WEST INDIAN HA’MENOPTERA. 
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current iiervure before its middle. Legs black, the tibial spurs and a sjwt at 
base of posterior tibise white, the anterior tibiae and tarsi fuscous, posterior tibiae 
feebly spined. Abdomen petiolate, compressed, two transverse spots on the 
second and third segments, and the last segment white. Length 7 mm. 
Four specimens ; Port Antonio. 
Flaiiioeps eulVralis n. sp. 
'J, . — Black, clothed with silvery sericeous pubescence, more dense on the face, 
anterior and posterior coxae and the metathorax. Antennae short, thick, the 
second joint of the flagellum longer than the first; clypeus rounded in front; 
front with a slight medial impressed line: posterior mai-gin of the prothorax 
subarcuate; metathorax above strongly furrowed, ihe posterior face de]ir(S.‘^cd 
medially or slightly excavated; medial and posterior tibiae rathei’ strongly 
spinose, the posterior femora within very smooth and shining; wings’ hyaline, 
iridescent, the apical margin of the anteriors fuscous, second recurrent nervure 
received by the cubital nervure beyond the second submarginal cell the latter 
contracting on its upper half. Abdomen a little shorter than the thorax, shining, 
the basal portion of segments 2-4 above, with a band of silvery sericeous ]>ubes- 
cence. Length 5.5 mm. 
One S|)ecimen ; Port Antonio. Closely allied to F. feralis Cr. from 
Florida and Texas. 
C’ei’opales ciibeiisis Cr. 
Ceropales cubensis Cr., Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila. iv, p. 132, J ; Trans. Am. Ent. 
Soc. i, p. 141, 1867-68. 
Two specimens, 9 j Kingston. 
SPHEGIICE. 
^[iplie.v ielineiiiiionea Linne. 
Var. <loi‘!^alis Lep. 
Sphex dorsalis Lep. St. F. Hym. iii, p. 347, Sm. Cat. Brit. Mus. Hym. iv, 
]). 259, 9 • 
Two 9 specimens; Port Antonio. This variety can be distin- 
guished by the petiole and a broad band on the apical half of the 
third and on the fourth and fifth segments of the abdomen being 
black. 
Var. lulviveiitris Guer. 
Sphex ichneumonea var. fulviventris Kohl., Ann. k. k. Natur. Hofm. Bd. V, p. 
4.30. 
One specimen ; Port Antonio. 
Splie.Y 8iiigiilari!>» Sm. 
Sphex singnlaris Sm., Brit. Mus. Cat. Hym. iv, p. 261, , 1856. 
Two S specimens; Port Antonio ; Annotto Bay. 
