Hytuenoptera. 321 



yellow : head, thor.ix and legs denselj' covered with white 

 pubescence : the wings hyaline, the nervures aiitl stigma black. 

 Male. 



Length 13 mm. 



March. 



Apex of clypeus transverse in the middle, the sides ronndly 

 curved and narrowed. Front and vertex coarsel}^ rugosely punc- 

 tured, the pro- and mesonotum are less closely and less rugosely 

 punctured, the punctures being clearly separated. Parapsidal 

 furrows wide, shallow, striated. Metanotum closely, rugosely 

 [)unctured, the apical slope more closely than the base ; there is a 

 smooth, irregular space in the centre of the basal part. Pleurae 

 coarsely, rugosely punctured, the base of the propleurte lined with 

 white. The narrowed basal third of the 1st abdom.inal segment 

 almost smooth, the dilated pyriform apex closely punctured ; 

 there is a narrow transverse furrow near the base of the 3rd, 1th, 

 and .jth, the incision in the pygidium is twice longer than wide, 

 roundly narrowed at the base ; the sides are not keeled. The 

 3rd abscissa of the radius is not much longer than the 2nd ; the 

 1th distinctly longer ; the 2nd recurrent nervure is roundly 

 obliquely curved outwardly above ; the lower part straight, 

 oblique, slightly turned towards the base of the wings. 



SPHEGIDtE. 



Notogonia rufoscapa^ sp. nov. 



Black, the antennal scape bright red, darker at the apex above, 

 the m-c'ndibles of a darker red, palpi dark fuscous, the body 

 covered with a silvery pile ; wings uniformly dark fuscous 

 violaceous ; the nervures and stigma back ; 2nd cubital cellule 

 much narrowed in fi-ont, half the length of the space bounded bj' 

 the 1st transverse cubital and the 1st recurrent nervures are 

 united, and are received near the apex of the basal third of the 

 cellule ; the metanotum minutely, obscurely transversely striated, 

 the apical slope more distinctly, widely and irregularly striated. 



