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Sphex (Parasphex) marginatus Sm. 



Sheikh Husein, October 1, 1894. One specimen. The petiole is 

 black in this specimen. 



Sceliphron Spinolae Lep. 



Two females. Sheikh Husein, October 15, 1894. 

 Sceliphron spirifex Linne. 



Two females. Sheikh Husein, October 1 and 15, 1894. 

 Sceliphron violaceum Fabr. 



One specimen. Sheikh Husein, October 15, 1894. 

 AmmopMla ferrugineipes Lep. 



One 9 specimen. Sheikh Husein, October 8, 1894. 

 Ammophila lugubris Gerst. 



Two females. Sheikh Husein, September 20 and 28, 1894. 

 Ammophila holosericea Fabr. 



Dabulli, September 16, 1894. Two ^ specimens. 

 Ammophila insignis Sm. 



Turfer. One specimen, August 13, 1894. 

 Ammophila beninensis ? Pal.-Bve. 



I refer doubtfully to this species two specimens from Sheikh 

 Husein, September 30 and October 5. They agree fairly well with 

 Beauvois' description and figure of beninensis, but the tibiae and tarsi 

 and four anterior femora are reddish. 



Bembex Dahlbomi Hdl. 



Milmil, July 28, 1894. Four specimens. 

 Sphecius Quartinae Grib. 



Only the male of this species has been described, and it is not cer- 

 tain that the female specimen before me from Berbera, July 4, 1894, 

 is really Quartince. I venture to describe it as such, however. 



5 . — Short and stout, ferruginous, except the clypeus, labrum, 

 mandibles, except apex (which is black), front beneath and scape and 

 apical antennal joints beneath, which are yellow ; apical margins of 

 the dorsal abdominal segments narrowly fuscous ; wings testaceo-hya- 

 line, nervures reddish, marginal cell lanceolate and narrow ; second 

 submarginal greatly narrowed above, its width at this point slightly 

 greater than that between the stigma and the first transverso-cubital 

 nervure on the marginal nervure ; third submarginal scarcely nar- 

 rowed above ; clypeus convex, transverse, its fore-margin a little in- 



