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black face, form a combination of characters that readily distin- 

 guishes the male of this species. The female is more difficult to sep- 

 arate from related forms; its black face and black antenna (except 

 tip of fiagellum), the interrupted fascia on the fifth tergite, and the 

 reduced or obsolete second abscissa of the cubitella vein are its most 

 conspicuous characters. Four of the specimens bear the following 

 labels: " Nyassa-See, Langenburg, III. 98, Fiilleborn S"; " Nyassa- 

 See, Langenburg, 20.VIII.-1.IX.98. Fiilleborn S "; " Kap Kolonie "; 

 and " D. Ost-Afrika, Stuhlmann S." The two males determined by 

 Stevenson bear the labels: " Sawmills, S. Rhodesia, 22-27, Dec, 1923, 

 R. H. R. Stevenson"; and " Bulawayo, 13, 9, 1923, R. Stevenson."" 



BEMBIX FOKCIPATA Handlirsch 



Figures 97-99 



Bembex forcipata Handlirsch, Sitz. Akad. Wissensch. Wien, Math. -Nat. Cl.> 

 vol. 102, 1893, p. 798.— Dalla Toebe, Cat. Hym., vol. 8, 1897, p. 505. 



This species differs from meJanopa apparently only in the extent 

 of the maculations. The clypeus is largely yellow, the labrum wholly 

 so, and the sides of the thorax are more or less conspicuously macu- 

 lated. I have before me three males and one female that I have 

 referred to this species. They bear the following labels : *' Dar es 

 Salaam, Aug.-Sept., 1902, Meinhof S."; "D. Ostafrika, mikindani, 

 IV-V, 1911, H. Grote S. G."; " D. Ost-Afrika, Stuhlmann S."'; and 

 " D. O. Afrika, Hinter Waldungen von Dar-es-Salaam, Schuize V." 



BEMBIX FRIOEKSIS, new species 

 Figures 100, 101 



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

 except pair of black spots; lower part of frons, continued upward 

 on midline to join spot below anterior ocellus; small round spot on 

 either side this large spot; anterior orbits, deflected inward opposite 

 anterior ocellus; scape below; posterior orbits narrowed above; pro- 

 thorax, except pair of anterior dorsal spots and dusky spot in front 

 of tubercles; broad lateral lines on scutum; pair of broad discal 

 lines and an interrupted transverse posterior line, forming a broken 

 U-shaped discal mark on scutum ; fascia on posterior border of scutel- 

 lum narrowed at midline; fascia on metanotum; curved fascia on 

 propodeum, interrupted at midline on posterior surface; posterior- 

 lateral angles and sides of propodeum; metapleura; mesopleura, 

 fasciae on tergites 1-6, all interrupted at midline, first narrowed 

 medially, second and third each inclosing pair of black discal spots, 



