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genus and therefore it is impossible to identify the true fasciata, with- 

 out comparison with the type. Cresson's texana fits Fabricius' des- 

 cription as well as does Spinoke. As I have pointed out elsewhere, it 

 would have been better to have retained our common species, for years 

 known to American students as fasciata, as that species than to have 

 changed it at so late a date. This, of course, is only a matter of 

 opinion, and some day the name will be set right, provided the type 

 of Fabricius' species is in existence; otherwise we will have another 

 name to add to the list of unidentified species. 



The amount of yellow on the prothorax varies in Spinolce. I have 

 seen no £ 's (in a series of specimens) having the stipes of genitalia 

 as figured by Handlirsch. While the form varies, as is stated by 

 that author, it is, as a rule, but little different from that shown in fig. 

 2, Plate XIV. The description of fasciata Fabr., is as follows: 



" B. clypeus integro, abdomine atro fasciis glaucis lunatis. Hab. in 

 Carolina, Mus. Dom. Bosc. 



Summa affinitas B. rostratw. Antenme nigra?, primo articulo 

 subtus flavo. Caput nigrum, cinereo villosum, clypeo conico, flavo, 

 integro. Thorax niger, cinereo tomentosus margine antico tenuis- 

 sime, puncto sub alis alioque pone alas glaucis. Abdomen atrum 

 segmento primo fascia interrupta, reliquis fascia e lunulis duabus 

 connatis glaucis. Pedes flavi femoribus basi nigris." 



5. Bembex similans n. sp. Plate XIV, f. 1. 



9 . — Black; head, thorax, dorsulum and scutellum excepted, and 

 abdomen with cinereous pubescence, shortest on the abdomen ; inner 

 and posterior orbits, clypeus, labrum, mandibles except apex, spot 

 between the antennre drawn out into a narrow line which 

 reaches the fore ocellus and may be interrupted medially, 

 scape beneath, spot on first joint of flagellum beneath, prothorax 

 particularly on the sides, tubercles, line at each side of dorsulum, 

 tegular in part, spot on scutellum laterally, greater part of meso-and 

 metapleurpe, sides of middle-segment almost entirely, spot on anterior 

 and medial coxa3, femora except base and a line above on fore and hind 

 pairs, tibia except line on fore pair within, tarsi except claws, two 

 large spots on first dorsal segment separated internally and a strongly 

 sinuous, non-interrupted band on segments 2-5, and a spot at each 

 side of ventrals 2-4, yellow; flagellum yellowish-testaceous beneath; 

 sculptured as in Spinoke, but the upper surface of middle segment 



