492 Annals of the South African Museum. 



the third cubital cell. Cubitus of the hind wing originating very 

 shortly before the transverse median nervure 



Hab. Durban, Natal (W. Heygarth), April, 1913. 



This is very near B. gowdeyi Turn., from Uganda, but differs in the 

 colour of the legs and antennae and in the pi-esence of a distinct 

 sulcus on the median segment. The second cubital cell is very much 

 longer than in capemis Dahlb. (vindex Sm.), and the position of the 

 second recurrent nervure is different. 



GENUS ANOPLIUS Lepell. 



ANOPLIUS INSIDIOSUS, Sm. 



Pompilus insidiosus Sm., Descr. ne\v spec. Hymen, p. 143, 1879, 9 

 Anoplins rhodesiantts Bisch., Ai'ch. f. Naturges. A 3, p. 60, 1913, 9 $ . 



GENUS HEMIPEPSIS Dahlb. 

 HEMIPEPSIS TAMISIERI, Guer. 



Pompilm tamisieri Guerin. Lefebure : Voy. Abyssinie, vi, p. 356, 1848. 

 Mygnimia distant! Saussure, Distant : Natural. Transvaal, p. 220, 



1892, 9 . 



I have no doubt that distant i is a synonym, though I have not seen 

 the species from as far south as Pretoria. It occurs in South 

 Rhodesia and throughout East Africa. 



SUPERFAMILY SPHECOIDEA. 



SUBFAMILY ST1ZINAE. 

 GENUS STIZUS, Latr. 



STIZUS FRANZI, Turn. 



Stizus neavei Kohl, Eev. Zool. African, iii, p. 208, 1913 (nee Turner, 



1912). 



Stizus franzi Turn., Ann. & Mag. Nat, Hist, (8) xvii, p. 443, 1916. 

 Stizus congoensis Maut,, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, 3 a , vii,. 

 p. 376, 1917. 



A specimen in the South African Museum has the fore wings flavo- 

 hyaline from the base to the basal nervure, thence fusco-hyaline to 

 the apex of the third cubital cell, the extreme apical margin almost 

 hyaline. The front is entirely black except the inner orbits and the 

 base of the clypeus is also black. There do not seem to be any 

 structural differences in the single female specimen in the collection,, 

 so I treat it as merely a colour variety. 



Hab. Stellenbosch (L. Perinyuey), January, 1888. 



