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The two paratypes (males), collected by Riggenbach, bear the follow- 

 ing labels : The one, " Kameriin int. Garua." and the other, " Kamerun 

 Tsad-See a. Benne iinterh. Garua." 



Type. — In the Zoologisches Museum der Universitat, Berlin. 



BEMBIX LEVIS, new species 



Figures 116-118 



Type (male). — Black: labrum: mandibles, except tips; clypeas, 

 except a pair of elliptical spots; scape below; spot between and above 

 antennae; broad anterior orbits shortened above; posterior orbits 

 narrowed above; posterior dorsal border of prothorax; sides of 

 prothorax almost entirely; spot on tegula; narrow line on scutem 

 above tegula; curved fascia on posterior border of scutellum; narrow 

 fascia on posterior border of metanotimi; broken fascia on dorsum 

 of propodeum ; lateral angles and spot on sides of propodeum ; nar- 

 row line on metapleura; large spot almost divided into two on 

 mesopleura; continuous fasciae on tergites 1-5, first deeply sinuate 

 on anterior median margin, second inclosing almost completely a 

 pair of dorsal black spots and emarginate on posterior median border, 

 remainder bisinuate on anterior border and emarginate on posterior 

 median border; obscure spots on tergite six; lateral spots on 

 sternites 2-4; spot on coxae; femora in greater part; tibiae, except 

 lines below and on posterior border; tarsi, except terminal segment 

 of each; white with a slight tinge of cremny yellow in some places. 



The flagellum is black and segment seven is bluntly but (piite evi- 

 dently spinose. Segments 9-11 are slightly excavated and segment 

 12 is flattened, distinctly curved, and roundly truncate at the apex, 

 which is ferruginous in color. The intermediate femora are not 

 considered serrate or dentate, although the apical end of the posterior 

 border is slightly roughened. The middle tibiae and tarsi are normal. 

 The anterior metatarsus bears six spines. The second sternite (on 

 the type) bears an evident median carina that does not end in a 

 process or spine. The second sternite of the male paratype bears a 

 large, curved, sharply pointed process whose ventral surface is slightly 

 concave. The seventh sternite is carinate on midline. The seventh 

 tergite is deeply sinuate on either side apically, causing the tergite 

 to end in a blunt point (fig. 118). 



The allotype (female), though resembling the type closely, differs 

 in maculations as follows : The labrum and cljq^eus are black, except 

 narrow lateral borders; the scape is wholly black; spot at the insertion 

 of antennae is much reduced; the scutum bears a broken U-shaped 

 discal mark; the fascia on the propodeum is complete; the fascia 

 on the second tergite (and probably that on the third, which is much 

 retracted) bears a pair of completely inclosed discal spots; fascia 



