diligens (Ceratina), 96.
diligens (Megachile), 67.
diligens (Mutilla), 214.
discolor (Cacosoma), 40.
discreta (Andrena), 52.
discursa (Mutilla), 210.
diversus (Halictus), 33.
dolosa (Mutilla), 190.
dubiosus (Odynerus), 137.
ducalis (Mutilla), 224.

Elaphroptera, 177.

elegans (Crocisa), 107.

elegans (Pompilus), 150.

elegantula (Joppa), 233.

elegantulum (Anthi-
dium), 89.

elongata (Megachile), 80.

elongata (Prosopis), 18.

emendata (Anthophora),
123.

Epeolus, 101.

ephippiata (Osmia), 60.

ephippiatus (Pompilus),
148.

Epicharis, 130.

errans (Andrena), 55.
errans (Anthobosca), 174.
erratica (Mutilla), 216.
Eucera, 109.

Kumenide, 134.
Euryglossa, 12.

exacta (Mutilla), 201.
exaltata (Mutilla), 195.
excellens (Bombus), 133.
excellens (Mutilla), 219.
excellens (Thynnus), 163.
exiguus (Halictus), 37.
Exomalopsis, 125.

facilis (Prosopis), 21.

fallax (Anthophora), 120.

fallax (Myzine), 183.

familaris (Halictus), 31.

familiaris (Pompilus),
47.

fasciatus (Pompilus),
142

fascinata (Mutilla), 217.

.

nae

fastuosa (Andrena), 51.
fastuosus (Thynnus),
170

fausta (Andrena), 57.

femorata (Megachile), 68.

feronia (Augochlora), 44.

ferox (Megachile), 64.

ferruginea (Mutilla), 226.

ferrugineus (Oryptus),
ol,

fervens (Tetralonia), 112.
fervida (Tetrapedia), 128.
fervidus (Paracolletes), 4.
_ feryidus (Pompilus), 145.
fervidus (Epeolus), 102.
festiva (Augochlora), 45.
fimbriata (Anthophora),
122.
fimbriatus (Lioproctus),
6

flagellicornis (Tetra-
lonia), 111.
flava (Exomalopsis), 127.
flavicornis (Myzine), 183.
flavipennis (Tetrapedia),
29.

flavipes (Ceratina), 938.
flavoclypeata (Andrena),
54:

flavofasciatus (Epeolus),
03.

flayolineatum (Anthi-
dium), 90.
flavomarginatum (Anthi-
dium), 88.
cae aaa (Euryglossa),
4

flavopictus (Pompilus),
156.

flavovariegatus (Thyn-
nus), 170.

florea (Anthophora), 123.

fossoris (Megachile), 75.

fossulata (Mutilla), 196,

fragilis (Mutilla), 203.

frontalis (Pompilus), 142.

frustratus (Pompilus),
145.

fugax (Mutilla), 220.

fulva (Habropoda), 119.

fulvescens (Hxomalopsis),
127.

fulvipennis (Megachile),
68

fulvipennis (Pompilus),
151.

fulvipennis (Tiphia), 184.

fulvofasciata (Exomalop-
sis), 127.

fulvopilosus (Thynnus),
160.

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ALPHABETICAL INDEX.

fulvus (Lamprocolletes),

funebris (Caupolicana), 7.
fuscipennis (Prosopis), 20.
fuscipennis(Rhagigaster),
175.
generosa (Megacilissa),
59.
gracilescens (Mutilla)
eriseus (Colletes), 2.
guttata (Mutilla), 193.
gyrosa (Tetralonia), 111.
hemarioides (Mutilla),
halictiformis
glossa), 15.
Halictus, 30.
hebescens (Augochlora),
47

(Eury-

hilaris(Anthophora), 123.
hilaris (Joppa), 232.
hilaris (Megachile), 72.
hilaris (Pompilus), 144.
hilaris (Prosopis), 21.
hirsuta (Melissodes), 116.
honesta (Prosopis), 19.
horrida (Mutilla), 192.
hospes (Mutilla), 202.
hospes (Pison), 139.
humerosus(Dasycolletes),
11

humilis (Halictus), 36.
humilis (Megachile), 69.

