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Family BEMBICIDJE. 



The genus Bembex is well represented in this country, and we 

 have a number of large and handsome described species. The 

 European species are said to make their nests in the sand, and to 

 provision them with flies. Smith has described the greater 

 number of our known species in the British Museum Catalogue, 

 Hymenoptera, Part iv. (1856), and in the Annals and Magazine of 

 Natural History, XII. (4) [1873]. 



161. BEMBEX. 

 Bemhex, Fabr. Mant. (1787). 

 ATRIFRONS, Sm. Brit. Mus. Cat. Hym. p. 327 (1856). 

 Swan River, W.A. 

 945 CRABRONiPORMis, Sm. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. XII. (4), p. 296 

 (1873). 

 Ft. Essington, N.A. 

 FLAVIFRONS, Sm. Brit. Mus. Cat. Hym. p. 324 (1856). 



Australia. 

 FLAViPES, Sm. I.e. p. 325. 



Australia. 

 PLAViLABRis, Sm. Ami. Mag. Nat. Hist, XII. (4), p. 299, 

 (1873). 

 W. Australia. 

 FLAVIVENTRIS, Sm. l.c. p. 299. 

 Swan River, W.A. 

 950 FURCATA, Erichs. Wiegm. Arch. 1842, p. 226; Sm. Brit. 

 Mus. Cat. Hym. p. 328 (1856). 

 Tasmania; Swan River, W.A. 

 PALMATA, Sm. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. XII. (4), p. 298, 

 (1873) ; Brit. Mus. Cat. Hym. p. 325 (1856). 

 N. Australia. 

 RAPTOR, Sm. Brit. Mus. Cat. Hym. p. 326 (1856). 



Adelaide, S.A. 

 SEVERA, Sm. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. XII. (4), p. 297 (1873). 

 Swan River, W.A. 

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