120 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM VOL.73 



The specimens on which I based my description of B. foxL according 

 to the labels they bear, were from Illinois. Is it possible that the 

 placing of the labels upon these specimens is the result of a mistake? 



BEMBIX NIPONICA Smith 



Figure 145 



Bemhex niponica Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1873, p. 194. — Dalt.a Tobbej, 

 Cat. Hym., vol. 8, 1897, p. 509. 



In the collection of the United States National Museum is a single 

 male that has been determined as this species, but by whom the 

 determination was made is unknown. I have compared the specimen 

 with the original description of the species and am convinced that 

 the determination is correct. The specimen bears the label, " Sapporo 

 Agr. Coll., Dec, '96, Japan, M. Matsumura." 



The following is a detailed description of this male : Black : 

 clypeus; labrum; mandibles, except tips; anterior orbits shortened 

 above; area below antennae and space between them extended up- 

 ward; scape below (fiagella broken off); posterior orbits narrowed 

 above ; irregular band on posterior border of pronotum and posterior 

 border of tubercles connected by a large irregular spot on side of 

 prothorax ; short narrow lateral lines on scutum above base of wings ; 

 fascia on posterior border of scutellum; fascia on metanotum; nar- 

 row, curved fascia on propodeum, interrupted at midline on its 

 posterior surface; small spot on posterior lateral angles of pro- 

 podeum; small spot on mesopleura below wings; broad, continuous 

 fasciae on tergites 1-6, that on second tergite inclosing pair of black 

 discal spots ; apex of seventh tergite ; lateral spots and median spot on 

 sternite 2 connected by an apical line ; lateral spots and median spot 

 on sternite 3; lateral spots on sternites 4 and 5 connected by very 

 narrow apical lines; large lateral spots on 6; lateral spots on 7; 

 coxae and trochanters in part ; femora, except black line on posterior 

 surface of first pair and basal black spot on anterior surface of 

 third pair ; tibiae ; and tarsi ; pale grayish yellow. 



The middle femora are distinctly dentate. The middle tibia is 

 angulate below, giving rise almost to a longitudinal carina. The 

 wings are hyaline and the second abscissa of both radiella and 

 cubitella is present. The second sternite bears a well-developed 

 median process; the sixth bears a small one and the seventh also 

 bears a process as well developed as that on the sixth. The seventh 

 tergite laterally is slightly sinuate, and is abruptly narrowed toward 

 the apex, which is squarely truncate. The spine of the eighth sternite 

 is short and broad, in form resembling somewhat a spearhead. 



Length 20 mm. 



