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segments with broad biinds of silvery pubescence, the hist segment 

 white and the wings hyaline, smoky round the apex from the 3rd 

 transverse cubital cellule The two species may be separated 

 thus : 



Temples roundly obliquely narrowed, the occiput being also 

 rounded, the two forming one rounded curve; apical abscissa of 

 radius roundly curved ; 2nd cubital cellule in front longer 

 than the 3rd, behind equal in length with it ; 3rd transverse 

 cubital nervure roundly curved in front. 



mimeticiis, n. sp. 

 Temples obliquely narrowed, the occiput transverse, apical abscissa 

 of radius sti'aight, oblique ; 2nd cubital cellule before and aft 

 shorter than the 3rd, 3rd transverse cubital nervure straight, 

 oblique in front. 



hirtiscapits, Cam. 

 The man(lil)Ies are ferruginous, black at the apex ; the 3rd 

 antennal joint is slightly longer than the 4th ; the antennae 

 stout, as long as the thorax ; the eyes are parallel, not 

 converging ; the head, pro- and mesothorax distinctl}' punctured ; 

 the median segment opaque, alutaceous, nari-owly furrowed down 

 the middle ; the apex with rounded sloi)e. The long spur of 

 the hind tibiae extends beyond the middle ef the metatarsus (in 

 hirtiscapus it does not extend to the middle) ; the tarsi sparsely 

 spined ; the claws bifid. 



Anoplius bretoni, Guei-. 



Mr. O'Neil has taken, what I make out to be this widely 

 ranging species at Dunbrody. The innei' eye orbits are broadly 

 dark, the outer more narrowly of a brighter brown colour ; and 

 there is a broad brown band in front of and at the sides of the 

 ocelli. It belongs probably to the genus Aphiloctenus Ashmeatl. 

 Pompilus solanus, Kohl appears to be the same or a closely allied 

 species. 



VESPID^E. 



Odynerus (LeiunotusJ melanoduntus, sp. no v. 

 Black ; the apex of tht. clypeus rufous ; an oblique spot on 

 either side of its top above, a spot above the antennte, broader than 