Tchneumonide, 229.
ignava (Ccelioxys), 104.
ignayva (Mutilla), 197.
imitator (Anthidium), 85.
imitatrix (Mutilla), 194.
impatiens (Anthidium),
90.
impatiens (Thynnus), 168.

imperialis (Pompilus),
155.

impetuosa (Mutilla), 220.

inauratus (Pompilus),
154.

ineana (Mutilla), 222.

inclinans (Halictus), 36.

incongrua (Megachile),
78.

inconspicua (Mutilla),
te

indistinctus (Thynnus),
169.

infrequens (Nomada), 99.
ingenuus (Thynnus), 173.
insidiator (Thynnus), 163.

237

insidiosa (Mutilla), 211.

insidiosus (Pompilus),
143.
insignis (Melissa), 108.
insularis (Anthophora),
4.
insularis (Leptogonys),
298, ‘

insularis (Myzine), 178.

insularis (Prosopis), 19,

intaminatus (Thynnus),
173

intercepta (Nomada), 100.
intrepidus (Epeolus), 102.
intricata (Megachile), 61.
intricata (Tiphia), 188.
intricatus (Colletes), 2.
intrudens (Mesostenus),
232.
investigatrix (Mutilla),
209.

iridipennis
sis), 125.

iridipennis (Myzine), 181.

iridipennis (Pison), 139.

iridipennis, (Pompilus),
144

(Exomalop-

iridipennis (Sphecodes),
27

irregularis (Mutilla), 218.

irregularis (Thynnus),
62.

irritabilis (Mutilla), 195.

irritans (Megachile), 82.

japonicum (Anthidium),
86.

Joppa, 232.

jucunda (Allodape), 98.

jucunda (Huryglossa), 13.

jucunda (Mutilla), 203.

jucunda (Myzine), 180.

jucundum (Cacosoma),
41.

labilis (Pompilus), 151.

lachesis (Pompilus), 146.

lachrymosum (Anthi-
dium), 87.

leeta (Augochlora), 45.

levifrons (Dimorpho-
ptera), 188.

levifrons (Tetrapedia),
130.

leevigata (Pimpla), 229.
leevigatum(Stilpnosoma),
16

levigatum (Temnosoma),
30

levigatus (Rhagigaster),
176.

238

levis (Bracon), 254.

leevis (Priocnemis), 157.

Lamprocolletes, 8.

lanificum (Anthidium),
84.

lanuginosus (Halictus),
34

Larride, 139.
lateralis (Bombus), 134.
lateralis (Epicharis), 130.
lateralis (Prosopis), 23.
latus (Pompilus), 153.
lepida (Ceratina), 92.
Leptogonys, 228.
lineata (Pimpla), 230,
Lioproctus, 6.
lobitarsis (Megachile), 76,
localis (Odynerus), 134.
longiceps (Ceratina), 96.
lugubris (Caupolicana),
8

lugubris (Crocisa), 107.

luxuriosa (Mutilla), 224.

macilentus (Thynnus),
172.

macrocephala (Mutilla),
223.

maculata (Huryglossa),
13.

maculipennis (Mutilla),
219.

maculipennis (Prosopis),
23

maculosa (Joppa), 233.
maligna (Mutilla), 220.

mandibularis (Crabro),
138.
mandibularis (Mautilla),

mansueta (Mutilla), 212.

marginatum (Cacosoma),
AN,

marginatus(Paracolletes),
4

marginipennis (Mutilla),
217

maurus (Odynerus), 135.

medius (‘Thynnus), 170.

Megachile, 6].

Megacilissa, 58.

Megalopta, 48.

melancholica (Mutilla),
223.

melectoides (Tetralonia),
112.

Melissa, 108.

Melissodes, 113.

