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of the prothorax rounded ; the mesothorax with a longitudinal fuscous 

 stripe on each side, widest anteriorly ; the metathorax truncate ; above, 

 transversely striate ; the tibiae and tarsi spinose ; wings dark fuscous, 

 with a pale semitransparent macula at the base of the second discoidal 

 cell and a dark fuscous macula beyond ; the insect entirely covered 

 with a fine orange-red downy pile. 

 Hab. Celebes. 



Fam. SPHEGID^. 



1. Sphex prjedator. S. niger, rude punctatus, facie pube fulva ves- 

 tita; alis fuscis cupreo iridescentibus. 



Male. Length 10^ lines. Black ; the head and thorax opake. Abdo- 

 men shining blue-black. The face with silvery pile on each side of 

 the clypeus, and sprinkled with erect black hairs. Thorax : the pos- 

 terior margin of the prothorax with a line of silvery pubescence ; the 

 metathorax with a short light-brown pubescence at the apex, and 

 thinly clothed with black hairs ; wings dark brown, with a brilliant 

 violet iridescence. Abdomen blue-black, smooth and shining. 



Hab. Celebes. 



2. Ammophila insolata. a. nigra, scapo mandibulis, pedibus, ab- 

 dominisque segmentis primo et secundo ferrugineis ; alis subhyalinis. 



Female. Length 8^ lines. Black ; the scape, the base of the flagellum 

 beneath, the anterior margin of the clypeus and the mandibles ferru- 

 ginous ; the latter black at their apex. Thorax : the prothorax smooth 

 and shining; the meso- and metathorax above transversely striated, 

 the scutellum longitudinally so ; the legs ferruginous, with their coxae 

 black J a spot of silvery-white pubescence on each side of the meta- 

 thorax at its base, and two at its apex close to the insertion of the 

 petiole ; the wings fulvo-hyaline with the nervures ferruginous. Ab- 

 domen : the petiole and the following segment red, the base of the 

 third also slightly red ; the three apical segments obscurely blue, with 

 a thin glittering pile. 



The male differs in having the legs black, their articulations only being 

 ferruginous ; the head entirely black with the face densely covered 

 with silvery- white pile. The thorax is sculptured as in the other sex ; 

 the petiole more elongate and slender, the basal joint black, the 

 second and the first segment ferruginous beneath ; the rest of the 

 abdomen blue. 



Hab. Celebes. 



Gen. Pelop^us, Latr. 



1. Pelopaeus Madraspatanus, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 203. 3. 

 Hab. Malabar, Madras, Nepaul, Bengal, Celebes. 



2. Pelopaeus Bengalensis, Dahlb. Syst. Nat. i. 941. 2, 



Hab. India, Philippine Islands, China, Isle of France, Celebes. 



