202 E. T. CRESSON. 



Elis 4-maeulata. 



Vespa l-maculata, Drury, Ins. ii. pi. 39, fig. 2, 9 • 

 Scolia 4-notala, Fabr. Syst. Piez., p. 240, % . 

 Four $ 9 specimens. (Boll; Heiligbrodt.) 



VI is plumipes. 



Sphex plumipes, Drury, Ins. i. pi. 44, fig. 5, 9- 

 Scolia radula, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii., p. 232, % . 



Six % 9 specimens. (Belfrage; Boll; Heiligbrodt.) 



VI is texensis. 



Elis texensis, Sauss. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 8 se"r. vi., p. 224. 

 One % specimen. (Belfrage.) 



Vlis Xantiana. 



Elis Xantiana, Sauss. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4 ser. Hi., p. 18. 

 Scolia regina, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iv., p. 447. 

 Two % 9 specimens. (Belfrage.) 



Vlis lupina, n. sp. 



9- — Black, shining, with large scattered punctures; head ferruginous, 

 cheeks and occiput black, clothed with dense golden fulvous pubescence, also 

 the face; antennae black, scape ferruginous; prothorax tinged with ferrugi- 

 nous, with a triangular yellow spot on each side; disc of mesothorax and of 

 scutelluin smooth, impunctured, a well-impressed line over tegulse; metatho- 

 rax very short, broadly truncate behind, the posterior face mostly dull ferrugi- 

 nous, sparsely punctured; pleura with long, rather dense golden pubescence; 

 tegulae fulvous; wings fuliginous, strongly violaceous, costa broadly dark 

 fuliginous, costal nerve pale fulvous; three submarginal cells, the second re- 

 ceiving two recurrent nervures; legs fulvo-ferruginous, with golden hairs; ab- 

 domen black, shining, sparsely, deeply punctured, base of first segment and 

 extreme apical margin of remaining segments with golden pubescence, other- 

 wise the pubescence and fringe above is black; segments 1 — 4 each with two 

 yellow spots, those on first and fourth segments narrow and nearly meeting on 

 disc, those on second and third segments larger and somewhat rounded; apical 

 segment brownish, rugose ; venter fusco-ferruginous, the segments fringed at 

 apex with long dense golden pubescence. Length .65 inch. 



One specimen. (Boll. Coll. Mus. Comp. Zoology.) This is allied 

 to Xantiana, Sauss., 9 > Dut i s larger and more robust, the black 

 color predominating, whereas in Xantiana the ferruginous color pre- 

 dominates. 



POMPILID^E. 



Pompilus pliiladelphicus. 



Pompilus pliiladelphicus, St. Farg. Hym. iii., p. 423. 



Fourteen S 9 specimens. (Belfrage; Boll.) One % specimen, 

 which may be named var. sericatus, has the head, thorax, legs and ab- 

 domen covered with a dense pale sericeous pile. 



