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Allied to (' jiititrtuhtfti CAM. from Gape Colony; tliat species has the abdomen at 

 the base red and it wants the yellow bands, the metanotum, too, being entirely black. 



(Vropulos sulciscntis, sp. nov. 



Black, shining, the face, clypeus, antennal tubercle, the inner orbits to near the 

 top, broadly below, the top of the line narrowed, the narrowed part roundly curved, the 

 ouler orbits narrowly, a line, aboul 3 times wider than long, shortly below the middle 

 of the propleuree on the base, a line on the apex of the pronolum, dilated slightly at 

 the apex, a curved spot on the sides of the apex of metanotum, the underside of the 

 4 anterior coxre, and the sides of the middle below with a curved line and the apex 

 above, pale yellow; the rest of the coxre, the anterior femora behind, the 4 anterior 

 tibire behind and the tarsi, black; the rest of the femora and tibia? red; the spurs of a 

 darker red; the long spur of the hinder does not reach the middle of the metatarsus; 

 wings clear hyaline, the 2nd and 3rd abscissas of the radius equal in length; the 1st 

 transverse cubital nervure is roundly bent above; the 1st recurrent nervure is received 

 shortly beyond, the 2nd in the middle of the cellule. $. 



Length 7 mm. 



Kilimanjaro: Kibonoto, cultivated region. May. 



Antennae stout, the 3rd and 4th joints equal in length. Front and vertex shagreened; 

 the antennal tubercle distinctly furrowed. Eyes distinctly converging below. Hinder 

 ocelli separated from the eyes by about the same distance as they are from each other. 

 Middle of mesonotum broadly depressed and with a triangular raised part in the middle; 

 this depression is strongly, but not closely punctured; the scutellum is similarly punct- 

 ured except in the middle above; the apical slope smooth, wilh a deep, distinct furrow 

 down the middle. Metanotum opaque, there is a smooth longitudinal furrow at the base; 

 the sides are obliquely striated, strongly at the base, more weakly towards the apex; the 

 centre finely, closely rugose. PropleuraB smooth, the wide central depression with 4 stria 3 ; 

 the mesopleurre strongly, but not closely punctured; the melapleurag shagreened. Labrum 

 dark rufous; the mandibles broadly dark red beyond the middle. Palpi dark fuscous, 

 covered with a white pile. 



Sphegidae. 



Sphox mnbrosus, CHRIST. 



Solo's umbrosus, CHRIST., Natur. Ins. 293, T. XXIX, f. 2; KOHL, Ann. d. K. K. 

 Hof. MU*., 1890, 407; Denk. d. Math.-Natur. d. K. Akad. d. Wiss. 1906, 199. - 

 Spin.'' >i/<//!irfi. TASGHEXBERG, Zeits. f. d. ges. Naturw., Halle, XXXIV, 414. - SpJ":r 

 Tasclirnln-yi, MAGRETTI, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, (2) 1, 61 (var.). - - SpJ:r 

 erebus, KIRBY, Bull. Liverp. Mus., Ill, 10, p. 15 (= nnftillicus). 



Meru low lands, December. 1 example of the var. metallicus, TASCH. 