Mesostenus, 231.

metallicum (Mydrosoma),

ALPHABETICAL INDEX.

metallicus (Lamprocol-
letes), 8.
Methoca, 228.
micrelephas
lus), 117.
midas (Mutilla), 221.
minuta (Ceelioxys), 106.
miranda (Andrena), 54.
mitis (Pompilus), 148.
moderata (Megachile), 74.
modesta (Andrena), 53.
modesta (Anthophora),
121,
modesta (Joppa), 233.
modesta (Megachile), 63.
modesta (Melissodes), 115.
moesta (Andrena), 54.
molesta (Pimpla), 229.
molestus (Thynnus), 166.
mollis (Andrena), 50.

(Pachyme-

montanus (Odynerus),
136.

montanus (Sphecodes),
27.

montezumia (Habro-

poda), 118.
montezumia (Nomada),
LO 2
montivagus (Bombus),

morosa (Prosopis), 26.

morosus (Thynnus), 168.

morosus(Thyreodon),230.

multipictus (Pompilus),

multipictus (Thynnus),
160.

multiplicatum (Anthi-
dium), 87.

munifica (Mutilla), 223.

Mutilla, 189.

Mutillide, 189.

Mydrosoma, 5.

Myzine, (77.

nana (Augochlora), 46.

nana (Mutilla), 226.

nanus (Lamprocolletes),
9

nanus (Thynuus), 171.
nasalis (Megachile), 61.
natalensis (Hpeolus), 101.
natalensis (Tiphia), 184.
neglecta (Andrena), 57.
nigerrimus (Mesostenus),
231.
nigra (Kuryglossa), 13.
nigriceps (Kpeolus), 103.
nigriceps (Methoca), 228.
nigrifrons (Kucera), 110.
nigrifrons (Myzine), 178.

&

(Thynnus),

nigripennis
172

nigrocineta (Nomada), 99.

nigrofasciatus (Thynnus), ~
Lee

nigrofemorata (Mega-

lopta), 48.

nigropectus (Thynnus),
165,

niloticus (Halictus), 32.

nitida (Mutilla), 205.

nitidifrons (Euryglossa),
14

nitidus (Colletes), 1.

nitidus (Paracolletes), 3.

notabilis (Mutilla), 204.

nubilipennis (Pompilus),
152.

nubilipennis (Thynnus),
167.

oblita (Mutilla), 218.
oblitus (Halictus), 35.
oblonga (Megachile), 65.
oblonga (Tiphia), 187.
obscura (Melissodes), 113.
obtusa (Mutilla), 189.
obtusata (Prosopis), 17.
Odynerus, 134.
opifex (Bombus), 133.
opifex (Megachile), 71.
oppositus(‘Thynnus), 162.
optimus (Pepsis), 157.
orbata (Megachile), 81.
ordinaria (Mutilla), 225,
ordinatum (Anthidium),
86.
orientalis (Myzine), 179.
ornata (Megalopta), 49.
ornatipennis (Pompilus),
141,
Osiris, 109.
Osmia, 60,

Pachymelus, 116.
pacificatrix (Mautilla),
204

pallida (Myzine), 179.
pallidicornis (Mutilla),
202

papuensis (Pompilus),
152.

Paracolletes, 3.

parallela (Tiphia), 185.
parasitica (Mutilla), 213.
parvula (Allodape), 98.
pavidus (Thynnus), 166.
pectoralis (Mutilla), 211.
penetrata(Megachile),67.
penetrata (Mutilla), 193.
penetrata (Prosopis), 25.

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penetrata (Tiphia), 185.

penetratrix (Ccelioxys),

penetratus (Thynnus),
158.

