100 HYMENOPTEKA. 



Joaquin in Vera Paz (Champion); Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Ghampion), 

 Panama city (Boucard). — South America, Demerara, Brazil. 



^6. Monedula dives. 



Monedula dives, Handl. Sitz. der k. Akad. der Wissensch. Wien, xcix. p. 106 l . t 

 Hab. Mexico 1 . 



7. Monedula mexicana. " 



Monedula mexicana, Handl. Sitz. der k. Akad. der Wissensch. Wien, xcix. p. 107 \ 

 Hab. Mexico 1 . 



BEMBEX. 



Bembyx, Fabrieius, Syst. Ent. p. 361 (pt.) (1775). 



Bembex, Fabricius, Mant. Ins. i. p. 285 ; Handlirsch, Sitz. der k. Akad. der Wissensch. Wien, xcv. 

 p. 280 (1887). 

 This genus is found in all the zoological regions. It has the maxillary palpi four- and 

 the labial palpi two-jointed; the anterior ocellus is linear and transversely curved ; the 

 apex of the metathorax is transverse or somewhat convex, and not, or hardly, compressed 

 laterally ; the angle formed by the radial with the third transverse cubital nervure is 

 obtuse ; and the male has only one spine on the eighth ventral segment. 



v 1. Bembex multipicta. (Tab. VI. figg. 17, male organ ; 18, 2 .) 

 Bembex multipicta, Smith, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. xii. p. 300 \ 



Hab. Mexico, Oaxaca \ Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith) ; Guatemala, Torola 1000 

 feet (Champion). — South America, Demerara. 



Scape black, shining, yellow beneath ; the flagellum microscopically pilose ; the 

 third joint twice the length of the fourth. Head shining, almost impunctate, except 

 slightly on the vertex ; black, with the following parts clear yellow — the orbits 

 narrowly behind, a pear-shaped mark below the ocelli and a small spot on either side of 

 it, a mark above the antennae and the antennal tubercles, the orbits and face laterally 

 (the yellow on the latter becoming more extended towards the antennae, thus narrowing 

 the central black spot), the clypeus (except two black marks in the centre at the base, 

 which ends in a round knob), the labrum, and the basal three-fourths of the mandibles ; 

 covered with long cinereous hair, which is especially long and thick on the front and 

 vertex. Thorax rather strongly punctured, shining ; the prothorax yellow, with two 

 broad lines in the middle, and a narrow one on the edge of the pronotum ; mesonotum 

 black, two short lines in front, a line along the edge, and a short mark at the apex 

 touching the scutellum, yellow ; mesopleurae yellow, the sutures and sternum black ; an 

 irregularly oval mark on either side of the scutellum ; the postscutellum, a line along 

 the metanotum, and a large mark along the edge and side, yellow. Abdomen black, 



