484 [June 



sharp raised margin, and is covered with large punctures. Length 4 

 lines ; expanse of wings 6 lines. 

 Three specimens. 



13. Crabro contiguus, n. sp. 



Black ; face and clypeus golden : scape of antennae, two short lines on collar, 

 tubercles, tibi.e and tarsi, and fasciae on the second and three following seg- 

 ments of abdomen, entire on the fifth segment, and interrupted on the next, pale 

 yellowish ; wings subhyaline. 



Female. — Black, opaque, densely and very minutely punctured, 

 thinly cbthed with an erect, pale pubescence; head large, quadrate ; 

 sides of the face and the clypeus golden; stripe on the mandibles and 

 the scape of the antennas yellow; cheeks a little silvery. Thorax: me- 

 sothorax with two slightly elevated longitudinal lines on the middle, 

 with a shallow channel between them ; two narrow transverse lines on 

 the prothorax, and the tubercles, pale yellow ; under a strong lens the 

 posterior part of the mesothorax and the scutellum are covered with 

 very fine longitudinal stria3 ; base of metathorax with oblique elevated 

 lines and a deep central channel ; sides of the pleura finely and longi- 

 tudinally striated; tegulge dull testaceous. Wings dusky hyaline, a 

 little iridescent; nervures fuscous. Legs black; tips of the four ante- 

 rior femora, all the tibite, and the tarsi, except tips which are dusky, 

 yellow. Abdomen subsessile, ovate, convex, smooth and shining; the 

 second and three following segments each with a basal, pale yellowish 

 fascia, interrupted in the middle, sometimes broadly, on the second, 

 third and fourth segments, entire on the fifth ; apical segment immac- 

 ulate, shaped as in the preceding species, and clothed with long golden- 

 yellow pubescence ; venter immaculate, smooth and shining. Length 

 4^ — (j lines; expanse of wings 7j — 9 lines. 



Three specimens. This species seems very closely allied to Crahro 

 obscurus. Smith, but the postscutellum in the present species is immacu- 

 late, and the mesothorax is not " longitudinally roughened." 



14. Crabro montanus. n. sp. 



Black; clypeus silvery; stripe on mandibles, scape, two spots on collar, and 

 spots on each side of abdominal segments, whitish ; wings pale fuliginous. 



Female. — Black, opaque, closely and very minutely punctured, 

 slightly pubescent; head quadrate; face and clypeus silvery; mandi- 

 bles with a yellowish-white stripe ; scape of the antennae yellowish- 

 white, black behind at base; the cheeks slightly silvery. Thorax 

 more distinctly punctured than the head; the mesothorax channelled 

 down the middle, with the sides raised; scutellum shining and sparsely 

 punctured; two transverse lines on the collar, tubercles, and sometimes 