Pepsis, 156.

perelegans (Thynnus),
- 167

perfidiosa (Mutilla), 215.
perforatrix (Ceratina),

perforatrix (Tiphia), 185.
perplexus (Colletes), 1.
perplexus (Thynnus), 164.
personatus (Bombus),
pertinax (Mutilla), 212.
peruviana (Megachile),

petulans (Mutilla), 192.

petulans (Thynnus), 164.

pictiventris (Megachile),
65

pilosa (Megachile), 77.
pilosa (Megalopta), 48.
pilosulus (Sphecodes), 28.
pilosus (Pompilus), 140.
Pimpla, 229.
Pison, 139.
placida (Mutilla), 198.
placidus (Halictus), 39.
planiceps (Hxomalopsis),
125.
plumipes
129.
politus (Halictus), 38.
Pompilide, 140.
Pompilus, 140.
Poneride, 228.

predatrix (Mutilla), 191.
principalis (Thyreodon),
230.

(Tetrapedia),

Priocnemis, 157.
propinqua (Megachile),
74

propinquus (Pompilus),
150.

propinquus (‘Thynnus),
160.

Prosopis, 17.

protervus (Thynnus), 159.

providens (Halictus), 39.

providus (Lamprocol-
letes), 8.

proxima (Mutilla), 220.

proxima (Prosopis), 24.

proximatus (Halictus),31.

proximatus (Pompilus),
143.

pruinosus (Pompilus),
147.

ALPHABETICAL INDEX.

pubescens (Caupolicana),
7

pubescens (Ceratina), 94.

pubescens (Melissodes),
113.

pubescens (Mutilla), 222.

pulchra (Megachile), 70.

pulchripennis (Joppa),
232.

pullata (Megachile), 74.

pullatus (Pompilus), 147.

punctatus (Halictus), 36.

punctifrons (Tetrapedia),
130.

purpurata (Megalopta),
48,

purpurata (Mutilla), 190.
purpurata (Prosopis), 17.

quadriceps (Mutilla), 206.
quadriceps ~ (Prosopis),
17

quadrimaculata
glossa), 12.

quinquefasciata (Crocisa),
108.

(Hury-

rapida (Anthophora),
Ae

relata (Megachile), 68.

remota (Megachile), 69.

representans (Pompilus),

reversa (Tetralonia), 111.

Rhagigaster, 175.

rixosus (Thynnus), 168,

rotundiceps (Ceratina),
95.

rotundiceps
19.
rubicunda
73.
rubricata
12.
rubricata (Huryglossa),
14

(Prosopis),
(Megachile),
(Euryglossa),

rubricata (Melissodes),
113.
rubricata (Prosopis), 25.
rubricatus (Pompilus),
153.

rubripes (Osmia), 60.

rubritinctus (Odynerus),
135.

rubriventris (Megachile),
75

ruficeps (Pompilus), 141.

ruficornis (Lamprocol-
letes), 10.

ruficornis (Myzine), 178.

rufipes (Anthidium), 85.

239

rufipes (Ceratina), 97.

rufipes (Colletes), 3.

rufipes (Hucera), 110.

rufitarsis (Ammobates),
101.

rufitarsis (Hxomalopsis),
126.

rufitarsis (Mutilla), 199.

rufitarsis (Osmia), 61.

rufiventris (Sphecodes),
26.

rufofemorata (Mutilla),

rufopictus (Thynnus),
159

rufoscutellata (Mutilla),
216.

rugifrons (Ceratina), 93.

rugosa (Megachile), 65.

rugosa (Prosopis), 22.

rugosa (Tiphia), 185.

rugosus (Rhagigaster),
176.

salutatrix (Mutilla), 227.

salutatrix (Tiphia), 186.

sanguinolentus (Pompi-
lus), 152.

sapiens (Mutilla), 225.

scabrosa (Mutilla), 202.

Scolia, 189.

