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Lentjth IT mm. Described from a male bearing the label " Neii- 

 Kamerun No. 218-21 Te.ssmann S. S.," and two females with the label, 

 '•Leubo Congo, D. W. Snyder."' 



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



Allotype.— <: Hi. No. 40837, U.S.N.M. 



BEMBIX MIMA Handlirsch 



Figures 134-137 



Bemhcx mi ma II.wdlirsch. Sitz Akad. Wissensch. Wien, Math. -Nat. CI., vol. 

 102, 1893, p. 795.— Dalla Torre. Cat. Il.vm., vol. 8. 1897, p. .508. 



Of this species I have before me two specimens, a male bearing 

 the label "Mexico, Districto Federal, J. R. Inda, Collector," and a 

 female bearing the label, " Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mex., IX, 14, Mc- 

 Clendon." This species is distinguished by the presence on both 

 sexes of a prominent madian transverse notch on the labrum and of 

 a well-defined apical pygidial area on the last tergite, set off by 

 short but evident lateral ridges. Handlirsch described this species 

 from a single female and I am therefore giving below a detailed 

 description of these two specimens. 



31ale. — Black: Labrum; mandibles, except tips; clypeus, except 

 narrow basal border ; scape below ; spot between antennae ; broad but 

 short anterior orbits; broad posterior orbits narrowed and abbrevi- 

 ated above; spot on side of prothorax; fascia on posterior border of 

 prothorax including tubercles but interrupted dorsally at midline; 

 narrow lateral line on scutum above base of wings; narrow curved 

 fascia enlarged laterallj^ on scutellum; narrow curved fascia on 

 metanotum; spot on metapleura; fascia on first tergite broken into 

 lateral spots and median dorsal spot ; fasciae on second and third 

 tergites interrupted medially and emarginate on anterior 'border on 

 either side the middorsal line; fasciae on fourth, fifth, and sixth 

 tergites broken into spots; large median spot on apex of seventh 

 tergite; small lateral spots on second sternite; anterior border of 

 femora of first pair of legs ; anterior distal end of femora of second 

 and third pairs; all tibiae, except black line on posterior border; and 

 tarsi; yelloio. 



The female closely resembles the male but with the maculations a 

 little more extensive. The black on the clypeus is restricted to a 

 pair of small spots; there is a broken U-shaped discal mark on the 

 scutum ; a broad interrupted fascia on the propodeum and a spot on 

 its side ; the mesopleura almost entirely yellow ; and lateral spots on 

 sternites 2 and 3. In other respects the maculations are very similar 

 to those on the male. 



