208 CATALOGUE OP THE DESCRIBED HYMENOPTERA OF AUSTRALIA, 



130. ELIS. 



Elis, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 248 (1804). 



AUSTRALENSis, Sauss. & Sich. (THelis), Cat. Sp. Scolia, p. 144 

 0864). 

 Australia. 

 CONSANGUINEA, Sauss. Mem. See. Phys. Geneve, XIV. pt. 1, 

 p. 50 (1855). 

 A ustralia. 

 800 GRACILIS, Sauss. I.e. p. 62. 

 Australia. 

 SABULOSA, Sauss. Ann. See. Ent. France, VI. (3), p. 234 (1858). 



Australia. 

 TASMANIENSIS, Sauss. Mem. See. Phys. Geneve, XIV. pt. 1, 

 p. 61 (1855). 

 Tasmania. 



Family SPHEGID^. 



The members of this group of fossorial wasps are numerous in 

 Australia ; several species of the genus Sphex are black, of large 

 size, and have the front of the thorax covered with silky shining 

 pubescence, which makes them very noticeable when busy exca- 

 vating their tunnels in the sand ; one, aS'. vestita, Sm., is a veiy 

 plentiful species about Sydney towards the end of summer. Of 

 the genus Pelopoeus, Latreille, handsome yellow-banded wasps 

 with very slender bodies, we have two described species ; these 

 wasps, unlike Sphex, form clay nests. Smith described a number 

 in the British Museum Catalogue of Hymenoptera, Part iv. 

 (1856), and added to them in the Transactions of the Entomo- 

 logical Society of London (1868), and in Brenchley's "Cruise of the 

 Curagoa" (1873). Saussure described several in the Hymenoptera 

 of the " Reise Novara " ; while Westwood formed the genus 

 Apheloioma for an insect from Tasmania. 



