96 HYMENOPTEKA. 



A variable and widely -distributed species. Examples of it in the British-Museum 

 collection are labelled Monedula spinosa, Fabr. 



^ 3. Bembidula variegata. (Tab. VI. fig. 14, $ .) 



Bembex variegata, Oliv. Encycl. Method, iv. p. 292 \ 



Bembidula variegata, Handl. Sitz. der k. Akad. der Wissensch. Wien, xcviii. p. 488 2 . 



Monedula dissecta, Dahlb. Hymen. Europ. i. p. 186. 



Monedula sericea, Spinola, in Gray's Hist. fis. y polit. de Chile, Zool. vi. p. 315 3 . 



Hah. Mexico, Orizaba (Bilimek 2 )^ Omealca near Orizaba (M. Trujillo), Teapa in 

 Tabasco (H. H. Smith) ; Guatemala, San Joaquin in Vera Paz (Champion). — South 

 America, Venezuela 2 , Cayenne 1 , Brazil 2 , Chili 3 . 



Antennae with the scape yellow beneath ; the flagellum densely covered with a short, 

 silky, microscopic pile ; the third joint twice the length of the fourth. Head finely 

 punctured ; the front, vertex, and occiput covered with short pale hair ; the clypeus 

 with a silky pile ; the orbits broadly in front to the ocelli and narrowly behind, the 

 space between the antennae, the clypeus (except a somewhat triangular black mark 

 at the base), the labrum, and the mandibles (except the apices), clear pale yellow. 

 Thorax shining, minutely punctured ; the prothorax yellow, with a broad black band 

 above ; two longish longitudinal lines on the mesonotum in front, a line along the sides 

 extending from the pronotum to the scutellum, a line along the base of the scutellum, 

 the postscutellum, a Curved line along the apex of the metanotum, the metanotal 

 tubercles broadly, a broad line down the centre of the mesopleuree, a small mark 

 beneath the fore w T ings, and the metapleurse (except a black line down the centre), pure 

 citron-yellow. Abdomen shining, with a broad interrupted yellow band on each 

 segment and two marks on the apical segment ; a broad black mark on the ventral 

 segments ; the apical ventral segment entirely black, sparsely punctured, and shining. 

 Legs clear yellow ; the greater part of the trochanters, and a line on the femora and 

 tibiae above, black. 



^ 4. Bembidula viduata. 



Bembidula viduata, Handl. Sitz. der k. Akad. der Wissensch. Wien, xcviii. p. 491 1 . 

 Rah, Mexico, Huastec \ 



\J 5. Bembidula capnoptera. 



Bembidula capnoptera, Handl. Sitz. der k. Akad. der Wissensch. Wien, xcviii. p. 497 \ 

 Hah. Noeth America, Texas, Kentucky, Georgia. — Mexico, Jalisco (Schumann). 



\J 6. Bembidula burmeisteri. (Tab. VI. figg. 15, $ ; 15 a, apex of abdomen, 2 ; 

 16, male organ ; 16 a, apical ventral segment, <5 ; 16 h, apex of abdomen, 6 .) 

 Bembidula burmeisteri, Handl. Sitz. der k. Akad. der Wissensch. Wien, xcviii. p. 497 \ 



