752 A. 1£. Verrill — The Bermuda Islands. 



black stripe on the occiput. Thorax with a large cordate dorsal 

 spot, the apex turned forward, edged with yellow, and including 

 two short rufous stripes ; sides in front of and behind the wings 

 rufous brown ; two rectangular dorsal spots of the same, behind the 

 black spot, both edged with yellow ; posterior part of thorax rufous 

 brown, with a median dorsal black stripe and one of yellow each 

 side of it of same width ; pedicel with an angular \ r ellow spot on 

 each side. Abdomen rufous brown, each segment narrowly edged 

 distally with brownish yellow ; the first enlarged segment with a 

 wider light yellow edge, and with some indistinct blackish spots 

 anteriorly ; next segment with a triangular black dorsal spot, the 

 point turned backward ; middle segments with indistinct blackish 

 patches ; wings smoky brown or blackish ; legs light yellowish 

 brown ; the femora rufous brown distally; antenna? black. Length, 

 19 mm ; expanse, 32 mm . August, Miss Hayward. (Fig. 107.) 



Geddes records also P. pallipes, a smaller North American species. 



A burrowing wasp or sand-wasp of the genus Balictus was 

 recorded by Dr. Fr. Dahl. (Plankton Exp., i, pt. 1, 108, 1892.) 



Jones recorded the genus Augochlora. 



Wood-wasp. (Mimesa Shuck., sp.) A slender-bodied wasp of the 

 family Mimesida? was also recorded by Dr. Dahl. 



Sand-wasp> ; Digger-tcasp. (Pompnlius Philadelphia^ ~Le\>.) This 

 North American species was recorded by Dr. F. Dahl (Plankton 

 Exp., i, part 1, p. 108, 1892.) A species of this genus was also 

 recorded by Jones, 1876, but we did not obtain it. 



Mason Wasps; Spider -w asp s ; Mud-daubers. {Sceliphron = 



Peloposus, etc.) 

 Yelloiv-footed Mason-ioasp. {Sceliphron, or Pelopmus, Jlaripes.) 



This common North American species was recorded by Jones. 



1S76. 



Large Mason Wasp. (Sceliphron cementar turn Drury, as Sphex, 

 Exot. Ins., i, p. 105, pi. xliv, tigs. 0, 8. Smith, Cat. Brit, Mus. 

 Hym., iv, p. 234, as Pelopceus. = P. In mil us Fab.; Guer., Icon. 

 R. Anim., p. 4-'!6, pi. lxx, tig. ■>.) 



This species is common in the southern United States, West 

 Indies and South America. Closely resembles the next species. 



