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fasciae on the tergites are greatly narrowed and that on the first 

 lergite is almost suppressed. Owing to this narrowing of the fasciae, 

 the black discal spots in the fasciae are reduced to emarginations, of 

 which those on tergites 2 and 3 are lost or are connected with the 

 posterior black border of the tergite, while those on tergite 4 are 

 connected with the anterior black border. One of these two females 

 bears the label, " Nord-Celebes, Tali-Tali XI-XII, 95, H. Fruh- 

 storfer V.," and the other the label, " Sula Mangoli, Oct.-Novbr., 

 Doherty ex coll. H. Fruhstorfer." 



Two of the males also show this suppression of the fasciae on the 

 tergites but not to such an extent as the two females. One of these 

 two males bears the label, "Niat, Bingham," and the other, the 

 same as the first of the two females. 



On the third female the fasciae are better developed and the discal 

 black spots are inclosed. This specimen bears the label, "Davao, 

 Mindanao, Baker," and two. of the males also bear this same label. 

 Three of the remaining males bear the label, " Insel Obi, RoUe V." 

 The eighth male bears the label, "Culasi Panay, P. I., June. 1918, 

 McGregor." 



Handlirsch reports this sjDecies from Celebes, Luzon, Mindanao, 

 Batjan, Halmahera, Amboina, and Neuginea. 



BEMBIX PERSIMILIS Turner 



Figures 156-158 



Bembex persimilis Tukner, Mem. Dep't. Agr. Ind., Eat. Ser., vol. 5, 1917, p. 179. 



Turner described this species from two males from Akalgarh, 

 Punjab, India. I have before me a single male and seven females 

 from Deesa, India. Turner does not mention the form of the eighth 

 sternite of the male, which in this genus usually ends in a single- 

 pointed spine. The eighth sternite of the male before me ends in a 

 bifurcate or two-pointed spine. Below I am giving a detailed de- 

 scription of this species, based on the material before me. I am also 

 giving figures of the prominent characters of the male. 



Male. — Black: labrum; mandibles, except tips; clypeus; frons to 

 the level of the anterior ocellar cicatrice, except a pair of broad 

 black spots ; scape almost wholly ; posterior orbits, very broad below, 

 not meeting across the vertex; prothorax except a pair of small 

 anterior dorsal spots; broken U-shaped spot and broad lateral lines 

 on scutum; narrow fascia on posterior border of scutellum, enlarged 

 at the ends; narroAv fascia on posterior border of metanotum; broad 

 crescent-shaped fascia on dorsum of propodeum, extended on its 

 posterior surface in a pair of points; lateral angles and sides of 

 propodeum; metapleura and mesopleura; broad fasciae continuous 

 on all tergites, first with a deep bilobed anterior median emargina- 



