NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXVI. 1919. 77 



(52) * Conopia clavicomis. 



f Aegeria clavicomis Wlk., xxxi. 14 (1864). 

 Batchian. 



Species auclorum.. 



Sesia setodiformis Mab., Bull. Soc. Ent. Ft. 1891. p. 174 Malafascar 



Sesia? xanthopyga Auriv., Ark. f. Zool. ii. 12. p. 45 (1905) .... CameiOOns 



Sesia? donkieri Le Ceri, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1912. p. 55. fig Madagascar 



Aegeria? alenicola Strand, Arch. Naturg. kxviii. A. 12. p. 67(1913) . . . Caneroonj 

 Aegeria? guineabia Strand, Arch. Naturg. Ixxviii. A. 12. p. 68 (1913) . Spanish Guinea 

 Sesia auronitem Le Cerf, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1913. p. 212. fig Gaboon 



Gen. Hymenosphecia. 



Type. 

 Hymenosphecia Le Cerf, Oberth. £!t. Lep. Comp. xiv. p. 284 (1917) .... albomaciUala 



* Hymenospechecia albomaculata. 



Hymenosphecia albomaculata Le Cerf, Oberth. Et. Lip. Comp. xiv, p, 284. pL 479. f. 3957 (1917). 

 Uganda. 



Gen. Vespanthedon. 



Type. 



Vespanthedon Le Cerf, Oberth. St, Lep. Comp. xiv. p. 329 (1917) .... cerceria 



* Vespanthedon cerceris. 

 Vespanthedon cerceris Le Cerf, Oberth. St. Lep. Comp. xiv. p. 330. pL 479. f. 3955 (1917). 

 Mozambique. 



Gen. Sphecosesia. 



Type. 



Sphecosesia Hmpsn., J. Bomb, Nat. Hist. Soc, xx. p. 93 (1910) pedunculata 



(1) Sphecosesia pedunculata. 



t Sphecosesia pedunculata Hmpsn., J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xx. p. 93. pL F. f. 14 (June 1910). 

 SiUiim. 



(2) t Sphecosesia aterea n. sp. 



S. Head, thorax, and abdomen black, the frons silvery white at sides and 

 above, the genae, tegulao at sides, and a narrow band behind them yellow, the 

 abdomen with slight lateral tufts of yellow scales at base, the base of the peduncu- 

 late segment pale, the 4th segment with yellow segmental line ; palpi yellow 

 with tuft of black scales at base of 2nd joint ; pectus with yellow patches at 

 sides ; the coxae and femora mostly yellow, the tibiae yellow below and with 

 slight tufts of spinous yellow hair at middle and extremities ; ventral surface 

 of abdomen with the pedunculate segment pale, the 4th and 5th with yellow 

 bands. Forewing hyahne, the veins and margins narrowly black, the costal area 

 black with a purplish gloss ; a black streak in end of cell ; the interspaces of 

 terminalarea with wedge-shaped black -brown streaks ; cilia black -brown. Hind- 

 wing hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly black, the ciUa black-brown. 



Hob. Fhilippines, Mindanao, Davao (Baker) 1 cj type. Exp. 22 mill. 



(3) Sphecosesia brachyptera n. n. 

 t Ichneumenoptera pedunculata Hmpsn., A.M.N. H. (8) vi. p. 155 (Aug. 1910), 

 Gold Coast. 



