4? 2 Franz Friedr. Kohl. [2 54-1 



175. Sphex sepicola Smith. 



Sphex sepicola Smith, Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc, III, 1 58, cT 5 1859 



Sphexnigtr', facie pube aurea vestita; alis subhvalinis apice fuscis; abdomine nitido. 



»Female. Length q lines. Black; the face densely clothed with golden pube- 

 scence, the cheeks with iridescent pile, with a long, loose, scattered pale vellow pube- 

 scence on the head and thorax; the mandibles smooth, shining black. The disk of the 

 thorax with an obscure chalvbeous tint, shining and finely punctured; the metathorax 

 opake and finelv rugose; the wings subhyaline, their apical margins fuscous, the ner- 

 vures ferrugineous. Abdomen with a slender subelongate petiole, and with a thin, silky, 

 grey pile; the apical margins of the Segments narrowly and obscurely rufo-piceous. 



Male. Rather smaller than the female, more slender and more pubescent, the 

 pubescence on the face paler. 



Hab. Arn. 



176. Sphex Servillei Lep. 



Sphex Servillei Lep., Hist. nat. Ins. Hvm., III, 336, cf 1845 



-Caput nigrum, nigro villosum, antice subpilis nigris argenteo pubescens. An- 

 tennae nigrae. Thorax niger, nigro villosus, subtus lateribus punetis argenteo pubescen- 

 tibus, non nisi certo situ distinguendis notatus; raetathorace supra convexo, nigro hir- 

 suto, postice argenteo pubescente. Pedes nigri, nigro villosi spinosique. Alae basi 

 apiceque nigrae, violaceo submicantes, in medio subhvalinae; nervuris, puncto marginali 

 costaque fusce ferrugineis; squamma nigra. Bresil.« 



177. Sphex singularis Smith. 



Sphex singularis Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins. Brit. Mus., IV, 261, c? 1 856 



»Male. Length q lines. Black: the face densely covered with golden pubescence, 

 the vertex and cheeks with .a long thin pale vellow pubescence. Thorax clothed with 

 long thin pale golden pubescence; the prothorax above, the postscutellum and an epaulet 

 over the tegulae of short bright golden pile; the legs with a hnc changeable silkv pile, 

 most dense on the coxae and posterior tibiae within; the wings hyaline, wr.h a pale 

 fuscous cloud at their apical margins and a darker one bevond the marginal cell; the 

 third submarginal cell subpetiolate. The abdomen has an obscure chalvbeous tinge, with 

 a little silkv pile at the base.« 



Neotropische Region: Honduras. 



[78. Sphex singularis Cameron. 



Sphex singularis Cameron, Biol. centr. americ, II, 33, d\ Tab. III, Fig. 7, 7 a cT 1888 

 »Nigra, longe fulvo- vel aureo-hirta; abdomine sericeo, basi interdum rufo-macu- 



lata; alis hyalinis, apice fumatis. cf. Long. iS — 21 mm. 



Hab. Mexico (Presidio [Torrer], Teapa in Tabasco [H. H. Smith]); Guatemala 



(San Gerönimo [Champion]); Honduras; Panama (Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3ooo 



feet [Champion]). 



Antennae as long as the thorax, thickened towards the apex, covered with a seri- 



ceous pile; the fourth Joint scarcely half the length of the third, and shorter than the 



fifth. Face densely, covered with long golden, the front and vertex more sparsely with 



