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beneath, spot at each side of first dorsal segment, an oblique spot 

 on each side of the second, apical margin of the third dorsal and second 

 ventral, all yellow; flagellum beneath, tegulre and greater part of 

 legs testaceous. Length 9 mm. 



Texas (Belfrage). Collection of U. S. National Museum. 



6. Gorytes mystaoeus Linne. 



Sphex mystacea Linne, Fauna Suecica, p. 412. 



Gorytes mystaceus Handlirsch, 1. c, p. 367, pi. II, f. 15; pi. III. f. 6, 9 $ ■ 

 For full synonymy see Handlirsch, 1. c. 



Handlirsch records this species from America. I have only seen 



European examples. 



7. Gorytes campestris Mull. 



Vespa campestris Miiller, Linne's Natursystem, V, II, 883. 

 Gorytes campestris Handlirsch, 1. c, p. 372, 9 $ , pi. I, f. 1, 25. 28; pi. II, 

 f. 14. For full synonymy see this author. 



Also recorded from North America by Handlirsch. I doubt the 

 occurrence of either mystaceus or compestris in America, the speci- 

 mens seen by Handlirsch being very likely labelled erroneously. 



8. Gorytes nigrifrons Smith. 



Gorytes nigrifrons Smith, Cat. Hym. B. M., IV, p. 368, 9 

 Gorytes Bollii Cresson, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. IV, p. 225 9 

 Gorytes nigrifrons Handlirsch, 1. c. p. 376. 



Nova Scotia (Smith); North Carolina, in Collection of U. S. 

 Nat'l Museum; Texas. Through the courtesy of Mr. Samuel Hen - 

 shaw, I have examined the type of O. Bollii Cr., and find it agrees 

 exactly with Smith's description of nigrifrons, which therefore cor- 

 roborates Handlirsch' s action in uniting the two, although he had 

 seen specimens of neither. The wide furrow, which forms the en- 

 closure of middle segment, distinguishes this species from any of its 

 congeners, and by which character the $ , heretofore unknown, may 

 also be separated from either of the two preceding species. 



9. Gorytes fuscus Tasch. 



f Gorytes vespoides Smith, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. XII, p. 407, 9 1873. 

 Hoplisus fuscus Taschenhurg, Zeitsch. f. d. ges. Xaturw., p. 368, 1875. 



Recorded from Connecticut by Handlirsch. Occurs in Mexico 

 and Brazil. The £ , which I have not seen, is said to be distin- 

 guished from its allies by its simple, non-emarginate, non-spinose 

 or tuberculate antenna?, and by the first segment being not fasciate. 



10. Gorytes confertus n. sp. 



9 . — Eyes toward the clypeus very slightly converging; antenna? 

 a little clavate, the scape longer than the pedicellum and first joint 