Seoliadze, 177.

scrutata (Mutilla), 206.

scutellata (Megachile), 66.

sedula (Megachile), 79.

senescens (Halictus), 30.

senilis (Bombus), 131.

senilis (Colletes), 3.

separata (Mutilla), 227.

sepulchralis (Pompilus),
145.

sounecule (Ceratina),

2.

similis (Megachile), 66.

simillima (Huryglossa),
12.

simillima (Myzine), 180.

simillima (Prosopis), 26.

simillimus (Pompilus),
149.

simplex (Thynnus), 167.
simulata (Andrena), 53.
simulatrix (Mutilla), 213.
smaragdinum (Temnoso-
ma), 29.

sociata (Mutilla), 215.
sodalis (Andrena), 52.
sodalis (Sphecodes), 28.
solitaria (Megachile), 80.
solitaria (Mutilla), 214.
solitaria (Tiphia), 185.

240

solitarius (Pepsis), 156.
sordidula (Mutilla), 217.
speculatrix (Mutilla), 194.
Sphecodes, 26.

spinifera (Mutilla), 213.

splendida (Mutilla), 207.

Stilpnosoma, 16.

stimulatrix(Mutilla), 192.
strangulata (Mutilla),200.
strangulatus (Thynnus),

strenua (Ceratina), 97.

strenua (Megachile), 73.

strenuus (Thynnus), 171.

subpetiolata (Nomada),
99

subpetiolatus (Pompilus),
141.

subspinosa (Tiphia), 189.

subtilis (Andrena), 55.

subtilis (Mutilla), 208.

suspiciosus (Thynnus),
161,

Systropha, 60.

tarsata
125.

tarsatus (Osiris), 109.

Temnosoma, 29.

tenuimarginata (Megaci-
lissa), 58.

tenuis (Mutilla), 217.

terminalis(Ctenoplectra),
58

(Exomalopsis),

terminalis (Eucera), 109.

terminata (Anthophora),
21.

terminata (Habropoda),
119,

ALPHABETICAL INDEX.

terminata(Megachile),62.
terminata (Mutilla), 225.
Tetralonia, 111.
Tetrapedia, 128.
thalia (Augochlora), 46.
Thynnidz, 158.
Thynnus, 158.
Thyreodon, 230.
timidus (Halictus), 31.
Tiphia, 184.
torrida (Andrena), 50.
torrida (Anthophora),
120.
torrida (Myzine), 178.
torrida (Prosopis), 25.
torridus (Halictus), 32.
torridus (Pompilus), 142.
trepanda (Prosopis), 23.
tricolor (Euryglossa), 15.
tuberculata (Megachile),
63. '
tuberculatus (Pompilus),
153.
tuberculifrons(Thynnus),
161.

unicolor (Pompilus), 154.

unifasciatus (Bombus),
133.

unimaculata (Ceratina),
93.

urbana (Megachile), 76.

urbanus (Halictus), 35.

vagabunda (Mutilla), 214.
vagans (Epeolus), 103.
vagans (Halictus), 37.
valida (Megachile), 81.
varicolor (Prosopis), 24.

variolosa (Joppa), 252.
vastator (Thynnus), 158.
velutina (Hucera), 110.
venatrix (Mutilla), 210.
ventralis (Megachile), 75.
vernalis (Halictus), 30.
versuta (Mutilla), 197.
vespoides (Thynnus), 165.
vestita (Megacilissa), 58.
vigilans (Ccelioxys), 105.
vigilans (Lioproctus), 7.
vigilans (Megachile), 78.
vigilans (Prosopis), 22.
villosula (Huryglossa), 15.
vindex (Mutilla), 210.
vindex (Pompilus), 144.
viridicatus (Pompilus),
143.
viridula (Ceratina), 95.
virulentus (Pompilus),
155.
vitiosa (Andrena), 51.
vitrifrons (Dasycolletes)
11

vitripennis (Halictus), 34.
vivax (Megalopta), 48.
vivax (Mutilla), 209.

vivida (Anthophora), 120.

vivida (Mutilla), 207.
vividus (Halictus), 35.
vividus (Thynnus), 161.
volatilis (Nomada), 100.
volatilis (Prosopis), 21.
volatilis (Sphecodes), 26.
volatilis | (Tetrapedia),
128.
vulpina (Mutilla), 225.

Xylocopa, 124.

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