A^2 Franz Friedr. Kohl. r2 54l 



175. Sphex sepicola Smith. 



5^/2e.v .<C£'jL77'co/^ Smith, Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc, III, i58, (^9 iSSg 



Sphcx mger; facie puhe auroa vestita; alis subhvalinis apicc fuscis; abdominc nitido. 



»Fe male. Lcngth 9 lines. Black; the face denselv clothed with golden pube- 

 sccncc, 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 chalybeous tint, shining and finelv punctured; the metathorax 

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

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

 grey pile; the apical margins of the segments narrowly and obscurelv rufo-piceous. 



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

 pubescence on the face paler. 



Hab. Arn.« 



176. Sphex Servillei Lep. 



Sphex Serpillei Lep., Hist. n-ät. \ns.U\m., Ul, 336, d" 1845 



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

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

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

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

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

 costaque fusce ferrugineis; squamma nigra. Bresil.« 



177. Sphex singularis Smith. 



Sphex singulans Smith, Cat.Hym. Ins. BriLMus., IV, 261, d' i856 



»Male. Length 9 lines. Black: the face densely covered with golden pubescence, 

 the Vertex and cheeks with a long thin pale yellow 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 fine changeable silky pile, 

 most dense on the coxae and posterior tibiae within; the wings hyaline; with a pale 

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

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

 a little silky pile at the base.« 



Neotropische Region: Honduras. 



178. Sphex singularis Cameron. 



Sphex singularis Cameron, Biol. centr. americ, II, 33, cf, Tab. III, Fig. j,'ja<d 1888 

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



lata; alis hyalinis, apice fumatis. cT. Long. 18 — 21 mm. 



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



(San Gerönimo [Champion]); Honduras; Pan;una (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 



rifth. Face densely, covered with long golden, the front and vertex more sparsei v with 



